Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-13
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.


dead at Berlin. He has been suffering
from influenza.
Mayor Josiah Quincy has formally
accepted the democratic denomination
rendered by the recent Faneul hall
convention Boston.
The police have expelled number
of anarchists and have made many
house searches in Berlin, Frankfort,
Mayence and Munich.
The Field, Of London, Friday con-
firms the report that Emperor William
has purchased Richard Suydam Pal
mer's steel schooner yact Yampa.
1t is probable that Mrs. Ogden Goelet
will entertain his royal highness the
prince of Wales on board the May
flower during the Rivera regettas
DR.. Charles f. Kuechler, prominent
physician, died at his home in Spring
field, Ill, aged rs years. DR.. Kuechler
was the earliest homeopathic ply
sician in Illinois. settling there in 1916.
The Cedar Rapids button factory,
about three miles from Cedar Rapids,
Ia, caught fire at 8 o'clock Saturday
morning and is likely to be total loss.
Two men, employees, were badly burn
ed and may die.
At Chicago, Jacob Shaefer, the bill
lard player, broke the record of the
three cushion game in America Friday
night by making run of ten points.
The wizard was playing an exhibition
game with Cation.
Anthony V. Devlin, of zoos Lehigh
D1iloIal,,1,ia Erilnr nicl,
shot and seriously wounded his wife
Joseph aged 81 years, and committed
suicide by shooting himself. The
couple have been married two years.
The house committee on education
has reported favorably the bill to aid
in the establishment of homes in
states and territories for teaching ar
ticulate speech and vocal language to
deaf children before they are of school
age.
In an attempt to hold up the west
bound Southern Pacific train at STEMS
Pass, 30 miles west of Deming, n. NJ,
at nine o'clock Thursday night SANDY
Collins was shot and killed by Express
Guard jennings. The other robbers
fed.
A great sensation has been caused in
Vienna by the posting broadcast of
red placards, even in the inner town
of Hofburg, inscribed mo ausgleich!"
"Abolish the language ordinances!'
and German is the national Ian
guage!" The police tore the placards
down.
The skeleton of an elotherium has
been found in the Bad lands, 80 miles
east of Rapid City, 5. D., by Prof. 0. G.
harrington, of the Field Columbian
museum of Chicago. 1t is supposed to
be the most complete specimen ever
fund. 1t has been shipped to the
museum.
Gardiner G. Hubbard, director in
the Bell Telephone Co. and well-known
to public men, scientists and financiers,
died at Twin Oaks" his suburban
residence, few miles from Washing
ton, at an early hour Saturday morn
ing. His death was due to a complica
tion of diseases and to age, he being in
his roth year.
Judge E. M. Merriman, of Little
Rock, Ark, who was personally ac
quainted with and once represented j.
E. Blanther alias Forbes as attorney
in that city, insists that Blanther ant
not Durrant murdered Blanche Lamont
and Minnie Williams in San Francisco
and that the execution of Durrant will
therefore be a judicial murder.
Mrs. Sarepta c. White, 80 years old
is dead. She arrived on the Pacific
coast in 1887 and was probably the old
est living pioneer. She was mis-
sionary to the Indians in Oregon, and
taught one of the first schools in the
territory. She went to New York in
1s40 and studied medicine. She prac
ticed her profession after her return
and left large fortune.