Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-13
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts OF the Country
by Telegraph.
Hon. Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings,
X. c. NJ. e., LID, member of the
legislative council of New SouthW Wales,
is dead, aged Sc years.
The Spanish government has decreed
O quarantine against vessels arriving
from Costa Rican ports, owing to the
prevalence of yellow fever there.
The Central Labor union of New
York has sent Sl0O and assurance of
its hearty cooperation to President
Ratchford, of the Mine Workers union,
whose members are on a strike
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Washington says: Hawaii has of
fercd to refer to arbitration the immi'
grafton question pending between her.
self and Japan, but the Toxic govern
ment has so far ignored the propo-
sition.
dispatch from Montevideo says
that severe fighting between the revo-
lutionists and government troops has
occurred at Acegua, in the province of
Cerre Largo According to the govern
ment report, the rebels were obliged
to retreat.
The usual celebrations in commem-
Grafton of the battle of the Boyne
took place in Belfast Twenty thou
sand Orangemen marched in procession
and great crowds filed the streets.
Everything passed Off in the most or
DERBY fashion.
Cable advices from Chill announce
that the government has offer, d to
Senor Aegel Custodio Vicuna the
charge OF the Tacnaple biscite. Senior
Polar, the Peruvian minister to Bolivia,
will shortly arrive in Lima Tor the
purpose of consulting with the gov.
ernment.
Emperor William, walking upon the
deck of his yacht at Odde, Norway,
Sunday, while one of the masts was
being lowered, was struck violent
blow on the left eye by rope, causing
an extravasacton of blood on the eye
ball A bandage was Immediately
placed over the injured eye, and the
pain ceased almost at once.
Edwin j. Belts and wife, who resid-
ed on a farm five miles from Delhi, n.
Y, were killed by lightning. They
had been to a neighbours house and
were on their way home when a show
er forced them to take refuge under a
tree. They were apparently killed in
stantly. Belts was about 40 years old.
Two children survive the couple.
A terrible railway disaster took
place about midnight at Gjentofte,
Sweden. The express from Belsingoer
ran into passenger train standing at
the station, wrecked eight carriages,
killed 40 persons and injured 60 others.
Most of the victims are of the artisan
class. The dead and injured have
been conveyed in ambulance trains to
Copenhagen.
John E. Davidson, third vice presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania COM
pany, controlling and operating the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts tsburgh,
died at the Hotel Lincoln, Pittsburgh,
at noon Sunday, from the effects OF an
operation performed last Thursday for
appendicitis. The deceased was SO
years of age and had been connected
with the Pennsylvania system for
more than 80 years.
The conferees on the tariff bill held
a four-hour session Sunday. The anx-
iety to reach complete agreement as
early as possible induced them to meet
on the Sabbath, and Sunday night
both the house and senate conterees
appear satisfied with the progress that
has been made Several hundred
minor amendments have been agreed
upon, many OF them mere changes of
phraseology, and on a large majority
OF these the house conferees naturally
have yielded.
Hon, George V. n. Lothrop, ex-
minister to Russia, died at 10 o'clock
Monday at the Lothrop residence,
Fort street, West Detroit. He was
stricken with heat prostration a week
ago and had been in Il comatose con-
dltion most OF the time since. Mr..
Lothrop died peacefully, surrounded
by the members of his family, Capt
Henry B, and Cyrus b. Lothrop and
his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Prall, vile OF
Rev. DR.. Prall, Of this city. His other
daughter, Baroness Huene, is in ST.
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