Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-26
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From an Parts of the Country by
telegraph.

fNINoreu FROM al lafIS OF tuS (OuhNAJ Ny
Telegraph.
All the British army officers on leave
IF absence have been ordered to rejoin
their regiments Immediately.
The brotherhood OF Locomotive Fire
men has contributed 1,400 to the coal
miners fund. This is believed to be
larger sum than any other organization
has given.
Judge Willis, of the circuit court Ell
gin, H.. Tuesday refused to issue an
Injunction to restrain the removal of
men from Fulton, Ill.
The potato crop in North Cork and
Limerick, Ireland, has been partly de-
stroycd by blight, and in those dis
tricts it will be the worst year in the
last half century for potatoes.
Senior Romero, the Mexican minister,
will go to st. Paul the latter part OF
this week as the representative of Mex
leo at the national gathering of farm
ing organizations in that city.
The 35th annual convention of the
Delta Tau Delta fraternity opened in
Chicago Wednesday with 60 delegates
present, representing SO of the 80
chapters. The session will last three
days.
Sir Donald Smith, the Canadian high
commissioner in London who was raised
to the peerage during the diamond iu-
bilee festivities was officially gazetted
Wednesday as Baron Strathcona and
Mount Royal.
A dispatch to the Gaulois from st.
Petersburg says that Baron Mohen-
helm. the Russian ambassador to
France. viii be recalled and will be re-
placed by Prince OuroussoH, Russian
minister TO Belgium.
TT. Rev. G.. VI. Grossmann, one of tho
founders and for 10 years president of
the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. of
Iowa and other states, died Tuesday
night at home in Waverly, Ia. He was
born in Germany IN lS23.
The naval commission appointed by
an act of congress for the purpose of
looking into the advisability of erect
ing a government armor plate plant
is in Pittsburgh and will spend several
days inspecting the armor plate works
of the Carnegie Steel Co. at Homestead.
a constable and his assistants in at
tempting to make levy Tuesday on
the household goods of Mike Hill, col
ored. living at Atoka, Tenn, a station
on the Illinois Central, south of Gov
ington. met with forcible resistance
and shot and killed two of Hills sons
and wounded his wife.
Beet sugar will not be the only pro
duct of the Starr mill at Crockett. Cal.
when it starts up about January l.
next. The machinery will permit o.
the refining of cane sugar as well, anc
the prospects are that it will take con
siderable of the Hawaiian crop now
controlled by Claus Spreckels.
Rev. Benjamin Akerlv, rector emeri
tus of st. Johns Episcopal church
died at his home in Oakland, Cal.
Tuesday morning of old age, He wa
born in 1912 and was the son of
well-known New York ply sician. DR.
Akerly was past high priest of tn
Royal Arch Chapter of Masons.
At Abbeville, Ala. whitecaps wen
to the house of Frank Smith, coloreG
and shot him to death through crac
in the walls of the house. WhitecaI
pers recently whipped a Negro severel
for alleged intimacy with a whit
woman. Smith was killed for havin
threatened to divulge their names t
the grand jury.
The camp Of the striking miner:
which has been maintained for tn
past four weeks at Sandy Creek, nea
Pittsburgh, in order to keep the miner
, from returning TO work in that pi'
was broken up Tuesday morning an
the 70 men were sent to their nome!
= This action was taken by the miners
officials because the mine there is tigh
e ~ closed and the strikers are fully j
q sympathy with the movement for higl
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