Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-05
CONDENSED NEWS
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bAtntreu All OF tne lnCnV'y
by Telegraph.
Notice was posted in the Hope and
ri GO iix mills in the Pawtucket val
ley, Rhode Island, that the mills
would be shut down during the COM
ing week.
Fred Day, once well-known Joe key,
Is dead at the Norwegian hospittl, !, in
Brooklyn, from internal hemorrhages.
He was found last Saturday on the
beach at Coney island in semi
unconscious condition.
Two children killed and six persons
injured, several probably fatally, is
the record OF an accident which oc-
CURED on the New York, Ontario &
Western railroad just north of Rock
land, Sullivan county, n. Y.
Two hundred and fifty diggers in the
Missouri &c Kansas Coal Co. S mines at
Ardmore, Mo-, have gone on strike for
an advance from 40 to so cents for min
ing. The company discharge / all 9TH
n employees and closed the miues.
Lieut.. Michael Moore, one of the last
urvivors of the soldiers of the war of
Sl2, is dead in Brooklyn, aged %
gears. He enlisted as drummer boy
in 1912 and was with his regiment at
the capture Of Fl. George in 1918.
The banking house of James G.
Kings Sons, New York, founded in
1915, and formerly one of the principal
banking firms of the city, is going out
of business. The business has long
dwindled. What remains will be taken
over by Barring, Magoun 81 Co.
While playing in game of baseball
Tuesday at the grounds of the Catho-
lie protectory at West Chester, y. Y,
between teams made up of boys in the
institution, Dennis O'Connor, l3 years
old, was struck in the heart with q
ball. He died in n few minutes
John NJ. Forbin and Lorenzo Semple
have been appointed receivers of the
property in New York state of the
American Publishers corporation, in
proceedings for a voluntary dissolu-
tion OF the company. The liabilities
are S4e3, o0C; assets about $l5O.0)0
The British steamer Sycamore arr
rived at Boston from Liverpool Tues
day with the entire crew of 2l men of
the British tramp steamer Furtor,
which was abandoned on July 2J in a
sinking condition in lat. so degrees so
minutes north and long. 30 degrees
west
Countess Cora Di Brazzi, the presi-
dent, and Scion j. Nlasto, the sacre-
tary general OF the National American
Fund In aid of the Greek Red Cross,
request all the committees and indi-
viduals collecting money for the aid of
starving, sick or wounded Greeks to
call in their lists and make a closing
report to the secretary by August 10.
The fire marshals' investigation at
Goldman & Codman's office, Boston,
which was continued Tuesday, reveal
ed nothing particularly new, although
it strengthened his belief in the re-
port that Miss Alice Barrett the book
keeper who committed suicide in the
office, had been speculatiug in bucket
shops
Orders have been sent to the COM
mander Of the cruiser Montgomery to
take the Louisiana naval militia
aboard on the 10th for sea drill. She
was to have come north Immediately
but will now remain on the Florida
station until relieved by the Helena.
The militia will board the Montgom.
cry at Ship island.
John Flanagan, the champion ham
mer thrower, surpassed all records
Tuesday by throwing the 1G-pound
hammer 157 feet 4 inches. He was Civ.
ing an exhibition at the athletic meet
OF the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
Albany, n. Y, and this record will
not stand as the worlds record On his
second throw he beat his worlds rec,
ord of 100 feet s inches by one inch.
At Bethlehem, Pa, the postmortem
examination made on the body oi
stephen Casper, the Hungarian muir
dered by Andrew Smaydo, showed
that Casper lived for more than "a
hours with a wound three-eighths OF
an inch wide in his heart Smaydo's
knife went through one of his victims
ribs. In the lett lung cavity there
was a clot of blood weighing three
pounds