Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-05
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Count

| by Telegraph.
| Thursdays statement of the condi-
ton of the treasury shows: Availa BILE
cash balance, 1928, 851, ,002; gold reserve,
$l64, 475, ,532
Details received Thursday from Bal
;keer, Asia Minor, show that 20 persons
were killed and 80 injured by the re-
cent earthquake at that place and
! Brusa.
The cost of the Cuban war from Febru-
ary, 1895, to the end of 1897, is official
ly estimated at S240, 900, 600, besides the
arrears due from the Cuban treasury,
amounting to S4O,0OO,OoO
The Massachusetts house Thursday
passed the order of Senator FLYNN for
AIN investigation by the labor commit
tee of the recent reduction Of wages
in Massachusetts textile mills.
AT Saratoga, n. Y, w. j. Patrick,
jockey and starter, known on every
track in the United States and Canada,
died Friday of pneumonia. He was
born at Mt. Holly, N. j., SO years ago.
A. j. Stevens, of Victoria, Il. c., has
purchased the sternwheel steamer Ell
wood, of the Lewis River Transporta-
tion Co. Ihe Elwood will be taken to
Victoria and placed in the Alaska
trade
Anthracite coal has been advanced
ten cents per ton all around on the
basis of "a per ton for stove size, other
sizes in proportion. The advance is
said to be the logical outcome of the
present cold spell.
The hiC n,.,,,eo, ID~oo1.1..-
left the Brooklyn navy yard about $
o'clock Friday morning ON her way to
sea to begin her cruise of the West
Indies. She first goes to Newport News
for supply of coal.
Sir Samuel Scott, bart, conserya-
tive, has been elected to parliament
without opposition for the West Mary
lebone district of London. He sue
ceeds Sir Horace Farquhar, bart, also
conservative, who was recently ele-
waited to the peerage.
The senate Thursday confirmed these
nominations: Col NJ. l. Ludington,
assistant quartermaster general, TO be
brigadier general; p. D. Barker, to be
postmaster at Mobile, Ala, and W. I.
Hutchens, to be postmaster at Hunts
vile, Ala.
At Buffalo, n. Y, Fred X. Katoll,
who murdered Eugene Ledat in Sep
tember last, striking him on the head
with hatchet and afterward bury
ing the body in manure pile, was
Thursday night found guilty of mur-
der in the second degree.
Frank b. johnson, VIM. H. Johnson
and c. A. Sharp, manager, cashier and
president respectively of the defunct
Midland State bank, Omaha, Neb.,
were Thursday held for trial in the
district court on charge of fraudu-
lent banking. They gave bail.
A mail train and freight were in coll
lision Friday on the Glasgow & South
western railroad near Troon. The
driver and fireman of the freight train
and four workmen who were on board
the mail train were killed. In addi-
tion four persons were injured.
The senate committee on commerce
Thursday authorized the reporting of
bill in accordance with the recon-
mendation of the treasury department
establishing a steamboat inspectors
district for Alaska. The purpose of
the measure is to insure the inspection
of vessels on the Yukon river.
James Allison was hanged at Berlin,
Ont, for the murder of Mrs. Anthony
Orr, near Galton August 8. Allison's
neck was broken by the fall and he
died instantly. Allison who was
dull-witted lad of IS years, employed
on Mrs. Orr's farm, confessed to hav-
ing killed Mrs. Orr with an ak while
attending to his morning chores.
Two cabinet officers were among the
speakers at the annual banquet of the
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation held in Baltimore Thursday
night. Secretary Gage, of the treas
ury, was the chief speaker, but ex-
Postmaster General Gary was also on
the list, as were Congressman Dingley,
Congressman Allen, of Mississippi,
and United States Senator Wellington.
At Kansas City, Mo-, an experimental
mission, where the poor are to be served
meals at penny dish, and bed for
five cents, with bath thrown in, has
started under the direction of the
Church of the Seventy Day Adventists.
The meal consists entirely of vegeta-
bles, meat being barred because of its
expense and the work of cooking it,
and because the managers are be-
levers in vegetarianism.