Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-10-14
CONDENSED NEWS

Nv
Adclina Patti, the famous singer, is
i'll in Paris. Her sickness is not be-
licved to be dangerous.
The Budget committee of the French
chamber of deputies have voted to in
crease the standing army by $4,000
men.
Tuesdays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, s213, 465, ,232; gold reserve,
sl49, T,592.
Judge Wells, of the Kansas court of
appeals, has rendered decision which
several lawyers declare practically rem
dcrs the eight-hour law in Kansas a
dead letter.
Queen Victoria has conferred the I'm
pcrial Order of the Crown of India
upon the hereditary princess of Hohcn-
lohe-Langenburg, Princess Alexandra,
of SaXe-Coburg and Gotha.
The president has decided to attend
the dinner of the Commercial club in
Cincinnati on October 50. 1t is to be a
non-partisan affair, and Mr.. Mckinley
does not expect to make speech.
The case of Herman Kecl, the Gin
cinnati jeweler, accus cd of smuggling
diamonds into the United States, was
reassigned in United States supre me
court Tuesday, to be heard on the first
Monday in January.
VIM. Daniel, one of the leaders of
the prohibition party in the United
States, and its candidate for the vice.
presidency in 1884, died suddenly We'd
ncsday morning at his home in Mount
Washington, suburb of Baltimore.
The secretary of war has approved
the map of location and plans of a
new superstructure to be constructed
by the city of Appleton, Wis, on its
bridge over the United States Fox
river canal at Lake street, Appleton,
Wis. pss,sai
The Lone Star Steamship Co., which
held last Saturdays steamer at New
York on account of yellow fever in
Texas, has decided, on receipt Of news
favorable to the raising of the quaran-
tine, to dispatch the steamer Miami on
Saturday next, with the freight held
over.
The official returns just issued show
that the French imports for the third
quarter of 1897 have increased 39,035,-
900 francs over the same period of 1896,
and the returns also show that the cX-
ports of France have increased 212, 427,-
600 francs over the same peoriod of last
year.
United States Consul General Lee
has returned to Washington and called
Tuesday at the state department. He
spent half an hour in conference with
Assistant Secretaries Day and Cridler
and will call upon the president before
leaving the city. He was not certain
when he would leave for Havana.
The New York court of appeals, by
vote of four to three, has decided that
the Chicago Junction Railroad and
Union Stock Yards Co. is not liable to
he corporation tax in that state, which
.he controller sought to impose, of S2G,-
80. The decision is likely to affect
many other corporations and reduce
he states income.
Beginning Sunday October 81, new
steamship service will be inaugurated
rom Portland, Ore, to Yokohama and
Kobe. Japan, and Shanghai and Hong
Kong, China. The line will be run in
with the Oregon Railway
nd Navigation Co. Three steamships
will constitute the service-thc Br.a-
ner, the Mogul and the Pelican
A dispatch from Mamund announces
hat she Jirga tribesmen have sur
'endered their Martini brecch-loading
'itles, and have solennly sworn to,
maintain peace and drive out UmrD
[han's followers. The troops forming
-he Mamund punitive expedition huv4
destroyed 20 fortified villages and have
lilled many of the insuFgent natives.
The organization of the greatest.
of window glass mann
.acturers ever formed in this countlyI
has been completed at Camden, n. !.
Il was named the American Window
lass Co.. and is composed of all the
factories OF the country except half =
tozcn small concerns. The capital
stock of the company was fixed ab.
q, POO, 600, but the actual capital repre-
,cnted in the combination aggregates
nearly $4,000, 900.