Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-02-20
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Consul IalleS, at La Paz, reports TO
the state department that Bolivia has
increased the customs tariff % per
cent
Prof. w. Wallace, professor of moral
philosophy in the University of Ok
ford, was killed Friday by fall from
his bicycle which fractured his skull.
The Austrian vice consul at Herak-
lion con firms the report of the massa-
ere of 1000 Moslems by the Cretan
Christians at Sitia, on the eastern ex-
tremity of the island.
The bill granting women the right
of suffrage in Oklahoma territory, was
defeated in the house Thursday by u
vote of IL to 10. 1t is believed the bill
for an educational qualification will
carry.
The following cadet appointments
to the military academy at West Point
are announced: X. Sterling, Detroit,
Mich; Charles f. Delbridge, alternate,
Detroit, Mich; Walbridge p. Powell,
Rollo. Mo.
At London Miss Mabel Ingraham, of
Madison, Wis, was married Thursday
afternoon to Mr. Arthur leighton, u
land owner of Ipswich. The bride was
given away by her mother Mrs. In
graham and her daughter have been
residing with the countess of Leitrim.
The semi-oflicial North German Ga
zette says that the visit of United
States Senator Wolcott to Chancellor
Hohenlohe was merely one OF courtesy
and had nothing to do with the ques-
tion of bimetallism, in the interest of
which Senator Wolcott is visiting Eu-
rope.
The Gentlemen's Driving club, of
Baltimore, have arranged for eight
days of light harness racing during
the current year, the dates for which
were announced Thursday. On May
% to Is the regular spring meeting
will be held. The fall meeting will
occur September q to "a inclusive.
Consul General Moratta, at Mel
bourne, reports to the state depart
ment that 1,1SG S51l5 ounces of gold
were received at the Melbourne mine
last year, a considerable increase over
1895. The greater part, nearly 500, 600
ounces, came from Victoria, Western
Australia following with 225, 900 ounces
At Prairie du Chen, Wis. eX-County
Judge and ex-NIayor c. 5. Fuller, u
man who had one of the best legal
minds in the Fifth judicial circuit,
committed suicide by shooting him
self. He had not been in good health
for several months, and the cause of
his death is assigned 20 mental abb
crration.
a dispatch from Canea says that the
British warships in Cretan waters have
prevented the landing of force of
Greek troops which arrived there on
board the Greek warship Alphios.
The Paris Matin in an article on the
Cretan situation says that Russia and
Germany alone favor the proposal to
blockade the Piraeus.
Private Secretary John Addison Por-
ter has recovered from his illness and
will leave Hartford, CT, for Washing
ton Saturday to call on President
Cleveland and Secretary Thurber. He
has. declined several banquets, and to
the committee of the State Republican
league he stated that he would decline
their offer to banquet him, because his
time was McKinley's.
The flood of applications which are
pouring in for offices, which do not
yet exist in the new congressional
library building, is becoming alarm
ing. No appointments of any kind, it
is declared, can be made before next
July; that it is useless to send recon-
mendations to members of congress,
who are so hard pressed by so many
public duties at this time.