Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-01-30
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of tho Country
BY Telegraph.

The senatorial con test in the Idaho
state legislature terminated Thursday
oy the election of Henry Heitfelt,
oopulist to succeed Senator Dubois.
The house committee on public
buildings and grounds Friday ordered
favorable report on the bill appro-
oriating sl0o, 900 for public building
ut Streator, ILL.,
The condition of Senator George
Friday morning was reported un-
,hanged. There are no signs OF i'm
provement and the indications are that
be is losing strength.
The lowest price on record for May
corn in the st. Louis market was
touched Thursday, when it sold down
to 2116a21Ac. 1t is thought the bot
tom has been reached.
Senate bill granting a pension of
eight dollars a month to Mrs. Martha
Frank, of Georgia, widow of a soldier
in the Indian war of 1918, and now
over 102 years old, was passed by the
house Friday.
The president has approved the act
TO detach the county of Audrian from
the western judicial district of Mis-
souri, and attach it to the eastern dis
trict, and the act granting pension
to Alfred ?. Buss.
Thomas Odell, a miner living at
Briceville, Tenn, in the Coal creek
district, was frozen to death Thurs
day. He had been to Clinton to attend
court and was returning with a party,
when he became intoxicated and fell
by the wayside.
The match between Dick Burge and
Eddie Connolly, formerly of st. John,
n. b., and later of Boston, for 81, 600
a side, took place before the Olympic
Sporting club, Birmingham, Eng,
Thursday night and resulted in a
draw. The men were matched to fight
20 rounds at 144 pounds.
President Cleveland will go to New
York Friday to fill an engagement to
speak at the opening of the National
Medical society's convention at Carne-
gle hall in the evening. He will de.
liver an address. The president will
probably be accompanied by least
one member of his cabinet.
Among Chicago railroad officials the
pEcNdlllhR 10 SSlou6iJ al
favor of the proposed amendment to
the Interstate commerce act now pend
ing in the senate which is designated
to prevent ticket scalping, and the
railway companies are working in
legitimate channels to overcome the
combined opposition 20 the bill.
An unknown Negro Friday morning
broke into the residence of Elmer L..
Sehner, Columbia, Pa, and horribly
maltreated Mrs. Sehner, the woman
being rendered unconscious by IL blow
on the head and subsequently gagged
and assaulted. Her condition is very
critical There is no clew as to the as
sailant. Threats of lynching the brute
if caught are openly made.
When the resolution of Representa-
tive Busy, denouncing the pending
treaty between Great Britain and the
United States for arbitration, came up
in the Illinois house, several members
attacked and indorsed the measure in
turn until it was finally referred to
the committee on federal relations.
1t will proba bly, sleep there for the re.
mainder of the session.
sensation was sprung IN the dis
trict court at Duluth, Minn. A witness
in the case of Johnson VS. Spalding, an
action to enjoin the defendant from
proceeding under a bridge contract
with St. Louis county, testifying that
County Commissioner Dinham had
offered to use his influence in procur-
ing the bid to be awarded to one of
the bidders for the sum of 81, 900.
High winds and zero weather kept
many people away from the reception
given Thursday night at the white
house by the President and Mrs Cleve-
land to congress and the Judiciary.
The function was nevertheless well at
tended, and large crowd of senators,
representatives and judges, most Of
them accompanied by ladies, pushed
tAair way through the reception rooms.