Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-01-20
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writer of hymns, is dead in London,
William Hilderbrand shot and killed
William Mellow at Eagle Lake, Tex,
as result of an old feud.
JEFF and Homer Powell, cousins,
quarreled at Colquitt, Ga, when JeiI
struck Homer over the head with q
fence rail, killing him.
Representative Sherman, of New
York, whose name has been mentioned
in connection with the office, has de-
clined the secretaryship of the senate,
At Charlotte, n. c., Mack Fesper.
man. a Negro, who was jealous of his
wife, who had left him, shot her four
times. Bloodhounds are pursuing
him.
Representative Fitzgerald, of Massa.
chusetts, has introduced in congress u
resolution asking that more Catholic
priests be appointed in the army and
navy.
Further depredations by Indians
in eastern Colorado win be prevented
by the cooperation of the war and
interior departments.
A bill has been introduced in con.
gress to give an American registry to
the steamer Windward belonging to
Lieut., Peary, of Arctic exploration
fame.
Thomas Mcdowell. of South River
n. j., who was the first mayor of Sac
ramento, Cal, is dead, aged SO years
His son is Melbourne Mcdowell, the
actor.
Mr.. De Almond, of Missouri has in
troduced n bill in the house for the
repeal of the bankruptcy law with {
reservation that proceedings now be
gun may be closed up.
Slas Davidson, aged 20 years, living
near Inkerman, w. Va, died suddenly
from poisoning. He attended an oys
ter supper, and shortly after return
ing home was taken i'll.
At Pelham, Ga, Berry Jones ant
Oscar Williams, cotton factory EN-
ployes, quarreled and Williams stab
bed Jones in the heart, killing hin
instantly. Both are boys.
In n shooting affray two miles from
Athens, Tenn, Steve Sharp, aged L
years, was shot by Lee Haley, aged .
years. They had been hunting
| Sharp's wound is serious.
Representative Sulzer has prepared
an amendment to the Nicaraguan ca
nal bill requiring that American laboI
be employed in connection with thu
construction of the canal.
j. d. Davis, railroad fireman, while
| standing on track at Westminster
| S. c., was struck by a train coming
from the opposite direction. His heaC
was severed from his body.
The new body of mounted rifles tc
be raised in Canada at the expense OF
Lord Strathcona, the Canadian higl
commissioner at London, will bC
! known as Strathcona's Horse.
The proposition to remove the
bones of Commodore John Paul Jones
from Paris and bury them in Airing
ton cemetery will probably receive
the sanction of congress.
According to advices received al
Port Townsend, Wash, Friday the
Introduction of the bubonic plague al
Honolulu was by means of merchan
disc arriving at that port from the
orient.
1t is stated in an authoritative quar-
ter in Washington that if Montagr
White is equipped with p&oper ere
dentials from the Transvaal govern
ment, he will he received as its repre-.
sentative by the administration.
DR.. Abraham II. Whitmer, first as
sistant physician at the government
hospital for the insane, died of heart
failure in Washington, aged 55 years
lie had been connected with the gov
ernment hospital for the insane for q
years.
The Northwest Fruit Growers as
sociation will request the department
of agriculture to send man to south
ern Europe, where the Goblin moth i!
| prevalent but kept in check by natura
enemies, to investigate the pest anC
If possible to devise treatment to af
ford relief TO the growers of the Unit
ed States.
j. =. Molera who has arrived il
Chicago from Manila, tells of an at
tempt on the life of Gen. Otis. II
conversation in reference to the sit
uation there he said that Gen. Oti
once appeared on the firing line, wher
a shot from the rifle of one of the sol
diers whizzed uncomfortably close tC
his head. As to who fired the sho'
no clew was discovered.