Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-06-28
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by Telegraph.
he extension of the free delivery
postal service to Anaconda, Mont, and
Fairfield, Ia, has been postponed trom
August to September l.
The building trades council OF san
Francisco has passed resolutions IA
voring the proposed treaty of annexa"
ton Of the Hawaiian islands.
Edith, dowager countess OF Ayles-
ford, is dead She was daughter of
the late Lieut.. Col. Poore Williams,
NJ. P, and married in 1871 the seventh
earl of Aylesford, who died in 1885.
The Russian turret iron clad Gam
root. one of the best vessels in the inn
perial navy, ran upon reef near
Trandsund Friday morning during a
storm and sank almost immediately.
The crew is reported saved.
Senator Chiffon gave notice Friday
of an amendment he will offer to the
tariff bill prohibiting interstate COM
merce in articles manufactured by
trusts, making the offense punishable
by three years imprisonment.
The Sandwich Enterprise Co., OF
Sandwich, S. H., manufacturers OF
windmills, cotton planters and farm
materials. has made an assignment to
d. w. Crowfoot, of that city. The
liabilities are placed at $500, ,0OO
The conference of the American Liz
brary association ended in Phlladel-
phia Friday. Some OF the association
leaders left Friday for Boston. whence
they will sail for Brussels to attend
the international conference OF libra
rjau5.
a craft, which her designer conf
IDENTIFY believes will skim the sea at
speed OF 80 miles an hour, has just
been launched in New York city. The
boat is the invention of Capt. Carl
J. II. Fiindt, who began the actual
work OF construction last Christmas.
VIM. IIoey, the actor, famous as
"Old uoss,' VINO broke down at Mt
Clemens and was taken to his home in
New York city, is suffering from acute
paresis, and it is thought that he can
live only few weeks. 1t is said that
he is penniiess, though he earned a
great deal Of money
George Colby, who escaped from
Lakeport (Cal.) Jail a year ago while
awaiting sentence for burglary, was
surrounded by posse near Middleton.
He was accompanied by his father.
When ordered to throw up their hands
they began firing The elder Colby
and one Of the posse were mortally
wounded.
John Jacob Astor has purchased one
of the 81, coo six per cent. gold bonds
of the Republic Of Cuba, which were
! issued last April DR.. w. Seward Webb
has purchased one OF the S4OO six per
cent. bonds. These boLds are offered
at 80 per cent. of face value and fall
due ten years after the evacuation of
Cuba by the Spanish forces.
The torpedo boat Foote Friday made
the required time of pa 4 miles an hour
over the measured course on the
Chesapeake. The crew was badly used
up by the heat and the bursting of
pipe OF the after boiler. Assistant
Engineer Windship was overcome, and
one of the oilers, supposed to be John
Waddell, of New York, died from the
effects of the heat and escaping steam.
After several days of negotiations
the board of directors of the United
States Industrial Insurance Co., of
Newark. n. j., and the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co., of New York, COM
pleted arrangements Friday for the
transferring of the policies OF the
former concern to the latter and the
assumption by the Metropolitan Co. OF
all liabilities on policies of the United
States Co.
John l;arvov. the famous "Astor
tramp" died in the hospital at Mattea-
wan Friday. Garvey, one day about
two years ago walked into the resi-
deuce of Mrs. William Astor in New
York. made mis- way upstairs and went
70 bed in one of the chambers, where
4 servant found him. He was arrested,
and on trial. was shown to be mental.
ly unbalanced. He mad for years been
habituo of the Bowery in New York.