Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-04-27
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Emperor Francis Joseph, with Arch
Duke Otto and Count Goluchowski, the
Austro-Hungarian foreign minister,
left Vienna Sunday for st. Petersburg.
Theodore A Havemeyer, vice presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Co., died at an early hour Monday
morning at his home in New York
city.
Lieut.. Gen. John M. Schofeld, U. s.
A. (retired) has accepted the invita-
ton OF Mayor Strong, on behalf of the
city of New York, to be one of the
city's guests at the ceremonies attend
ant upon the Grant monument.
Capt. Otto Paul. formerly of the
Ohio national guard, is organizing
company in Dayton, o., to go to Greece.
Seventy applications have been re-
ceived. The many Greeks in that city
are taking lively interest in the pro-
ject.
A special to the New York World
from Havana says: Private letters
from the interior report wholesale
starvation. Some of the cases are es-
pecially heartrending. Children are
dying in the streets of Matanzas and
babies have been found dead in the
arms of their exhausted mothers.
The pulpits of Mobile, Ala, were
filled by the delegates to the Y. M.
c. A. convention Sunday. DR.. Scotield
spoke in the largest Methodist church
to a crowded house. In the afternoon
at the mems meeting led by General
Secretary Messer, of Chicago, over so
young men professed conversion.
Mr.. Augustus NJ. Friedlander, the
portrait painter of New York, died
suddenly in Colorado Springs, COL, of
consumption. He went to Colorado
about two months ago on the advice of
his physician in New York and was
engaged in painting portraits of prom
inent Colorado Springs and Denver
people residing there.
A dispatch from Manila, capital of
the Philippine islands, says that 25,-
900 insurgents who have not submitted
to the Spaniards have taken up po-
sition in the mountains and are offer
ing a stout resistance to the troops
The recall of Gen. Polavieja, it is add
ed, has produced bad impression in
the Philippine islands.
Gen. Weyler is seizing the cattle Of
the citizens Tor the use of the troops
in Santa Clara. Rafael Rubio, an
American citizen, lost2l head of cattle
in that way. When he complained to
the Spanish authorities and demanded
pay for them he was told that he was
ocl- Sroin 10 for
what the insurgents took with i'm
punity.
The Greek government has decided
to persevere in the struggle and to re-
sist the further advance of the enemy
with greater energy than has hereto
fore been displayed. 1t is officially
declared that the new line of defense
is far stronger than the frontier,
where the Turks gained their advan-
tage in consequence of the superiority
of their positions.
Southern vestibule train No 80,
north bound, was derailed two and
one-half miles north of Blacksburg, S.
c., at 7:15 Sunday night. The engine,
postal, baggage and express cars, the
com bination passenger coach and the
front trucks of the first sleeper were
thrown from the track. Engineer Pet
tus and Fireman Sigman were injured,
but neither was fatally hurt. No pas
sengers were injured.
A report reached Athens Sunday
evening that Turkish force of $4,000
having pushed its way through the
passes at Viodemdros, Analipsis, Ne
zeros and Rapsani descended on De-
rili The Greeks have retreated to
Makrychori. 1t would appear, how
ever, that the position at Reveni itself
and Boughasi is altered. The Greeks,
as a result of the orders of Crown
Prince Constantine, stopped just short
of seizing Damasi