Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-01-26
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The circuit court of Lauderdale couu-
ty, Mississippi, found Wallace Smith
guilty of murder and sentenced him to
be banged on March 20 next. Two
months ago Smith murdered Col. Thos.
Johnson, an old citizen.
Six hundred men were thrown out OF
work Monday at the Bay View works
Of the Illinois Steel Co., Milwaukee,
Wis, by the closing down of the top
and bottom mill, the fish-plate mill and
the old and new plate mill.
An Egyptian commission appointed
for the purpose has started on a tour
of Red sea ports, to arrange precau-
tionary measures against the bu.
bonic plague, which is raging in Bonn
bay and other parts of India.
Rev. George Koenig, pastor of the
German Lutheran Trinity church in
Washing ton, d. c., died from Bright's
disease in Brooklyn. Rev. Mr.. Koenig
was born October 30, 1862, in Cincin-
natl, where his father then had q
charge.
Judge j. NJ. Sanduslly has been APP
pointed receiver for the Farmers and
Merchants bank of Excelsior Springs,
Mo The liabilities are 20,ooO, with
assets of $50, 900. The receiver found
nearly fifty per cent. of the deposits in
cash in the safe.
The Marquis Di Rudini, prime min
ister of Italy, has sent his son to Lon
don on a private mission to Lord Sal
isbury, the object of which is sup
posed to be to obtain the concert of
Great Britain with Italy for the relief
of the Italian garrison at Kasedela.
The cold wave which reached st.
Louis Saturday night continued to
Monday, and the mercury remained
close to zero, with high wind. but no
snow. The suffering among poorer
classes of people is intense, and Sum
dsy night over 500 unfortunates were
sheltered at the police stations
The report that Prince Frederick
Leopold, of Russia, will represent the
emperor at the jubilee which will be
held in London next June, in celebra-
tion of the completion of the Goth
year of the reign of Queen Victoria, is
officially denied. 1t is positively as
SCIItU llldb lllC hdlbtI duHcICS W HIS
intention to go himself
A special cable dispatch to the Herald
from Constantinople says: Frequent
meetings of the council of ministers
are being held at the Vildiz palace.
The deliberations of the council con-
Germ the completion of reforms in gem
eral. Results which will equally salts
fly Europe and all Ottoman subjects
may be expected shortly.
The cold wave which reached Chicago
Saturday night frightened its grip Sum
day and at midnight Chicogoans were
shivering in a sixteen below zero at
mosphere. At six o'clock the ther-
mometer registered ii below. The
temperature then moderated some
what but at no time during the day did
the mercury rise above three below.
Fourteen of the sixteen members OF
congress composing the house commit
tee on rivers and harbors, many OF
them accompanied by their wives and
other members of their families, left
Washington Sunday morning at 11:15
o'clock over the Southern railway for
New Orleans, Mobile and other places
to inspect government improvements
on waterways.
The Grecnlee Brothers & Co. s
woodworking machinery plant, North
western Stove Repair Co.'S factory,
Greenlee Brothers, owners, at 225 to
235 West Twelfth street, Chicago, were
entirely destroyed by fire Sunday
night. David b. Carse, general mana.
ger of the two concerns, estimated the
loss at $500, 600. The plants were only
partially insured.
Sunday was the coldcst day Nebraska
has experienced in years. At many
points the mercury registered 10 de-
grees below zero, and the warmest re-
ported was four below. A strong wind
from the north made the cold seem
more intense. The Missouri river is
frozen over, and the ice men, who had
given up hope of crop, began cutting
Monday morning.