Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-09
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World. I3y
Telegraph.

Telegraph.
According to trustworthy intelli- |
gence, China has finally abandoned the
idea of raising loan in London or
elsewhere.
At the sale Monday of Burns works
in Edinburg a copy OF first Kilmarnock
edition in the original paper covers,
uncut, brought S572.
The National Athletic club of San
Francisco has matched Joe Choynski
and Tom Sharkey to box 90 rounds at
Woodward's pavilion on March IL.
-. At the Spanish cabinet council Mon
day dispatch was read from Senior
Jose Maria Galvez, president of the
Colonial council of Cuba, denying the
existence of a ministerial crisis there.
James R. Keene shipped six. race
horses to England on the Atlantic
transport liner MinnewaslSa Monday.
They are all three years old, Cock
Robin, Easter Gift, Nautch Girl, Blush
ing Bride, Maid of Erin and a bay flly.
Representative Loud (Cal) Monday
introduced bill admitting to Amer
lean registry the steamship Zealandia,
owned by the Oceanic Steamship Co.,
of San Francisco, on a showing that
she is capable of being converted into
an armed cruiser suitable as part of
the naval reserve.
Baron Won Heiking, the German
minister, has asked the Sung Ii Yamen
to order the viceroy of Nankin to re-
ceive Prince Henry, of Prussia, at
Shanghai on the ground that the rank
of the judge of Kiang Tu province,
who had been deputed for that func-
tion, is insufficient.
The Boston and Alaska Transporta-
| tion Co. announces that they have pur-
chased in New York the steamship
Laurada, which was, until her seizure
by the government recently, engaged
in filibustering between New York and
Cuba. The Laurada will be placed on
the Alaska run from Seattle, Wash.
At Little Rock, Ark, shortly before
midnight, Harry Gribel, a young
printer, shot and probably fatally
wounded Berthe Lingo and then killed
himself. They had had frequent quar-.
rels on account of the woman's atten-
tions to other men. Monday night
they again quarreled and the tragedy
resulted.
The British schooner Fannie Kim
mey, Capt. Fischer, Philadelphia to
Jacksonville, Fla, which stranded on
Sunday morning on the beach north OF
st. Johns bay, was burned to the
waters edge soon afterward. The YES
sci and cargo of coal are lost. The
| ,toir 70
without injury.
1t is announced that the Continental
national bank will absorb the Inter.
national, one of the oldest state banks
in Chicago, about February 81. The
Continental has q capital of 81, 600, 900
with deposits of SIS, 1000, 900, according
to it's last report, while the Interna-
tional, with capital of $500, 900, has
deposits of S1,3OO,OOO
The steamship Samara left New Or
leans Sunday morning for Bremen.
When 80 miles down the river fire was
discovered in her hold in which were
contained 1000 bales of cotton. The
vessel returned to New Orleans and
the fire was subdued. The extent of
the loss can not be ascertained until
the cargo is taken out.
Jesse Grant, son of the late Gen.
Grant, is making a trip of investiga-
tion through the coffee country on the
Pacific slope of Mexico with view Of
purchasing a tract of $4,000 acres of
land which he proposes to colonize
with Americans. He will obtain q
concession from the Mexican govern
. ment for the enterprise.
The Union Lumbermen's Association
of Ohio and Pennsylvania reached
Macon, Ga, Monday night on their re.
turn from trip through the lumber
regions of Georgia. They were enters
tanned by the chamber of commerce
. with reception and banquet Earnest
speeches of welcome and happy re.
sponses from the visitors marked the
occasion.
AtDavos Platz, Switzerland, in splen.
did weather Monday morning, the
1,500 meter race in the worlds speed
skating contests, was won by Oest
lund, of Trondhjem. Norway, 2:2S S-5
thus beating the record. Monday
afternoon, in driving snow, Oestlunt
won the 10000 meter race in ls min
utes and 40 seconds. thus gaining the
amateur championship of the world.