Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-18
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph
1t is asserted in official quarters in
Vienna that Greece will declare war
against Turkey.
The anti-Sunday baseball bill came
up in the Missouri senate Tuesday and
was effectually killed by being in
definitely postponed.
There was very little betting in
sporting or other circles in London on
the fight between Corbett and Fitz
simmons and what few wagers have
been made were chiefly at even money.
A dispatch from Canea to the Secolo
SAYS that the Cretan insurgents have
declared that they will eject autonomy
and offer all possible resistance to the
occupation of the island by the powers.
j. S. Crosby tS Co., Danvers, Mass,
boot and shoe manufacturers, have as
signed. The Essex Shoe Co., Essex,
Mass, boot and shoe manufacturers,
have assigned. Assets and liabilities
rep orted about S3i, ZOO each.
The government lighthouse tender
Violet arrived at Norfolk Va, at mid
night from Curritucll sound with eX-
President Cleveland and party aboard.
They will remain aboard the Violet
until a. m, when they will leave for
Washington on the lighthouse tender
Maple.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations Wednesday ordered favora bic
report on the arbitration treaty to be
made to the senate Thursday with GER
tain amendments. Chairman Davis
was instructed to push the considera-
ton of the convention with all pos
sible speed.
At Philadelphia Frederick Franks,
aged 81 years, at o'clock Wednesday
morning shot and killed his son Will
liam, aged 9, shot and dangerously
wounded his daughter Amelia, years,
and then turned the pistol on himself,
inflicting fatal wound.
Fire again broke out in the ruins OF
the Ely-Walser drygoods store on
Washington avenue, st. Louis, at
o'clock Tuesday evening. The silks
and prints on the first and second
floors had been covered with tarpau'
Inns, but a smoldering fire burst out
and completed the work of Monday
nights fire.
The sugar refinery on South Second
street, Williams burg, n. Y, belonging
to the American Sugar Refining Co.,
after a shutdown of over five months,
opened Monday night with n force OF
nearly 500 men. The introduction OF
the tariff bill with rs increased duty
on sugar is believed to be responsible
for the resumption.
The rate war which prevailed last
season and continues this season on
passenger traffic by lake steamer be-
tween Detroit and Cleveland has been
extended to freight traffic, and, com
mencing Wednesday. the Detroit &
Cleveland Naviga tion Co. will put into
effect a schedule of one cent per hun
dred weight between Detroit and
Cleveland on all classes of freight.
Charlie Mitchell will challenge the
winner of the great fight at Carson
City to fight him for 100000 a side
with gloves or knucllles, the fight tc
take place in England or America.
Should John l.. Sullivan claim Il bet
ter right than the winner Wednesday
to contest the championship Mitchell
will meet him first, the winner of this
fight to meet the winner of Wednes.
days battle.
A young woman whose identity is
supposed to be Miss NJ Strausiger,
daughter of wealthy St Louis COM
mission merchant, committed suicid c
in Mrs. NJ. j. Van Ness boarding house
at 3O4 Chicago avenue, Chicago, Tues.
day morning, by shooting herself in
the left temple. She came to the
boarding house March 4, and said she
had quarreled with her mother and
had left home on account of it.
The Weather.