Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-17
CONDENSED NEWS



Judge Morrow, OF the United States
circuit court, San Francisco, has de-
MED the application made by Butler,
the alleged Australian murderer, for an
appeal to the Supreme court of the
United States.
The London Mail has dispatch
from Bombay saying that 1,500 houses
in Mandalay have been destroyed by
fire Seven thousand have been rem
dered homeless by the conhagration.
The loss is placed at 100000
The rush TO withdraw goods from
bond in anticipation of the new tariff
law continued Monday, and all pre-
vious records nt the New York clear
ing house were broken. The total re-
ceipts for the day exceeded So, 500, 600.
Henry c. Payne, national commit
+ teeman from Wisconsin, called on tho
president Monday. He said to re-
porter with positiveness that he want
ed no Office. My call is to pay my re-
spects,' he added, II go from here to
New York"
Jim Colville, Corbett's official time
keeper, jumped from the special at
Helper, Utah, Monday to send dis
patch and was left behind. He prompt
ly chartered an engine for 500 and
overlook the special before it reached
Provo city.
Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay,
lord chief justice of appeal, is dead
in London. He was born in 1922.
From 1881 to 1891 he was judge of
the high court of justice chancery di-
vision, and in the latter year was made
a lord justice of appeal
The Athens correspondent of the
London Daily News telegraphs that
1000 Greek infantry started Monday
evening for the Ihessalian frontier.
There was much excitement in the
city as the troops took their departure,
and they were most enthusiastically
cheered.
Louis Harry, bookleeper for McLain
& Alcorn, commission merchants, St.
Louis, was arrested Monday for en-
bezzling $500 of his employers money.
He admitted his guilt. He is a wild
over, aged So years, and formerly
lived in Jersey City, n. j., where he
has three children.
EX-Presidcnt Harrison and Hon. w.
II. Miller, attorney general under the
Harrison administration, were in
Washington Tuesday. They are there
to argue case before the United
States supreme court, wherein two
rival street car companies of Indian
apolis are litigants, bath claiming the
right of occupancy OF certain street
in that city.
In the equity court, Chicago, involv-
| ing the question whether the heirs of
suicide could collect his insurance
from the knights Templars' and Ma
sons Indemnity Co., of Chicago Judge
McComas decided in favor of the COM
pany. The case in which the decision
vas rendered was that of the estate of
Frank Schwartz, who was insured for
s., 900, in the company named,
Barbara Newman was burned to
death in fire which destroyed the
home of her uncle, VIM. Spier, No.
3G43 Vernon avenue, Chicago. Her
cousin, Rose Mayfeld, jumped from a
second story window, after being bad
Iy burned, and was seriously injured
in the fall. Mr.. Spier, an invalid, was
rescued with difficulty, while his wife
and sister We're slightly burned in saw
ing the four children of the family.
In the United States court of ap-
peals at st. Louis Monday, Emma G.
York was ordered returned to San
Francisco for trial, where she is
charged with stealing $22, 800 from
G.. A. Gibson. She was housekeeper
for Gibson and during his illness in
March, 1896, she fled with the money.
She was arrested in Denver, an appli-
cation for writ of habeas corpus was
granted and the case brought here on
appeal.