Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-05-17
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The sultan OF Turkey proposes to
send his son, Mahommed-Helim Effen-
di, to represent him at the queens
jubilee.
Johu Smith, colored, of Chicago, n
candidate Tor cadetship at the naval
academy, has arrived in Annapolis
and is creating quite sensation.
He is the guest of DIR. William Bishop,
colored.
News has reached Caliente, Cal, that
Piute Indians are at war with one an
other near VIM. Shipsey's ranch, which
is in the foothills of Piute mountain.
One Indian is reported killed and it is
not known how many are dead.
The United States gunboat Nash
vile covered the 60mile course on her
official trial Friday afternoon in 8
hours, 35 minutes and 30 seconds, aver
aging 1877 knots and winning bonus
of about 500, 900 for her builders.
Recent mail advices from Uruguay
received in Washington state that the
revolution has been checked after a
bloody battle at Tres Arbales in which
large number of the revolutionists
were killed and their leaders driven
to the frontier.
At an election held in St. Louis by
stockholders of the Missouri, Kansas
&; Eastern railway to fill vacancy in the
office of president and director,
created by the resignation of L. C.
Purdy. Charles &. Hedge was elected
to fill the vacancy
lom Mann. the English labor agita-
tor, who arrived in Paris Monday to
address labor meeting, has been Civ
en- % hours by the police to quit
France He replied that he would
obey the order. The meeting was tc
have been held Friday night.
Excellent authority states that
Judge Morrow, now on the United
States district bench in California, has
been decided upon to succeed Attorney
General McKenna as Judge Of the Ninth
circuit court of appeals 1t is under
stood that Judge Waymire will sue
ceed Judge Morrow.
The French authorities are arrang
ing a monthly mail service between
san Francisco and Tahiti The otti
Gals at Papete have sent specifications
to San Francisco for 2OO-ton steamer
Ship owners and builders are invited
to bid for the construction Of vesse
that could be used in the service.
y special to the st. Louis Republic
from Staunton, ILL.,, says: At No
mine Friday morning, as a cage Load
of men was ascending, the engine
failed to work, breaking the rope or
| one cage and letting the other cage
with the men strike the bottom, scat.
;ering the men and injuring all bu.
one.
In the federal court at Kansas City,
Friday, John II. S. Frink and G. Ralph
Leighton of New Hampshire, applied
for the appointment OF receiver for
the Carthage Water Works Co, of
Carthage, Mo. The complainants hold
S5O,0 900 OF the company's bonds, which
they acquired from the American Loan
and Trust Co.
Mrs. Julia McCarver, widow of Gen.
VI. McCarver, the founder of Burning
ton, Ia, Sacramento, Cal, and the
city of Tacoma, is dead of old age,
She was born in ST. Charles county,
Mo-, Noyem Der 10, 1925 She came to
Oregon in 1912 and settling in
Oregon City and to Puget Sound in
1865 Gen. McCarver died in 1872.
The new gunboat, Vicks burg, which
is being completed by the Bath iron
works, had a preliminary run off the
Maine coast from the mouth of the
Kenne bee TO Portland headlight Thurs
dag, She encountered a rough sea
which gave the boat chance to show
her scaworthinezs, She made 1871
knots an hour, which was fully up to
the requireme nts.
The sultan Of Turkey is now rivaling
Emperor William, Of Germany, as
sender Of kilograms and as patron of
the arts, Abdul l!amid sent dis
patch to President Faure expressing
sympathy with the families of the
Charity bazar, and the sultan has now
instructed Edhem Pasha, the Turkish
commander IN Thcssaly to take special
care of the works of antiquity in
Greece and to prevent his soldiers
from doing any damage to them.