Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-07
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.


Maj. r. Taylor Scott, attorney gen.
eral of Virginia, died at Warrenton,
Va, shortly after midnight The de-
ceased had been i'll with typhoid lever
for some weeks.
John W. Hollyday, of Ohio, was
Thursday appointed chic. clerk OF the
railway mail service, ami succeeds AL
eXander Grant of Michigan, appointed
assistant general superintendent.
The Brig Pitcairn, which was built
and used as missionary craft in the
south seas, has been purchased from
the Seventh Adventists by a sydicate
OF treasure seekers, who will at once
fit her up for the voyage to Alaska.
Vanity Fair says that Great Baitain's
representative on the Venezuelan
arbitration tribunal will be Hon.
Michael Herbert, now secretary of the
British embassy at Constantinople and
formerly secretary of the British EN-
bassy at Washington.
The New York Evening World says
that John jacob Astor has donated
S1S,0l0 to purchase klmwood, the home
OF James Russell Lowell, at Cam
bridge, Mass, which will now be
thrown open to the public
The big bat,lsship Indiana sailed
away from Newport Thursday for
Halifax where she will be docked,
cleaned and painted. She is the first
of the battleships that has been sent
from the United States to a foreign
dock for lack OF docking facilities at
home.
Frederick p, Forster has been ap-
pointed permanent receiver for Hull
bert Bros. & Co., New YORK, dealers in
bicy cles, sporting goods, ETC., in pro-
ceedings for voluntary dissolution of
the corporation. Liabilities, S4O3. 4S4;
nominal assets, S344, G22; actual assets,
$l25, 900.
The state board OF equalization has
made a raise of over SO, 900, 900 in the
valuation OF railroads, bridges and
telegraph property in Missouri. This
was done TO meet the demands of the
treasury for money This will add
over $3.50, o0J to the state revenue for
the next year.
A letter from Hart Humber, a pros
pector, dated Dawson City, June IS,
shows that gold seekers need plenty Of
capital. After reaching Dawson and
paying the duty on his outfit, besides
so cents a pound for getting it over
Chllloot pass, he will have 10 pay %
cents a pound to get it from Dawson
to the digginys.
1t is reported that a Klon lyke syn
dicate of 100 men is being formed by
residents of Bay Shore, Sayv.l!e and
| I - r. ,e
that each man will advance 81, 900.
They will cross the contin mt, pur-
chase boat, man it with their own
men and sail from the Pacific coast,
taking years provisions with them.
A letter received at New York police
headquarters Thursday from Superin.
tendent OF Police Gosper, of New Or.
leans, contained warrant for the ar.
rest of Juan Antonio Magan, the al
legged gold brick swindler, arrested
here n few days ago The letter stated
tt at requisition papers would be for
warded as soon as they could be pre-
pared.
Negotiations are now in progress
with the French government looking
to the conclusion of a treaty OF trade
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between the United States and lunis
This is to take the place of the ole
treaty which does not fit modern con
ditions, and particularly the existing
protectorate over Tunis maintained
by France.
John ID. Sargent, of Machias, Ne, who
according to published dispatches, wa
lynched by a mob in Wyoming recent
ly, on account Of alleged cruelty to hi
wife, arrived in Machias on Wednes
day nights steamer, Sergeant is
member of one of the leading familie
of this place and the report that h
had been lynched aroused considera
; BILE excitement here
The recent discovery of Chief En-
gineer j. ii. Nicnols, of the West Je,
sey & Seashore railroad that crude OF
applied to the ground along railroa
) tracks would effectually lay the dus
, has proven after thorough tests t
| work far better than first expected
Both lines of the railroad leading fror
| Camden to Atlantic City are bein
thoroughly saturated for distance c
, six feet on both sides of tho track