Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-02-11
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
Dy Telegraph.
The United States cruiser Newark
arrived at Port Royal from Jackson
vile Tuesday evening.
The senate Tuesday confirmed the
nomination OF L. w. Kick busch, jr., to
be consul at Stettin, Germany.
The benefit performance at the Net
ropolitan opera house Tuesday night
netted So, 900 for New Yorli's poor
For January the Northern Pacific
road earned 1896, 4o6, n decrease of
S227,517; Big Four, Sl,052, 1913, de-
crease of $50, 126.
A sundry civil bill amendment favor
ably reported to the senate Tuesday,
appropriates $50 900 for site for o
public building at Butte, Mont.
The German government has ordered
the prosecution of several university
professors who recently signed a dec
laration in favor of the striking dock
laborers of Hamburg.
A severe snow storm set in Tuesday
afternoon, covering the northern and
western portions of South Dakota. 1t
compelled the abandonment of many
railway trains and the tying up of
others.
Information has been received in
London that the British Niger eXpedi-
tion has captured the town of Bida,
the capital OF the Foulah tribe. One
officer was killed in the assault upon
the town.
Senator Frye's proposition to expcnd
Sl0O, 600 for the Improvement of Pearl
harbor, in the Hawaiian islands, was
favorably reported to the senate by
the committee on foreign relations
Wednesday,.
The Cuban committee of Italy held
meeting in Rome Wednesday and
voted their approval of the action of
the New York committee in rejecting
the reforms offered to Cuba by the de-
cree recently signed by the queen
regent of Spain.
BY the unanimous vote of the direc-
tors of the Union Theological semi
nary Rev. DR.. Charles Guthbert Hall,
pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church, Brooklyn, was Tuesday elected
president of the seminary, vice Dir.
Thomas Hastings resigned
Charles L. Flint, of the United States
Rubber Co, New York, has been sub
poenaed to appear next Saturday be-
fore the LeXow committee, which is
investigating trusts. He sa3s that he
will give the committee any informa-
tion he can with great pleasure.
The Bankers Exchange bank, of
Minneapolis, Mimi, c4Oscd its doors
Wednesday morning. 1t suspended
some weeks ago, but resumed in a few
days. Its last statement is dated De-
ccmber 2G, 1896. 1t shows deposits of
SCI, GOO; cap tai, $50, 600: loans and dis
counts, S6S,O
A judgment for Sc, 900 on note was
entered in court Tuesday by Smith &
Barnes, piano manufacturers OF Chica-
go, against the Chicago Music Co, an
old-estalished house at 1877 Wabash
avenue. No execution was issued on
the judgment and the store remained
doing business as usual.
The post Office appropriation bill has
been completed by the committee on
post offices and post roads and will be
submitted to the house in few days.
1t carries an appropriation of S95, ,Gl1,-
IA, being $l,9O3, G07 below the esti
mates and 5000, 15O greater than the
amounts for the present fiscal year.
Two ballots were taken in the joint
session of the South Dakota Legislature
Tuesday, but without result. On the
first Picller, the republican, received
the full support of his party and the
votes of two populists, who have been
Kyle men. There was but one change
on the second ballot, one populist
changing back from Piclller to Kyle.