Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-11
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.

dispatch to the London Times from
Buenos Ayres says that a general frost
has severely injured the wheat and
flax crops.
DIR. James Carey Thomas, widely
known member of the Orthodox Society
of Friends, died suddenly at his home
in Baltimore Tuesday night.
The safe in the Mockesville IN. g.
night and robbed of $500, half the
amount being in money and the rest in
stamps.
After making a desperate effort to
murder his wife in their apartments on
West Forty-Sixth street, New York,
John Falihee, 21 years of age, commit
ted suicide.
Fred and Harvey Elliott, brothers,
hotellkeepcrs of Varna, near Bay
Ont, quarreled, and during the strug-
gle which ensued Fred shot Harvey,
killing him instantly.
Select council Tuesday at special
meeting approved the ordinance leas-
ing the Philadelphia gas works TO the
United States Gas Improvement COM
pany for period of 80 years.
Col. j. II. Brigham, assistant secre-
tary of agriculture, and also master OF
the national grange, left Washington
Tuesday for Harrisburg, Pa, where the
grange meets in annual session Wednes-
day.
1t is believed at Wallace. Ida., that
Daniel Lamont, vice president of the
Northern Pacific railway, WILL within
two months, succeed President Hill
as head of the Northern Pacific sys-
tenn.
Ernest Sherland, 25 years old, an
Englishman, committed suicide Tues
day afternoon in his room on Fifth
avenue, New York, by turning on the
gas. Family troubles and lack of funds
the cause.
Maj Paul Quirk, United States navy,
retired, died Tuesday at West Hoboken.
Several months ago he was appointed
by Gov Griggs a member of the state
commission to inquire into the treat
ment of pauper children in the Snake
Hill almshouse.
Thomas II. Cavanaugh, manager of
the Lake Bonneville Irrigation Co.,
OdiO - ldli, SAOSC1 d CollJ "
with the state board of land commits
sioners for the reclamation of land un-
der the Carey act, of 100000 acres of
land in Ballard county.
Receivers Cowen and Murray, of the
Baltimore s. Ohio railroad, Tuesday
filed in the United States circuit court
their report for the month of August
showing total receipts of S3.627, 1854. 95
and total disbursements of So, 1873, 1o1. .s5,
leaving balance August 81 of S494,-
2s3. 10.
Up to date thirteen whalers and four
tenders arrived at San Francisco from
the Arctic. In all they brought SAG
barrels of oil, 141. .O74 pounds of whale
bone and 5,04S pounds of ivory besides
a large quantity of furs. A conserva-
tive value of what has come down is
$1,000
At Rome, Pieramonti, the Partisan
artist, who in the latter part of last
year shot and killed the Complies LARA
in fit of jealousy, has been sentenced
to IL years. The Comtesse LARA was
n Miss Eva Catermole prior to her mar
riagc and the daughter of former
British consul at Florence.
Col. c. Ross Smith, for many years
secretary of the Commercial exchange,
Philadelphia, died Tuesday night in
ths Orthop~dic hospital, Philadelphia,
wacre he had been undergoing treat
ment for cancer. He was 81 years old
and served with distinction as u cav
airy officer in the union army during
the civil war.
The passengers who arrived at San
Francisco on the steamer City of sgd
ney declare that the buried treasure
of Cocos Island has been discovered,
and that one of their number knows
where it is He is August Whidden, a
partner of A. Geisman, who left this
port about five years ago in the sloop
IIuyze to search for the wealth.
A bill will be presented to the next
Maine legislature to punish sportsmen
who accidentally shoot or kill men in
the woods The measure is prompted
by the number of fatalities which oc-
CURED during the present season. II
is claimed that the hunters who kill
person are as rule green sportsmen,
who become excited and blaze away ut
any moving object they may chance to
see.
Tho Ua..Ao.