Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-01
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
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Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.
The Hawaiian treaty provision was
restored to the tariff bill Wednesday
after brief discussion and without
vote
In the senate Wednesday Mr.. Perli-
ins (Cal) presented telegraphic me-
mortal in favor OF the annexation of
Hawaii.
A terrible FIRE was in progress Tues
day evening at the Ham burg Electric
works in the Post strasse. The entire
structure will probably be destroyed
with enormous loss.
The amalgamated scale of wages at
the Illinois Steel Co.'S works il Joliet,
H., was signed Tuesday. 1t is the
same as last year. The men and their
employers are both satisfied.
Two of the leading anthracite coal
companies, the Reading and the Della
ware and Hudson Canal, Tuesday is
sued schedule of new prices, show
ng an advance of 25 cents ton, be-
inning July l.
The president has pardoned Charles
r FIeischlnan, sentenced in Illinois to
| five years imprisonment in the Mil
wauliee house of correction Decent Der
S last for embezzling the funds Of the
National bank OF Illinois.
Charles K. Zeschau, receiving teller
OF the German-American national
bank, st. Paul, MINI, Monday pleaded
guilty TO stealing several thousand
dollars from the bank and was Tues.
day sentenced to eight years in the
state prison.
At Wimbledon, Eng, in the final
round of the gentle mems doubles lawn
tennis championship contest Tuesday,
the brothers Doherty beat Messrs
Casealet and Smith by three sets to
one. Messrs. Doherty will now meet
the Baddeley brothers, the holders.
AT a special meeting of the cham Der
of com merce, San Francisco it was de.
cided to indorse unanimously memo
rial to congress urging prompt action
| looking to the annexation of the Ha-
waiian republic upon the broad ground
OF national policy, prestige and COM
mercial necessity.
a uESLI uCtlNC IlG ANl 10 rag ny III
the hills around Burson, Cal. Back
firing has been started to save the
town OF Burson from destruction. Sew
eral buildings are reported to have
been burned in the hills. A railway
train was detailed 20 fight the flames
which attacked the track and trestle
Tuesday night
The excessive heat in Chicago Tues
day caused six deaths, while a numb Der
of other persons were prostrated. The
strong wind tempered the suns rays
to great extent and many who felt
the effects OF high temperature sought
shaded spots and were resuscitated by
the cool oreezes that blew steadily
from the southwest.
The steamer Manitou, bound from
| Chicago to Mackinaw with 100 passen-
gers aboard, went ashore during a fog
at o'clock Wednesday morning at
Three Mile Point, Little Traverse bay.
The steamer Razel took off the pas
sengers and landed them at Harbor
Springs, Mich. The wrecking tugs
Favorite and onaping are on the way
from Cheboygan to pull the steamer
| off
In the house of commons Tuesday,
Arthur j. Balfour, first lord of the
treasury and government leader, read
a message from the queen in reference
to the reported dissatisfaction of cer'
tain memb bers of the house of com,
mons with the arrangements made for
the reception of commoners at Buck
ingham palace last Wednesday. In the
message the queen expressed desire
to receive all the members of the
house of commons, with their wives,
at Windsor castle on Saturday next