Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-12-29
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

n late bulletin states that the coasii-
tion of Senior Sagasta has become moro
serious.
Architect VIM. w. Stack, who was
supposed to have been drowned in the
Delaware river about two months ago
by the upsetting of his boat near White
Hill, returned to his home in Trenton.
N. j., Sunday.
AT Lincoln, N. H., the steam sawmill
of J. E, Henry G. Sons, probably the
largest plant of the kind in New Eng
land, was burned, and for time the
safety of the entire village was threat
ened. Loss, $50,
At Des Moines, Ia, the M. Riegel-
man Co., Wholesale milliners, suffered
S75, 900 loss by fire Sunday. The en-
tire stock was destroyed. The firm
has $4s, 900 insurance ON stock and S4O.-
600 insurance on building.
Cuba is feeling the benefits of pros
pective and of actual American admin
istration. Some of the streets are
really clean. Gen. Greene had $50, 900
for public sanitation authorized by the
department at Washington. -
At Union City, Tenn, Arthur Zim-.
norman, engineer at the Union City,
Steam laundry, picked up a lighted
cannon firccracker which some bows,
threw into the engine room, which ex-.
ploded in his hand, tearing away the
greater part of his palm and thumb.
At Dallas, Tex, in an encounter be-
tween three white men and some Me-
groes, one of the latter, Oscar White,
was killed, and another, Frank Hol-
land, was seriouly wounded. Hun
dreds of whites and Negroes assembled.
and for time race war was immi-
nent.
Miss Emma Lamparter, of Camden,
N. j., was walking to the ferry after a
night's shopping in Philadelphia.
when she was "held up" by a Negro,
who fired at her with revolver. The
bullet grazed her check, but her as
sailant waa frightened off without
booty
The United States refrigerator sup
ply ship Celtic, of Commodore Barker's
squadron, which with the battle shin
Oregon aud Iowa, the collier Scandia
and the distiliing ship Iris, left Tomp-
kinsyille, Staten Island, on October Ia.
arrived Sunday morning ut Callao, the
port of Lima.
Raymond @. buchanan, aged %. a
member OF Gillette's ''Secret Service"
company, died at San Antonio, Tex,
of an overdose of chloroform.
When discovered he was dead ON his
bed, with letter by his side, an
nounclng the death in New York of his
infant son on December Ia
Capt. r. d. Evans name is promi-
nently mentioned as rear admiral, suc-
cesscr in the New York navy ward.
now that it seems to be decided that
Rr. Adm. Sampson will remain COM
of the North Atlantic
station and Rr. Adm. Schley will be as
signed to sea duty in compliance with
his request. F
First United States infantry at
Huntsville, Ala, has been ordered to
move to Havana. The LIST battalion
left Monday for Port Tampa, and the
I'd battalion will leave for Charleston |
tuesday The Sd battalion will go to |
Port Tampa on January 4. The I'd |
battalion, I'd engineers, has been or. |
dered to Havana.
Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt, retirina \
governor of the Philippines, |
e'ompanied by his bride, farmerly |
M 50 Laura Williams, and his chief aid,
Maj. Strother have arrived in Chicago
from New York. Gen. and Mrs. Mer-
ritt will remain at the residence of
Norman Williams, Mrs. Merritt's
lather, until after the holidays.