Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-07-30
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by telegraph.
The islands of Antigua. St Kits and
Guudeloupe, of the Leeward group,
experienced severe shock of earth-
uuake at noon Wednesday.
The colonial Office has warned in
tending gold seekers that it will be
useless to start for the klondyke be-
fore spring, as the journey is possible
only in the summer time.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded to Hennessey & Cox, of ST.
Paul, Mimi, the contract for the in
terror finish of the government build
ing at Milwaukee, Wis, at their bid of
S263,975
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, United
States minister to Spain, sailed We'd
nesday for the scene of his future du-
ties Gen. Woodford was accompanied
by his wife and daughter and by the
members of the legation.
The rainfall has been so heavy
throughout the vicinity of Saratoga,
n Y, for number OF uays that great
damage has been done to the crops. In
many places the lowlands are inuudat-
ed and crops entirely ruined. Unless
the weather changes the result will be
disastrous.
The British steamer scandinavian,
from Liverpool, reports running down
and sinking barkentine Florence,
while in a dense fog % miles south of
Cape Race, last Saturday. The cap
tain's wife and four of the crew Of the
Florence were lost. The Florence
was bound from Sydney, c. T., to St.
Johns, y. f.
A dispatch to the state department
from the United States consul ut Mo-
zam buque says that the French mail
steamer Alphee was cleared from
Beira May 81 for Mozamb buque has not
been heard from and that it is feared
she has foundered at sea 1t is prob
able she has mails from the United
States on board
A dispatch from Barcelona says that
severe storms have prevailed through
out Catalonia for the last few days
with devastating effect among the
vineyards. Out of 1870, 900 hectares of
vineyards, scarcely 5000 have escaped.
In the districts Tarragona and Corona
at least So 000O hectares of vineland
have been seriously damaged.
A body of 150 striking miners march
ed to Corey's mines, near Duquesne,
Pa, for the purpose of inducing the
men at work to quit. The raid was
unsuccessful as the men refused to
! Join the strikers j. B. Corey, the
mine owner, notified the sheriff that
he would hold the county responsible
in the event of trouble and damage to
his property.
Mrs. W. G. White and Mrs T. w.
Cave, Of Paterson, \. j., are destitute
and regretting the existence of gold
craze. They called NJ on the poor mas
ter and have informed him that their
husbands had left them and their chill
dren penniless. Both women said that
their hus bands had gone to the gold
fields of Alaska. They were employed
in local printing Office.
The Los Angeles ines Thursday
says: While the majority of people
laugh at the idea of Japan going to
war with the United States over the
annexation of the Hawaiian islands,
there is no denying the fact that the
mikado and his ministers are making
inquiries and seeking information con-
corning the country which they have
never heretofore apparently consider
ed of value.
A brief message has been received
announcing the loss of the whaler
Cape Horn Pigeon, in the Japan sea,
during a furious storm. Capt Scullam
and the crew OF IS were saved. but 800
barrels of sperm oil went down with
the vessel. Two thousand pounds of
bone had been shipped home Il short
time before the disaster. The Cape
Horn Pigeon was owned by j.
and r. Wing, OF New Bedford. Mass.
Rear Admiral J. L, Miller Wednes-
day hauled down his flag from the
cruiser Brooklyn lying at Tonpkns-
Vile, :. l., and will leave at once for
san Francisco to assume command of
the Pacific station as soon as he can
reach Hawaii. The Brooklyn will
probably be attached to the North At
lautic squadron during the summer
cruise, and will sail for Newport r. l.,
where the fleet will rendezvous early
next week.