Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-08-02
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All p ,rts OF the Country
bY TelegrAph.

isthero1 From All Ptrts OF the Country
by Telegraph.
Walter Wilmot, ex-manager of the
Minneapolis ball team, has signed with
New York. He leaves to join the Gil
ants Monday.
A draw bar fell down on an eastern
,reight train on the Central Pacific five
niles east OF Palisade, New, ditching
three freight cars and killing two
tramps.
1t is announced that during the COM
ng parliamentary recess the liberal
leaders will openly formulate plan
for home rule all round, in place OF
Mr.. Giadstoue's scheme. They arc
counting on the IRISH support
The New York times says: A great
revival in the diamond trade is ex-
pecte here. 1t is said that within the
past few days from 81, 100000 to 81
! 300 900 worth of diamonds have been
ordered in the European markets.
The court OF admiralty have awarded
to the British steamer Maine the sum
Of gj, 700 salvage for towing the North
German Lloyd Spree into Queenstown
in her last voyage over from New
York, she having broken her shaft.
R. w. Anderson, deputy collector OF
customs at Chateautgay, Franklin
county, n. Y, has been removed from
office. 1t is alleged that he is short in
his accounts nearly 5000 Mr.. Ander-
son is reported TO have left Chateaut-
gay.
The Portuguese minister in Washing
ton, Senior Santo-Thyrso, has re-
ceived - cablegram from the foreign
office in Lisbon denouncing as untrue
the published story that a revolution
airy movement is impending in Portu-
gal.
The United States alaska Gold Co.,
with an authorized capital of $1,000
OOO was incorporated at Trenton, Nj,
Friday afternoon by the fling of arti-
cles in the Office OF the secretary of
state. The company is formed for the
purpose of mining gold in the klon-
dyke fields.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department, will spend his vacation,
which he will take in August, in trav-
cling through Colorado, u tah, Wyom~
ing, the Dakotas and Montana, with
the object of studying the resources OF
: these states for rearing horses suitable
for the European armies
Robert Fltzsimmons, champion pugil-
st, is about to crafty the ambition OF
his life. Soon his coiors will be shown
on the race track by thorough breds
from his own stable, Already he has
purchased several horses. Fitzsim-
mons says that before next year he
will be in possession of fine racing
stable.
Dr. E. benjamin Andrews, who re-
Gently resigned the presidency of
Brown university, has accepted the
presidency OF a new university to be
founded by John Brisben Walker and
to be known as the Cosmopolitan uni.
versity. 1t is to be modelled after the
Chautauqua school, and will be con-
Quoted by correspondence.
Gov. Hastings Friday vetoed the
mercantile tax bill and the Simon
electric light bill The first MEASURE
was originally to provide revenue
by imposing u tax of one-half cent a
gallon on beer, ale and porter brew
} ed within the state during three years
beginning July l. 1t was estimated
that the bill would raise 5000, ,OJO rev.
enue annually.
The schooner Owney Belle has ar
rived at st. Johus, n. F., from Sydney.
She reports that wnen 80 miles Off
Cape ST. Mary she collided with the
French fishing Schooner Louise Ernest,
bound from the Banks, with 800 qu!n-
tails of fish The Louise Ernest sank
in five minutes, and her crew, l6 in
nun Der, barely escaped being carried
down with the vessel.
a new Klondyke god mining COM
pany just announced is the EXpiora'
tion syndicate, OF No 35 Wall street,
4 New York. 1t is incorporated under
the laws of New Jersey with a capital
OF 100000. Frederick G. Corning,
consulting mining engineer, is vice
} president and manager, and Thomas j.
Hurley, a member OF the mining ex.
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