Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-12
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Telegraph.
Mrs. Tesa Clawson Wells, wife OF
fov. Wells, died in Salt Lake City,
Utah, after an illness OF several
months.
A dispatch from London to the
New York World sars: The Bradle ey-
Martins, it is rumored, have taken
Barney Barnato's magnificent untin-
shed palace on Park lane.
The Pail Mall Gazette said Friday
lfternoon that owing to the drought
n New South Wales and South Aus
,ralia, it will be necessary to import
| thousands of tons of California wheat.
The cut in cycle prices announced
oy the Rudge- Whitworth Co., limited,
of London, has caused general fall
of cycle shares on the stock exchange,
and almost a panic throughout tho
.rade.
There will be no advance in the price
of raw sugar at present. Dutch gran
llated sugar for August shipments
las baen sold in large amounts laid
lown here at 4.56 cents pound, duty
paid according to the senate schedule.
EX.Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii,
! eft Washington Saturday morning for
! .he summer, going first to New York
and later to Cape May, Newport and
other eastern resorts. In the autumn
she. perhaps, may return to Honolulu.
Over 1000 Cheyenne and Arappahoe
Indians are holding a grand council
md dance at Darlington, O. T., de-
handing that the recent anti-b.gamy
.aw be not enforced against them.
| rheir sessions are in secret They re-
use to obey the orders of the agent
and there is fear of serious trouble.
The Frankfort Xeitung Friday pub
.ished a dispatch from Constantinople
saying that Emperor William through
he German ambassador there, Baron
Saurma Won Jeltsch, has expressed
the hope that the sultan will not re-
sist the desire of the powers for the
evacuation of Thessaly by the Turkish
troops.
VIM. Lodtmau, said by the police to
oe a notorious eastern swindler, was
arrested in Hammersmith tS Fields
store, on Sutter street, San Francisco.
The detective subsequently visited
Lodtman's rooms in the Russ house
and met his wife. When they inform
I'd her OF her husbands plight she
.eized a revolver and attempted to
send bullet through her brain.
; Mr.. William Gillette, the American
playwright and actor, has been dan
gerously i'll in London for more than
4 week and been confined to his bed
most of the time. He will be COM
l F,, ctn ba
present and to reliuquish play writing
indefinitely. As soon as he is able to
be removed he will return to the
United States. His health is very
much broken.
AT the central conference of Amer
lean rabbis, at Montreal, Friday, these
officers We're elected President, DR..
Wise, of Cincinnati; first vice presi.
dent, DIR. Leucht, of New Orleans;
recording secretary, Rabbi Levi, OF
Cincinnati; treasurer, DR.. Heckt OF
Milwaukee. The conference declared
for sim plicity in funeral corteges An
invitation to hold the next convention
in Boston was received.
The president and the members OF
the civil service commission have had a
mum Der of conferences recently on the
question of a revision OF the civil serv-
ice rules so as to exempt certain impor-
tant places which were included in
Mr.. Cleveland's last extension order.
final determination, however, has
not been reached, but it is alto
gether probable that about 300 places
will be taken out Of the classified serv-
ice.
At San Francisco, in the United
States district court, Judge j. j. De-
haven has rendered his first decision
upholding the ruling of Commissioners
= Hcacocli to the effect that there was
= no appeal from the decision of Il COM
e missioner in a deportation case The
, case was that of Tsu Use Moe, Chi
! nese who was brought to san Fran.
cisco recently from Texas Tor deporta.
tion under a commitment from a
Texas commissioner.
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