Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-11
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.


Telegraph.
Count Delianeff, the Russian minis
ter of public instruction, is dead.
Sir Robert Henry Meade, permanent
under secretary of state for the colon-
les since 1891 is dead.
The captain general of Madrid has
already received all the documents nec-
eesary for proceeding against Lieut.
Gen. Valeriano Weyler
1t is understood that DIR. Jameson,
the Transvaal raider, will not return
to England at present. He intends to
become candidate for the Cape par
lament.
Martial law, which was proclaimed
in Prague December . as result of
the riotous demonstrations which fol-
lowed the disturbances in the reichs-
rath, has been abrogated.
The Steer mansion at Nyatt, one of
the best known residences along the
shore of Narragansett bay, was totally
destroyed by fire shortly after mid
night Sunday morning. 1t cost $50, 900.
A marriage has been arranged be-
tween Hon. Rowland Charles Fred
erich Leigh, youngest son of Baron
Leigh. and Miss Mabel Gordons. daugh-
ter of Col. w. W. Gordon, of Savannah.
A dispatch from Berlin says, Prince
Bismarl< is comparatively well again.
Answering the inquiry of an old Italian
friend, he wrote: Il am suffering
from pains in my joints, but otherwise
am we'll" A
a dispatch from Copenhagen says:
IA large expedition of Laplanders is
about to start for New York from
Copenhagen, Christiana and Tromsoe,
to go to the Klondille in sledges with
reindeer"
The cruiser Duguay Trouin, flagship
of the French Pacific squadron, has
been ordered to Chinese waters. The
Duguay Trouin is a second-class cruis-
err iron and wooden hull, of $500 tons
displacement.
Henry Rothschild & Co., of Trenton,
Nj, have announced an increase OF
So per cent. in wages at their Tren-
ton shirt manufac tory to go into effect
on Wednesday,. They are also adver-
tising for more help.
The Dervishes ntinue massing their
forces at Metemmeh and Shendy, be-
tween so and 80 miles below Khartoum
and Omdurman, and there is great ac-
tivity at Omdurman, with forwarding
of supplies to that point. III.
At the old Bailey court, London,
Monday, the court directed the grand
jury to return true bill against Rich
ard Arthur Prince, the super who as
sassinated William Terriss, the actor,
on December 16
Rev. Dr. John Hall Sunday announced
to his congregation his resignation, as
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyte-
rian church, New York. Many of his
old parishioners heard it with deer
emotion. He has had the place A
years.
The insurgents are besieging and
have attacked the port of Mayari, or
| the north coast of the province of San
tiago de Cuba. Troops have lef'
Gibara, the northern port in the same
| province, to relieve the garrison ?, O.
! Mayari. ,e
The rim of one of the big six-foo
| drivers of an engine on the b. & 0
burst as the train was rushing pas
Netherwood, N. j., Sunday morning
Three persons were slightly injured
The train was making fully so mile!
an hour when the accident occurred.
Attorney General Boyle Monday SEN
out to all county clerks in Kansas in
structions to bring prosecution.
against the New York Life insurance
Co., basing his conclusions on informa
tion he had that the company was do
ing business in the various countie!
without Kansas license.
The Norton line steamer Miramer
which arrived at New York from the
river Plate and Brazil ports, brought
three packages of yellow fever serum
forwarded by DR.. J. Saranelli, of the
Institute de Hygiene experimental a
Montevideo. Two packages are ad
dressed to Surgeon General Wyman, O.
the Marine hospital service, and thu
other to Health Officer A. H. Doty.