Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-13
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Coun-
try by TeleC raph.

uRtnereW FROM All RartA or tne COun-
try by Telegraph.
The controller of the currency has
ssued call for reports of the condi-
Jon of national banks at the close of
business Tuesday, March 0.
The round house of the Delaware
River railroad at Penns Grove, n. j.,
vas burned together with three loco
motives entailing loss of $50, 900
At Trenton, N. j., Vice Chancellor
Reed has dismissed the bill in the case
against the American Tobacco Co., and
The trust is victorious in the big fight
to destroy it.
Fred Deelcy another victim of tho
.ecent explosion at the corner of Ire
mont and Boylston streets, Boston,
lied early Friday morning, making
the tenth fatality.
Mr.. Albert Mott, of Baltimore, has
been appointed chairman of the ma
ional racing board of the l.. A W., to
succeed George d. Gideon, of Philadel-
ohia, who declined reappointmcnt.
The report that reached Colon Tues
day from Panama that Gen. Antonio
Ezcta, formerly vice president OF Sal
NduOL' was uStiNAs W 10 VI i oAlNOuS' N'Sh'
Ezeta is still alive. but is moribund.
Loans to the amount of $1,000, 900
have been obtained from New York
banks within week to pay duties on
goods held in bond in anticipation of
higher duties under the new tariff.
One loan for S5OO,O was secured
Thursday.
A Northern Pacific passenger train
eollidcd with q rotary plow five miles
west ofAamoure, n. d., Thursday
aight. Roadmaster Fitzgerald was kill
ed and three others were more or less
INJURED. The wires are down and no
details can be obtained.
The impartial asserts that at the
cabinet council which was held Thurs
lay, the queen regent refused to sign
decree submitted by the minister's re-
calling Gen. Polavieja from his position
rs captain-general OF the Philippine is
.ands, and that there are ministerial
crises.
The soldiers sent from Fort Duchesne
TO eXpel the sooncrs from the Uncom-
pahgre reservation, met with some OPP
position and found it necessary to
place under arrest 20 parsons who re-
fused to vacate and who will be taken
10 the fort to be zeal IL with. All land
marks and monuments erected by the
wouldbe settlers were obliteratcd
A telegram was received Thursday
from Princeton, y. j., announcing
that Rev. Simon j. Mcpherson, pastor
of the Second Presbyterian church of
Chicago, had been elected Il member of
the board of trustees Of Princeton uni
versity He is New York man by
birth and education and has been pas
tor of the Second church for II years.
A. L. Ziemer, of Cleveland. o., who
was wounded by stray bullets during
an exciting chase after burglars in
Chicago early Thursday morning, is
not SO seriously injured as was at first
thought, and the physicians at the hos
pital say he will recover. The bullet,
which entered his abdomen, did not
touch any vital part, and his condition
is said to be greatly improved
An electrical storm, followed by
hail storm that frightened pedestrians,
visited Nashville, Tenn, Thursday
evening Hailstoncs of great dimen-
sions did considerable damage to num-
erous plate glass windows in the busi-
ness section. The din created by the
falling hailstones, was intensified by
objects flying about. Sew
oral of the centennial buildings are
minus glass windows, but otherwise
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