Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-11
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.

In the circuit court AT dumas, Ark,
FlulIe Fleming was found guilty of
rape and was sentenced to be hanged.
Sir VIM. Dawson, former principal
of McGill university, Montreal, and
one of the greatest geologists in the
world is very i'll, his left side being al
most paralyzed.
The official con firmation of the as
sassination of President Barrios came
Thursday to the state department in a
cable from United States Minister Hun
ter at Guatemala City.
According to a special dispatch from
Paris the Chinese government has
agreed to pay an indemnity of $4,000 to
NJ. Lyandot, the Frenchman kidnapped
by Tonquin pirates in 1895.
The Alaska Commercial Co. will start
a steamer from San Francisco in about
week for Unalaska. This steamer,
the Bertha, will carry mail which will
reach Dutch. island about March l.
The Union Beet Sugar Co. has let a
contract for S5OO,OOO beet sugar fac
tory to be located near Santa Maria,
Cal. 1t will be connected by rail with
the Southern Pacific near Gaudaloupe.
State Senator Robert j. Handy, who
has been prominent as the leader of
the Addicl1s' faction of the republican
party in Delaware, died suddenly
Thursday morning at his home in Hol-
ly Oak, Del.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
has sent a representative at ST. Johns,
\. B., to engage 1,500 laborers to pro-
ceed to British Colombia to work on
the construction of the Crows Nest
Pass railway. The wages are $1.50.
The Washington correspondent of
the London Daily News says: Presi-
ident Mckinley is resolved that Spain
shall have no vestige of an excuse to
pick quarrel with the United States,
and Spain can disown Senor De Lome's
utterance without the slightest loss of
dignity.
On account of increased Klondike
| business the Canadian Pacific Tele-
graph Co., has decided to lay an addi-
| tional cable between Vancouver and
Victoria, British Columbia. The COM
pany is also stringing another heavy
copper wire between Montreal and
| Vancouver.
Buck Connolly, of Pittsburgh, man
| ager of Peter Maher, called at the
Police Gazette office in New York We'd
nesday and covered Kid McCoy's for
felt of 5000, and issued challenge to
back Maher against Mccoy for S5, 900
or $4,000 side and the championship
of the world.
The military committee of the Mill.
tary Athletic league has received
communication from the war depart
ment at Washington granting its re-
quest for detachment of United States
troops to be present at the military
carnival to be held in Madison Square
garden next month.
How the Cuban junta obtained the
De LONE letter is being carefully
guarded and the exact facts are known
to only few of the leaders. Who the
man is who brought it to New York
remains mystery and also the man.
ner in which he obtained it from among
the papers of Senor Canalejas.
Rev. w. D. Rockwell has brought an
action for libel against Chancellor Jas.
R. Day of Syracuse IN. " university,
and DR.. Jas. NJ. Buckley, editor of the
Christian Advocate, of New York. He
asks for joint judgment of S35, 900 be-
cause of the publication of articles,
which, he claims, defame him.
The University of Pennsylvania re-
ceived word Wednesday from President
Mckinley that he will be present on
February %, at the annual function of
the university in celebration of Wash
ington's birthday and will address the
faculty and students. Many other
prominent men will be present.
John McMasters, Princeton's athletic
trainer, handed in his resignation We'd
nesday. For seven years he had charge
of the training of Princeton's baseball
and football teams, and in that period
had trained five championship teams.
His resignation was caused by the dis
satisfaction which he felt to exist with
the way in which he trained the Tigers
football eleven last season.