Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-15
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.


The Minnesota state board of par
dons has refused to pardon the Young
er brothers.
The senate Tuesday confirmed Louis
Lange. jr., of Illinois, to be consul at
Bremen, Germany.
Frank Mclaughlin, proprietor of
the Philadelphia lines, died of rheu-
matte gout at his residence in Phila-
delphia Wednesday morning.
At Hartford, CT, Thomas f. Ripple
was hanged at 1896 o'clock Wednesday
morning. Ripple was Scotchman, Al
years old. He killed his wife at their
home in New Haven on January 81,
1896, in a drunken fight.
The fear of n coal shortage which
caused a scramble for the black dia-
monds and a heavy advance in prices
on Monday, at Pittsburgh, is over, and
unless the miners strike continues for
many months famine is not now ex-
pected
The New York Times says: Liliuo.
kalani, former queen of Hawaii, has
settled down in hotel there into a
sort OF literary retirement There she
devotes herself to composing Hawaiian
melodies ano songs, and to collecting
material for her eventful autobiog.
raphy.
According to official reports, Col.
Almehdarcien has had an engagement
in the Poso mountains, province OF
Matanzas, with an insurgent band,
compelling them to retire, leaving 10
of their number dead upon the field.
7 he Spanish lost four killed and nine
wounded.
Adm. Selfridge, from Tangier, has
reported the sailing of the Raleigh
from that port for Gibraltar. His
message did not refer to the difficulty
with the Moorish officials, which call
ed the San Francisco and the Raleigh
to Tangier, so it is assumed that it has
been adjusted.
AT Constantinople a hundred addi-
tional arrests have followed the in
vestigatious Of the military and naval
commission appointed to try % stu
dents Of the navy, military and medi'
cal schools, who are charged with con-
ducting political propaganda in the
interest of the young Turkey party.
A statement prepared at the mint bu'
reau shows the number of silver dol
lars coined at the United States mintS
during the last fiscal year was 2l,2O3,'
! 7Ol, on which the seigniorage, or prof
| its to the government amounted to
! S6. 3S6. 1O4. The profits have been turned
into the treasury from time to time
as the coinage progressed.
According to dispatch from Ham
merfest, Norway, the northmost town
OF Europe on the Qual-Oe island
| (Whale island), says that the officers OF
the steamer Lofoten visited Mr.. An
dree. the aeronaut, at Danes island, on
the northwest coast of Spitzbergen, on
the 10th. Mr.. Andree stated that he
would not be ready TO make the start
for the north in his balloon until the
18th.
Secretary Long has decided to ac'
cept the recommendations of the ma
jority of the board of naval bureau
chiefs as to the award of contracts TO,
building three torpedo boats, in which
case the contracts will go to the Har'
Ian q Hollingsworth Co., of Whining
ton. the Morris Heights Gas and En-
CINE Co., of New York, and Wolff Y
Zwicker, of Seattle, Wash.
Maj Symons has made report to
the chief of engineers of the army on
the preliminary examination into the
subject of ship canal from the great
lakes to the navigable waters of the
Hudson river, and it has been SUBJ
mitted to the secretary of war. The
report, which is said to be full of in
teresting information, will not be
made public until It is submitted to
congress.
Accidental selt-poisoning by an over
dose of morphine, taken to relieve
paia, was the verdict Of the coroner S
/ jury as 70 the cause of death Of Nicho.
las c. Creede, the mining king, who
was found dead in his residence at Los
! Angeles, Cal, During the inquest very
little reference was made to his wife,
from whom he separated six mont hs
ago, and whose return was onjectured
TO be one of the causes OF the depres'
sion which is said to have been Oh.
/ served in Creede of late.