Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-24
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The miners have struck at South
Mountain, AIenard county, Ill. This
nine practically controls the local
irade in Menard county.
Advices from every wheat-growing
county in Oregon show that the wheat
crop will be the largest in the history
If the state The total crop will
AMOUNT to about is, 900, 900 bushels.
The wheat appears to be of excellent
quality.
Frank +. Stockton, the author, and
Mrs Stockton are at Berryville, Va,
for few days. He came to examine
Anne Field, the old Carter estate in
Ibis county, with a view TO purchas-
ing. Anne Field is fine old colonial
mansion.
The Alaska Commercial Co, S steamer
Bertha, arrived at San Francisco from
Onalaska Thursday with 500 tons of
concentrates from the Apollo mine at
Unga and bar of bullion from the
same source, but brought no gold from
from the Klondyke region.
The New York Journal and Adver-
tser says Jake Schaetfer, the bill
liardist, has concluded to bid farewell
to America and esta blish himself in
Paris, where another American expert,
Eugene Carter, has long maintained
himsel; with the cue in opuleuce.
Complete suspension of mining be-
gan Thursday al the shaft of the Nc
Lean County Coal Co., near Blooming
ton, LII Not one OF the 800 miners,
union or non-uniou, reported for work.
Perfect peace reigns and there is no
present indication of trouble of any
Kind
A special to the New York Herald
from Bethlehem, Pa, says: Unless Gov.
Hastings signs the bill which is now
in his hands granting Lehigh univer-
,ity the sum of $500, 900 from the state
treasury for the purpose of paying its
running expenses, the institution will
be forced TO close its doors,
A large party OF West Virginia news
paper men, mem bers of the West Nir-
ginia Press association, accompanied
uy many ladies, arrived in Nashville,
Tenn Thursday, and will remain sew
5Edl I'd > N4SIG'uS I4lC SCA ISIIAlu luA 90 DO-
sition, the Hermitage, Belle Meade
and other places OF interest.
| President Z. i. Andrews, of Brown
university, Thursday sent letter to
the faculty resigning his office. The
letter was in response to a communl-
cation sent to President Andrews by
the special committee appointed by
the trustees and fellows in June, who
at that time called him to account for
his silver utterances.
At 3:57 o'clock Thursday afternoon
the North American Transportation
Co. S steamer Portland sailed from
Seattle to St. Michael, Alaska, from
which point her passengers will be
transferred to Yukon river steamers
and carried to the famous klondyke
gold fields. There were l2S passengers
few of whom were women.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, says: The
city OF Canudos has again been cap
tured by the government troops, after
the city had been totally destroyed by
the heavy guns of the army. The cap
ture of the city was the result of q
DdNOuel CldFgS Oll lIlc IdudllCS d-tCI
practically every building in the city
had been laid low by heavy shells.
A dispatch received late Thursday
night from Wheeling, w Va, says it
has just been learned that the Balti-
more II Ohio Railroad Co. has reason
TO fear hold-up OF West Virginia coal
at Fiu,eyville, on the Wheeling divi-
sion. The coalers passing through
Wheeling now say that orders have
been given trainmen to go through
Finleyvii.e Al full speed without the
usual stop.
Friday the big stea mer Queen left
Seattle on a voyage to Dyea. Although
the Queen will carry from the Sound
40 people about 25J of whom will go
TO Dyea, the great majority goes to
win fortune in the gold fields. Those
who leave here on the Queen intend-
ing to 20 directly by the inland trails
will reach Dawson City before the