Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-11-29
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts OF the Country
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Gathered From All Parts OF the Country
by Telegraph.
Royal decree just issued orders to
quarantine all vessels arriving at Span
ish ports from Pensacola, Fla.
Herr Alfred Won Sallett, director of
the coin museum, Berlin, is dead. He
succumbed to an attack of influenza.
Fridays statement of the condition
of treasury; Available cash balance,
$215, l49, ,459; gold reserve, S156, $40.
The state department has been noti-
fed of the release of Rafael Fernandez
and Chaquilla Manuel Fernandez, two
American prisoners held in Cuba.
Hiram Maxims new quick-firing gun
was tried at Portsmouth, Eng, Fri
day, with remarkable results. With %
pounds of cordite it showed an effective
range of 10000 yards.
The Novosti contends that the growth
of German influence in the near and
far east will necessitate a union of
Great Britain, Russia and France for
the protection of their interests.
The destruction of nearly thirty
miles of the Everett g. Monte Cristo
railway by the recent floods threatens
to cause famine in the small mining
town of Monte Cristo, Wash, which is
cut off from the outside world.
The British ship Natuna is now 60
days overdue from London to San
Francisco Reinsurance on the vessel
and cargo is quoted at 10 guineas. Re-
insurance on the overdue British bark
Taymount has been quoted at 35
guineas.
The United States gunboat Concord
has arrived ut San Francisco from
Alaska via Victoria, B. c. She will go
to the Mare Island navy yard for an
overhauling, after which she will be
sent to China to take the place of the
Yorktown at that station.
At an entertainment given in hall
in Calvin township, near Cassopolis,
Mich, Jacob Chavos, colored, was
struck with club on the back of the
neck by Isaiah Monroe, colored. Cha.
vos' neck was broken and he died in.
stantly. Monroe has a bad reputation
and is an ex-convict.
The explosion of boiler at the Cold
Lake mines, East Halifax, caused the
instant death of the manager of the
mine, Daniel McHail, and two other
men, James Hennessy and John Nc.
Isacc, their bodies being terribly torn
by flying wreckage of the boiler. No
others were seriously injured.
After several weeks of unsatisfactory
markets, dollar wheat" in the specu.
lative acceptance of the term, was
reached on New York change Friday,
The December option early attained
that and soon passed it, reaching 1OOHc
in the afternoon, which was also the
final price.
A commission, consist ing of two pal.
ace officials and an Albanian notable.
ity, have been dispatched from Con.
stantinople to Ipck in order to try to
calm the Albanians, who are opposing
the appointment of new governor OF
the latter's predecessor hav.
ing been obliged to flee on account Of
the hostility of the Albanians.
The New York Heralds correspond.
ent in Guatemala says: "A court-mar.
tial in Quesaltenango has sentenced
Gen. Socorro de Leon to ten years i'm.
for deserting to the rebels
during the recent revolution. 1t is as
serted that only the intercession OF
General in Chief of the Army Mendis.
abol saved Gen. Leon from death.
Dollars better in quantity of silver
they contain than those turned out by
Uncle Sans mint are in circulation in
San Francisco. Several of them have
been detected at the United States sub
treasury. So good an imitation of the
genuine is this bogus coin that it passes
current at the banks, and there are q
few clews as to the manufacturer.
The general offices of the Mobile &
Ohio railroad were taken from st.
Louis back to Mobile Friday. A spe.
cial train left Union station at
o'clock, having on board the general
officers, the clerks and employees, and
their families to the number of about
300. The officials and clerks have been
away from their-homes since Septem,
Der Is.