Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-05
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of tho Coontry
by Telegraph.

Gathered From All Parts of the Coantry
by Telegraph.
The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm De
Crosse sailing for Europe Tuesday will
take out 400, 900 ounces of silver.
Among the passengers who arrived
Tuesday on board the steamer Altai
from Jamaica was joaquin NJ. Torroja,
Spanish counsul at Philadt lphia.
In the plant of the Naumkeag Steam
Cotton mills, Salem, Mass, the reduc-
ton of ten per cent, in wages went in
to effect Monday. About 1900 en-
ployes are affected.
The British cruiser Edgar has ar
rived at Hong Kong, and the British
The bulk of the British feet is report
ed to be at Chusan, near Ning-Po.
The steamship La Bretagne, from
Havre, brought S5O0,0O0 in gold con-
signed to Muller, Schall SS Co., of New
York, in transit to Cuba. The next
steamer will carry similar cons. gn-
ment.
Operatives in the Amoslicng corpora
ton, Manchester, n. H., began work
Monday on ten per cent. reduction.
At the Stark and Armory mills the re-
duction will not go into effect until
next Monday.
The employees of the ten-inch mill at
the Homestead mill of Carnegie's re-
fused to accept the new scale of wages
and the mill has been closed down in
definitely All other departments are
in full operation.
In view of the prospect for business
in the far east, the neutrality-suspicious.
line will establish regular monthly
service between Hamburg and Penang,
Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yo-
kchama and Hiogo commencing on
January %.
Violent weather prevails in the
south of France and Spain. A cloud
burst near Toulon has done much
damage. A number of vessels have
gone ashore and the promenade of
San Sebastian has been washed away
in several places.
Chas. H. Ryrne, who was president
of the Brooklyn baseball club, died at
his residence in New York Tuesday.
Death was due to complication of
diseases Mr.. Byrne had been uncon-
scious since Monday of last week and
death had been expected.
George E. billiard, special agent of
the New York Mutual Life Insurance
and well known over the en-
tire country, was found dead in his
room at the Kimball hotel, Atlanta,
Ga. The coroner's jury has returned
verdict of death from apoplexy.
Notices of reduction of wages were
sent Monday to the cotton mills of the
Goddard, knights, Lippitts and those
operated by the smaller corporations
in Rhode Island, and have been posted,
or will be Tuesday. The operatives
will offer no resistance to the reduc-
tion in this state.
A letter from the sultan of Morocco
has been read in the grand mosque,
amid salvoes of artillery, announcing
fresh victories over the rebels, many
of whom have been killed, wounded
or captured. Salted heads of rebels
have been dispatched to the principal
towns where they will be set on
spikes.
The congress of Nicaragua reassem-
bled Monday. President Zelaya read
his message, reviewing the disordered
political and financial condition of the
country, expressing the hope of being
able to assure future peace and pros
perity, and suggesting a number of
acts for the benefit of the country for
the consideration of congress.
The police commissioners had all the
commanding officers and captains in
Greater New York before them Mon
day. In an address President York
said there would be no political prefer
ence in the department, and that all
avs on the statute books must be
rigidly enforced. Gambling and lot
terry laws were especially alluded to.
Count Won Goetzen, military attache
Of the German, embassy, was married
1T noon Tuesday to Mrs. May Stanley
Lay at the residence of the bride in
The ceremony which |
made another American countess was
irst performed by a justice of the
peace in accordance with the official
custom of Germany, and later by Rev.
DR.. Mcnzol, .of the German Lutheran |
church.