Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-03
CONDENSED NEWS


Gathered From Ail Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Tuesdays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows; Available cash
balance sea, S71, 7s6; gold reserve Si64,-
1885, 79s,
Germany, according to special dis
patch from Shanghai, demands that
Port Arthur and Ia Lien Wan be made
free ports, H.v "a. n
Owing to a shortage of the potato
crop in Germany 1000 barrels of spir.
its have been ordered from PEORIA ILL.,,
to be shipped to Hamburg. i
4The Olympic club has signed Peter
Jackson and Jim Jeffries for 20-round
60 The men will meet about March
20 in Mechanics pavilion in San Fran
cisco. .s- ~
a dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Nagasali says the far eastern
situation is very serious and it is be-
lieved that Japan is actively preparing
for war. iu.4s A
At London a man named Francis
Carroll, described rs an actor, was re-
manded Tuesday on the charge of
threatening to murder Miss Florence
st. John, the actress.
At Chicago Frank S. Wright shot and
killed himself when imprison ment for
confessed embezzlement stared him in
the face. He had been married less
than three weeks and had borne a good
reputation.
Hon. John w. Griggs, late governor
of the state of New Jersey, who took
the oath of office Monday evening as
attorney general, took charge of his
new Office Tuesday morning. Later he
attended the cabinet meeting
Official announcement was made on
the New York stock exchange Tuesday
that trading by members in puts"
and calls is violation of the regu-
lations of the stock exchange, and will
be punished by fine or suspension.
Two five story brick buildings, No s
1925 to 2431 South street, New York,
We're destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning. The loss on buildings and
contents will exceed S75, 900. The
buildings were occupied by shipping
firms.
One of the features of the demand
for supplies growing out of the Klon-
dixie excitement was the arrival in San
Francisco of special train from Chi
cago made up of II cars all loaded with
canned meats, aggregating half a mill
lion pounds.
Heavy storms have visited Como,
Lombardy and vicinity. A spinning
mill at Oggiono, IS miles from Como
has collapsed, killing five persons and
burying ~ others in the ruins. Many
other buildings have been destroyed in
the Como district.
The published statement that the
secretary of war has granted permis-
sion to run electric double-decked tally
no coaches through the Chickamagua
National park, equipped with storage
batteries, gasoline engines and dyna-
mos, is wholly. unauthorized.
Catholic laymen of the United States
are about to present to Mgr. Martinelli,
petition urging him to issue a pro-
nunciamento regulating the marriages
of Catholics to Protestants, says the
Washington correspondent of the New
York journal and Advertiser.
The monthly statement of the direc-
age at the United States mints during
January 1898 was S5, 129, ,01O as follows:
Gold 1920, 900; silver 81, 624, 600; minor
coins Ss5,01O. The coinage of standard
silver dollars during the month
amounted to 81, $50, 900.
The German steamer Lauenburg,
Capt. Sperling, which arrived at Ant
werp January 80 from Galveston via
Norfolk, encountered a heavy gale on
the ed. The life boats, electric lights
and hatch covers were damaged and
the saloon cabin flooded. The engine
room bulkhead was started
A blizzard ragged at st. Johns, N. F.,
Tuesday. A large number of men
have been driven off by an ice foe in
Trinity bay, and it is feared there will
be repetition of the disaster of seven
years ago when 40 pcrished. The ther-
mometer shows 20 degrees below zero
and the cold is so terrible that some
loss of life must result.