Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-04-23
CONDENSED NEWS
sathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

9athered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph
At Wilmington, n. c.. the frost and
freezing temperature Wednesday morn
ng caused great damage to crops OF
truckers. The damage to Strawberries
S estimated at 10 to 80 per cent;
beans so per cent; peas and potatoes
10 per cent.
Telegraphic advices received at
Raleigh, n. c., from Greensboro in the
west and Newberne trucking county in
the east, say that the frost Wednesday
was heavy and that fruit in both sec
tions was much injured, but damage
to truck was light.
AS result of bloody battle be-
tween two convicts in San Quentin
prison, one is dead and the other dy-
ing Each had knife, and they had
been carving each other for fully a
minute before the guards could inter-
fere. They had been using the knives
in the jute mill.
The interior department has granted
permission to Chief Joseph, the Nez
Perce warrior, to accompany Col. Cody
in his Wild West show. Chief Joseph
is the famous Nez Perce chief captured
by Gems. Miles and Howard in 1877,
after pursuit of nearly g. 900 miles to-
wards the British frontier.
Minnesota wheelmen broke all ex-
isting ties with the L. A. w. Wednes-
day evening by permanently organiz-
ing Minnesota division of the pro-
posed United Wheelmen of America
constitution and bylaws were
adopted. Frank II. Williams, of Min
neapolis, was elected president.
A party of 25 Greeks, under COM
mand of Lieut.. Epaminondas Nacho-
POOLS, will sail from Philadelphia next
Tuesday to fight for their country.
Lieut.. Nachopoolis and Sergt. Peter
Stravopoolos, who is also going with
the party, were both officers in the
Fifth regiment of the Greek infantry.
Billy Vernon, the Haverstraw, n. Y,
pugilist, who was injured in his fight
with Leslie Pearce, at Athens, Pa,
on Tuesday night, died at 5 o'clock
Thursday morning in the esbyterian
hospital. From the moment he coll
lapsed in the 14th round, Vernon re-
mained unconscious up to the time of
his death.
Lieut.. Manlio Garibaldi, of the Ital-
ian navy, sailed from New York on the
Teutonic, with the purpose of aiding
the Greeks in their present struggle as
his brother is about to do. "Wherever
the cause of human liberty needs a
leader, there is the pace fer Garibal-
I Il; |, 10 f,,;n n
Barrattoni before leaving.
At San Francisco jury has at last
been selected in the Fair case, and 12
men have been sworn to act as advis-
ors to Probate Judge Slack while he
tries to determine whether the pencil
deeds conveying valuable property
from Senator Fair to Mrs. Craven were
forged or are genuine. The case will
probably occupy several weeks.
Terrific sand storms swept over the
Arkansas valley in Southeastern Kan
sas. The wind blew at the rate of 40
miles an hour The great valley, which
averages 10 miles wide, is in a bed of
sand, and passengers who arrived on
trains from that section say people
we're driven to their homes for protec-
tion against cloud of dust and sand
which no human being could face.
wreck occurred at Midget trestle,
nine miles north of Evergreen, Ala,
to the outbound passenger train on
the Louisville & Nashville railroad.
The engine, mail car and two coaches
were ditched. Engineer Adams, his
fireman and two Negroes were fatally
injured, and two other Negroes be-
lieved to be tramps, were severely
hurt. The cause of the wreck is un-
X Known.
Mrs. Z. Frances Hyde and Mr..
Eugene De kietfer, who left New York
Wednesday morning on horseback to
beat the record to Philadelphia, ar
rived at their destination, the Hotel
Stratford, at 4:42 o'clock, having made
the trip in eight and one half hours
The best previous time was made by
Harrison K. Gamer Tristan Colket,
who covered the distance in six hours
and 81 minutes.