Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-25
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Bare Il me Charles Francois Reille,
member of the French chamber of dep
uties for Castres, department. of Tarn,
is dead.
A colliery accident near Mons, it is
announced in a special dispatch from
Brussels, has resulted in the death of
II persons.
The steamer Schooner Noyo sailed
from Seattle for Alaska carrying 1s0
passengers and IT'S tons of freight.
Among the passengers were 25 women.
A rear-end collision between two
sections of Rock Island freight
train occurred at Clay Center, Kan. re.
sulting in fatal injuries to three men.
King Humbert has signed "a decree
reducing the customs tariff on cereals
from ~ to lire, until April go 1t
will come into operation Tuesday
next.
Charles Thomas Parsloe, the actor,
famous for his presentation, my
Partner" in conjunction with Louis
Aldrich, is dead at his home in New
York.
Representative of the striking min
ers and the operators of the Northern
Colorado coal district have decided to
submit their grievances to the state
board of arbitration.
1t was semi-officially announced
Monday that the Italian government
had caused to be presented to the
United States government a proposal
for treaty of commerce.
Witb &c an FOL G., NJ, oal nj
900, 900, it cost the reorganized Union
Pacific railway just $40, 4Oa. so to incor-
porate under the laws of Colorado. The
fee is the largest ever received at the
secretary of states Office.
Reports that American warships have
been order to Cuban waters has caused
great excitement in Madrid. The Inn
parcial, in the course of violent arti-
Gle, says: 1--WE see now the eagerness
of the Yankees to seize Cuba"
DIR. John Hall Sunday announced
from the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church, New York, that
he had reconsidered his determination
to resign the pastorate and would con-
tinue in the service of the church.
The executive committee of the Lon.
don engineers has issued circular ad-
vising the men to accept the employ
ers' terms. A ballot has been fixed for
Tuesday and it is probable the work
will be resumed on the following Mon
day.
NJ. S. Comfy, who has just returned
from Alaska, has under construction
a steel tramway around the Canon and
White Horse rapids. He is build
ing four tracks and by the time the
river opens he says he will be able to
handle 500 tons daily, taking boats and
all.
Thirty persons have arrived at Seat
tie, Wash. during the past week from
the Klondike mining region. They
say there is food enough at Dawson to
last until the Yukon river is open and
navigation is resumed. Supplies must
be received by that time though if
suffering Is to be averted
Insurgents concealed behind the rail-
road station at San Miguel, eight miles
from Havana, fred upon train. killing
several animals in one of the cars. An.
other band entered the cultivated zone
Of the town of Las Vegas, near Ha-
vana, destroying all the huts and the
crops that had been planted.
Gen. Booth has had a remarkable re-
ception in Halifax, N. S. Large meet
ngs welcomed him. 1t has been de.
,ided by the general to form military
and naval league and poor mans metro
pole in Halifax. A building formerly
lsed for rescue work among seamen
has been purchased for this purpose.
The tremendous high tide in the
iarbor at Lynn, Mass, Sunday swept
Up Saugus river and completely sub
merged the. streets along the banks in
hat portion of the city known as West
lynn. For two hours Sunday the in
labitants on Cooper, River and Hamp.
len streets went from house to houss
n boats. The tracks of the Boston,
Revere Beach & Lynn railroad were
Llso submerged.