Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-16
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sathered From All Parts OF the Country
by Telegraph.
r. p. Mcdaniel, United States con-
sui at Bahia, arrived at New York Sun
iay per steamer Grecian Prince, from
that port.
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
governments of Germany and Austria
nave declined to take part in the mixed
occupation of Crete by the powers
A dispatch from Vienna to news
agency says that Emperor Francis Jo-
seph will pay visit to st. Petersburg
in April and remain there two weeks.
The new naval administra tion will
soon take under consideration plans
llready matured by naval experts for
aging up some of the United States
warships in reserve according to the
practice of every European nation
Crook e Perham, wholesale coal
dealers at No. Broadway, New York,
assigned Monday. The firm is we'll
Known in the trade and year ago
claimed to be worth $780, ,000 The
failure is attributed to bad debts and
lull trade.
A special cable dispatch to the Jour
nal from Moscow says: William Stein
itz, the famous chess player was dis
charged Saturday from the hospital
for insane patients attached to the
university of Moscow, to which he was
taken carly in February
The torpedo boat (No. 9 Porter sail
ed from Fort Monroe, Va, for New
York at 6 o'clock Sunday morning.
The Colum bia with the monitor Puri-
tan in tow had not arrived up to $50
Sunday evening, but it was understood
she had put in for shelter.
NJ. f. Allen, Hickman &5 Co., whole
sale and retail dealers in hardware,
agricultural implements, etc, Paris,
Tex, assigned their entire stock Sat
urday under deed OF trust Tor the
benefit of creditors. Liabilities $40, 600,
and assets about the same.
Sumner L. Dudley, former general
secretary of the Orange y. NJ. c. A.,
we'll known all over the country in as
sociation circles, died of Brights dis
ease at the residence of his father,
Francis d. Dudley, Sunday morning at
| Orange, n. D., after an illness of four
| years and confinement TO the house for
three months.
| Gov. Jones late Sunday afternoon
authorized the statement that he
would issue Il call tor an extra session
of the Arkansas legislature. He said
( the appropriation bills have not been
passed and he has no funds with which
to run the state government for the
next two years unless the appropria-
| lions are made.
| The towboat Hawk, owned by the
Mckinley Coal Co.. was overturned by
/ high wind on the Ohio river before
noon Sunday at Bellevue, six miles be-
low Pittsburgh. VIM. Devers the pilot
on watch, was drowned, but the re-
maindcr of the crew reached shore in
safety. The Hawk was valued at S.
OOO and insured for Sc, 600.
dispatch to the New York Sun
from Havana says: The concentration
Of the Spanish forces at the Cuban
seaports by order of General Weyler
is but the beginning of the abandon
ment of the island. The interior towns
will soon be left defenceless and will
fall into the hands OF the insurgents
or be reduced to state Of anarchy.
The San Francisco examiner has ar
ranged with the Southern Pacific rail-
road to furnish special train imme-
diatcly after the big fight and make
the run to San Francisco in six and
one-half hours. This train, conveying
the corps of writer's and artists from
the scene of the championship battle,
will probably break all previous rec
ords for fast runs over the Sierras.
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