Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-05
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by Telegraph.
President Mckinley will Friday is
sue his proclamation for an extra ses-
sion. 1t will be called to meet Mon
day, March TO-
Nelson Wheatcroft, the well-known
actor, died at his residence on west
46th street, New York, shortly after
o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
Secretary Herbert has ordered Capt.
Henry Glass detached from command
of the Texas and to duty as Captain of
the Mare Island navy yard March 81.
Early Thursday morning fire de-
stroyed business property in Syracuse,
n. Y, to the value of $4,000. Two
hundred men are thrown out of work.
The California supreme court We'd
nesday fled a decision denying a new
trial to Theodore Durrant, murderer
of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Will
liams.
Chairman Cannon, of the house APP
preparations committee, after an hours
debate Thursday, withdrew the con-
ference report on the general de-
ficiency appropriation bill. This kills
the measure.
Secretary Olney has definitely con-
cluded not to accept the professorship
of international law at Harvard, ten
dered to him by President Elliott, but
will resume his law practice in Boston
in the course of month.
A dispatch from Canea, Crete, says
that an engagement was fought be-
tween the Bashia Bazoulls of the viii
lagos of Naralloron and Tehillatria
and the Greeks on the heights of
Malaxa. The fighting lasted two
hours.
Appointments of cadets to the mill
tary academy, West Point, are an
nounced: Norman Guillott, Bushkill,
Pa. JacobHill, (alternate) East Strouds-
burg, Pa, Frank Keller, Pennington,
Mo-, and Charles L. Humphrey, (alter-
nate) Kimmsioull, Mo.
At Black River Falls, Wis, George
Thomas Palmer, II years old, who
killed the little four-year-old daughter
of Oscar Marshall, of North Bend, last
fall was Wednesday found guilty of
murder in the first degree and sem
fenced to imprisonment for life.
President Cleveland after midnight
Thursday signed the fortifcations APP
preparations act and bills defining the
jurisdiction of United States circuit
courts in cases brought for infringe
ment of letters patents and repeating
the act granting right of way through
Fort Morgan, Ala, military reserva-
tion.
Mr.. Cleveland, upon returning from
the capitol Thursday, escorting Presi-
dent Mckinley, drove TO the river
and boarded the light house tender Ma
pie, at o'clock, for a ten days hunting
trip in Curritucll sound. He was ac-
companied by Capt. Robeley Evans,
Capt. Lamberton and Surgeon Wood,
of the army
The gold democrat party of Michigan
held a state convention Wednesday
afternoon and nominated the follow
ing ticket: Justice of the supreme
court, Dan +. Foote, Saginaw; regents
of the university, Levi L. Barbour,
Detroit, and Edwin +. Sweet, Grand
Rapids. Resolutions reaffirming the
Indianapolis platform were adopted.
The work cf the Cleveland admins
tration ended at 1915 a. IN. Thursday
and the cabinet room was deserted.
The president did not sign the sundry
ton bills. They failed for lack of the
presidents approval. At the last mo-
ment the president approved the st.
Louis and the Pittsburgh bridge bills.
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Gov. Atkinson IuanpurataH