Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-02
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Heavy gales are sweeping the S-r-
dinian coast. A vessel on fire was seen
OFT Sardo island Tuesday. She soon
foundered and no trace of her crew has
been found.
Gen. Weyler, the former captain-gen-
eral of Cuba, was banquetted at Palma,
Island of Majoriea, his birth place,
Tuesday evening. Great enthusiasm
was manifested
In the wreck of the Russian bark
Nil1olai, Capt. Karlsen, from Pugwash,
n. s., for Preston, at Formby, before
reported, one seaman was lost. The
rest of the crew, numbering ten, were
saved.
| 1t is officially announced that the in
surgents dynamited a freight train
near Alquizar, province of Pinar del
Rio on Sunday. The engine was part
ly destroyed and the engineer was in
| jured.
benjamin Harris, rag merchant of
Detroit, was Tuesday night arrested
charged with transporting across the
Detroit river $4,000 worth of woolen
rags, cvading the duty of $3.50, and at
tempting to bribe the customs officials.
w. ID. Chipley, of Florida, who has
been i'll at hospital in Washington
for some weeks following an operation
for carbuncle, died at 4 o'clock We'd
ncsday morning. The remains will be
removed to Columbus, Ga, for inter-
ment.
The printing Office of El Centinela,
Havana, the organ of the gendarmes,
| ntr m
of the fire is not known. The build
ing, it is said, was insured for the sum
of $50 900 in the Sun Insurance Co., of
England.
Charles Warren Spalding, eX-presi-
dent of the Globe Savings bank, was
Wednesday sentenced to an indeter-
inmate term in the penitentiary. He
was charged with embezzling funds of
the University of Illinois, of which he
was treasurer.
Cecil Barnard, we'll known society
entertainer, of London, was killed
Tuesday evening by falling or jumping
from second floor window of the Saw
age club. He was cousin of Fred
| Barnard, the artist who was burned to
death a month ago.
terrible railway accident has oc-
Cured at Warsaw. While passenger
train was stationary at the terminus,
heavy freight train crashed into 1t,
owing to the error of pointsman.
Eleven persons were killed outright
and ~ others were seriously injured.
There was renewal of the rioting
in Prague Tuesday The windows of
the German theater, German schools,
restaurants, residences and newspaper
offices were broken. The troops clear
ed the streets. Many people were in
jured and a number of arrests were
made.
The Holland fleet of steam
ships plying between Amsterdam, Rot
terdam and New York is to be rein
forced by a new twin-screw steamship.
| The vessel, which is now being built
at the yards of Harlan and Wolf, at
Belfast, will be called the Ryndam
and will have a capacity of 1880 tons.
Well defined rumors are in circula-
tion in Chicago that S. III. H. Clarke
has positively declined to accept the
presidency of the Union Pacific on ac-
count of ill-health and that 1T has been
practically decided to put E. W. Win
ter, lately president of the Northern
Pacific, in the place heretofore held by
Mr.. Clarke.
The Kolnische Zeitung says it is pre-
mature to describe the negotiations
for reciprocity treaty with the United
States as hopeless, as has been done in
New York and Washington. John A.
Kasson has arrived there, but nothing
has yet been done in the matter and
the negotiations will not begin for
some days.
1Ioratio C. James, a missionary who
arrived in New York Tuesday on the
; Atlas liner Alene. from Port Limon,
says that his wife was scared to death
by the intrusion of a native. anxious to
, see the new baby, into her bedroom at
San Carlos, Nicaragua. The native
meant no harm, but Mrs. James was SO
frightened that she died from the
shock.
Secretary Gage said Tuesday that in
the annual estimates he would send tc
congress he would name about 500, 900,
600 and not above S25, 100000 as the
amount of the treasury deficit for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1898. Tn,
, secretary said that he expects the re
ceipts from customs to increase stead
n lily. and that in the spring months h
|. anticipated quite large importations.
III The Weather.
ii WASHINGTON, Dec l--Ohio and Westcr
N Pennsylvania-Fair Thursday, preceded b
snow flurries on the lake; colder northwest
" erly winds.
lie Indiana-Fair and decidedly cooler Thursda.
~, | brisk northwest winds.