Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-08
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
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by Telegraph.
The knitters and top hands employed
at G.. II. Tilton's hosiery mill, Tilton,
n. H., are on strike against IL per
cent. reduction in wages.
At the new palace Emperor William
personally decorated Baron Won Bue-
| low, the minister of foreign affairs,
with the order of the red eagle.
The Norwegian bark Mentone, from
Savannah for Hamburg, capsized while
being towed up to Nieuwe dep n is
a total loss. No loss of life is report i.
During fire Friday at HatrIek's
chemical works, Glasgow, there was an
explosion which killed four fremen
and injured a number of other people.
| The damage done is estimated ut ESQ.,
900.
At New York the 1000 shirt ironers
who went on strike Wednesday were
still out on Thursday. They demand u
5s hour work week at a wage scale
ranging from $40 to Sl2 and the aboli-
tion of piece work systems.
David o. Swire, of the firm of Swire
& Scott, carpet manufacturers. Phila-
delphia, was killed by being struck by
Philadelphia t& Reading railway
train. His body was terribly maagled.
He was about 81 years of age.
Capt. William Kidston, Pacific coast
agent of the North American Trans
portation and Trading Co., has started
from San Francisco for New York to
buy several ocean and river steamers
which will be used for the Alaskan
trade.
A caucus of the republican members
of the Illinois senate Thursday decided
upon an investigation of the Chicago
police. A resolution providing that
the president of the senate appoint u
"LeXow' committee of seven was
adopted.
Representative Boutell, chairman of
the house committee on naval affairs,
returned Thursday and work was be-
gun on the naval appropriation bill.
The important questions of new ships
and armor plate will not be considered
for some time.
| At London, the British steamer
Knight of st. George, Capt Bevis, COL
lided with the Wilson line steamer
Lepanto, Capt. Bearpark from Boston,
December "a for Hull during thick
| fog. The Lepanto sank, but all on
board were saved.
The Dominion government has de-
cided to extend the preferential or re-
duced tariff to Spain. This has been
done on the advice of the homo gov
ernment, as the law lords of the crown
in England consider that Spain is en-
titled to this privilege.
The mammoth ice houses in course
of erection at Whitmore lake, near
Hamburg, Mich, collapsed Thursday
afternoon. Two hundred men were at
work on the buildings; two are known
| to have been killed and possibly four.
| A dozen or more were injured.
James Howard, colored, who says he
| is a Methodist minister, has been
held to the federal grand jury in Chi.
cago on the charge of violating the
United States pension law. His bail
was fixed at 81 900, in default of which
he was sent to the county Jail.
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, the
| United States minister, is preparing to
entertain the diplomatic corps at an
banquet on the occasion of the arrival
of NJ. Jules Patenatre, the new French
ambassador to Spain who was formerly
French ambassador at Washington.
Mrs. Marion A Peters, aged SO years,
shot and killed herself at her home in
New York. Recently she has been de-
clared insane by physicians. Mrs.
Peters arrived in this country with her
family from New South Wales, Aus
tralia, year ago and is said to have
been wealthy.
VIM. Taylor, the Negro who was
serving a ten year sentence in the Mis-.
souri, penitentiary for the murder OF
Tobe Carlyle, also colored, in 1898, has
been pardoned by Gov. Stephens. He
had already served two years of his
sentence. The crime for which he was
convicted was the result of domestic
quarrel.