Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-02-01
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Gov. Sadler, of Nevada, signed the
bill licensing glove contests, at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon. ~
L. S. Cook, attorney for the Wheel
ing, Lake Erie and Pittsburgh Coal Co, ,
confessed Judgment in theUnited States
court at Columbus, o., Friday, to the
receivers for the Wheeling and Lake
Erie Railroad Co., to the amount of
$500, 304.1
Hon. Thomas f. Bayard and Mrs
Bayard gave dinner to the prince of
Wales Saturday at their residence, SO
Eton Square. The lord mayor, Right
Hon. George +. Faudcl- Phillips, and
the sheriffs of the city of London,
were present
/ The appointment of Lyman J. Gage
to DC secretary of the treasury gives
| general satisfaction TO bankers OF New
York. There is absolutely no founda-
ton in the reports that have been cir
culated that local tinanciers were op-
posed to him.
Something of a sensation was caused
Mt Madison, Wis, Friday, by the circu-
lation of Il petition among the legislat-
ors asking Mckinley to give ex-Gov.
VIM. d. Hoard a cabinet position 1t
| is said some members who recently
signed for Payne are now signing for
| Hoard
| w. X. Whcclocll, Dan Stuart's agent,
says that in all probability there will
be one other contest in addition to the
Corbctt- Eitzsimmons match in Nevada.
i .skln 1.-i1 Il
programme, he declared, "Mr. Stuart
is anxious to get some one to go against
Peter Mahcr."
Gen. John Eugene Smith. Il veteran
of the civil war, died ut his Warren
avenue home Chicago, Friday, aged 81
years. He has been an invalid several
years, due to disease contracted in the
war and the intensely cold weather
brought on an attack of apopleXy,
which was the immediate cause of
death.
Capt. Dorr, of the schooner Jennie A.
StubbS, of Lemoise, Me, which arriv-
ed at New Haven, Ct, Wednesday, re-
ports that his vessel was boarded by
Spanish officers in the harbor of Porto
Rico A package of American news
papers were seized. This was done,
the captain states, SO as to prevent the
natives reading the account of the war
in Cuba.
Two switchmen employed at the Van
Siclllen avenue station of the Brook
lyn Elevated railroad were arrested
Friday on suspicion that they were re-
sponsiblc for the collision on the road
Thursday night in which one man was
killed and several injured Their
names are John Rogers and Matlachi
Baldwin. They were charged with
homicide.
The formal enthronement OF Rt Hon.
and Rt. Rev. Mandell Creighton as
bishop of London to succeed the Rt.
Hon. and Rt Rev. Frederick Temple,
who was elevated to the archbishopric
of Canterbury and primacy OF all Eng
land, took place in st. Paul's cathedral
Saturday, and contrary to cxpecta-
tions it was in nowise an imposing
spectacle.
The White Star line steamer Bri-
fannie, from Liverpool and Queens
town, arrived at quarantine Saturday
morning after a very stormy passage
of days II hours and As minutes
During the voyage nothing was seen
of that overdue big freighter, Cevic,
which sailed from Liverpool January
Is. The Britannics officers were of
the opinion that she was steaming
along slowly.
Gen. Wesley Merritt, United States
army, commanding the department of
the Missouri, was Friday night elected
president of the Western Society of
the Army of the Potomac at the an
nual meeting of the society in the
sherman house, Chicago. The meet
ing for the election of officers was fol-
lowed by the usual banquet, at which
nearly 200 veterans of the war sat
down.
Floating ice forced breach in the
hull of the steamer C. w. Batchelor
and the boat sunk at the foot of Ar
senal street, st. Louis The vessel can
be raised before sustaining much dam
age. The excursion steamer Edna is
nipped in an ice gorge at the foot of
Alton island and is in danger. Other
steamers are in exposed positions
along the wharf. The river is falling
and the ice is running out freely.
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