Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-05-27
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the CoUutry
by Telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of the CoIutry
by Telegraph.
Eight frame buildings comprising
the business portion of Coal Creek
Tenn, were burned Wednesday. In
surance small. The origin is mys
terry.
James McNaspy, once p prosperous
broker of Herington, Kan, and prom
inent in state politics, has been sen.
fenced to nine years in the peniten.
tiary for forgery. He is said to have
realized S1o,O on forged notes.
The sale of the Kansas Central rail-
road by Hiram P. Dillon, of Topeka,
master in chancery, has been post
poned till June Is by request of east.
ern bondholders. This is taken to
mean that the Union Pacific will buy
it in.
The picked team of Philadelphia
cricketers who will play about fifteen
matches in England this summer left
Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon for
New York where they will sail for
Liverpool on the steamship st. Paul
Wednesday.
John George Dodson, first baron
Monk Breton, is dead He was born
in 1926, was for eight years deputy
speaker of the house of commons and
has held other offices, including presi-
dent of the local government board
and chancellor of the duchy of Lam
castec
A special dispatch from Athens says
that Great Britain has declared her in
tention to abandon the concert OF the
powers If it be determined that the
occupation of Thessaly by Turkish
troops shall be prolonged until Greece
shall have paid the war indemnity de-
manded by Turkey.
The state department has been ad-
vised through the United States lega-
tion at Lima, Peru, that news has
been received in that city of the kill
ing Of an American named Whaley by
the Campo Indians in the district OF
Perene. No details are given as to the
identity of the man.
The special session of the 121st New
Jersey legislature, after being in ses-
sion seven hours adjourned sine die
without having accomplished anything
except the correction of the error
which made the session necessary, and
the con frmation of some nominations
sent to the senate by the governor.
A car loaded with corn contributed
by citizens of Smith Center, Kan,
and vicinity, for the starving in India
has been shipped from Smith Center.
Each side of the car was decorated
with banner inscribed 'car load of
corn for the starving in India, Mo-
hammedan or atheist, we can feed the
world"
Charles X Iillyard, 80 years old, q
well known lawyer of Brooklyn, shot
and killed his 13-year-old son, William,
and himself, Monday night at what
hour is not known. Their bodies were
found Tuesday afternoon in bed
room in Hillyard's elegant home. Mr..
Hillyards wife died last October, and
since that he has been subject to mel
ancholy.
Albert NJ. King, the Boylston nation
al bank messenger who disappeared
last Wednesday, with $40, coo of tho
banks money and who was arrested at
Me-, last Saturday, was
in the municipal court in
Boston, on the charge of embezzle--
ment He pleaded mot guilty" and
was held in So, 500 for the grand jury.
Bail was furnished by his father.
According to Karl C. Korn, until re-
Gently the manager of the beet sugar
factory at Menomonee Falls, Wis, a
of foreign capitalists has
been formed which will enter upon the
of beet sugar on gigan-
tic scale in Wisconsin and other states.
He claims that all the men whom he
has succeeded in interesting in the
matter are men VINO have had wide
in the business. in Europe.