Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-09-02
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by Telegraph.
Mrs. John Drew, the actress died
Tuesday afternoon, at Larchmont, n. !
Y.
TUESDAYS statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance. s221, ,41O, All; gold reserve, ,s144,-
206, ,276.
A private telegram received in Vic
toria, B. c.. announces the death, near
Coban. Guatemala, of Rt Rev. Bishop
Lemmens, Catholic bishop of Vancouver
island and Alaska.
The annual trade review of the Gal
weston News for September l places
the Texas cotton crop for the season OF
1S96-97 which closed Wednesday, at
2. III ,025 bales. Total for Indian Ter
ritory, 90, 10 bales. :.
| The old bark Shirley built at Med
! ford. Mass, in 1850. and known in every
port in the United States, will be
towed to Skaguay and converted intoa
hotel and storehouse with accommoda-
tions for 400 dodgers.
The schooner Emma, Capt. Brom-
shenon, has arrived at Port Townsend
Wash. from Merzovia, Alaska, with
the seasons catch as follows: -Four
HEAVIER 4S red fox. 10 sea otter and 800
pounds of whale bone.
The 15-round bout between JACK
Bonner. of Summit Hill, Pa, and Harry
Peppers. of California, at the Olympic
club. Athens. Pa, Tuesday night, was
tame and decidedly uninteresting and
the referee decided it no contest.
At II o'clock Tuesday night band
of $50 persons, with flags flying, left
the opera in Paris and proceeded in
the direction of the Elysee shouting,
Down with Emperor William" The
police stopped the procession on tue
Apuesseau. The band dispersed after
: n scuffle. Two of the leaders were
placed under arrest.
Articles have been signed by Solly
Smith and George Dixon, calling Tor a
2O-round go on October 4, at Wood
| wards pavilion. The amount of the
, purse is SIS, 900, of which $1,000 goes tt
the loser The lads are to weigh in a,
e 12O pounds at three o'clock in the aft
j. ernoon. Joe Choynski has been agreed
4 upon as the referee.
Democratic primaries were held IL
:. South Carolina Tuesday to name candl
dates for a United States senator t.
. fill the vacancy caused by the death
Senator Earle. Up to 10 p. IN. Tuesda.
q night McLaurin will be nominated ac
cording to returns by considerabl
majority over Evans and 1rby. Evan
will double Irbys vote.
News received in letter to the Alas
1T ka Commercial Co., that famine /
"a almost certain on the Klondike mex
winter, receives confirmation from Nh
y Goodhue. a newspaper correspondent
II at St Michaels. He states that tn
Or Yukon is unusually low, and that tn
Q chances of getting enough food to Dav
son to support those now there an
those foclling in are slender
L \ handsome young woman, who's
a. name is unknown, killed herself Tue
dav morning in the Victoria hote
re Chicago. where she was guest. III
I'd suicide was evidently carried out vii
&c the utmost delibcration. as the your
" woman had evidently slept in the b'
III during the night, taken bath IN u
morning, made up the bed and the
swallowing morphine lay down to di
"a The torpedo boat Rogers returned
~ Annapolis. Md, late Tuesday afte
y noon. having failed to make the I
ouired speed of 2412 knots per hour
her trial trip. The defective workil
,d of her blowers is said to have made t.
Rogers fall short of her requiremen
tie to the extent of one knot an hour.
official figures We're given out and 1t
said that she will be given anoth
nm trial on Friday next.
W. L. Hanson and John Case, CT
engineers Of the Kansas City, Pit
burgh and Gulf railway, will lea
it shortly for Bogota. Colombia, Sou
America, to make survey of the rot
ave for the proposed railway to be bu
.ars by Kansas City capitalists. They
Inv sent by f. l.. Martin. A. W, Stillw(
Robert Gillian, Robert j. Trimble
lGa- other officers of the Pittsburgh a
Gulf system, who have secured &C
cession from Colombia.