Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-10-20
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From Al Parts of the World by
Telegraph.

| Telegraph.
Authority has been granted for the
organization of the Alma national
bank of Alma, Kan, capital $50, 900.
In the races held at Breslau Monday,
Lieut.. Venobernitz, a gentleman rider,
was unhorsed and died later from the
injuries which he received.
By an explosion in the electrical
room of the Colma Fuse works. San
Francisco, Mary Beck was killed and
12 other employees were injured, eight
seriously and four slightly.
Col. Thomas f. Barr, assistant Judge
advocate general, has been transferred
from the department of the east to the
department of Missouri, exchanging
places with Lieut.. Col. John w. Clous.
The Berlin Lolial Anzeiger says that
Count Lyof Tolstoi the Russian au-
thor and social reformer, is suffering
from an illness which will necessi-
tate the performance of a serious opera
ton.
Savannah, Ga, removed all quaran-
tine restrictions Monday on cotton
from yellow fever infected territory.
The quarantine is continued against
passenger travel from infected Sec
| tionS.
The Corcan legation received cable
gram Monday stating that the date on
which the king of Corea proclaimed
himself emperor was October IS, in
stead of the 18th, as previously re-
| ported.
The queen regent has confirmed
Senor Leon Castillo as Spanish ambar
sador to France. 1t was recently an
nounced that Senior Castillo had been
recalled and that the duke of Mandas
was to replace HIM.
The flooded mines of Leadville, Col,
will not be pumped out as long as sill
yer remains at the present low prices.
| In addition to S50,0U0 contributed for
the purpose of unwatering the mines,
S25,0 900 more is needed and it is inpos-
sible to secure it.
Judge Twohy, of the municipal court
of st. Paul, has fixed the official price
of stolen kisses in st. Paul at S25.
Harry McIntire was arrested at the in
stigation of Miss Augusta Keompet,
pleaded guilty of stealing the kiss, a
technical assault, and was fined.
The Colombian authorities have
seized at Davids Bay, near Panama,
| 1000 rifles and 5000 cartridges on
| board the schooner Colombia, bound
| for Nicaragua. The rifles and car
tridges appeared on the manifest of
the schooner as diving machinery"
Chicago paper is authority for the
statement that the Mutual Fuel Gas
Co., of Hyde Park, and the Universal
Gas Co., with their plants and fran
chises, will soon pass into the control
of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co.
About S5,00O,0 900 will be the price paid.
John A. TIoffbauer, 10 year old
member of the Lincoln Cyclist club,
Chicago, has completed 800 mile ride,
and has established western triple
century record. His actual time was
2S:00:O0, his elapsed time, 34:34:OO. The
mark was set over the Libertyville-
Waukegan course.
The emperor and empress of Ger
many, their four sons, the ex-Empress
Frederick and other royalties and
other state dignitaries, were present
at Wiesbaden Monday at the unveiling
of the monument erected in memory
of the late Emperor Frederick. The
imperial party received an ovation
from the large crowds of people gather
ed to witness the ceremony.
The steamship Alameda, which is due
in San Francisco October 21, has 100000
English sovereigns, equal to 81, coo 00O,
in her strong box, consigned to the
Anglo-Californian and the London,
Paris and American banks of that city.
This is the third shipment of gold
from the same source in as many con-
secutive steamships, aggregating near
ly GS,O00,0 900 within the last three
months.
Attorney General McEenna, when
questioned Monday declined TO state
whether or not there was any prospect
of q postponement of the sale of the
Union Pacific railroad by the United
States circuit court at Omaha, set for
November l. From other and perfect
ly trustworthy sources, however. it is
learned that there is no present inten-
tion on the part of the government to
interfere with the order OF the court
in the matter of the sale.
HeIi-Known Threnologist Dead.
New YORK, Oct. 10.-Prof. Nelson
Sizer, the best known phrenologist in
America and member of the Fowler
& Wells Co., of New York, died at his
home in Brooklyn Monday, aged So
years. He had been president and
afterward president of the American
Institute of Phrenology.