Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-06-21
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
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,x- Bank President Charles w. Spald.
ng for embe zzlement, brought in a
verdict Friday afternoon, finding the
defendant not guilty.
The senate Friday confirmed the
domination of Howard NJ. Kutchin, of
California, agent of salmon fisheries in
Alaska, and of James c. Boatman, of
California, as assistant agent.
Senator Teller introduced a bill Fri-
lay providing that all bank notes shall
be redeemed in coin and another that
all national bank associations shall
Keep their reserves in their own vaults.
Mr. Henry d. Stone, formerly vice
president of the Chicago, Burlington
4 Quincy railroad, and for the last
seven years president of the Chicago
Telephone Co., will retire from its
service in July, having other plans in
view.
James Gayler, assistant postmaster
Of New York since 1850, died suddenly
1T his home in New York, aged 10.
Mr.. Gayler devised the registered
package envelope" still in USE which
nas been the means of saving millions
d collars TO Jne puDllc.
dispatch to the New York Herald
from Panama says: One of the plans
Of the Greater Republic of Central
America, now made complete by the
entrance of Costa Rica and Guatemala,
is for general currency for use in all
Of the five countries of the repu bile.
EX-Congressman Nicholas Ford, for
lnaiin,r ort i,,
Joseph, Mo, and once a leader of
national prominence in the green back
movement, and who also ran for gov
ernor on the green back ticket, died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs E. A.
Mcdonald, at Miltonvale, Kan.
On the arrival of the British steam
ship Scot at Southampton Friday with
the body of the late Barney Barnato,
the coroners officers went aboard to
ascertain as to the necessity of holding
IN inquest The inquest was held
and the jury returned a verdict of
death from drowning while temporari-
ly insane.
A Madrid dispatch says since Jan-
uary l, last, So, 100, 900 has been paid
into the government treasury by
Spanish parents redeeming their sons
from military service in Cuba and the
Philippines. This money, it is an
nounced, has been turned over to the
navy department to meet the expenses
of increasing the navy.
The Udell Woodenware Co., st.
Louis, whose stock for the third time
in as many years was burned last
week, filed a general assignment
Friday, turning all the assets of the
company over to A. Welborn Noise as
trustee for the creditors. Assignee
Noise states that the liabilities are
$50, 600 and the assets, SS3, 600.
At New Haven, CT, the suit of Jas.
L. Colt, of New York, against his sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Elizab beth Colt, the
widow of the late Col. Samuel Colt, for
an accounting in the estate of Col.
Colt and to recover an alleged claim
of 81, 900, 900, was stricken from the
docket of the United States court here
Friday by order of Presiding Judge
In Havana it was reported Friday
that orders had been given to trans
form 20 of the best vessels of the trans
line into armed cruisers for
immediate service in West Indian wa
ters in view of the strained relations
existing with the United States. At
the arsenal here double force of en-
ployes are working both day and night
and new torpedoes are being laid at
the entrances to all Cuban ports of i'm
portance.
The New Yorl; Herald's corresponds
ent in Montevideo, Uruguay, says that
the rebels have gained a decided VIC
tory over the government troops COM
manded by Gen. Villar. The govern
ment troops We're completely routed
and left the field in undisputed pos
session of the revolutionists. The es-
timated of the killed and wounded has
not been received in Montevideo, but !
it is believed that the loss will be
heavy on both sides.