Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-20
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.
Three Princeton seniors were sus-
pended indefinitely Friday for hazing.
Fridays statement of the condition
Of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, S22o, ,O2O, 434; gold reserve, $780,
53l.691.
The insurgent leader Betancourt in
Manuel Argudin well-known inhab-
itant of Havana.
Robert Burns, of New York, was
knocked out by Fred Muller, of San
Francisco, in five rounds at the Olympic
club, Friday night.
John II. Morse, veteran of the
Black Hawk war and an intimate
friend of Abraham Lincoln, is dead of
epilepsy ut Evanston, Ill. He was "a
years old.
In Harlem Friday night fire de-
stroyed the big cooperagc department
OF John +. Belts brewery entailing u
loss of about S75, 900. One hundred men
will be thrown out of work.
Some objection to the confirmation
of Hon. Chas. Page Bryan Us minister
to China has developed in the senate,
and there is an effort on the part of
certain senators to have the nomina-
ton shifted to some other country.
1t is understood that the Spanish
cabinet at it's meeting Friday discussed
the proposition to increase the strength
of the navy and how to meet the eX-
pense of such step, which the I'm
partial estimates at $4,000, 900 pesetas.
d. X. Pearsons, of Chicago, has
pledged $25, OOJ to Olivet college, Mich
igan, on condition that the college
raises ST5,000 more within year.
Olivet college is a Congregational in
stitution, and Rev. VIM. G. Spearry is
the president
Harry n. Clark, formerly cashier of
the First national bank of Bridgeport
o., who is accused of having embez-
zeld $4,000 of the banks funds, is in
custody in Denver, COL, and will be
taken back to Ohio for trial. He was
arrested at Cripple Creek.
The steamer Wolcott has arrived at
Seattle, Wash, from Copper river,
Alaska. She had two passengers who
report that 200 prospectors are in the
vicinity OF the mouth of the Copper
river awaiting favorable opportun-
ity to get into the interior.
The case of the state of Florida
against c. B. Collins, late state treas
urer, ended in a vedict of acquittal,
which was received with an outburst
of applause promptly suppressed by
the court with reprimand. The in
dictmcnt alleged embezzlement of over
$4,000.
Senator Tillman Is. c. has been alb
sent from the senate for several days
on account of an attack of liver and
stomach trouble. He is now improv-
ing. Senator McLaurin, of the same
state, who has been i'll since the Begin
ming of the session, also continues to
grow better.
A special dispatch from Shanghai as
serts that China will acquiesce in Ger
many's retention of kiao Chou. Rus
sia and France are irritated at Ger
many's precipitancy in thus prema-
turely disclosing her plans to Eng
land and Japan in manner likely,
says the dispatch, to defeat the objects
in view.
A man supposed to be John Hafford
Haynes, an Englishman who has been
stopping at the Palace hotel in Jersey
City for about a month, committed sui
eide there Friday night by drinking
carbolic acid. After his death two
pawn tickets were found in his room,
one having been issued in Adelaide,
South Australia.
Private advices received from Ottawa
state that the dominion government
is now considering the advisability of
Withdrawing the customs house at
Tagish lake, thus closing all Klondike
routes from Lynn cahal, in conse-
quenoe of the obnoxious customs regu.
lations between Skaguay and the sum.
init Of White Pass.
The William Cramp & Sons ship and
engine building company, of Philadel-
phia, is going to construct ship
building plant at Seattle to compete
with the Union works at San Fran
cisco. The establishment OF the State
steamship line is but the preliminary
step i'll an enterprise which contem.
plates an expenditure of more than
10000, 900.