Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-24
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! Mondays statement of the condition
Of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, S202 56l, ,S05. Gold reserve,
1856, 412.o46
Consul Morris, of Ghent, Belgium,
reports to the state department that
movement is on foot in that city to
have all business houses voluntarily
close at noon on Sunday instead of re-
naming open all day as now.
The directors of the Congregational
Educational society, at special meet
ing in Boston Monday, elected Rev.
Theodore Clifton, of Trinity Congre-
gational church Chicago, as the vest
ern field secretary of the society.
AT st. Louis, the trial of Young"
Critic, the Australian boxer, arrested
Saturday for vagrancy, will be heard
Tuesday. 1t has been arranged that
the case will be dismissed on condition
that Critic Immediately leaves St.
Louis
The schedules in the assignment of
w. G. Hitchcock e Co., wholesale silk
and commission merchants, New York,
who assigned on October 90 shows:
Direct liabilities, 81, 144, $50; contingent
liabilities, $4,000; nominal assets,
81, 260, ,979; actual assets, $5O6,G40.
James Charnley, jr., the 21-year-old
son of Charles M. Charnley, defaulting
treasurer of the Presbyterian board of
aid for colleges and academies. disap-
peared from his uncles house, Chicago,
last Saturday and is believed to have
committed suicide in Milwaukee
The British steamer Wistow Hall,
Capt. Jones, which arrived at Havre
Sunday from New Orleans, reported
that No. hold had been afire since
November II. Twenty-one feet of
water has been pumped in and the
flames are now apparently extin-
guished.
Consul Boyle, at Liverpool has sent
to the state department a report on
the subject of the extension of docks
at Liverpool. The system under way
will cost over Sa1, 100000. The consul
also says it has been decided to spend
S7,500,0O0 for dock and harbor improve
ments at Bristol.
A private telegram from Northamp-
ton county, on the eastern shore of
Virginia, states that the handsome
colonial residence of Lieut.. Edwin S.
Jacobs, U. S. N. retired, burned to
the ground about o'clock Monday
morning. Lieut.. Jacobs estimates his
loss at about SIS. 600.
Rev. Granville Sharpe Abbott, DID,,
one of the best known Baptist minis
ters of California, died in Oakland,
Monday night. He had been pastor of
prominent churches in San Francisco,
Oakland, South Boston and Water
town, Mass, and was connected with
various Baptist publications.
Consul General Patterson, at Cal
cutta in report to the state depart
ment says it is estimated that the iute |
crop of India this year will be 6, 500, 600 |
bales of 400 pounds each, of which |
about 3,600,0 900 bales will be available |
for export. He says manufacturers
may look for low prices Tor raw mate
rial.
The coal bunkers in the United States |
Oregon caught fire Sunday |
evening from spontaneous combustion,
and for over eight hours the crew
worked with a vengeance to smother |
what looked like costly blaze. There
were over $50 tons of coal in the vessel |
and prompt action alone saved the ship
and fuel
Tom Small, once a famous jockey,
was tried in the st. Louis police court
Monday on the charge of begging and
given five hours to leave town. He
was the Oldest jockey on the turf and
some years ago was worth $40, 900 and
vas a familiar figure. at Latonia,
Bay and Gravesend. He
IS 90 years old.
Detachments of Dervish horsemen
from Metemmeh, the stronghold OF the
Mahdi between Khartoum and Berber-
on-the-Nile, recently attempted to raid
the villages on the left bank of the
Nile, opposite Berber; but they were
driven off by the villagers who were ye-
Gently armed with rifles issued by the
Anglo Egyptian authorities.
AT Los Angeles, John Lee was arrest
ed Monday on warrant issued by the
United Statee district court fpr Dast-
ern Texas on charge of attempting
to murder w. R. Danforth, at the time
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas train
was held at Atoka, Indian territory, In
1898. Lee, who is but 81 years of age,
denies any knowledge of the affair.
me Weather.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-ohio-Fair We'd
nesday; colder; brisk northwesterly winds, di-
in force.