Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-16
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.zyss by Telegraph.
Gen. John i. Farnsworth died at his
residence in Washington Wednesday
afternoon aged n years.
The usual celebration in honor OF
the fall OF the Bastile, July Il, 1859,
passed off gaily in Paris Wednesday.
Magnificent weather prevailed
throughout France.
President Mckinley has issued an
order suspending the operation of eX-
President Clevelands order CONSOLE
dating the pension agencies of the
country and reducing their number to
| from is.
The Thurston rifles, of Omaha, Neb.,
holders of the Galveston cup, en- blem-
attic of the militia championship of the
United States, have left for San An
tonic, lex, TO defend the cup in the
national drill contest there next week.
President James b. Angel and wife
left Ann Arbor. Mich, Wednesday
night for New York on their way to
| Turkey. They sail from Havre on Sat
urday on the Normandie, and will go
| by the overland route to Constanti-
nople.
Ambassador Hay accompanied by
Messrs. White and Carter, the first and
second secretaries of legation, respec-
lively, paid formal call at the French
EN- bassy IN London Wednesday in hon
or Of the anniversary of the fail of the
Bastile.
A crossing Of the electric light and
telephone wires Thursday morning re-
suited in n fire in the fifth story of the
Central BLOCK, AN Office building at Sec
ond and Main streets, Pueblo, Col,
causing a loss of about $50, 0O0 fully
insured.
Dan Stuart writes to his Carson
agent from Chicago that he has signed
Sharlsey and Maher and Mccoy and
Creedon for the tstic carnival in Car
son this fall, and has four other fights
in view, which he says will be cork
ers but mentions no names
The second trial race to select a
challenger for the Seawanhnka-Cor-
inthian Yacht club international cup
for small yachts, which was captured
last year by Canadian boat, was sail
ed on Long Island sound Wednesday
and again the Crane boat Mono won,
Skate second, Shark third.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Havana says: The invasion of
Mantanzas by insurgent forces on their
march westward is now an accom-
plished fact The local papers are pro-
hibited from publishing even accounts
} Of official" victories in that province,
the object being to discredit the news
Of unusual activity.
The Printing Pressmen's union Of
Washington city has adopted resolu-
tions of sympathy with the striking
coal miners and has addressed the Off
GERS of the American Federation of
Labor, urging that the national board
levy an assessment of ten cents a week
On each member of every trades union
represented SO long as the strike con-
tinues.
Senator Hanna, of Ohio, said Wed.
nesday that he had not refused to as
sist in the settlement of the miners
strike He added: mo representative
of the miners nor any one else has
asked my assistance or consulted or
approached me in the matter. l regret
greatly the present trouble, and hope
most sincerely that il will be settled
amicably and by arbitrat ton"
The McKenna re-rolling steel mill,
Joliet, Ill, has made a test run ana
everything started off in good shape.
This plant is the only one of its kind
in the world and this test was the first
time in the history of the steel work
ing art that old worn out rails were
made as good as new. The plant will
start up to run steady within few
days and give employment to 200 men.
The judicial committee OF the privy
council has refused leave to appeal
rom the Judgment entered at Yoko-
hama on February /, sentencing to
death Mrs Carew, convicted Of poison'
ing her husband, Walter Raymond
Iollowell Carew, secretary of the
YoEohama United club, which SEN
tenc. was subsequently committed by
the British minister to Japan. Sir L.
D N. Satow, TO imprisonment for life.