Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-17
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Telegraph.
Wednesdays statement OF the condi-
ton of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, S227, ,966, 492; gold reserve,
sl5S, 549.774.
Senator Hanna, of Ohio, returned to
Washington Wednesday night. He
was apparently in good health and APP
peared satisfied with the situation in
Ohio.
President Selaya, of Nicaragua, gave
an elaborate banquet Wednesday night
to the retiring United States minis
ter, Lewis H. Baker. Covers were laid
for %.
Bernard Schultz, cigar and tobacco
dealer of Jersey City, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded his wife at their
home in Clifton park Wednesday night
and then killed himself.
The British steamer Coban, from
Sydney, C. b., for st. Johns, n. F.,
which was reported on December II as
having lost her propeller at sea, was
towed into Sydney Wednesday by the
steamer Regulus.
Patrick Murphy, pioneer resident
of Temescal, Cal, was murdered by an
unknown assassin at S:l5 o'clock We'd
nesday night He was shot through
the heart as he left his cottage to go to
neighboring store.
The funeral of Mrs. Janet Carlyle
Hanning, sister of Thomas Carlyle, the
philosopher, took place from the resi-
dence of w. j. Laing, her son-in-law,
in Toronto. The body was taken to
Hamilton for interment.
Sir William Edward Maxwell, gov
ernor and communicative on the
Gold coast since 1885, died at sea while
off Grand Canary island en- route for
England. He had several attacks of
fever while on the Gold coast.
One man was killed, one fatally in
jured and number of others slightly
hurt by the bursting of fly wheel at
the South Third street plant of the
Oliver Iron and Steel Co., Pittsburgh,
at an early hour Thursday morning.
Lieut.. La Favour, of the gunboat
Wheeling, is to be courtmartialed at
Mare island on the Goth inst. He is
charged with being intoxicated while
on duty. When the facts were sent to
Washington a courtmartial was or.
dered.
An elevator in the wholesale millinery
establishment of Robinson & Strauss,
st. Paul, Mimi, fell six stories We'd
nesday afternoon, instantly killing E.
j. Mum, travelling salesman, and
fatally injuring William Schaller, ele-
vator man.
A dispatch from Athens received in
Constantinople Thursday announces
that the treaty of peace between
Turkey and Greece has been ratified
by King George and that it will be
dispatched Thursday by special
steamer to Constantiuople.
r. w. Whitney, 81 years of age, died
at his home in Franklin Grove, near
Dixon, ILL.,, Wednesday. He was ma
tive of New York. Mr. Whitney had
the first nursery in Northern Illinois
and the largest orchard in the state.
Joseph Foley, the carpet layer who
was working in the fiat of Mrs. Mary
c. Clute, on Guerrero street, San Fran
cisco, at the time Mrs. Clute is sup
posed to have been murdered, has been
arrested. He says he went to the flat
Wednesday but asserts that he knows
nothing of any murder.
Thomas Estrada Palma Wednesday
denied the report that DIR. Domingo
Capote was, after being elected presi-
dent of Cuba, forced out by Gen. Gomez
and replaced by Maj. Gen. Bartoleme
Masso. He declares that Gen. Masso
was elected president and DIR. Capote
vice president in October.
Tyler NJ. Gibbs, of Wayland, N. ",
said to be the son of a wealthy mer-
chant in that town. who has been stop
ping at the Midland hotel, Kansas
City, for several days, was fined $1OO
in police court Wednesday for at
tempting to rob the room of Edward
Austin, a mining broker, living at the
Midland.
Eight persons in the home of George
H. Gerdes, st. Louis. were saved from
being burned to death by the crying of
a frightened baby. The flames started
in the stable of Gerdes' and commune
Gated to the dwelling. Gerdes, his
wife and child. with Andrew Huber and
wife, of Bunker Hill, ILL.,, and Mrs.
Lens Frank, of Shiplin, ILL.,, who were
visiting here, were asleep when the
flames broke into their apartments.
The Weather.