Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-05-26
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
At Portland, Ore, A. b. Coarsman.
of the Multonomah Athletic club,
smashed the worlds cooked hat"
bowling record, making SO out of
possible 90
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Rome says that the king of
Greece is beginning to reassert him
self and will soon be able to dismiss M.
Ralli and to appoint M. Katnpano as
premier.
Gen. Horace Porter, the new United
States ambassador to France, was re-
ceived Monday by the French minister
for foreign affairs, M. Hanotaux. Gen.
Porter will have an audience with
President Faure on Wednesday.
Fire Wednesday morning destroyed
the wholesale grocery of Smith Broth
ers, Savannah, Ga, and badly damaged
the grocery stock of j. NJ. Dixon &c
Co., on Bay street. Its origin is un-
known. Loss is 100000, fully insured.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Guatemala cables that the gov
ernment has issued decree suspend
ing specie payments for six months.
The banks will lend the government
1,5oo, 900 pesetos, to be repaid in six
months in silver.
The anniversary of Queen Victoria's
birth was observed generally through
out Canada Monday. In Ottawa state
dinner and reception was given by
Lord and Lady Aberdeen in honor of
the day. The announcement of the
birthday honors by the queen has been
postponed until jubilee week.
The case of X. b. Armour, formerly
postmaster at Memphis, charged with
EN- bezzlement of government funds,
has been nolle pressed by the United
States district attorney, for the rea-
son that the entire shortage, amount
ing to several thousand dollars, had
been made good.
In the montains six miles from Sky
komish and three miles from trail
Charles W. Trisbee, general auditor of
the Peninsula railroad fell dead of
heart disease Sunday afternoon. Fris-
bee was a native of Plymouth, Mich. ,
where his father still lives. He leaves
wife and three children,
The Delaware house of representa-
tives Monday afternoon, by vote OF
to 6, passed the bill, divorcing Mrs.
Laura Crocker Acklin from her hus'
band, William II. Aclllin, of Wash
| ington. The bill recently passed the
senate. The divorcee is a daughter OF
eX-Judge Crocker, the Cleveland mil
| lionaire.
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United States embassy in Paris, Mon
day presented to NJ. HanotauX the
mem bers OF the United States Bimetal-
lie commission, Senator Edward O..
Wolcott, of Colorado; eX-Vice Presi.
dent Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois,
and Gen. Charles jackson Paine, of
Massachusetts.
Henry Bauer and Carl Mold, the an
archists, who were accomplices of
Alexander Bergman in the attempted
assassination of II. c. Frick during the
Homestead strike of 1892, We're re.
leased from Riverside penitentiary
Tuesday, after serving four years and
three months OF five years sentence,
their terms having been reduced nine
months by good behavior
Percy West, business manager OF
Carnegie lyceum, New York, and we'll
known in theatrical circles, died Mon.
day of typhoid fever. His full name
was Percy West Dieterichs. His
father, Emil Dieterichs, is a wealthy
citizen of Cleveland and the proprietor
of Dieterichs Oil Co. of that place.
His widow, formerly Miss Gertrude
Robinson, of Cleveland, and daughter,
survive him.