Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-16
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Telegraph.
Florence Morgan, the uperintendent
If the plague hospital has died at
Bombay of bubonic plague.
severe storm is raging along the
coast of New South Wales. There
nave been several wrecks and some
fatalities.
The Oceanic Steamship Co.'S Moana
sailed from Sydney, N. 5. W., for San
francisco Monday, carrying 100000
,overeigns Isl, ,Ooo).
The Massachusetts house of repre-
ientatives has put a auietus on the at
tempt to amend the state constitution
and give women the right of suffrage.
NJ. Papillaud, editor of La Libre Pa.
role, has challenged M. Jauros, the So
,ialist leader, to IA duel, owing to
quarrel that has grown out of the Zola
rial.
A long continued search has resulted
n the discovery of the birth record of
Amerigo Vespucci in the Church of
San Giovanni. in Florence The date
is March Is, 1852.
1t is reported that DR.. Knobel, the
Dutch minister at Pekin, is trying to
arrange a five percentage loan of e4,-
600, 900 (S20. 600, ,000), to be secured by
portion of the customs revenue.
The United States cruiser Montgom-
cry sailed from Port Au Prince late
Sunday night under cipher orders re-
ceived from Washington. 1t is be-
lieved that her destination is Havana.
Currency to the amount of $3.50 900
was transferred to Cincinnati Monday
through the United Stats sub.treas-
ury for local bank in New York in
exchange for gold deposited there for.
The New York senate Monday night,
after long debate, concurred in the
assembly resolution censuring United
States Senator Murphy for his vote in
vote was 2S to IS.
| The North German Gazette an
nounces that the emperor of China has
issued a special edict instructing the
government of Kiang Su to accord
Prince Henry of Prussia ''in every re-
spect worthy reception"
The house library committee has
made favorable report on the
bill to appropriate $4,000 to erect a
statue in Monterey, Cal, to Commo-
dore John d. Sloat, who on July Z,
1916, landed at Monterey and declared
the land United States territory.
The furniture in the house in New
York occupied by John 5. Silver, the
promoter who recently obtained a
large sum of money on doubtful Sc
curity from the Chemical national
bank, has been levied on by the sheriff
on Judgment for S11, ,275 against Mrs.
Silver.
The property of the Royal Consoli-
dated Mining Co., located near Copper
opolis, Calaveras county, Cal, has
been sold to an English syndicate rep
resented by j. c. Kemp Vance, of Lon
don. The price paid was $500, 600. The
ore, which is low grade, is said to as
say about $40 to the ton.
For the first time this winter the ice
in Lake Michigan is giving the across
the-lake boats consid able trouble.
Advices from the east shore say that
four or five steamers are fast in the ice
which lines the east shore of the lake.
AT Muskegon the car ferry Shenango,
No. ., is in the ice outside.
syndicate of western sporting men,
the majority of whom are San Fran
cisco men. have determined to bring
off a finish fight between Bob Fitzsim-
mons and James j. Corbett, and to
that end will guarantee a purse of
$50, 900, to be decided between the
fighters as they themselves may deter
mine.
The geological survey has prepared a
tabulated statement based on the in
vestigation by Special Agent Kirchoff,
showing the steady increase in the pro-
duction of spelter in the United States
from 1882 to 1897. The total produce
ton in short tons for 1889 was S8, 765,
in 1892 it was 1880 and in 1897 it had
reached 90, 1850 tons.
The house public lands committee
favorably reported Monday a bill TO
examine and classify mineral lands in
California within the limits OF land
grants to railroad companies. The
committee report that there are 13,6S7.-
eU2 acres in California subject to such
reclas. ifieation. The bill passed the
house at the last congress. .
Joseph Holecheck, who murdered his
wife at the Holechecl1 farm near Hum
boldt, Neb, the night OF December 4,
1897, hanged himself in the county Jail
at Falls City. Holecheck used towel
and handkerchief, of which he made
moose, fastened. the end to the highest
crossbar and by. drawing his feet from
the floor, strangled to death.
Death Caused by Asphyxiation.'
VICTORIA, B. c., Feb. 14,--P. Macken-
zie, who arrived from Seattle on Sat
urday on his way north, was found
dead Monday in his room atthe Aus
tralian hotel. The gas was turned
on and death was caused by asphyxia-
tion.
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