Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-01
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.
The house bill providing separate
coaches for the races on all railroad
trains has been defeated in the South
Carolina senate.
The Figaro asserts that King George
of Greece, intends to abdicate his
throne in favor of his eldest son,
Crown Prince Constantine.
Judge McKenna left San Francisco
for Washington Friday afternoon. He
expects to arrive on the afternoon of
March g. and the following day will
enter upon the duties of his Office.
The first 20 minutes of the evening
session of the senate Friday were de-
voted to private pension bills, "a being
disposed of, one of these granting %
pension of $50 per month to Maj Gen.
Cassius NJ Clay.
The mercury at o'clock Friday
morning registered 2S degrees below
zero in ST. Paul, the coldest weather
of the winter and the coldest So late in
February in the history of the local
weather station.
In the Michigan senate Friday Sem
ator Bostwiclz introduced resolution
condemning Spain for the barbarous
treatment to which American prison.
ers are subjected in Havana. 1t was
laid on the table.
The large boiler which furnishes the
power at the Acushnet mills, New
Bedford, Mass, exploded Saturday
morning just before $50 o'clock. One
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ruins and several badly injured by
steam.
A bill was offered Friday by Sena-
tor Gear to pay to the Columbia Iron
Works and Dry Dock Co., of Baltimore
$215, 306 for damages sustained and eX
ira work done by change of plans in
the cruisers Detroit and Montgomery
built by them.
AT Miller, S. d., the thermometer
registered "a below zero Friday morn
ing. There are but few tons of Goa
in town, with the railroads blocked
, Unless trains move soon, which seems
impossible, it is feared considerabl,
suffering will result from coal fam
inc.
At San Francisco, Richard Pastini
his wife and four children We're poi
soned by eating toadstools under thu
impression they were mushrooms. Two
of the children are dead and the re
covery of the other members of th'
family is Il matter of grave uncer
tainty.
A civil service promotion system wa
promulgated by Secretary Herber
U',iJ on,ya,.i,,rr al ,,-hn
duties are wholly or partly clerical il
the naval department aid all the navy
yards by its regulations the efiicienc,
record of each clerk is public matte
and open to general criticism.
dispatch from Madrid to the Lon
don Central News says: Among the 8
prisoners taken by the Spanish troop
in the uprising at Manila en- Thursda.
is a man who claims to be, and un
dou btedly is, an American citizen. Al
of the prisoners will be tried by court
martial, and 30 of them will undoubt
edly be shot
The Greek steamer Thesus has bee
seized by British torpedo boat be
longing to the united fleet while al
tempting to land provisions and nun
tions of war for the Greek troops, a
Platania. The members of the Gree
chamber of deputies, Mn. Papakiana'
Espanis and Razelo We're on board tn
captured vessel.
During quarrel Friday afternoo
Frederick Resell, a saloon keeper c
1925 Ashland avenue, Chicago, she
and instantly killed his wife and the
shot and killed himself The coupl
had lived unhappily of late owing
the attentions which Rosell elaine
his wife had shown to men who cam
to the saloon.