Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-06-15
CONDENSED NEWS
From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.


by Telegraph.
The Spanish foreign office has not
yet received the expected note from
the American government regarding
the Ruiz case.
A serious landslip has occurred near
Brieg, Canyon OF Valais, Switzerland.
Part of the forest there and number
Of buildings have been buried. There
was no loss of lie.
Elverton L. Chapman, the sugar
trust investigation witness who was
released from Jail in Washington on
Friday, returned to New York Sunday
morning, accompanied by his children.
Sir Henry Irving Monday unveiled
the memorial statue to Mrs. Sarah Sid
dons, the famous English actress, on
ton Old cemetery, where her remains
were Inferred &c years ago.
A cyclone struck Saint Vincent is
land, OF the Windward group Sunday,
seriously damaging some of the public
buildings, injuring a mum Der of per-
sons at Georgetown, capsizing a sloop
and drowning three of the crew.
1t is rumored at Paisley, Scotland,
that an American syndicate is seeking
a site for thread mills, but careful in
quiries among the trading men of the
town fail to elicit any definite informa-
tion. Nothing positive is known.
AT Milford, Pa, the jury in the case
of Herman Paul Schulz, of New York,
charged with the murder of mis- wife,
brought in n verdict OF guilty of mur"
der in the first degree. The jury was
out all night and rendered the verdict
at $50 o'clock sunday morning.
The United States armored cruiser
Brooklyn, with Rear Admiral j. \.
Miller on board, which is to represent
the United States at the naval review
of Spithead on June &c, arrived at
Southampton Monday from New York.
A lamp explosion in the residence of
Stephen Welch, near Sharpsburg. Pa, e,
early Monday morning set fire to the
house and badly burned the four occu-
pants. The house was entirely de-
stroyed. The loss was $1,000 which
was fully covered by insurance.
President Gompers and other MEM
bers of the executive council OF the
| American Federation of Labor have
sent a greeting on the emigration
| question to the affiliated unions, in orr
der by this means TO obtain the sense
Of organized labor on the immigration
question in it's several phases.
The woman who committed suicide
in the vestibule of Cavalry Episcopal
church. New York, Saturday after
noon, has been positively identified as
Mrs. Josephine Doriat. She was ma
tive of Bordeaux. France, about A.
years of age and was q divorced wom-
an. She had been ladies maid.
The management of the Reading
(Pa.) Iron works Saturday night de-
cided to close its tn be mill indefinitely.
By this over 1000 men will be thrown
out of employment. The cause of the
shuttigg down is that the men in those
departments upon which the tube mill
is dependent for iron, are on strike
and the supply has run out.
A new door com bination has been
formed. 1t is known as the Western
Door Co., with 81, 900, OO9 capital and
headquarters at Rock Island, III.
Frank Adams formerly commissioner
of the manufacturers Sash Door and
Blind association, but now of the
Farley Loetcher Manufacturing Co., of
Dubuque, Ia, is the organizer.
At Norristown, Pa, Walter Kinney,
who was sentenced to prison Saturday
for term of five years for stealing d
bicycle from the vestibule OF church
and for robbing freight cars, escaped
from Jail Sunday morning Up to a
late hour he had not been recaptured.
He escaped by picking the lock OF his
cell door, after which he scaled the
stone wall