Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-19
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered from All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.

ne report UnHJ ll1e DldcK pldEue nul
broken out in Shanghai proves to have
been unfounded
The new torpedo destroyer Crane
had her official trial at Stokes bay,
Eng, Wednesday. She made 32.49
knots per hour.
Wednesdays statement of the condi-
tion of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, S202, 799, ,4l0 gold re-
serve, S156, 6,043,0G1.
The Leather Betting Manufacturers
association held its annual meeting at
the Astor house, New York, Wednas-
day, and decided on general advance
of % per cent. in the price of betting.
There is violent campaign in CO.
runna for and against popular dem
onstration in honor of Gen. Weyler,
the former captain general of Cuba,
when he arrives at Corunna from Ha-
vana.
The report that the Spanish govern
ment intends, in return for his service
as governor general of Cuba, to ap-
point Lieut.. Gen. Weyler governor
general of the Philippines, is officially
denied.
Henry Sherry, of Neerah, Wis, the
head of several large lumber and paper
mill companies, has decided to make
an assignment. He places his liabil-
tiles at S1.000,0 900 and nominal assets
the same.
At Chicago, Fred r. Ketcham was
awarded verdict of S21 ,6G6.33 by the
jury in Judge Clifford's court Thurs
day in his suit against the Northwest
ern railroad for $500 damages for
blacklisting.
At meeting of the colored people of
Chicago, resolutions were adopted in
memory of the late John NJ. Langston,
of Washington, d. C. Addresses were
delivered by John G. Jones, Rev. DR.. j.
II. Magee, w. II. A. Moore and others.
At Ortonville, Mimi, George and
Homer Brewer, aged II and 13 re-
spcctively were drowned while skating
on Big Stone lake. One brother broke
through the ice and the other was
dragged under while trying to save
him.
1t is believed that the top notch was
reached in the speculation for tickets
to the Yale-Princeton game Wednes-
day morning. A few seats were sold
for S12 each. The prevailing price is
| $40 for 81 seats and So for Sl.50 po-
sittions.
A man believed to be Bob Love, who,
| it is said, is wanted ut Indianapolis for
murder, has been arrested at Los An
geles, Cal. The letters "R. L." and a
star were found tattoed on the prison
er's right forearm, also ring with the
same inscription.
Stephen Cushing, who was aboard the
confederate privateer Alabama when
it was sunk by the Kearsarge off the
coast of France in 1864 is dead. After
the war he became wealthy in business
at Los Angeles but of late has been in
reduced circumstances.
The general assembly of the Knights
of Labor, which has been in session in
Louisville, Ky, since the early part OF
last week, completed its work Wednes-
dcy and adjourned until the second
Tuesday of next November, when it
will convene again in Chicago.
Austin Pryor, colorcd, 45 years of
age, who had just been elected presi-
dent of the Hotel Brotherhood of the
United States, dropped dead while re-
ceiving the congratulations of the
members of that organization at their
headquarters in Philadelphia Wednes-
day.
John Burgess, youth of 10, shot
and killed George Hart at Meridian, a
hamlet four miles west of Williamson,
Mich, Hart, who was engaged to marry
Burgess sister, disguised himself as a
cowboy and tried to frighten Burgess,
who became angry and killed the sup
| posed tramp
The yellow fever having been ended
by the recent cold wave and quarantine
raised generally, the Southern railway
announces the resumption of through
Pullman service between New York
and New Orleans via Atlanta, Mont
gomery and Mobile, beginning Thurs
day, November Is.