Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-09-10
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Telegraph.
The Official Gazette of Madrid Thurs
lay published the new customs tariff
Of Cuba. Nearly all American goods
are subjected to lower duties.
The dc partment Of state has been in
formed by the Corean minister, Chin
Pom Ye. that he has received notice
from his government of the appoint
ment of Mr.. Min John Merck as minis
ister of foreign affairs.
A proposition has been made to OBJ
tain from the federal government the
collection of Grant relics presented to
the National museum at Washington
bv Mrs. Grant and deposit them in the
large room in the northeast corner OF
the mausoleum, New York.
1t is officially denied that the pre-
mier, Gen. Azzaraga, has written to
the leaders of the political parties say
ing that the government at Havana
would prefer war with the United
States to the intervention of that
country in the affairs of Cuba
A dispatch to the New York World
from London says Lamentable re-
ports continue to pour in from all parts
of Ireland of the havoc already wrought
among the crops, and as the weather
still is most unpropitious all hope of
saving the remnant of the harvest Is
fast fading away.
A letter received at Victoria. L. c.,
states that Mr.. Sauciere, the Dominion
government surveyor, has located
short and more favorable route for
| trail or road between Skikeen and Tes-
lin lake. The steamer Aoraggi brought
40 men from Australia. who will go to
the Nlondille in the spring.
The state department announces that
the last report from Consul Gen. Lee,
dated August 81, respecting the Com
petitor prisoners is that the matter
was taken up before the judge instruc-
tor and is now sub justice" and that
nothing can be done until the ternina-
tion of this state of proceeding.
Lutte A. Lyttle. a 23-year-old Ne
gress, with a bright, round face and
an intelligent eye, entered the criminal
courtroom. Memphis, Tenn. Wednes-
day, and presented her duly authen-
ticated claims to the privilege of prac-
ticing the law in the courts of Tennes-
see. She was admitted to the bar with
out a question.
Consul Dart, at Gaudaloupe. in the
West Indies. reports to the state de-
partment that continuous shocks of
earthquakes are being experienced
there. He says that on August % be-
tween ) a. m. and a. m. there were
eight distinct shocks. 1t is said to he
strange phenomenon, affecting no
on part of the island.
The New York World says: Mrs.
John c. Van Schooch has begun suit
for sos, 900 damages against her father
in-law, Peter Van Schooch, head of the
family in Chicago and senior partner
in the great drug firm of Van Schooch
81 Sons. for alienation of her husbands S
affections. The plaintiff is daughter
of Henry Palmer and niece of Potter
Palmer
Past Surgeon j. II. White, who fol
several months has had charge of the
medical department of the immigra'
ton service at New York received
orders Wednesday to repair immediate
ly to Washington. DR. White was for
four years at the quarantine station oil
the coast of Georgia and 1T Is under
= stood that the Marine hospital service
has decided to send him to the yellow
fever district
Prof Bozart. the Chillicothe, Mo.
aeronaut who made the balloon ascen
sion AT the fair grounds. was fatally
injured by the failure of his parachute
to open readily when he made his de
; scent. He was about three hundred
feet in the air when he cut loose, ant
before his parachute opened he wa
less than fifty feet from the ground
His injuries are such that recovery i
considered impossible.
, James Robinson, who on the night o
August brutally murdered his wifi
5 by cutting her throat at their home a
, Fieldsboro, near BordentOwn, died il
5 the county Jail at Mount Holly, n. j.
! Wednesday night of tuberculosis Aft
u er the murder of his wife Robinson al
tempted suicide by slashing his throa
with the razor. He was treated at tn
X Trenton hospital, since which time Il
has been in the Jail here.