Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-15
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.


The French wheat crop promises to
be very good in 13 departments, good
in A. anu fair in so.
Count Gustav Sigmund Kalnoly De
koros- Patak, former Austro- Hungarian
minister of foreign affairs, died in
Brunn Sunday afternoon.
There is some talk OF tie betrothal
of Queen Wilhelmina to Prince Louis
Napoleon, now colonel of the czarinas
lancers in the Russian army.
Mrs. Arthur Levy, wife of a member
of the wholesale clothing firm of Hays,
Goldberg IL Co., New York, was in
stantly killed Sunday night in an ele-
vator at the Holland house.
England is negotiating with China to
open Yuen-Chauo-Fu, in the province
of Human, as a treaty port, and is
negotiating also on the subject of the
navigation of inland waters.
At Lyons, n. V, Mrs. Abram Il.
Robinson and Edith Schaffner were
Monday found in bed nearly asphyXiat-
ed by coal gas from the parlor stove.
Neither is expected to recover.
The British government has invited
tenders for four frst-class armored
cruisers of 2l,OOO horsepower and
slightly less tonnage than the Power
full, which vessel is Of 1i,200 tons dis
placement.
Gen. James Nj Lewis, vice president
of the board OF police commissioners of
st. Louis, issued an order Saturday
night against further boxing and spar
ring exhibitions, claiming it is viola
tion of the law.
AT meeting Sunday in Boston of 50
representatives. of textile unions in
New England it was unanimously
voted to recommend that all unions
call out the operatives in every cotton
mill in New England.
Numerous meetings were held in the
French provinces Sunday in connec-
tion with the Dreyfus agitation. In
some cases resolutions against the gov
ernment were adopted, but there were
no serious disorders
Fire destroyed the plant of the Chi
cago Portland Cement Co. at Haw-
thorne Sunday. The loss amounts to
500, 900; insurance, S5O,OOO The fire
originated in the drying rooms and
consumed every thing on the premises.
The Harvey Steel Car Co., of Har-
vey, ILL.,, has been placed in the hands
of receivers on judgment for SIS, 900
secured by Lobdell, Farwell & Co., of
Chicago. The Judgment was secured,
it is said, on the default of interest due
on 100000 bond issue.
The steamship Oregon sailed from
Portland Sunday night for Dyea and
Skaguay, Alaska, with 500 passengers
and l.2UO tons of freight, including 80
dogs Al horses and "a burros. One
hundred tons of supplies for the gov
ernment relief expedition are sent by
the Oregon.
The steamer Gaelic, which arrived
from the Orient, brought the largest
single shipment of opium which ever
arrived in San Francisco. There were
462 cases of the drug and the duty atS6
a pound will amount to Sl10,SS0 At
the market price the shipment is
worth S497 7,92O.
1t is now learned on the highest au-
ing the United States torpedo boat
Cushing to Havana was that the Span
ish authorities have been tampering
with mail sent to the battleship Maine
in Havana harbor, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Herald.
Richard Powers, a member of the
Trinidad Rifle club, of Trinidad, Col,
at the regular weekly shoot of the
club, broke the worlds record for tar
get shooting, off-hand, 200 yards dis
tance. Powers made a score of 96 out
of a possible 100, the worlds record be-
ing 95, held by some man in the east.
A part of the plant of the Hartford
Carpet Co., at Thompsonville, Mass,
has been closed for an indefinite period.
More than 200 hands are affected. An
unsatisfactory demand is said to have
been the cause of the shut down. A
portion of the Westfield Plate Co. s
factory at Thompsonville also has
closed.
The Spanish cabinet will discuss
Monday the choice of a successor to
Senor De LONE at Washington. The
candidacy of Senior Polo Bernabe ap-
pears to be abandoned. Several mem-
bers of the cabinet favor the nomia-
tion of the duke of ARGOS, Spanish
minister to Mexico, because he could
take charge of the Spanish legation at
Washington next week.
A man who afterward gave his name
as Peter Nelson, 23 years old, of st.
Paul, was acting suspiciously on the
street in Boston at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning, and was accosted by Police
man Walter G. Horton, who asked him
his business. Without warning Neil
son drew a pistol and fred at the po-
liceman, shooting him in the back.
Horton, who is not dangerously hurt,