Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-06
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts OF the Country by
Telegraph.
At Marshalltown, Ia, the snow be-
gan to drift Friday afternoon and
bad blockade is probable.
VIM. Desmond, veteran Mississippi
river steamboat captain, died suddenly
Friday at Galena, ILL.,, of apoplexy.
The worst snow storm in years ragged
at Sioux City, Ia, for the last AZ hours.
Railway traffic seriously hampered.
Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balances S220, ,1T6, 122, gold reserve $751;
454, 03s
Virgil Stanley, who murdered his
brother-in-law in Wayne county, West
Virginia, escaped from the Wayne
county Jail Saturday morning, after
desperate encounter with Jailer Booth.
Great excitement was caused in the
village of Monistrol Catalonia, 27
miles northwest of Barcelona, by the
explosion of four bombs. No damage,
however, of any Importance was done
and there were no casualties.
Commander Pillsbury, of the Vcsu-
vius, has written letter to the navy
of the Dauntless and apparently prov
ing that the steamer has not been en-
gagged lately in landing filibustering
expeditions in Cuba.
According to dispatch received in
Madrid from Havana it is believed that
no further reinforcements of Spanish
troops will be required for Cuba, the
present forces being regarded as suf-
ficient to suppress the insurrection be-
fore the rainy season begins.
James Il. Allison, the 1T-year-old
farm laborer who has been on trial in
Berlin for the past week on the charge
Of killing Mrs. Anthony Orr, the wife
of his employer, was Friday evening
found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged Friday, February 4, next.
The postmaster general of Canada
has decided to permit pictures. views,
designs or other advertising matter to
be printed on the face of postal cards
so long as sufficient space is left to al
low OF the address being written or
printed so that it can be easily de-
ciphered.
a dispatch to the London Daily Mail
IL iolh uhoSSo" Ildp
rel between some officers and students
at Kieff recently, a student named
Ulyanitski struck an officer, whereup-
on the latter drew his sword and ran
Ulyanitski through the body, killing
him on the spot.
Belgium now has an output of 22,-
00O,00 pounds of oleomargarine per
annum from 10 factories. Consul Nor
ris, at Client, who reports the fact to
the state department, says there is a
scrupulous government supervision of
the methods of manufacture and of
the raw products.
The discovery of new counterfeit
five-dollar silver certificate Of the
series of 1891 with portrait of Grant
is announced by the treasury secret
service. The note is neither as long
nor as wide as the genuine. Apparent
ly it is printed from plates made by the
photo mechanical process and is well
executed.
The military governor of Paris, Gen.
Saussier, has ordered court martial
to examine into the charges brought
against Count Ferdinand Walsin Ester
hazy, the retired major of the French
army who is accused of writing the
letter which brought about the sem
fencing of Alfred Dreyfus to imprison.
ment for life.
Snow has fallen in Nebraska con-
tinuously for "a hours and in some
parts of the state it continues. At
Omaha the fall amounts to about eight
inches and In the northern part of the |
state it is much heavier. Harrington
reports 16 inches and still falling.
The snow is general in western Iowa
and South Dakota.
The Spanish government, it is semi
officially announced, has received de-
tails Of the landing of an expedition in
Cuba from the American steamer
Dauntless, and IL is understood the
Spanish minister at Washington, Senior
Drpuy de LONE, will shortly present
in this connection claim for damages
from the United States
Mrs. ]. A. Wilkins, a wife of only two
months and but gS years of age, COM
mitted suicide in the Oriental hotel,
New York, Friday. She turned on the
gas at two burners, swallowed carbolic
acid, an when the odor of gas being
dis overed, the door OF her room wsa
forced open and she was dead. Mrs-
wilkins husband is bartender, hut is
out of work.
Struggled Diamonds.