Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-23
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BY & vote of IL to the CITY
council of Bloomington, ILL.,, defeated
resolution to prohibit football within
the city limits.
The Hyland 81 Brown department
store, Elmira, N. Y, has given chattel
mortgages amounting to S65,0 to
creditors The assets and liabilities
are each S150,00O.
Judge Thomas Lcverett Nelson, Of
the United States district court for the
district of Massachusetts, died at 11:30
o'clock Sunday morning at his home in
Worcester, Mass, after long illness,
aged 10 years.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Randsburg, CAL, Sunday.
The first at 1880, the next an hour
later. The vibrations were from north
to south. Buildings shook percepti-
bly,, but no damage was DONE
Mrs. Elizabeth j. McMillen, wife of
Gen. w. L. McMillen, of Louisiana,
died in Nantucket, Mass, Sunday
of heart failure. Gen. and Mrs. Nc
Millen arrived last Monday, intending
to spend short part of the winter
here.
A special from Williamsport, Pa.
says: The American Woodworking Ma
,hinery Co. has just been organized
and will control IA concerns manu-
featuring seven-eighths of the wood
working machinery produced in the
United States
The fire which started week ago
Sunday in the Smugglcr mine is in all
appearances under control. But little
smoke is now issuing from the shaft
and the management think that with
in 24 hours the work of cleaning
the mine of smoke and gas can be be-
gun.
Schuylllill colliery, a familiar land
mark OF the Mahanoy valley, Pennsyl-
vania, which has been in operation
since 1868, has been abandoned and
large force of men Monday began the
destruction of the breaker and other
buildings around the entrance to the
mine.
The theosophists of San FIR ancisco
are taking very active interest in the
fate of murderer Durrant. 1t is tenet
of their faith that capital punish ment
is wrong, and they are getting up
petition praying Gov. Budd to stay the
execution and to commute his. sentence
to life imprisonment.
Charles S. Erswell, the telegraph op-
orator who, on June Is last, shot two
soldiers from Fort Russell, killing one
and seriously wounding the other, and
who has been on trial at Cheyenne,
Wyo., on the charge of murder, has
been acquitted. 1t was shown that
the shooting was done in self-defense.
DR.. Michael c. O'Toole, the distin-
guished surgeon and occulist, died in
San Francisco The cause of death
was pneumonia. He was i'll only four
days. He was native of Wexford,
ireland, and was 05 years of age. He
was member of many scientific
and an active worker in the
Irish cause.
Manuel Genoario, Portuguese sail
DR. of the fishing schooner Two Forty,
Of Gloucester, Mass, went crazy Sat-
lrday night and ran amuclS with a
sharp knife, attacking four shipmates
and badly wounding them while they
we're lying in their hunks. Genoario
vas afterwards found dead in the cab
n his throat cut and his bloody knife
n his hand.
because Theodore R. Merricls, q mo-
,orman in the employe of the Balti-
more e Northern railway, disobeyed
orders, officers of that road say,
there was trightful head-on collision
Sunday morning on the line, in which
Merrick was almost instantly killed |
and William r. Homer, motorman on
the car wss going in the opposite di- |
rection, received injuries from which
he died sbeut half an hour later.
Losoaoo GaliitieIie. AN Italian street
sweeper, was stAbbed 10 death by
fellow eSautryEsaa named Domtnhco !
Cesare, doriag an aftcrcntfon in the
hallway cf tenement hsuss on Null.
berry street, New York Yhs stnbbfne
was the outcome Of a grudge which had
existed betwcea tAe men for several
weeks After ertfing Gallfttelle Ce.
sare ran AWAY, and at late hour he
had not been captured.
Mrs. N. A. Trigs, ased 81 years, and
her ten-year-oh daughter, Eshsl, Lost
their lives in fire chat destroyed their
residence in West Eleventh street, To-
peka, Kan, at I o'clock Sunday morn
ng. A son escaped with broken leg,
jumping from a second-story window.
Mrs. Trigg had escaped but returned
20 save her daughter, and fell exhaust
I'd at her bedside. Her body was
burned to crisp. The girl was suf.
located.