Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-03-27
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Telegraph.
A battalion of Austrian infantry left
Trieste for Crete Friday. Part of the
men will be stationed at SCUBA and
the remainder at Canea.
1t is ascertained that in the fighting
which took place between the Turkish
garrison and the insurgents at MataNin
Thursday. the Turks lost 60 men, and
the insurgents 200.
There is no likelihood that any
change in the position of assistant
secretaries of the treasury will he
made before April /, and probably not
until later in that month.
Fire and smoke and water at Z o'clock
Friday morning completely ruined the
wholesale and retail millinery stock of
NJ. Rigelman & Co., Des Moincs, Ia,
valued at $3.50, 00O Insurance $50, 900.
The receipts from the internal revenue
Thursday were S47S, 1862; from customs
S576, Gal; and miscellaneous $50, coo The
national bank notes received Thurs
day for redemption amounted to $685.
52G.
dispatch from Rome to the Central
News says that eX-Prcmier Crispi has
been summoned to appear before the
Judge of instruction to answer charges
of illegal financial transactions with
the bank of Naples while he was pre-
mier.
Two special freight trains of 60 cars
of machinery, oil and cotton, to be
shipped to Japan via the Saliura Maru
of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line, ar
rived in Seattle, Wash, from the east
over the Great Northern Thursday
morning.
A terrific storm lashed Puget Sound
Thursday Buildings were blown
down and score of persons injured,
but none fatally. Wires were blown
down all along the coast and at Seattle
q dock was picked up by the wind and
carried 200 feet out into the sound.
The Peruvian government will open
permanent exposition of machinery
next July, to which articles will be adj
mitted free of customs duty and will
be permitted to remain on exhibition
for six months unless otherwise spe-
cially provided by the government.
The Figaro says that the French
government has decided to ask the
chamber of deputies to vote credit
amounting to 500, 900, 900 francs (S160,-
600, O00) for the purpose of constructs
ing As large warships and 175 torpedo
boats, the whole to te completed with
in eight years.
There were one hundred head OF
horses sold Thursday at the Berry sale
Of Int rhiparrn
The drivers went at 500 to $500, the
saddle horses at 500 to $500. There
was no sale of fancy priced horses
Most of those sold Thursday were of
only average class.
The republican members of the ways
and means committee are informally
considering an amendment to the tariff
bill which will reduce the duty on coal
from 70 to go cents per ton. The Cana
dian duty on coal is 60 cents ton and
the intention of the committee is to
make the duty reciprocal.
A match game of Ia crosse was
played in London Thursday between
the Crescent club team of Brooklyn,
n. y, and the team of the West Lon
don club the champion la crosse team
in the south of England, The game
was won by the Crescent team which
beat the Englishmen by a score of Z
goals to 3.
The London Globe asserts that there
is good authority for the statement
that Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, secre.
tary of state for the colonies, under
the incentive of parliamentary pres.
sure, has sent to President Kruger a
protest couched in strong terms
against alleged violations of the Lon
don convention by the Transvaal gov.
ernment.