Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-01-18
CONDENSED NEWS

3nthereu FROM All Ehftb Of bue Woriu
by Telegraph.
The treasury deficit for the first half
Of January is s6,seO,96 and for the
iscal year to date s44, ,76s, 800.
The French government has issued q
lecree forbiiding the Importation of
inen rags from the districts in India
which the bubonic plague is prev
Llent
The Panama Canal Co. are further
Increasing the force of laborers now at
work. on the canal Five hundred more
men are expected to arrive shortly
rom Carthagena-
Secretary Herbert has ordered the
naval cadets from Annapolis to attend
he Inauguration and march in the pa
.ade. The boys will not stay away
rom the naval academy over night.
The Central and South American
Telegraph Co. announce that the aver
,ge time of transmission for the whole
year of 1896 between Buenos Ayres
and London "via Galveston" was 61
minutes
The cabinet council just held ut Mad
id agreed to recognize the newly
formed federation Of the Central Amer
can states of Nicaragua, Salvador and
Guatemala, known as the Greater Re-
public OF Central America.
When Maj. M. A. Higley, OF Cedar
Rapids, Ia, the father of Mrs. w. w.
Dimond, who is reported to have eloped
from Honolulu with Charles billiard
Wilson, was shown the dispatch, he
denied there had been an elopement.
The remains of Maj. George S. Will
son, adjutant general of the depart
ment of the Columbia, who died at
Vancouver barracks on the 18th inst,
arrived at San Francisco Friday morn
ing from Oregon and the funeral took
place Friday afternoon.
A dispatch to a London news agency
from Shanghai says the United States
gunboat Yorktown and the cruiser
Detroit have been ordered to Nagasalsi
to join the United States squadron
there. Thence, the dispatch says, the
vessel will proceed for New York.
At Bay City, Mich, Richard G.
Monts, who was convicted Thursday of
having passed forged checks, was, Sat
urday morning, sentenced to Ironia
reformatory for five years. In SEN
fencing the prisoner Judge Maxwell
told him that he believed him to be
half crazy.
The Citizens state bank, of Fuller
ton, Neb, closed it's doors Friday
afternoon. S. II. Penny, president
and f. NJ. LaGrange, cashier, say that
depositors will be paid in full No
statement of assets or liabilities will
be given until the bank examiner has
completed his work of checking up.
1t is officially announced that the
governments of England, France,
Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey
have agreed to hold an international
conference to sit in Rome for the pur-
pose of considering precautionary
measures against the spread into Eu-
rope of the bubonic plague which is
raging in India.
Bishop John j. Keane, formerly rec
tor of the Catholic University of Amer
ica in Washington, who was recently
appointed by the pope to the Office of
| bishop assistant at the pontificial
throne, has also been made consultcr
to the congregations of the propaganda
and studies, 1t is observed in the vat
lean circle that Bishop Keane enjoys
the special favor of the pope.
Secretary Herbert has notified the
committee which has charge OF the
presentation of a 1000 silver service
to the battleship Texas, on behalf of
the people of that state, that he had
given orders for the ship to be at CAL
weston February 1G for the purpose of
receiving the gift, which was obtained
by popular subscription. The last gov
ernment report showed 25 feet of
water at Galveston, and the Texas
draws 22N feet.