Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-04-14
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by Telegraph.
The National Bank of the Republic
of St. Louis has been absorbed by the
Merchants-LaClede National bank
Ladies of the Red Cross society have
distributed money, clothing and to-
bacco to 300 sick soldiers at Matanzas,
Cuba.
The Missouri river has risen almost
two feet at Omaha, Neb., in "a hours
and is now higher than at any time
since 1SS3
Instructions have been issued at
Havana for summary court-martial
of Jose Guerra, Manuel Lopez and Jose
Martinez on charge of rebellion.
The New York senate Monday morn
ing passed the amendments to the
Raines liquor law to tax clubs the same
as saloons and to permit saloons to
serve free lunch.
The battleship Massachusetts, was
floated into the new dry dock at the
Brooklyn navy yard Monday and will
remain there for the next six weeks
undergoing repairs.
The wife of Judge Hamacona, of the
Mexican supreme court, died Monday.
She was well-known in Washington,
where her husband was at one time
the Mexican minister.
Tuesday in the capitol at Nashville,
Tenn, the fourth annual convention
of the National Association of Air
Brakemen will meet and the sessions
will continue three days.
At Yonkers, N. Y, shortly after
noon Monday, two men entered the
Yonkers savings bank on Getty square,
in the heart of town, held up Lyman
Cobb, the aged cashier, stole 81, 400 and
escaped.
The general rise in the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers is bringing the Ohio
up again at Cairo, and the river rose
two tenths of foot in "a hours ending
Monday night, when the gauge read
40 lilo foot
At Jersey City, \. j., John Macllin,
jr., was hanged at 10:oS o'clock Tues
day morning. John Mackin, who was
"a years old, killed his wife and her
mother, Mrs Bridget Connors, on Feb
ruary 81, 1896.
In an interview published in the
Sacramento Bee, James Collins, now
III Hall here dChLIO lCbSCo lAiuS liz "a
Cuckoo Collins. wanted by the police
of Denver for the robbery of jewelry
store March o, 1896.
A meeting of Colorado wheelmen
was held in Denver to consider the
proposition of secession from the L A.
w. After stormy debate. secession
was defeated and resolutions adopted
favoring local option on the question
of Sunday racing.
An English company has been or
ganized in London with G600, 900 iS5,-
| 900, 900 capital, and has bought 800, ,000
/ acres of land in the district of Pochutla,
state of Oxaca, Mex, the land border
ing on the Pacific coast, on which will
be set million rubber trees. coffee
and tobacco.
James Charles night watchman at
Allegheny. CPa.) Heating Co.'S plant,
1 and John Steele, a friend, who spent
Monday evening with him, We're found
/ dead Tuesday morning in the regulat'
ing house. 1t is supposed that they
were asphyxiated by an explosion OF
natural gas, as their faces and hands
were burned.
A deed was placed on file in Kansas
City, Kas,, Tuesday, conveying to VIM.
j. Isaac, of Kansas City, Mo, nearly
one-half the city of Argentine, man
ufacturing suburb. The deed is made
by the heirs Of the children of Nancy
Whitefeather, a Shawnee Indian, who
died many years ago, and who was
the pateutee OF the land. Over 1,000,-
600 worth of property is involved. The
deed was recently approved by the
secretary of the interior.