Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-17
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered from All Parts OF the Country by
Telegraph.

Tho United States supreme court
Monday took recess until Monday,
the Goth inst.
Mondays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance S209, $50, ,S64; gold reserve, $780,
61S,210.
At st, Joseph, Mo-, Albert Kneeland,
the bigamist who has 10 living wives,
has been sentenced to three years and
six months in the penitentiary. This
is his third term for this offense.
Coils P. Huntington Monday gave
personal denial to widely circulated
report that he intends to sell his large
real estate holdings in New York and
make his permanent home in Califor-
MIA.
There is no truth in the statement
recently published to the effect that
secretary to the president, John Adj
Olson Porter, will be candidate for
the United States senate at next
years election in Connecticut.
Orders have been issued for the final
trials of the Wheeling and Marietta at
Mare Island. The Wheeling will go to
sea for q two days run on the Goth, and
the trial of the Marietta will occur as
soon as she returns from Alaska.
In a letter which he makes public
Robert Fitzsimmons, who is playing at
one of the Kansas City theaters, ten
ders his resignation to membership in
the Marion, Ind, lodge Il. p. o. E., into
which order he was initiated recently.
The steamer Belganland which will
arrive in Philadelphia Tuesday after
noon from Liverpool is reported to
have on board the crew of the Boston
schooner Theodore Dean. 1t is said
Capt. Hodgdon of the schooner was
lost.
The following assignments in the
army have been made: Capt. Charles
II. Grierson, to Troop b, Tenth Caval-
ry; First Lieut.. Edward d. Anderson,
Troop c, Tenth Cavalry; Second Lieut.
Fred X. Arnold, to Troop II, Fourth
Cavalry.
Monday morning worlzmen began
tearing down the many additions to
Independence hall, that have been
built from time to time and which
marred the simplicity of the structure.
1t is the intention to restore the build
ing as near the original design as pos
sible.
Commissioner General Powderly, of
the immigration bureau, Monday re-
ceived a telegram from Special In
spector Baldwin, at Memphis, Tenn,
stating that he had arrested % alien
stave cutters illegally brought into the
country under contract, and would go
to Mississippi to arrest the renaiu-
ing %.
The duke of Marlborough stood God
father to the daughter of Lord and
Lady Churchill, of Cornbury park, at
the Chapel Royal, st. James Palace
Monday. The queen was represented
by the Dowager Lady Churchill and
the marchioness of Lorne, Princess
Louise. The countess of Lonsdale
was Godmother to the infant.
The Montana supreme court has sus-
tanned the constitutionality of the in
heritance law passed by the last legis-
lature The law imposes tax of five
per cent. on bequests to any beneficiary
not relative where the estate amounts
to over 500. The tax on estates di-
rectly inherited where the value of the
estate is over $500 is one per cent.
The Bubonic plague shows no abate-
ment in the Poonah district. Within
the last As hours there have been 1874
new cases reported and "a deaths. Six
hundred and thirty victims of the dis
ease are now in the hospital at Poonah.
Business in several of the principal
streets is suspended and the town is
being rapidly deserted by the inhab-
itants.
At Cushing, Ia, L. d. Spickler, a
farmer has shot and killed his wife
and blown out his own brains. The
wife was shot in the breast and did not
die for several hours. Four children
are made orphans by the tragedy.
They were the children of the woman
by former husband Spickler sep
arated from his wife over a year ago
on account of family troubles.
George S. f. Graves, proprietor Of
a restaurant in st. Louis, reproved his
two grown sons Monday night, for
some trivial offense, which angered
them and they made a murderous as
sault on him. One of the boys drew a
revolver and used it to club his father
into insensibility. Both then fed, but
one was captured and lodged in Jail
The fathers skull is crushed and he
can not live.
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