Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-03
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From An Parts of the Country
/ by Telegraph.

/ iathered From AH BRrts OF the country
by Telegraph.
The E. N. Welsh Manufacturing Co.,
If Bristol, CT, will start up the manu-
acture of clocks again about April l.
The factory has been idle for about
wo years.
Drexel's steam yacht Saltana, in
respect to which unnecessarily alarm
ng rumors have been circulated, ar
lived at New Orleans at 2 p. m. Mon
lay, in ample time for the carnival.
NJ. j. Deburlet, the Belgian states
nan, died in Brussels Monday. M. De
Burlet was formerly prime minister of
Belgium, but resigned that Office a
year ago to become Belgian minister to
Portugal.
The fight between Billy Plimmer, of
| England, and Sammy Kelley, of New
York, which is to take place before the
Olympic Spor ting club at Birmingham,
has been fixed for March .. The
match is for e2OO q side and purse of
e400.
Ing Hong Sha, the Chinaman recent
! ly apprehended in Trenton, n j., as
alien smuggled into the country in
violation OF the Gary Chinese eNclus-
ion act was Monday ordered to be de-
ported to China by United States Com
missioner Colt.
Siam has finally agreed to arbitrnte
the Creek claim and to give satisfac-
ton on account of the kellet affair
This is announced in cablegram to
the state department from Minister
Barrett at Bangkok, who, however,
sends no details.
During the month of February the
coinage executed at the mints of the
United States amounted in monetary
value to S11, 757 Ss3.O1. The total gold
coined was 517, $50 pieces, valued at
SO, 1872, 600. The silver dollars coined
numbered !, $40, 900.
The case of Miss Anna Kaiser VS..
Chris Won der Ahe, a suit for $40, 900
damages for breach of promise, was
called in Judge Spencer's court, st.
Louis, Monday. The baseball mag
nate is out of town and the hearing
was adjourned till Friday.
Robert Eaton, young Negro, shot
and killed his wife, Rena, with Win
chester rifle near Tunis, Burleson
county, Tex, he then turned the
weapon upon himself with equally
fatal results. There were no witnesses
and no cause is known for the tragedy.
Unwonted activity prevails in the
dock yards at Portsmouth, Chatham
and Sheerness, where the men are
working over time and I'll leaves of
al, ha,-a hnnn off ITpnt,
eral battleships at Portsmouth steam
is being kept up night and day.
The office of the United Associated
Presses is informed by the officials of
the British foreign office that the re-
port that King Oscar of Sweden, is re-
luctant to act as umpire in the arbi-
tration of the Venezuelan dispute, is
without foundation and that the re-
port that another umpire is being
chosen is equally unfounded.
Advices from Manila say that the
army of Spain in the Philippine islands
is being ravaged by ague and dysen-
terry, and the entire situation is becom-
ing worse each day. The authorities
are now convinced that it will be nee
essary to send 20 more battalions of
troops to the Philippines in order to
suppress the insurrection there.
The Schwartz Bros. Commission Co.,
with offices in the Merchants Ex-
change building, st. Louis, made an
assignment to Attorney Joseph H.
umbalen Tuesday. No statement
of indie ebtedness is made, but the firm
estimates their assets at $500, 900. The
assignment is directly attributed to
the recent failure of the Mullanphy
bank.
Hon. Thos. f. Bayard, United States
ambassador to England, and Mrs. Bay
ard, will pay Il farewell visit to the
queen at Windsor on Thursday and
stop at the castle that night. In con-
sequence of this arrangement Mr.. Bay.
ard will be unable to be present at the
dinner of the London chamber of com.
morce, which is to be given Thursday,
but may be postponed.