Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-04
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Telegraph
The navy department finally accepted
the gunboat Vicksburg built at the
Bath Iron works, Maine.
A bill was Thursday introduced in
the Virginia senate to abolish football
where an admission fee is charged
The German naval department has
sent instructions to Kiel to dispatch
200 artillerymen with field guns and
1000 marines to China.
The British steamer Tropic, Capt
Barber, which sailed from Liverpool
Thursday for Galveston, has returned
with machinery disordered.
Martin Thorn, or Torceswislzy, con-
victed Monday of the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe, was Friday sem
fenced to be electrocuted in the week
beginning January 10, 1898.
1t is stated in Paris that the late DIR.
Thomas w. Evans left fortune of be-
tween 5000, 900 and SS,O0O,O in land
ed property and investments. His
landed property in Paris is valued at
81, 900, coo.
Secretary Gage, Thursday afternoon,
decided the pending Dutch sugar ques-
ton by ruling that the countervailing
(uty provided for by the Dingley tariff
law apples to sugars imported from the
Netherlands.
Official investigation shows that
there was never the slightest founda-
ton for the sensational and alarmist
report that the Chinese had massacred
200 German sailors belonging to the
German cruiser Division in kiao Chou
bay.
Consul O'Hara has sent to the state
department copy of the law of Mica
rauga, passed October last, absolute
ly prohibiting the immigration of
Chinese. The officer who infringes on
the law is subjected to a fine of from
S25 to $780,
The British steamship Alberta Capt.
Davis sailed from Baltimore for Hull
Thursday with 253, sol bushels of corn.
This is the largest cargo of corn ever
shipped from this port and probably
the largest ever shipped from the
United States.
The first snow of the season fell over
Kansas Thursday night extending over
the entire state. The snow generally
was of great benefit to the wheat. In
central Kansas wheat goes into the
winter this season in better condition
than in ten years.
The cruiser Brooklyn, although
ready to leave the New York dry dock,
may be detained until the new year by
some slight changes which are contem-
plated. The years services which the
cruiser has seen has caused remarkably
little wear and tear.
Owing to the illness of the civil en-
gineer who was to take charge of the
field parties with the Nicaraguan canal
commission, it has been found neces-
sary to secure the services of another
engineer and the departure of the COM
mission has been delayed.
A policy of using wherever possible
goods in the supplies
of the postal service is announced in a
letter addressed Thursday by First AS
sistant Postmaster General Heath to
Mr.. NJ. William Lewis, superintendent
of the division of the post Office sup
plies.
Albert Kruger, butcher living at
567 Sixteenth avenue. Milwaukee, shot
and killed his wife, Hanna, and after
the crime took drink of carbolicacid,
dying later,at the emergency hospital.
Mrs. Kruger was, As, and as a widow
with ten children, was married to
Kruger two years ago. Domestic
trouble was the cause of the tragedy.
Mrs. Matilda Delilah Shields, a
granddaughter of Richard Henry
PotomaX, an Indian chief, died in
Washington, aged 113 years. She
leaves one son and two daughters, 80
grandchildren and 35 great grand
children. Mrs. Shields has lived in
this locality nearly all her life and it is
thought inherited the hardy constitu-
tion of her Indian ancestors.