Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-10
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Senator Prichard Wednesday intro
duced bill reducing the tax on dis
titled spirits on bond to 20 cents per
gallon.
Wednesdays statement of the condi-
tion of the treasury shows: Available
aash balance, 1927, ,146, 400; gold reserve,
s15S, 191,669.
The estimate of the lumber cut in
the ottawa (Ontario) valley during the
season places it at about 724,000, 900
feet, which is somewhat more than
last year.
Dr. Campbell Morfit, the distin-
guished American chemist, died in
London Wednesday. DR.. Morfit was
born in Herculaneum, Mo-, on Novem-
ber 10, 1920.
President Pierola has vetoed the
measure recently passed by congress
legalizing non-Catholic marriages in
Peru and providing for the rcgistra-
tion of such marriages.
The records of the treasury depart
ment show that the amount of net gold
on hand was: S15S, 191, 600, which is
EItulCI Jlldll dJ any IllIC ollCC mug uoOs
1890, when it was S1S5, ,S3T, ,5S1.
A slab of quartz with viens of gold
prominently showing will convey Cali
fornia's invitation to President Nc
kinley to attend on January "a the
golden jubilee of the discovery of gold.
The chamber of commerce of Los
Angeles, CAL, has declared itself OPP
posed to the annexation of the Ha-
waiian islands, and passed resolution
declaring that annexation would ma
terially affect the beet sugar industry
in that state.
The King ranch in Monterey county,
California, has been purchased by the
Sprechels Sugar Co. The price paid is
said to have been $500, ,OOO The land
will be devoted to the cultivation of
sugar beets for the supply of the new
factory at Salina.
The preparation of the Indian APP
preparation bill will begin Immediate
ly in the house committee on Indian
affairs and probably the bill will be
reported to the house early in January.
There are many important matters be-
fore it but everything now will give
way to the appropriation bill.
The Fall river cotton manufacturers
at special meeting Wednesday voted
to reduce the wages of operatives. The
cut will not be less than ten per cent,
and will affect about $4,000 employees.
The cause of the reduction is the de-
pressed condition of the cotton market.
George w. Vanderbilt, bound on a
tour of the world, was passenger
Wednesday on the American liner st.
Paul for Southampton. 1t is his in
tention to visit India on hunting ex-
pedition. Later he will go to Japan.
w. Bosgood Field, his friend, accom-
panied him.
J. IaveloclS Wilson, M. P. and Ed
ward Hartford, representing the Brit
ish trades council, both of whom are
delegates to the congress of American
Federation of Labor, to be held at
Nashville, Tenn, shortly, arrived in
New York Wednesday from Liverpool.
They were met by delegation of la
Dor men.
Gov. Saddler. of Nevada, denounces
the work of the mob on Tuesday morn
ing, in Genoa, in lynching Adam Uber,
as an example of fiendish barbarism.
He says that upon proper application
from the authorities of Douglas county
he will offer a reward for the appre-
hension of the leaders and accessories
to the crime.
Rev. DIR. John Atkinson, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church at
HayerStraw. N j.. died Wednesday.
aged IS years. DIR. Atkinson had held
pastorates in New Jersey, Chicago,
Bay City, Mich, and Adrian, Mich. He
was the author of the hymn, 1--WE shall
meet beyond the river" and of numer-
Gus works on church affairs.