Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-09
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The Green mountains, Vermont, were
snow-capped Sunday morning for the
first time this season. The first fall of
snow last season was three weeks
earlier.
The long expected floating dry dock,
built in England and spacious enough
to accommodate large iron clads, ar
rived at Havana Sunday. 1t crossed
the Atlantic without damage.
Consul Bartleman, Malaga, reports
to the state department estimates of
the amount of sugar produced in Eu-
rope from beets for the year 1s97-9s, at
4,5OO, 900 tons, against 1915 7i9 tons for
the previous year.
The prisoners from the bark Olive
Peckcr were Sunday morning trans
ferred from the United States steam
ship Lancaster at Fort Monroe to the
Norfolk (Va.) city Jail. No one is al.
lowed to see them.
The residence of Geo. Tullock, about
three miles from Halifax, n. S., was
burned to the ground Saturday night.
Miss Mary Walker, sister of Mrs. Tul-
lock and q 4-year-old of the Tullocks,
were burned to death.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Guayaquil, Ecuador, says: The
steamer Chill, just leaving for Central
America, carries 10 survivors of the
crew of the German bark Magnat,
which was wrecked on a rock near Es-
meralda.
A special dispatch from Paris says
l,, e., Tp1 4
of Madagascar has reached the French
colonial Office. Large bands of we'll
armed, disciplined rebels are securing
Madagascar and cutting off isolated
French detachments.
Twenty-one out of 26 Jewish fam
lilies, comprising the Occidental Co.
operative colony, incorporated, started
Monday from San Francisco for their
future home at Wellington, Smiths
valley, Lynn county, Nevada The
remaining five families will soon fol-
low.
Amy Sedgwick MRS. w. b. Parlses),
the actress is dead in London. Amy
Sedgwick was born in 1887 and ap-
peared as Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Rosa
lind, ophelia, Peg Wellington and Lady
Teazle. In 1858 she was married to W..
b. Parkes, NJ. D., but was left widow
in 1863
In certain political circles it is be-
lieved that the object of the visit of
Austrian minister for foreign affairs,
Count Goluchowski, to the king of
Italy at Monza is to introduce into the
dreibund treaty additional clause to
meet the conditions created by the
Franco-Russo alliance.
A special to the New York World
from Havana says: Weyler has gone,
but his purpose to ''eXterminate the
breed" of Cuban patriots is being full
filed. Starvation is killing the ''con-
centrados" by tens of thousands. Hun
ger is doing what Spain's 100000 sol
diers can not accomplish.
The chorus choir of the Peoples
church, New York, of which Rev.
Thomas Dixon, jr., is pastor, consisting
of about 40 singers, refused to sing
Sunday out of sympathy with Prof. A.
Guamonte, their leader, because the
pastor last Sunday advocated the
election of Seth Low for mayor.
Al AlleuJOWn, Ia 1.eV. AlIreu d. VI.
Dubbs, DID,, died Sunday, aged II
years. He was ordained minister of
the Reformed church in 1851, held
charges in Allentown and was assist
ant to his father, Rev. Alfred j. Dubbs,
in the church in which the liberty
bell was hidden during the revolution.
There has been big decrease in the
number of yellow fever cases in New
Orleans since Saturday and the situa-
tion is still further improved. Very
few places are now quarantined against
New Orleans and there has been a gen.
eral revival of business. The record
Sunday was nine new cases and seven
deaths.
While Richard Simpkins and Charles
Wiser were walking through Mt Pleas
ant cemetery, Millville, N. j., Sunday,
they were startled by finding that the
grave Of Mrs. Phoebe Tilton had been
opened and the body exhumed. They
followed the tracks where the body had
been dragged, and about 200 yards in
the woods found the corpse cut open
with an ak from breast to pelvis and
the heart missing. The police have no
clew.