Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-06-18
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1t is said that Baron Won der Reckoe,
Prussian minister of the interior, has
resigned.
Wednesdays statement of the con-
dition of the treasury shows: Avail
able cash balance S?3l, $50, 254; gold re-
serve, Sl44, 394, AIS net
The management of the Louisville
Baseball team has released Jimmy
Rodgers, the captain of the team, ow-
ing to certain disagreements.
Great damage has been done in Rou-
mania by the recent rainstorm. The
Danube overhowed its banks and an
immense lake, nine miles long, has
formed between Fetesti and Tchorn.
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Consul General Lee, from Havana,
Wednesday cabled the state depart.
ment that Manuel Ruiz Porras, an
American citizen who was arrested at
Trinidad, Cuba, May %, has been re-
leased.
1t is learned that the appointment
of Mr.. Richard Yates, of Illinois, as
collector of internal revenue for the
Springfield district has been fully de-
cided upon and his nomination will be
sent to the senate within the next few
days.
Ex-Auditor Eugene Moore was ar.
raigned before Judge Hall, in the dis
trict court at Lincoln, Neb,, on a
charge of embezzling $4,000 during
his last term of office. Moore was
asked to plead, but declined, and had
plea of not guilty entered for him.
The senare in executive session We'd
nesday recommitted the nomination of
Myron H. McCord to be governor of
Arizona territory, to the committee on
territories, and instructed the commit
tee to send for persons and papers to
investigate further charges which had
been made against the appointee.
W. Il. Brad bury, the millionaire, will
have to serve the sentence of "a hours
Imprisonment in the county Jail at
San Francisco imposed upon him by
Judge Louvre recently on his convic-
tion the second time of splitting in
street cars. Judge Wallace of the SUI
perior court having affirmed the judg-
ment
George Eustace Barnes, one of the
oldest and most widely known jour
nalists of the Pacific coast is dead.
Heart failure was the cause of his
death. He was one of the founders of
the San Francisco Cali, of which pa
per he was managing editor for many
years. Among other notables on his
staff was Mark Twain.
The steamer Jos. Oteri, from Bocas
del Toro reports the Norwegian
steamer Utstein sailed from Bocas el
Toro June for Mobile with 10, 600
punches Of bananasi put back June Z
with shaft cracked and propeller brok-
en-. She threw overheard most of her
cargo and will endeavor to make re.
pairs at Bocas del Toro
The steamer Virginia of the Good
rich line, with 200 passengers aboard,
ran down the schooner Eveline, bound
from Menominee, Mich, to Chicago,
near Milwaukee, A panic prevailed
among the Virginia's passengers but
the steamer continued on her course to
Chicago and the Eveline was towed to
the Milwaukee drydocks for repairs.
Mrs. Taylor Delk and her daughter.
Miss Annie Delk, appeared before the
governor of Georgia Wednesday morn.
ing to make a last appeal for Tom
Delk, the young Pike county murderer
who is to die on the gallows. The con.
demned mans sister sat by her moth.
er's side, but did not speak. The gov.
ernor told them that he could not in.
terfere uuless on some strong ground.
The reports that all the buildings
at Shillong, India, had been destroyed
by an earthquake, are confirmed Mr.
McCabe, the British resident deputy
com missioner, was killed by a falling
house and the English ladies and
children are suffering intensely from
exposure. The towns of Sylhat and
Cherrapnuji, were leveled to the
ground and whole villages subsidized,
The losses are so great that it is fear
ed a severe scarcity is inevitable in
several populous districts.