Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-18
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.


Telegraph.
The report of the escape of Lieut..
Turner of the British survey party re-
Gently attacked by tribesmen in the
province of Mekran, Baluchistan is
confirmed.
The official engineers joint commit
tee, of London, has notified the em-
ployers' federation of the withdrawal,
on behalf of the men, of the eight
hours demand.
Mayor Templeton, of Vancouver,
b. c., is dead. His death was due to
an apoplectic stroke. Mr.. Templeton
is the third one of Vancouver's mayors
to die a sudden death.
The condition of health of Empress
Augusta Victoria excites comment.
She will go in the spring to some
southern air cure. Her physicians still
forbid her leaving her room.
Little Capitaneto, the idol of the
Southern Ute Nation and the acknowl-
edged senior chief of the allied tribes,
is dead With tn c death of Little
Chief" a famous line of Ute chiefs be-
comes extinct.
Great Britain, Col. John Hay and fami-
ly, will sail from Genoa on the North
German Lloyd steamship Prinz Regent
Luitpold on January 20 for Egypt, for
a tour up the Nile.
Seven train loads, amounting to A.
$50 bales of Texas cotton, have arrived
in Tacoma, Wash, for shipment to
China and Japan on steamship of the
Northern Pacific line. The cotton
came by way of st. Louis and st. Paul.
AT Tacoma, WASH, company of
which j. J. Mckay, the Yukon freight
er, and the man who made the quick
est trip ever made from Dawson to
Dyea during this winter, is the head,
has been organized to run an express
between Tacoma and Dawson.
A boating party, consisting of the
United States consul, w. w. Ashby,
DIR. Hafemann. the German consul,
Master Mechanic Mott, and four others
are supposed to have been drowned
near Colon, Colombia The body of
the boatman has already been recov-
cred.
With the thermometer 80 degrees be-
low zero, a midnight race over So miles
of rough mountain country in the
heart of the Klondike has earned for
Geo. Graham, Shelton logger, the first
prize of stalking off overlooked and
unregistered placer claims valued at
$500, 200.
On board the steamer Antilla, which
arrived in New York on Sunday even
ing, was the mate and nine seamen of
the crew of the Italian brigantine Ce-
lestina, which was lost on the south
side of Watling's island while on voy.
age from Venice to Savannah. The
vessel was total loss. No lives were
lost.
The San Francisco Chronicle says: A
popular illusion will be rudely dis
PEELED Monday when the appraisement
and inventory of the estate of the late
Senator Fair is filed with the superior
court Instead of $40, ,000.00 at which
it had been estimated, it's value will be
shown by itemized figures to be Sl2,.
22S,99S. OF.
The launching of the japanese war.
ship "Kasagi" which is being builtat
Cramps ship yard, Philadelphia, will
take place on Thursday ut noon. The
"kasagi" is the most important ship
ever built in the United States for for.
eign account and is the first foreign
warship launched in this country since
the ''Zobiaca, in 1875
AT Oakland, Cal, the authorities are
investigating the death of Joseph
Raeside, horse trainer, whose mang-
led corpse was found alongside the
railroad track at Shellmound, there
being strong suspicion that he was
murdered and his body placed upon
the track for the purpose of destroying
all traces of the crime.
The executive committee of the
brotherhood of Railway Trainmen are
holding their annual Sc ssion in Peoria,
H., to receive reports and audit ac.
counts The net increase in member
ship during 1897 was 5000 and 81 new
lodges were instituted. The officers
report steady demand for Brother.
hood men by the railroads.
Another of the scurvy stricken crew
of the bark Pactotus died Sunday. He
was James O'Ne,l and he died at the
Hudson street hospital. New York.
The first death was that of Japanese
sailor. Seven of the crew are at the
Marine hospital on Staten island suf.
fering from scurvy, but are said not to
be in serious condition. Still an.
other of the crew is at Gouvcrneur hos.
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