Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From An Parts of tho Country
by Telegraph.

GatnCEeu al IhrAH VI bhO NOohh'y
by Telegraph.
The annual competition for the
Boylston prizes for defamation at
Harvard was held Thursday night.
Charles Grilk, '96, of Davenport, Ia,
won first prize.
At Denver, COL. Charles Goodyear,
the well-known minstrel, is dead of
heart disease at the age of Al years.
He was born in Massachusetts. AT
one time he played with Haverly.
The nomination of Mr.. Frank A.
Vanderlip, of Illinois, for assistant
secretary of the treasury, will be sent
to the senate when it meets next. Mr..
Vanderlip is now private secretary to
Secretary Gage.
Judge John Lowell, the distinguish
ed jurist, died at his home in Brook
line, Mass, just after 4 o'clock Friday
morning. Judge Lowell has been ill
for some time, and his death has been
expected for several days
Gen. Horace Porter, the American
am bassador to France, arrived in Paris
Thursday. He was received by prom
inent membe of the American colo.
ny, among them Gen. Winslow, with
whom he will temporarily reside.
Pending action by the government
on the request of the tobacco men for
alteration in the tariff, the George E.
Tuckett & Son Co., Hamilton, Ont. (,
has decided to close its factory. This
decision will affect about 500 employees.
The radicals. socialists, anti-Semites
and Poles introduced in the German
reichstag Thursday bill with single
clause, as follows: German associa.
tions of any kind may combine with
each other and any laws to the con.
trary are hereby repealed"
The New York board of United
States steamboat inspectors eXamina-
ton in the fatal fire on the Nal
lory line steamship Leona last Sunday,
developed the fact that the crew was
new almost to q man; that they had
not been drilled for fire duty.
Arrangements are being perfected
by which Queen Victoria will start the
electric works of the Hydraulic and
Land Co. AZ Lachine Rapids, Ont. on
or about Jubilee day. This will be
done by means of the Atlantic cable,
the queen touching the button at
! Windsor Castle.
Capt. Gen. Weyler has received ad
vices from the Spanish minister o.
war, Gen. Azcarraga, saying the Span
iards have captured the last strong
holds of the insurgents at Cavite, Phil
ippine islands, and that it is believe q
that the military authorities will soon
be able to send nome the sick and dis
abled soldiers and that no further re-
/ inforcenients will be required.
/ The movement to secure the adop'
/ tion of a universal postal stamp by the
| Postal congress has collapsed. There
were too many difficulties (the chief
being that of currency fluctuations,
in the way of adopting such stamp,
and the general committee, after con-
sidering the subject briefly, abandon'
ed it as mpracticable. and will make
| an adverse report to the congress.
". b. Bradbury, 4 San Francisco
millionaire. has been sentenced to "a
hours imprisonment in the county
! Jail for violating the civic ordinance
| prohibiting eXpectorating on the tlool
of street cars. This was Bradbury.
second offense. He claims the privi
lege of splitting when and where hi
pleases as an inalienable American
privilege and will make test case o
his punishment.
Fred Hoetman, alias Hartman, was
hanged in the Jail at Paxton, ILL.,, Fri
day morning in the presence of abou'
fifty witnesses. Prot Blome, one o.
his spiritual advisers, read on behalt
/ of Hoffman, a statement from thC
scaffold declaring his innocence and
asking that his body be sent to Crane
Rapids, Mich, and placed beside thai
of his wife and child. Hoetman was
hung for killing Mrs Weibke Geddes
having been convicted on circumstan
tial evidence.