Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-21
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

mains of William Terriss, the actor,
The coroners jury rendered verdict of
wilful murder.
La Minerve. the only French morn
ing newspaper in Montreal, has sus-
of nearly 80 years.
At late hour Sunday night Davis
S. Lambert. of Wilton. CT, who was
shot by burglars Friday night, was
still alive, though in comatose state.
According to the New York World,
of 207, $50 orliers in that city the rec
ords show that o., ,075 are out of work.
Last year at the same time 125, ,375 were
idle.
In an explosion aboard the British
steamer Southern Cross, from Buenos
Ayers for Liverpool, which arrived at
Madeira Sunday, several persons were
killed or wounded.
Sir Frank Lockwood, liberal member
of parliament for York city since 1885,
is dead Sir Frank Lockwood was a
son of Mr.. Chas: Day Lockwood, of
Doncastcr, and was born in 1916.
Lieut.. Gen. Marin captain general
of Puerto Rico, is about to resign ow-
ing to the impossibility of reconciling
the different parties in the island with
view of establishing autonomy.
Trades unionists are requested by the
Chicago Federation of Labor to leave
the National guard at once. This was
the unanimous decision reached by the
Delegates at their regular weekly meet
ing.
Pneumatic tubes for the mail service
of Chicago will be in operation be-
tween the depots, substations and the
general Office before long. This is the
word Postmaster Gordon brought with
him from Washington.
The London Times announces the
engagement of d. NJ. Muson, son of
former member of the house of COM
mons to Miss Mary Grouse, third
daughter of former, Congressman
George Grouse. .....ts j..
While Mrs. Margaret Spencer was
cooking with. an oil stove Sunday
night at her home on. West Sixty-eighth
street, New y York, her pet dog upset the
stove. An explosion followed. The
woman was so badly burned that she
died.
Thirty pounds of Alaskan and Wash
ington gold nuggets have been shipped
east over the Great Northern railroad
by the bureau of information of the
Seattle chamber of commerce. The
gold is to be exhibited in all the lead
ing eastern cities.
Stephen buckingham Sturges, one of
the founders of the Northwest national
bank of Chicago, is dead at his home in
Brooklyn of apoplexy, aged 70 years.
He was born in Mansfield, o., and was
graduated at Kenton college, in Cam
bria, IN the same state.
Fire has broken out in the after hold
of the British steamer Silverdale, from
Galveston via Newport News for Bre-
men, before reported put into st
Michael's with rudder broken and
other damage. Efforts are being made
to extinguish the flames.
At Elk City, Kan, John Straus is
dead, his two sons are dying, and Mr..
Reed and his daughter are critically
i'll from drinking coffee into which rat
poison had been dropped accidentally.
The unfortunates were participants in
a social at the StrauS home.
A Southern Pacific engine running
at full speed down the Dragon mount
ain, east of Benson, Ariz., Sunday,
came in collision with double-header
freight, killing Engineer Patterson, Of
the freight, and smashing the locomo-
tive and many of the freight cars.
The United States geodeeic survey
ship Macarthur has been ordered to
Alaskan waters and with the opening
of spring will head for the Yukon river,
there to remain until series of inn
portant surveys have been accomplish
ed and thorough study Of the country
made.
John E. Redmond, NJ. P, the well
known Irish leader, will sail for this
country on the Teutonic on December
80. He is coming to America at the
invitation of prominent workers in the
Irish cause to speak on the rebellion Of
1898, to arouse the enthusiasm of Irish
Americans in the pilgrimage to Ire
land next July to celebrate the rising.
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