Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-10-05
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Mrs. Mary PoindeXtcr Speed, widow
IF John Gilmcr Speed, editor of Leslie's
Weekly, and well known writer, is
lead ut her summer home at Mend
nam, n. j.
| Former Congressman Tom l.. john
son, of Cleveland, o., has gone to New
York city to work for Henry George.
Mr. johnson won his fame by his hust-
ling campaigns in Ohio.
The socialist convention was opened
at Hamburg Sunday. Its principal OBJ
ject is to decide as to the participation
Of the socialists as a party in the forth
coming elections to the diet
The new Greek government has de-
cided to send Prince Mavrocordato, the
former Greek minister to Turkey, to
Constantinople to negotiate the definite
peace treaty. The boule will reassem-
BILE next Tuesday.
Samuel J. r. Mcmillan, United States
scnator from 1876 to 1883, died at his
ZONE in st. Paul, Mimi, late Sunday
night of annmia. He had been i'll for
nearly year. He was born in Browns
vile, Pa, February %, 1926.
1t is stated that a powerful syndi-
cate of German bankers has offered to
the Gillian government loan of $780,
900, 900 in gold at four per cent. interest
and two per cent. amortization for the
completion of public works and rail-
ways.
A dispatch to the London Standard
from Vienna says that the largest sheet
iron manufactory in Austria Hungary,
joint stock company, has suspended
payment with liabilities amounting to
800, 900 forins. The failure has made
great sensation.
The national congress of miners,
which has been in session in Liege,
Belgium decided to make a demand
for an advance of 10 per cent. in wages.
middle of November, the executive
committee will call general strike.
According to dispatch to the London
Times from Buenos Ayres, kilograms
from Brazil to that city report several
days severe fighting at Canudos be-
tween the government troops and the
rebels. Both sides lost heavily and the
government troops failed to capture
the stronghold
The architects of the world have
been invited to enter a competitor for
the new buildings of the University of
California. Models and maps of the
ground will be placed at various acces-
sible points in Europe and America and
ample time will be allowed for the
preparation of the designs.
Dispatches from Merawi confirm the
report thai Osman Digna, the principal
general of the Khalifa, is retiring with
his army on Omdurman, opposite Khar-
toum, leaving the road between Sua-
kim and Berber open. All the tribes
of the Eastern Soudan, according to
these dispatches, have renounced Mahd-
ism.
Adolph Kuttner, one of the wealthi-
est and best known citizens of the San
Joaquin valley, has just returned from
Europe and confirms the previously
telegraphed report of how he was
barred out of Russia because he is a
Jew and because as n youth at the time
of his departure he sailed for America
without obtaining the consent of the
authorities.
About 10 o'clock Sunday night Thos.
r. Burch shot and instantly killed
Thos. Martin. The shooting occurred
about four miles north of Denver, Col, q,
on ranch owned by Burch. Burch
was watching for thieves who had been
stealing apples from his orchard, and,
thinking Martin one of the thieves, he
fred at him with a double -barrelled
shotgun. Burch is prominent in the
city, and is well to do. He gave him.
self nm