Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-15
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts OF the World by
Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.
The next annuul convention of the
National Republican league will be
hnld at Omaha, June 14-16.
The sum of S225, 900 in currency was
transferred to the south Monday
through the New York sub-treasury,
500. 900 to st. Louis and S125, 900 to
New Orleans.
Henry Brede, pioneer croclsery
dealer OF Chicago. committed suicide
Monday by shooting himself. Domes-
tic and business troubles are supposed
to have caused the deed.
Gen. Arolas, according to dispatch
from Manzanillo, province of Santiago
de Cuba, has accidentally wounded
himself with a revolver. His condition
is not regarded as serious.
st. Louis wholesale clothiers have re-
fused to join the National Clothiers' as
sociation, and the efforts of that body
to unite the merchants in this line
have failed so far as that city is con-
cernel.
At 5 ,attle, Wash, Moran Bros. have
made the announcement that all de-
tails had been completed for the con-
struction of 1G river steamers for the
Yukon company. Next week the franz
ing of the hulls will be commenced.
Tie work of collecting salmon eggs
at the California fish commission
hatchery on the Sacramento river at
Anderson, Cal, has just closed. The
results of the seasons operations arc
the most remarkable on record. Forty
eight and half million eggs were col
lected.
Charles Birnbaum, aged 55 years,
once wealthy mine owner, shot and
killed himself at his home in Kansas
City. He was despondent over busi-
ness reverses and i'll health. Mrs. Birn-
baum, who is blind, was the first to
discover her husband after he had shot
himself.
The commission appointed by the
Seminole council to treat with the
Dawes commission, have arrived at
Muskogee, l. T., and at once began ne
gotiations for treaty between the
United States and the Seminole ma
ton. They will remain there until q
treaty is agreed upon.
The first substantial rain since last
June in parts of eastern Kansas fell
Sunday. Monday an old-fashioned
blizzard prevails all over Kansas and
all the way west to Ration, N. NJ. So
far no damage to stock or stoppage OF
railway traffic is reported. In west
ern Missouri wet snow has been fall
ing since Sunday night.
A hammer throwing contest at Yale,
to bring out new material for the inter-
collegiate games, has been in progress
for three weeks The winners were
announced as follows: Samuel Brady
Sulphin, Auburn. o.; George Lyell Cad
wallader, San Francisco, CAL; Edward
E. Marshall, Philadelphia. Sulphin's
best throw was 119 feet ~ inches.
The legislative, executive and judicial
bill, as reported to the house Monday
by the committee on appropriations,
carries a total of S21, ,562, 425, being
$3.50, SOL less than the estimates. The
number of salaries provided for is 10,-
600, being 1913 less than the number
estimated for and 25 less than the
number provided for in the current
law.
Prof. David Starr Jordan, president
of Stanford university, the govern
ment's leading expert in the seal me-
gotiations, in report takes a strong
position against the determination of
the seals by the United States if Great
Britain won't consent to further re.
strictions. He says extermination
would be impossible and would be a
confession of impotence unworthy of a
civilized nation.