Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-05
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.
The acting secretary of war has APP
proved the map of location and plans
of q bridge to be constructed by the
city of Chicago over the Chicago river
at Archer avenue.
A dispatch from Barcelona says that
112 persons who have been confined in
the fortress of Montiuich for a year on
suspicion of completely in anarchist
plots and outrages, were released We'd
nesday.
At 1925 o'clock Thursday morning a
slight earthquake shock was felt in
Helena Mont, rocking buildings. 1t
was of seven seconds duration, but as
yet no damage is known to have been
caused by it.
Secretary Sherman arrived in WASH
ington Wednesday morning and was at
his desk busy with affairs of state look
ing as fresh as if he had not voted
Tuesday at Mansfield, o., and made the
long trip back to Washington over
night
Stamford Newell, United States
minister at The Hague, reports to the
state department that by ministerial
order ventilators, exhaust and power
fans used in factories or on ship board
are to be admitted duty free into The
Hague
According to a disr atch from Madrid
the Spanish government intends to en-
ter into contract with the bank of
Spain at Havana under which the bank
will undertake the management of the
Cuban treasury, the lottery and the
other public financial concerns of the
island.
The annual reports of the infantry
school at Fort Leavenworth, the cav
airy and light artillery school at Fort
Monroe, have been made public. They
show that the instruction has pro-
gressed favorably at each of these in
stitutions.
The vote for supreme court Judge in
Colorado is so close between Charles D.
Hayt, republican, and Wm. H. Gabbert,
populist-democrat, that neither side
will give up until the official counting
is made. The unofficial returns made
up to noon Thursday, however, point
to the election of Gabbert.
The war department. is making an in
vestigation into the recent reported
uprising among the Utes in Utah with
a view to securing all the facts possible
for its information. 1t also has prac-
tically decided to send an inspector
from the interior department to inves-
tigate and report on the trouble.
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Berry, pastor of
the Queens Street church, Wolver-
hampton, London, and chairman of the
Congregational Union of England, has
arrived in New York from England.
Dr. Berry will endeavor to influence
the national senate to ratify the
Anglo-American arbitration treaty.
A dispatch to the New York World
from Paris says: Rev. DR.. Charles Ii.
Parkhurst gave out the following state
ment in regard to the demQcratic VIC
tory in New York city: IF New York
has not moral genius enough to keep
out of Tammany's clutches, after it has
been once rescued from them, may the
Lord have mercy on New York"
Boiler of Royal City saw mills, Van
Couver, b. c., exploded at noon We'd
nesday, while the men were eating din
ner around it. Several were killed
and many injured. The roof of the
mill was blown off and the build
ing wrecked. The noise of the explo-
sion was heard outside the city limits.
A man registering as o. p. Johnson,
of Minnesota, was asphyxiated by gas
in the United States hotel, Newburgh,
N. Y, Tuesday night. Wednesday
morning he was found dead in bed, the
room full of gas, the stop cock not hav.
ing been closed. He had $500 in his
pocket, and from cards found it is
thought he has relatives in Little Falls,
MINI.
Mrs. Celia Wallace, who resides at
the Auditorium, Chicago, and is a
childless widow, has taken fancy to
Evangelina Cossio Y Cisneros, the Gu
ban refugee, and has offered to adopt
the Cuban maid and make her an heir
to fortune estimated by friends Of
Mrs. Wallace az $500, 900. Evangelina
looks with favor upon the proposition
and took it under advisement.