Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-09
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.
The 300 employees of the Joliet Roll
ing mill have decided to give one days
wages to the striking miners. Consid-
crably over 81 600 win be netted.
At Springfield, N. Y, Mrs, Warren
| Windrig was shot and killed by her
husband in her home while talking 20
visitor. He wounded Miss Ware, the
visitor. Husband and wife had not
been on good terms.
Maj Otis w. Pollock, cath infantry,
was placed on the retired list Satur-
day, having reached the age limit He
entered the service as a lieutenant in
the G3d Ohio infantry in 1861, and the
regular army in 1866.
Fire Friday night in the Rees Print
ing Co.'S establishment at Omaha, Neb.,
did $4,000 damage to stock and plant,
and $4,000 damage to the building.
Other losses small to inividuals, will
aggregate $4,000. Everything fully in
surcd.
The strike in the vicinity of Nash
vile, ILL.,, will probably be short lived
as the men in the Boyd mines and those
in the employ of the Randolph Coal
and Coke Co., received a raise of 20
cents per ton on coal and have all re-
turned to work.
George Prcndcr, supposed to be an
agent of the Honduras National Lot
terry Co., was arrested in Washington
Friday charged with violating the anti
lottery law. This is the first arrest
made under that ordinance in Wash
ington for four years.
Thomas w. Scott. of Fairfield. H.,
one of the commissioners of the Illinois
penitcntiary at Chester, says there is y
shortage of from So. 900 to $4,000 in the
accounts of Orla Uavill, former clerk
of that institution. According to Mr..
Scott. Elavill will be arrested shortly.
c. i. Pray, who has been given his
choice of appointment as surveyor gen
crul to Alaska or Indian commissioner,
| arrived in Desmoincs. la, Friday. Mr..
Pray says he has not decided which
| position he will accept, but will prob
ably do so when he reaches home Sat-
urday.
| Moses Z. Banks, a -four and feed
merchant living on farm at Gibson, a
suburb of Corning, n. Y, was called
from his house after supper Friday
night by three men and foully MUIR
dercd. A bullet hole was found in his
temple and one in his heart The per-
pctrators escaped and are unknown.
Union workmcn employed on the
AZ public school buildings in course of
erection in Chicago will be ordered out
on strike Monday morning. The build
| ing trades council has decided on this
action in the hope of forcing the board
of education to recognize organized
labor. Two thousand workmen will be
| involved.
Attachment proceedings were begun
Friday in the circuit court, Chicago,
for amounts aggregating S79,994,
against James d. Lehner, wealthy
business man of Cincinnati, and levies
were made on Cook county real estate.
The plaintiff is the Third national
bank of Cincinnati, and the suits were
brought on notes given to the bank in
| 1896.
Forest fires are raging in the Mau-
melee mountains in Perry county. Ar
kansas, and much damage has been
uOlc III uCSlIOSlIlS lIC grapes
and timber. a large number of nom
residents went into the mountains a
few days on hunting and fishing trip,
and it is alleged the fire was started by
some miscreant for the purpose Of run
ming the strangers out.
At TeXarkana, Ark, Mrs. Caroline
| Ochs. wife of railroad conductor,
| Friday morning saturated her hair and
clothing with llcrosine oil, ignited
them and ran into the yard where She
! burned to death in few minutes.
I Mrs. Ochs weighed nearly 800 pounds
and prevented her family from eXtin-
gushing the flames which enveloped
her. She was recently discharged
from an insane asylum as cured
a special to the New York Tribune
from Washington says: The American
Cotton Co., which numbers among its
promoters two senator's of the United
States, John +. Searles of the sugar
trust, cN-Secretary of the Interior Da-
vid K. Francis, senator Jones, of Ar
kansas; Senator Vest, of Missouri; Stuy-
vesant Fish, president of the Illinois
Central; Jerome Hill, of the Cotton
Belt, and others of note is to be the
next big trust.