Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-13
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.


A royal degree granting autonomy
to Cuba will be formally gazetted on
November 23.
Mrs. John Culinary Shea, widow of
the famous Catholic historian, is dead
at her home in Elizabeth, N. j., aged
j5 years.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Buenos Ayres says The finance
committee of the chamber of deputies
has fixed the bounty on sugar at 10
centavos.
DR.. Darby, secretary of the arbitra-
ton alliance, has presented to Lord
Salisbury a memorial with Ga, ,572 sigma
lures attached in favor of an Anglo
American arbitration treaty.
Capt. Tuttle, of the United States
revenue cutter Bear, is at Seattle,
Wash, and expects to receive orders to
proceed to the Arctic ocean and en-
deavor to relieve the lce-imprisoned
whaling fleet.
A plan for dreibund of Chill, Peru
and Argentina is in existence which,
if adopted by the three governments,
will wipe Bolivia off the South Amer
lean map, Chilli, Peru and Argentine
dividing her territory.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius,
which began on Monday last, is in
creasing in activity. The spectacle is
grand. Columns of smoke and tongues
of flame are belching from the central
crater, while showers of cinders are
falling
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Turkish embassy in Berlin is deplor-
able. None of them has received his
salary for over year and their debts
in this city aggregate 100000 marks.
Their tradesmen are importuning then
for money.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed left Mon
trcal by the Pacific express Wednesday
in private car. He will go through
to the coast, and after seeing the situa-
ton of affairs III the west will return
to Washington in time for the opening
of congress
A change must be made in Yale's
football eleven at the last moment.
Charles Dudley, left half back, received
news Thursday of the death of his
mother in Washington. He was sum-
moned home and will be absent for
several days.
Rich gold discoveries are reported on
the McClintock river, Alaska, and
branches of the Hootalinqua, some
running as high as $40 day to the
man. There has been quite rush to
the new fields, which will be prospect
ed during the winter.
Ratification of the Hawaiian anncxa-
tion treaty by the United States sem
ate is assured. The administration
has made a poll of that body, and
President Mckinley is satisfied that
more than two.thirds of the senator's
will vote for ratification.
King Oscar and a number of private
persons have contributed sufficient
money to insure the dispatch of a
Swedish polar expedition in 1898, which
will be led by Prof. Nathorst, the geol-
ogist. The cost of the expedition is
estimated at 10000 crowns.
The big wooden ship Roanoke has ar
rived in New York after u voyage of
1O2 days from Honolulu. During the
voyage, on September Z, Capt. Joseph
and First Mate Thompson took COM
mand of the ship. The captain was
buried at sea on the day of his death.
President j. Il. Darragh. who has
been on trial for the past week at In
dependence. Kan, charged with the
wrecking of the Kansas City Safe De-
posit and Savings bank, was found
guilty shortly after o'clock Thursday
afternoon and sentenced TO two years
in the state penitentiary.
There are many indications that
there will be another revolution soon
in Nicaragua, the third in about three
years. The people are restless and do
not want President Zelaya to sell the
national railroad and the steamboats,,
it being claimed that some of the most
prominent Nicaraguan officials have
been placing large amounts to their
credit in Europe.