Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-02-02
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Sims Reeves, the cele brated English
tenor singer, has been declared a
bankrupt and receiving order has
been issued against his property.
While watching the employees at the
Millville, N. j., electric light station
test new battery Sunday, Benjamin
Madkiff seized hold of live wire and
receiving a shock of 200 volts, fell to
the floor dead.
The high school building at Kalama-
zoo, Mich, was destroyed by fire at six
o'clock Monday morning. The cause
of the fire was an explosion of furnace
gas The loss is estimated at $40, 900;
insurance $4,000.
Princess Louise, eldest daughter Of
King Leopold, of Belgium, and wife Of
Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, brother Of Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria, has clipped with an Austrian
captain of hussars.
Duke Johann Albrecht, Of Necklen-
burg, who is large land owner in
German east Africa, is about to estab-
lish sanitarium for Europeans in the
Usambara mountains about 1900 me-
ters above the sea level.
The U. S training ship Alliance,
which was aground Saturday night
was pulled off Sunday morning and
passed Ft. Monroe enroute for New
port News at 10 o'clock Sunday morn.
ing She will be examined there to
see if she sustained any damage by
grounding.
Between l and 2 o'clock Sunday
morning the extensive plant of the
Scranton Illuminating, Heat and
Power Co., in center of Scranton, Pa,
was almost totally destroyed by fire
at a loss Of $50, 600. Half the town was
over half the loss.
The temporary organization of the
lower house of the legislature of Ore
gon held its regular Sunday meeting
at s o'clock Sunday evening. This
makes 20 days this body has gone
through the formality of meeting and
adjourring. The usual length of the
meeting of the legislature is 10 days
The American Missionary association
lltio ASouCI ill DtCll w
churches, especially throughout New
England, to observe February IA, the
second Sabbath of the present month,
as memorial Sunday of The Times
of Abraham Lincoln" who was born
February IL, 1909. The appeal con.
meets Lincoln's life with the work of
the association.
A special from Eldon, Ia, says that
Bradley's bank was burglarized at 3
o'clock Monday morning The safe
was blown open with nitro glycerine
and all funds stolen. The bank OF.
iicials refuse to tell the amount taken,
but the bank usually keeps three to
five thousand dollars on hand The
burglars escaped with stolen team
and buggy
a Tribune special from Washington
says: Saturday afternoon the interest.
ing rumor was printed that the present
visit of the eX-queen of Hawaii to
Washington, may result in her making
this city her permanent home. Those
who father the rumor point to the
fact that she would undoubtedly find
Washington a more attractive place to
reside than Honolulu.
Fire was discovered in the boys dor
mitory of the Genessee Wesleyan semin-
ary, Lima, n. Y, at 1890 Monday morn
ing The building was burned to the
ground The loss is estimated at $50.
600. There were 100 boys in the build
ing, but all escaped with their lives.
One student was injured by jumping
from u window. He will probably die.
Several tiremen were hurt.
To meet the requirements of the
many Americans who come over from
New York by the Hamburg American
line intending to proceed to the south
of Europe, a Pullman car service will
be arranged for to run from Hamburg
to Munich and Naples. A conference
of delegates of the Prussian, Bavarian,
Austrian and Italian railways held at
innsbruck to fix up the through traf
tc, decided to postpone the inaugural
lion of the service until the spring