Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-09
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts OF the Country
by Telegraph.

by Telegraph.
Herr Otto Finsch, the explorer, has
been appointed professor of ornitho-
logy at Lcyden university.
President Mckinley message to con-
gress was received quietly in Berlin.
Its conservatism is praised.
Emperor William has ordered the
number of volunteers for the China
expedition to be increased to /, 900 men.
The steamship st. Paul, sailing for
Europe Wednesday took out 100000
ouHccs OF silver and 10000 Mexican
dollars.
Tuesdays statement of the condition
OF the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, s22s, ,t0l, 795: gold reserve, $685.
036, TS1.
Burr C. Chamberlain, who has play
ed tackle in Yale's football team for
the past two years, was elected captain
Tuesday night.
Nilhelmia, queen of the Netherlands,
will take the oath of accession to the
throne or Geptenber 10, 1898, in the
new church at Amsterdam.
Charles Bordelois, Cuban officer
who was wounded in the fighting in
Cuba and brought to New York FOR
medical treatment, died in a hospital
Tuesday
Tuesday Capt Gen. Blanco, the sov-
ernor general, signed a decree releas-
ing II persons who have been impris-
oned on charge of completely in the in
surgent movement.
John Thomascheutz, convicted of
killing his sweetheart Miss Annie
Rausch, has been sentenced by Judge
IachriA, of the criminal court at St.
Louis, to be hanged on January 10
next
Mr.. Geerge II. Pullman, for the past
three years associated with the Amer
lean National Red Cross, has resigned
his connection with that organization,
other engagements demanding his en-
tire time.
Abram Ubor, who killed Hans Ander-
son at Gardnerville, New, last week,
was taken from the Genoa Jail Tues
day, stripped of his clothing and hang
ed. His body was riddled with bullets
by an angry mob of 25 men supposed to
be from Gardnerville.
The state department has received
advices which go to confirm the
accuracy in general of the reports that
come from Port au Prince as to the
settlement of the difficulty between
Germany and Hayti by the retreat of
the latter from her position.
Ex-Gov Waite, of Colorado, has for
saken the state of which he was once
the chief executive. He will locate in
Decatur county, Ia, where he has
been for soms time. He is at work on
colonization scheme, the details of
which he has not yet made public.
Chief Justice Conway, of the Wyom-
ing supreme court died early Wednes-
day morning. He has been sick some
three weeks and confined to his home
with an attack of the grippe, but no
one supposed that he was seriously i'll.
He was elected in 1890 at the first state
election.
A fire in the office of Rothschild Sc
Co., Port Townsend, Wash, the oldest
ship building firm ON Puget sound, de-
stroyed the full data of all the ship
ping of Puget sound and British Column
bia waters since the year 1868. The
records destroyed were the only ones
in existence.
There has been no date fixed for the
meeting of democratic caucus in the
house. Mr.. Richardson, chairman Of
the caucus, said Tuesday night that no
plans had been outlined. There was
no need for hurry, he thought, but the
meeting would probably be held with
in few days.
Gov. Atkinson Tuesday afternoon
vetoed the anti-football bill. He sent
message to the house saying THAT
he had vetoed the measure, as he
thought the question of whether col
lege boys should play football should
be left with tho faculties of the vari-
GUS institutions.
A decree has been published in
Rome establishing in New York an
agency for the Italian tobacco monop-
oily. The agency is to consist of two
officials whose business it will be to
furnish information as TO the tobacco
trade and its cultivation with view
of direct purchases.
The river and harbor committee will
meet the early part of next week. AL
ready strong pressure is being brought
TO bear for the preparation of river
and harbor bill. The indications are
that it viii result in the reporting of
such a bill Notwithstanding efforts to-
wards retrenchment.
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