Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-02-19
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The bill which sought TO prohibit
the sale or giving away of cigarettes
in Alabama was defeated in the senate
by skillful ruse.
A favorable report was ordered We'd
nesday by the house labor committee
on the Lorimer bill ITO prevent con-
spiracies to blacklist"
Thomas Raymond, owner of the fa-
nous trotter, Klamath, and one of the
best known horsemen of the country,
is dead at Los Angeles, Cal
The Cologne Gazette confirms the
report that most of the great European
powers concur in the proposal of Ger
many that the powers blockade the
Piraeus.
A clay bank near Rock Island, ILL.,,
caved in burying three workman.
William Mellow was killed and Martin
Theus and John Volk were seriously
injured
The board of directors of the Phila-
delphia Horse show have decided to
hold their sixth open air exhibition at
Wissahickon Height on May 25, 26, 81,
2S and 90.
France and Brazil have signed
protocol referring their dispute regard
ing territorial boundaries to arbitra-
tion, the president of the Swiss confed-
Grafton to be the referee.
Judge Samuel Woods died at Phillip,
W. Va. He was one of the best known
lawyers of West Virginia, and was
Judge of the supreme court of appeals
of that state from 1850 to 1890.
Samuel Spencer, ST., aged rs, and
Samuel Spencer, ir., aged 40, father
and son, were killed at Wyalusing,
Pa They were walking on the Lehigh
Valley railroad track, and were struck
by an express train. u
Senator Thurston Wednesday offered
an amendment appropriating Sl,0S5, 1856
to pay producers of sugar the balance
on their claims, audited ana allowed
under the sugar bounty provisions of
the Mckinley tariff act.
Rev. John McJunkin of Washing
ton, Ia, appointed naval chaplin We'd
nesday, is a Presbyterian minister, re-
Gently at Missoulg, Mont, and Rusllin,
Ncb. lie was born May ., 1869, and
his principal endorsement was from
VIM. J. Bryan.
Al meeting OF the executive council
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union
of America, held in Chicago, it was
voted to hold the next international
convention in Chattanooga, July 24
1897, thus abrogating the action Of the
Milwaukee meeting.
The council of the general fedcra-
tion of Women's clubs concluded a
secret session in Washington. The
principal business was the selection of
the place for holding the convention
this year Omaha was decided unon,
winning over Denver by three votes.
The amendment to the deficiency
bill, appropriating $l,31o, 427, with in
terest, to pay the balance due on the
Judgment of the court of claims in
favor of the Southern Pacific railroad,
was favorably reported to the senate
Wednesday, for transporting troops
and mail,
Vice Prcsident-elect Hobart will ar
rive in Washington at p. m. March ,
He will be accompanied by Il party of
%, made up Of Gov. Griggs of New
Jersey. his staff and their wives and
friends. They will be received by
committee yet to be appointed by
Chairman Bell, of the inaugural COM
mittee.
Representative Rebe introduced a
resolution in the Missouri house We'd
nesday afternoon, providing that
committee of five house members be
appointed to attend the Corbett- Fitz-
simmons fight in Nevada, with a view
to reporting the advisability Of legal
izing prize fighting in Missouri. The
resolution was referred to the commit
tee on militia.