Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-04-10
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Hodson, the jockey, was thrown and
killed in a steeplechase at StolIe-Upon-
Trent, Staffordshire, Eng, Thursday.
Police Commissioner Theodor Roose-
welt, left for Washington Thursday
night, presumably to accept the ap.
pointment of assistant secretary of
the navy.
At meeting of the directors of the
Missouri, Kansas s. Texas and Kansas
City e Pacific roads in Parsons, Kan,
the old officers were elected without
exception.
The president has appointed John
I. Bresslcr, of Nebraska, n govern
ment director of the Union Pacific
railroad. lie succeeds j. Nelson II.
Patrick, whose term has expired.
A special to the Chattanooga News
from Oakdale, Tenn, says that a. E.
Weeks, of Locke, N. Y, who was
thought to have perished in the big
fire in Knoxville is safe and well at
Oakdale.
United States Minister McKenzie's
malady has yielded to treatment and
his physicians now pronounce him out
of danger AS soon as his condition
will permit he will leave for the Unit
ed States.
The Missouri river is steadily falling
at Omaha, and is now at 13 feet above
mean low water, three feet below the
danger line. Slight rises are reported
from above, but all danger of flood
seems to be passed.
A dispatch from Constan tinople says
the proposal to leave the choice of
governor of the Island of Crete to the
Cretan assembly has been accepted by
four of the powers, but it is added,
Germany and Austria still oppose the
proposition.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Monawai from Australia was Most
Rev. Lord Primate of Australia VIM.
Saumerez Smith, D. D., who is on his
way to England; Emily Soldene, the
opera singer, and Chief lJustice A. +.
Judd, of the Hawaiian supreme court.
Turkish gendarmes entered the
house of the Greek consul at Halepa
and seized several rifles and some am
munition which had been left there by
the villagers 1t is alleged that the
sub-governor of the island sent the
Sendarmes to search the house.
The acting civil governor of Santa
Clara and the acting civil governor of
Santiago de Cuba have issued ener-
getic circular orders against gambling.
The terms of the latter are particu-
larly severe, the practice of gambling
being denounced as scandal to So
ciety."
Arthur Quinn, of Springfield, ILL.,,
who is at present an inmate of the
poor farm at Bloomington, is heir to
fortune OF S2O,O 900 by the death of
his brother, Frank Quinn, in Phila-
delphia five years ago. and the lat
ters wife who died recently in Penn
sylvania.
The Poughkeepsie Glass Works, at |
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, were completely |
destroyed by fire Friday The only
part of the factory that the firemen
were able to save was the Office and
some sheds under which new goods |
were stored. The loss approximated |
about 500, 600; insurance, 800, 900.
An elevator in the Ellicott square |
building, Buffalo, N Y, fell five stor-
es Thursday and these men were in
ured: A. o. Griswold, Elyria, o.;
,harles Harsch, Toledo; George Vro-
nan, Toledo; c. Messer, Toledo; Mad.
son Hobart, emberville, o. Of these
i've Mr. Griswold was the most seri-
usly hurt
At San Diego, Cal, Seaman Cline, of
he cruiser Philadelphia, died Friday.
,wo other sailors are dying and sew
raj more are in a precarious condition
rom drinking wood alcohol mixed
With eggs and condensed milk. They
,rQke into the medicine chest during
he night, stealing the alcohol, of
which they drank large Quantities.