Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-08
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Telegraph.
At Cannes, Mr.. Gladstone, accom-
panied by Mrs. Gladstone, drove to
church Sunday and received commun-
ion. He was able to walk without as
sistance.
Dispatches just received from Ma
nilla, capital of the Philippine islands,
announce that 200 buildings some of
them of Importance, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
A special to the New York World
from Tampa, Fla, says: Flo Ramero,
who betrayed Aranguren, has been
commissioned lieutenantin the Span
ish army for that service.
Amos II. Alling, of the firm of A. II.
& C. Il. Alling, wooden manufactur-
ers, operating the Paugassett mills,
Derby, Ct, that employ 500 hands, died
Sunday of cerebral hemorrhage, aged
IS years.
Sanguinary conflicts continue be-
tween the Turkish troops and the
peasants in Thessaly. 1t is reported
that the Turks have occupied several
villages and that a"hundred persons
have been killed.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Daily Chronicle says a tele-
gram received there from St Peters,
burg asserts that Russia and Germany
have signed a contract for the issuance
of Chinese loan.
Tod Sloan, the jockey, fresh from his
conquest. in England, is back in San
Francisco, which he is pleased to call
his home. He arrived.from the east
Sunday and vas warmly well
coined by his friends.
Judge NJ. G. Troup, one of the oldest
and best known lawyers in Kansas,
dropped dead at his home in Winfield,
Kas., Sunday of heart disease. He was
pioneer Kansan and at one time
served as judge of the Thirteenth ju-
dicial district.
A government measure has been pub
ished authorizing the Bank of Naples
to take charge of the savings of Italian
emigrants in North and South Amer
lea, with a view of securing them
against the rapacity of the so-called
"bankers" there.
John j. Campbell, vice president of
the State Normal school and professor
of language and literature in that in
stitution, is dead at his home in War
rensburg, Mo-, of cancer of the stom-
ach. He was born in Hamilton coun-
ty, Pennsylvania.
The United States cruiser Montgom-
ery's arrival at Matanzas excited much
interest. Insurgent sympathizers are
4 90 1,al %N1l tln%
American ships would come to Cuba to
aid Spain in establishing autonomy
and now they believe it.
The Winthrop knitting mills at
Lakeport, n. H., which have been
closed down for several months, will
resume operations Monday on full
time. The company will start in with
$50 employees and hope within a short
time to have another hundred at work.
The Transforming house of the Citi-
zens' Power and Light Co., situated at
Cote St. Paul, suburb of Montreal,
was destroyed by fire Sunday night,
loss 100000 The company derived it's
power from the Lachine rapids, the
electric current being carried to Mon
treal through cables. The plant had
been running but few weeks.
The steamer Queen left Victoria, B.
c., Sunday morning with over 500 min
ers for the Yukon. She will be follow
ed Monday by the Danube with over
for the Yukon district were issued
Saturday and almost as many Sunday
by the collector of customs. He has
issued over so daily since the licenses
arrived.
Senior Jose Maria Galvez president
of the autonomist cabinet, says there
is no disagreement among it's members,
nor anything in the nature of crisis.
On the contrary all the ministers un-
derstand their programme and mis-
sion, which he sums up as Ito establish
the new regime, to prepare for the
elections and to constitute a chamber
of deputies"
DIR. Fridtjof Nansen. the Arctic ex.
plorer, who has arrived in London
from the United States, Is quoted as
saying in the course of an interview
that he was greatly pleased with his
visit to America, where he met with
every courtesy and was almost killed
with kindness of social nature; so
much so, indeed, that he was glad of
the rest afforded by the Atlantic pas.
sage.
To Put on n Fast Train.
TACOMA, Wash, Feb THE North.
ern Pacific next Saturday will put on
a fast train from st. Paul to Ia coma,
shortening the present time five hours.