Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-06-02
CONDENSED NEWS
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patherod From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Indian Agent Thomas Olive, ot Craws
ford, Ga, committed suicide at st.
George, Utah, by shooting himself
through the head. No cause can be
assigned for the act.
Reports from all over North Caro-.
lima report an earthquake snock be-
tween 1855 and p. m. Very little dam
age was done. In a few instances
chimneys We're shaken down.
The London Morning Post says
Tuesday: I'VE are requested to con-
tradict the tumor that the duke of
Leeds will succeed the earl of Aber-
deem as governor general of Canada"
c. c. Smith, the BLACK Thunder
bolt" knocked out Jim Delaney, of
Portland, Ore, in 80 seconds of the Sec
ond round at the Maple Avenue Ath-
letic club, Elmira, N. Y, Monday
night.
Lieut.. Peary is negotiating for a
sealing steamer to carry him into the
Arctic regions this summer. He will
probably charter the steamer Hope,
which took last years expedition. In
that event Capt. Bartlett will go again
as commander.
After three days stay in Port Towns.
end, Wash, the United States battle.
ship Oregon left :or the target field
down the Straits of Fuca. There have
been 30 desertions from the Oregon
since her arrival on Puget Sound two
months ago.
Heavy frosts occurred the past two
mornings over the greater part OF the
northwest Snow and freezing weath-
er are reported from northern Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota with much damage
to vegetables and small fruits. The
Wisconsin awberry crop may be q
total loss.
At o'clock Monday afternoon dis
tinct earthquake shock was felt all
over Wheeling, ". Va, and in the
surrounding towns. No damage was
done SO Jar as could be learned. The
quake lasted bout thirty seconds and
was violent enough to shake brick
buildings slightly.
The czar and czarina attended re-
QUEEN mass at the Imperial church Of
the Peterhof in memory of the VIC
Tins Of the terrible panic of May 80,
1895, on the Khodinisky plain, Mos
COW, at the time of the festivities at
tending the coronation of his majesty,
when several thousand people were
crushed to death.
Mark Twain was recently reported
to be dying in poverty in London. A
dispatch to the New York Journal
fro,,, pD5o, r
ents Mark Twain is now in Chelsea
at work on another of his humorous
works. He is in good health. Hissur-
roundings are pleasant and he is living
in comfort-in fact in luxury"
A ten per cent. cut in wages, affect
ing all men not under the amalgam-
ated scale, was ordered at Jones 81
Laughliu's American iron works,
Pittsburgh, Pa, Tuesday. AS re-
suit the open hearth workers and some
other employees, in all about 200, re.
fused to go to work Monday night.
The firm employees nearly 1900 men.
A. E. Buck, of Georgia, the duly ap.
pointed minister to Japan, was at Ia.
coma, Wash, Tuesday, en- route to
San Francisco, whence he will sail for
Toxic, June S. AT San Francisco he
will be joined by Capt Edmund Rice,
OF the Fifth infantry, who will be mill
itary attache to the Japanese legation,
and Huntington Wilson. second secre.
tary of the legation.
Ensign George L. P. Stone, of the
United States ship Puritan, is on trial
before court martial at the Brook
H., oF
unbecoming an officer. The charges
grew out Of stones love affair with
Miss Marie Conde of Oswego and New
York city. Miss Condo complained of
Stones conduct to the secretary Of the
navy with the result that charges
were preferred against him.