Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-10
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From An Pnrts of the World by
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The British troops have occupied
Beregouron and Bashoro, in the Boreu
country.
The steamer Tees has sailed from
Victoria, B. c., with 100 miners bound
for the Klondike.
Gen. Pando arrived in Havana Tues
day morning. Capt. Gen. Blanco
went to Sagua and probably to Santa
Clara.
DIR. Sunarelli, of Montevideo, who
discovered a serum to prevent yellow
fever, has left here for Brazil to con-
duct extensive experiments in the state
of San Paulo and other points where
yellow fever is raging now
About 5000 trousers makers of New
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville went
on strike Tuesday for an advance in
wages. They claim that they had to
work 16 hours day, getting from five
to nine dollars per week as wages.
The personal estate of the late Wal
ter Hayes Burns, partner of j. 7. Nor
gan & Co., is valued at 81, 100000 The
executors are his widow and son, and j.
Pierpont Morgan, his brother-in-law,
says the Worlds London orrespond-
ent.
Alexis Claremont who carried Uncle
Sans mail on foot from Green Bay,
Wis, to Chicago sc years ago, is dead,
aged %. He repeated the trip during
the Worlds fair. He was born in St.
Ignace and served in the Black Hawk
war in 1882. rit
Rr. Adm. Sicard has been relieved
from command of the North Atlantic
squadron temporarily on account of
sickness, and the command has de-
volved on Capt. William L. Sampson,
commanding the battleship Iowa, as
the senior officer present.
AT Topeka, Kas., Judge Hazen, in
the state district court, in decision
just rendered, holds that bicycle is
tool and essential to mans profession
or occupation, and that as such is ex-
exempt from execution. A citizens BIZ
cycle had been levied upon to collect a
Judgment.
The city council of Victor, Col, has
dismissed the entire police force and
appointed new officers. This is the
result of mass meeting of citizens
held to consider the fatal burning of
four inmates of the city Jail. 1t is
claimed the fatalities were due to of
fetal negligence.
The steamer Cleveland sailed from
Tacoma for Skaguay and Dyea. The
Cleveland is just off the Tacoma dry
dock, and this is her first trip since
she was wrecked on Van Couver island
several weeks ago. The steamer is
chartered by the Washington and
Alaska Steamship Co.
The thirteenth annual session of the
Merchant Tailors' National exchange,
began in Richmond, Va, Tuesday
morning. There are delegates present
from all over the country. At the
morning session the treasurer SUBJ
mitted his report, showing that there
was on hand 81, 597.65.
The Quebec express on the Inter-
Colonial railway, due in st. John,
n. b., at 1880 o'clock, plunged over an
embankment at Petit Roche, seven
miles from Bathurst, killing the en-
gineer, VIM. Bastian, and badly injur-
ing Fireman Poole. The cause of the
accident is supposed to be broken
rail.
News has just reached Hermosillo,
Mex, of the murder of Mexican in
the placer district of Tepachi, 1876
miles east of Hermosillo, as the result
of which Is Americans are in Jail at
Tepachi pending an investigation. The
names of the prisoners are not known.
The American colony here is much
aroused.
The senate of Monmouth Qll.) coll
lege Tuesday afternoon elected Rev.
Samuel R. Lyons, pastor of the United
Presbyterian church, Bloomington,
Ind, as president of the college. MIR.
Lyons for several years has been Sec
retary of the faculty and resident
trustee of the Indiana state university
at Bloomington.
VIM. M. Thomas, the new American
minister to Sweden and Norway, was
received in special audience Tuesday
by King Oscar for the purpose of pre-
senting his credentials. This is the
third time Mr.. Thomas has represented
the United States as minister to Stock.
holm, something unprecedented in the
history OF the Swedish court.