Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-14
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts OF the Country b.
Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts OF the Country by
Telegraph.
During the past As hours there have
been t54 deaths from the plague and
l67 cases in Bombay
Charles b. Ebbetts has been elected
president of the Brooklyn baseball
club, to succeed Charles II. Byrne, de-
| ceased.
Wednesdays statement OF the condi-
ton of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, $3.50, s0a, ,562; gold reserve,
S16l, ,s40,645
The Nicaraguan congress has elected
| 20 delegates to the Central American
constitutional convention that will as
semble here next April
The Denver Wheel club, the leading
organization of cyclists in Colorado,
has voted to sever connection with the
League of American Wheelmen.
| Judge Scott, of the district court at
Omaha Wednesday decided that the
law under which the Omaha police
commission is appointed is unconsti-
tutional.
Justice A. w. Newman. of the Wis
consin state supreme court, who fell
on an icy sidewalk Tuesday and sus-
tanned fracture of the skull, died
Wednesday.
At Buffalo, n. Y, the Mcfarland
Pearce fight at the Olympic Athletic
club was declared off, the fighters were
arrested and Pearce refused to fight
after being bailed.
The budget committee of the reich
stag Wednesday agreed to increase the
salary of Prince Hohenlohe. the i'm
perial chancellor, to 100, 900 marks.
There We're six dissenting votes.
The Spanish gun boat Galcia has
captured off the south coast of Cuba,
near Manzanillo, Y fishing smack from
Jamaica, having on board cargo of
war material, medicines, groceries and
clothing.
r. A. Sprecher, banker of Portage,
Wis, and once representative in con-
gress of Wisconsin district, has been
found dead in his bed in Phoenix, Ariz.
Aneurism of the heapt was the cause
of death.
At Wednesdays session of the lower
house of the Prussian diet Herr Koeler
was reelected president by acclama-
ton. He declined the honor, however,
and Herr Won Kroecher was then
elected president.
A certificate of increase of capital
stock of the Pacific Postal Telegra oh
Cable Co. from $780, 600 to $1,000, 900
was filed Wednesday with the secretary
of state of New York. The liabilities
of the pompauy ara C1 40 707
Ex-President Cleveland has made a
second appeal to Gov. Budd for Glenn
ency in the case of Salter D. Worden,
convicted of murder in connection
with the train wrecking in the great
railroad strike of 1894 in California.
Grace Anson, daughter of Capt. A.'C
Anson. of the Chicago baseball nine,
was married at her parents home
Wednesday night to MIR. Walter H.
Clough of this city. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. DR.. P. S. Hem
son.
The customs receipts Wednesday
were $500 the heaviest since the
new tariff went into effect. Treasury
officials are gratified at the continued
increase and confidently predict that
the new law will provide surplus of
revenue from now on.
There has been great activity among
the officers and men of the government
Yukon relief expedition at Vancouver
Barracks, Wash, owing to an order
received from the war department to
have portion of the expedition leave
on the steamer George w. Elder, which
sails from Portland for Skaguay and
Dyea next Friday night.
Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley
of Kentucky, has been nominated to
the office of general secretary of the
domestic and foreign missionary So
ciety of the Episcopal church, to sue
ceed Rev. DIR. William S. Langford,
who died last July. The nomination
is equivalent to an election. Rev. DR..
Edwin 5. Lines, of New Haven, CT,
who had been elected, declined.
Congratulatory kilograms.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. Ex-senator
Hanna has received over 1000 congrat-
ulatory kilograms Tuesday and We'd
nesday. All the members of the ma
tional republican committee and MANY
state committeeman and other repre-
sentative republicans from all the
states and every county in Ohio are in
cluded.
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