Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-01-21
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Madame Carnot, mother of the late
President Carnot, is dead.
II. C. IIansbrough was formally
elected United States senator in join {
session of the North Dakota legislature
Wednesday.
The grand jury at Minneapolis has
indicted John A. Gilman, one the di-
rectors of the Minneapolis Soldiers
home. The charge is said to relate to
the letting of contract in connection n
with that institution.
In the joint convention of the two
branches of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture Wednesday the formal announce
ment was made of the elecHon Of Boies
Penrose to succeed j. Donald Cameron
as United States senator.
Samuel Discs, u baker, at 1902 North
High street, st. Louis, was arrested
on charge of robbing and deserving
his wife in Brooklyn, N. Y, three
months ago. He will be taken to
Brooklyn for trial. Discs is said to
have left Brooklyn with servant girl
in his employ.
Secretary Olney was warmly con-
graduated by his eventual successor
in the state department when Senator
Sherman called upon him Tuesday.
The senator invited the secretary to
appear before the foreign relations
committee Wednesday and secured tho
secretary's promise to attend,
The ricksdag, or state assembly, mot
Tuesday. In the speech from tho
throne. opening the session, Kiug os-
car referred to the angloAmerican ar
bitration treaty, and said he was high
ly gratifed by his selectson to act in
certain contingencies as umpire in dis
putes which may arise between the
two high contracting powers.
Judge 0rosscup, of the United States
master in chsncery, Henry W. Bishop
receiver of the G. N. Fargo Co., boot
and shoe manu- soturers, Chicago.
The eastern ored&tovs, who were loft
nothing, by tho firm giving the bulk
of their assets 10 preferred creditors,
will now share in all the assets equit-
ably.
The steel rail plant at the South Chi
oago works of tSe ulin6is Stoel Co.
werc closed Tuesday for Sn indie finite
period. Twelve hundred workmen,
who camo to the mill Tuesday Mern-
ing for their usual daily work, were
surprised to find tho notice postsi on
the big gates Thq cut in the work
ing force of the confrany sgiiows re.
adjustment OF wages ot all employees
except skilled workmen.
The Columbia varsity crew, which
has been for two weeks training e for
the intercollegiate race at PouGhkesp-
sic, has disbanded. This action was
taken on the official decision of the
University union, not to put q varsity
eight on the water Tire under-gradu-
ate body is indignspt t over the action,
and 10 expressing ITS wrath on large
placards of denunciation, pasted all
over the campus. Lack OF funds is the
gaaduates' reason for this action
At Minneapolis, shs Yeuths' Temple
of Honor, an Insurance. organization,
maae voluntary dssd Of assignment
to DR.. Russell \ Goodwin, supre me
secretary of the organization. The
Youths Temple OF Honor was organic
cd in 1889, its purpose being the trans
action of the business oflife Insurance
in all its difereht forms upon tho CO.
operative and assessment plan. to on
courage and promste tho proper main
tenancc and education OF the youth Of
tho land.