Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-21
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Telegraph.
Wednesdays statement of the condi-
tion of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance S240, 151 ,695; gold reserve,
s1G2, ,9O9. io2.
Empress Augusta Victoria is almost
completely restored to health, but will
remain in her residence at Potsdam as
a measure of precaution.
AT Knoxville, Tenn, Capt. Geo. Til
lett, on trial for the murder of his SON
in-law, John Glenn, last June. was
found guilty Thursday of murder in
theafrst degree.
Senator Turpie Wednesday intro
duced joint resolution for the APP
pointment of commission to make a
survey for ship canal from the lower
shore of Lake Michigan to the Wabash
river.
Gov. Culberson Wednesday declined
to interfere in the murder case of Eu-
gene Burt, sentenced to be hanged in
Austin, Tex, next Friday for the mur-
der of his wife and two children, July
26, 1896. ..
After one of the finest displays of
scientific billiards ever shown in Chi
cago, Frank Ives Wednesday night de-
feated George Sutton bya score of 400
to 100. Ives won the bank but missed
the lay off shot.
The government Alaska relief eXpe-
dition, under the immediate charge of
Gen. Merriam, commander of the de-
partment of the Columbia, is fully
equipped to leave Portland, Ore, Feb
ruary /, by the steamer George w.
Elder.
United States Minister Roch,lill, at
Athens, forwarded to the department
of state an appeal of the Society of
Greek Women for the return of the
fugitive Thessalians to their homes.
The appeal is directed to the American
people.
The Kansas City, Lawrence & Tope-
lia Electric Railroad and Power Co.,
which was granted charter by the
secretary of state at Topeka few days
ago with a capital stock of $3,000 600,
has been organized under this charter
in Kansas City, Kas.
The troops have been summoned and
Wednesday nights patrols occupied
The chief points of Prague owing to
threatened distur Dances arising from
the Czech ferment. A few arrests
have been made but nothing serious
has occurred thus far.
The Iowa house of representatives
has passed a joint resolution, request
ing Senators Allison and Gear to vote
for the Hawaiian annexation treaty.
There was spirited debate. The vote
was 81 to 40, most of the democrats and
fusionists opposing it.
A dispatch from Charkoff says that
the bodies of so victims of the gas ex-
plosion in one of the mines of the
Donetzaer Co. in the Taganrog district
have been extricated. 1t is feared that
others were killed. Three of the 1S
injured in the explosion have since
succumbed.
The National guard of Missouri will
collect money to aid in relieving suf-
fering in Cuba. Adj. Gen. Bell has ap-
pointed committee from the n. G. NJ.
and issued an appeal to the people
for subscriptions. Gen. Milton Moore,
of Kansas City, will receive all SUBJ
scrlptions.
The steamer City of Birmingham,
from Savannah, Ga, while coming up
the harbor at Boston Wednesday morn
ing, during a thick haze, ran ashore on
the flats near Thompson's island. She
was floated at high water Wednesday
night and arrived at her dock shortly
after, apparently uninjured.
AS a precaution to prevent disturb
ances, the bridges from the Latin quar-
ter in Paris were Wednesday guarded
by the police, and the residences of NJ.
M. Matheiu. Dreyfus and Emile Zola
were guarded. A small mob of stu
dents assembled outside the law school,
with the usual cries, but the police
prevented serious demonstration.