Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-12-08
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From Az Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

tralia are not favorable.
Mondays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, $500, ,3Ol, S9l; gold reserve, $751;
166, ,92S.
At Trenton, N. j., Joseph Warder, a
cousin of Col. A. r. Ruser, died Mon
lay night from burns sustained while
playing Santa Claus.
Associatice Justice Horace Buck, of
the supreme court of Montana, COM
mitted suicide shortly after midnight
by shooting himself
The Lick observatory eclipse expedi-
ton from San Francisco has arrived at
Bombay, and it will proceed inland to
select an observing station.
Baron Won Mohrenheim, the Russian
ambassador at Paris, has been relieved
of his post, but he remains member
of the council of the empire.
Ex-Congressman James S. Cothran,
of Abbeville, S. c., died at the hotel
Grenoble. New York, having gone to
that city for medical treatment.
The reorganization committee Mon
day deposited $S,5OO,OOO in New York
to the credit of the United States on
account of the sale of the Union Pacific
railroad.
Harvey Martin, who is believed to
be member of the Jennings train
robbing gang, was captured in the
Creek country. There are standing
rewards for the robbers aggregating
IS, 900.
The Ray Cotton Co. mill at Woon-
socket, Il. l., has shut down for an in
definite period. The cause of the shut
down is the unsatisfactory condition of
the market. The mill employs 800
hands.
The action brought by Mary Ann
Angel against Helen Gould and others
to enforce an ad-measurement of dover
in the estate of the late Jay Gould was
dismissed by jury in the supreme
court.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Times believes that Germany
has proposed to China to take a lease,
at nominal sum, of Kiao-Chau bay
and adjacent territory for a long
period"
At Blackshear, Ca, Rev. S. A. Hearne,
the principal of the Pierce county high
school, was seriously stabbed Monday
morning by Harry Harper, a 16-year-
old pupil. Mr.. Hearne was Furnishing
Lattimer Harper, a younger brother.
Mexican public opinion regarding
President McKinleys utterances on
Cuban question is that they will great
ly strengthen the Sagasta government
| "a - f,,;o -
for its reform policy in the island.
Charles Harvey Quinlin, one of the
founders of Lake Forest university
and a pioneer of Chicago and its SUI
burbs, died at his home in Evanston
Monday evening, the result of an oper-
alton for appendicitis. He was born
in Albany, N. Y, February 15 1921.
The register and receiver of the Mar.
quette (NIich.) land office have set the
dates in January for hearing the final
proof of the Michigan Land and Iron Co.
to some 100000 acres of land in the
! peninsula which is in controversy
between the land company and the set
tiers.
AT Seattle, Wash, in the federal
court Tuesday Judge Hanford award
ed CASTOR jacob and Chas. Buff, two
passengers who started to Alaska last
September on the steamer Eugene, $500
damages each against the owners OF
the steamer for their failure to land
them at Dawson.
Sergt. j. Coghlan, of Co. A, First
regiment, U. S. infantry, shot himself
through the head in his quarters at
the presidio, San Francisco, in the
presence of his captain, L. P. Brant.
Coghlan died instantly. He had been
drinking heavily, though until recent
ly he was a model soldier.