Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-25
CONDENSED NEWS
From All Parts of the Country by
telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.
At Chicago, DR.. James c. DuclIe",
charged with conspiring to ruin the
features of his wife with vitriol. has
been held to await the action of the
grand jury in $500 bail
a report was current on Wall street
Monday that the stockholders of the
Hooking Coal & Iron Co. have formu-
lated plan of reorganization and will
make overtures to the bondholders'
committee.
James w. Paul, the Oldest member of
the Philadelphia bar, died there Mon
day. He had a high reputation as
lawyer. Mr.. Paul was the father of the
late Mrs Waldorf Astor, of New York,
and leaves four living children.
An imperial trade has been issued
committing the sentence of death i'm
posed upon nine men who were en-
gagged in the massacre of Armenians at
Tokat. in March last, to penal servi-
tude for life in Tripoli and Barbary.
Fire destroyed the large warehouse
of w. p Fuller & Co., 18th and john
son streets, Portland, Ore. Loss be-
tween $50. 900 and 5000, partially in
surcd The contents of the warehouse
consisted principally of tri-color and
plate glass.
The steamer Queen left Victoria, i.
c.. Monday morning on her last trip
this season for Alaska. She was crowd
ed with passengers freight and horses.
Fifteen passengers were left there, as
there was no room on the steamer for
their horses and outfits.
Superintendent of Insurance McNall
has given notice that the Masonic Aid
society OF Westfield, Mass, has to get
out of Kansas and quit transacting
business in the state. 1t is claimed to
be mutual life insurance company,
and McNall says it would not pay it's
losses.
At Kansas City, Mo-. Jockey Jesse
Clutter was killed on the Exposition
race course Monday afternoon. He had
the mount on Dazzle, an odds on favor
ite in the second race. The horse went
down and the boys skull was fractured
en- route to the hospital.
Two men were murdered at Negro
picnic at Kendall Ark, Saturday. T.
| L. johnson, white man, went to the
| grounds to see why some mill hands
did not 90 to work. While there "A
| Negro cut his throat from ear to ear,
killing him instantly. Later in the
day c. T. Gray had an alteration with
the picnickers and was stabbed to
death.
The body of Aaron c. Conn, the board
of trade operator who disappeared
from Detroit last Thursday, was found
on Belle Isle Tuesday morning. Around
his neck a handkerchief had been
| knotted and then twisted with lead
pencil until the victim strangled to
death Conn is said to have lost con-
| adorable money in speculation and
was partially deranged.
Dispatches from New England manu-
featuring centers Monday announce
| that many cotton mills which have been
idle resumed operations Monday Dur.
ing part of July and August thou
sands of spindles were not operated in
| the Boston section. owing to unsatiS
| factory conditions which prevailed
either in the finished goods or new cot.
ton market, on to the need of repairs.
L. w. Krcis, one of the Wisconsin
delegates to the National Grand Army
encampment at Buffalo, will make a
proposition for united action to urge
the government to raise the ironclad
Monitor. which defeated the rebel ram
Merrimac during the war The Mon
itor foundored off Cape Hatteras De-
cemher 81. 1862. 1t is thought that il
win require the expenditure OF $500, 0Gl
to raise the vessel.
The steamer Rosalie, which arrived
at Seattle Monday from Dyea and ska
quay. reports that there are about 4, ,00C
people at Sl;aguay, and that the trail
is still. impossible, About 900 miners
are working on it. and it is expected
that il viii be ready in a few weeks.
At Dyea the miners are getting away
as rapidly as could be expected. Ju.
neau is rapidly filing up with miners
from Dyea and Slaguay, who propose
TO winter there.
The Weather.
| WAsEISCTON. Aug. 2A-Ohio-Fair Wednes.
day. preceded hy showers on the lake; frest
soLthwc-lcrly winds, becoming northwesterly
| TeunpS-tp and Kcutuclzy-Fair Tupsdn,