Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-22
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

have adopted resolutions in favor of
the Hawaiian annexation treaty.
The wife of Prince Hohenlohe, the
imperial chancellor died Tuesday
morning of inflammation of the lungs.
The exporta ion of raw cotton from
the southern states to Japan by way of
Pacific coast ports is practically double
what it was last season.
Owing to the destruction by fire of
an asphalt factory at Dacacea, Spain,
five persons have been burned to death
and 80 have been injured.
The Montreal Star announced Mon
day night authoritatively, that Lieut.
Gov. Sir Adolphe Chaplain will resign
shortly and make an extended tour of
Europe.
Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years, and
Miss Mary Baird. aged so years, in
mates of the poor house, at Plainfeld,
n. j., are dead from drinking wood
alcohol. ''i '"f@@.
According tolndvices from the front
SerEt Waller, of the hScots fusileers,
is prisoner insthc hahds of the Sipah
Afrdis Efforts are. making to obtain
his release.
William Gordon Prince, who was the
oldest living graduate Of Harvard col
lege, is dead at his home in River
Place, Dedham, Mass. He was born in
Boston about "a years ago raa
From all parts of Canada come re-
ports of severe weather. At, White
river the thermometer registered 20
degrees below zero and at Malta was
Is. At Toronto it went to 4 below.
1t is understood that President Pier
ola will proinulgate the new law as to
non-Catholic marriages in Peru; but
Senor Alexandra Lopez De Romano,
minister of the interior, will resign.
While District Attorney Youngs, of
Queens county, is non-communicative
upon the matter, it is understood that
he has finally decided to allow Mrs.
Mack to plead guilty to. manslaughter
in the first degree.
Despondent over i'll health and pow
erty William Hansen, 65 years old, an
English anarchist belonging to the
school of Benjamin Il. Tucker, has
committed suicide in New York by
swallowing prussic acid.
The fire in the after hold of the
British steamer Silverdale, which ar
rived in London from Galveston, has
not yet been distinguished Two hum
dred and twenty-four bales of cotton,
damaged by fire or water, were thrown
out Sunday.
The United States supreme court
adjourned for the holiday recess Mon
day, to convene again on the Sd of JAM
uary. Before adjourning the chief
justice announced the reassignment of
several cases which had been set for
the Cd of January. /
1t is reported that the makers Of
book paper of Wisconsin. Michigan,
Indiana and Ohio have formed an as
sociation to stop the cutting of prices
in this product and to fix minimum
price. 1t is also said that eastern man
ufacturers may cooperate in the move
ment
The funeral of Alphonse Daudet,
who died suddenly Thursday last. took
place in Paris Monday and was largely
dIIthuCel. LliilS LOid, "HO dtGShucu
the funeral, was hooted owing to his
support of the efforts made by the
friends of Alfred Dreyfus to bring
about reopening of his case.
The president has definitely deter
mined to carry out his original pur-
pose of nominating Charles Page
Bryan, of Illinois, to be minister to
China. He has so informed one of Mr..
Bryans principal supporters. The
nomination will be sent to the senate
Immediately after the holidays.
A dispatch from Greytown, Nicara-
qua, announces the safe arrival at that
port of the United States gunboat
Newport, with the members of the
Nicaraguan canal commission on
board. All the members of the party
were well and reported that the voy-
age had been pleasant and enjoyable.
At Norfolk. Va. the trial of John
Anderson, cook of the schooner Olive
Pecker, for the murder of Mate VIM.
Wallace Saunders on the high seas in
August last, was begun in the federal
court Monday. Anderson Is also under
indictment for the murder of Capt.
Whitman and burning the schooner,
but the prosecution elected to bring
the first trial for the murder of the
mate. tr