Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-09-13
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From An Parts of the Country by
Tc.cgraph.

Gathered From An Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.
The secretary of the treasury has ac-
ceptcd an offer for the sale to the gov
ernment of a number of lots next adj
joining the site for public building at
Helena, Mont, at $4,000.
1t is feared that the steamer Eliza
Anderson. bound for st, Michaels with
load of gold seekers, has been lost at
sea. DR.. Bowers, of Louisville, KY,
was passenger on the vessel.
The fishing fleet returned to Dun
kirk, n Y, Friday from Iceland and
reported that out of 9S boats, six
foundered during the season, resulting
in the drowning of so men and boys.
The secretary of the treasury has
notified customs collectors that Chinese
laborers who leave this country under
the existing treaty with China must
land at the port from which they de-
parted.
Red fungus is destroying the fruit Of
| thousands of coffee trees in the depart
ments of Jinotepe and Matagalpa, Mic
aragua. Minister Rodriguez, repre-
senting the Greater Republic at WASH
| ington. is in Managua suffering from
fever.
1t is announced that peace has been
concluded between the government of
Uruguay and the Uruguayan insurgents
| through the mediation of Dr.. Retmirez,
who returned to Monteyideo Friday
night from the insurgent camp with
the conditions of peace.
| The 1000 men who have been at work
on the new underground trolley line,
which is being built along Madison and
Fourth avenues, New York. went on
strike Friday. The strike was in.
caived no pay for three weeks. L. D.
| Crimmins & Co. are the contractors.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Bogota, Colombia, says that on
the night of September a bomb was
thrown from a window into the Hotel
Cundinamarca, where there were many
distinguished guests. and two servants
were seriously injured. The explosion
was undoubtedly the work of anarch
lists.
President Gompers. of the American
Federation of Labor, returned to Wash
ington from Indiana Friday. Mr.
Gompers states that he had called ;
meeting of the executive council of tn,
order. to be held at Washington Sep
tember 90 at which the miners situa
ton will be fully considered should
the strike last until then.
The principal item of interest in New
Orleans Saturday morning was the fac
that towns on every trunk line run
ming into New Orleans have declared
quarantine against Louisiana. Burg
in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas ant
Alabama have declared that no peopl
shall get off trains at their station
who come from New Orleans.
A result OF the visit of the dul1'
and duchess of York to Ireland is tina
a royal residence will in all probabilit,
be established in that country, and, Il
addition. the early abolition of tn
vice royalty is everywhere accepted a
fact The duchess won all heart
} and the duke was almost as popular
though he did not escape criticism.
The six-year clause of the Kentuck
constitution, which provides for tn
uniformity of the laws of the state
goes into effect September IS. Unde
this clause the local option laws i
many counties will stand repealed
This, of course, does not effect countie
; where local option has been adopte
under the general law enacted by tn
legislatures Of 1929.
David Martin, the administratio
leader of Philadelphia. Saturday az
cepted the position of secretary OF tn
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, mad
vacant by the requested resignation {
Gen. Frank Reeder, and PERSONAL
rendered to him by Gov. Hastings. III
governor has appointed his law par
ner. Wilbur T. Reeder, of Bellefont
deputy attorney general, 10 succee
: Elkin
The secretary of the treasury Frida
. held in q letter to the collector of Gu
( toms at plattsburg, y. y, that sten
| med leaf tobacco eXportcdA to Canad
r and then imported into the Unite
States IS not a manufactured tobacC
!, within the meaning of the interni
revenue law and therefore is not SUI
icct to the duty equal to the intern
q revenue tax of six cents pound a
d sessed on manufactured tobacco. TT
: tobacco viii be admitted free of dut