Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-04-19
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered from All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

DntnereI lTOD all OF the Nouhtty
by Telegraph.
Five hundred Cubans am bushed three
batallions of Spanish troops on the
Artemisa military road and killed
nearly 200 The Cuban loss was "a.
Mr.. Larz Anderson, the acting
charge d'affaires in Rome, will shortly
arrive in London en- route for New
York to be married to the New York
heiress, Miss Perkins.
A special to the New York World
from Havana, Cuba, by way of jack
sonville, Fla, says: A camp of Pacificos
near Manages, Pinar del Rio, has been
raided, and more than 40 persons slain.
The Dingley tariff bill has aroused
considerable antagonism in French
mercantile circles, where it is pointed
out that the measure may lead to a
policy disastrous in it's effects on cer-
tain French industries.
Typhus fever and smallpox are rag
ing at Hierapetra The Turkish troops
have reoccupied the springs near Can
dia A number of prisoners there
have revolted and are being trans
ported to the prison on the island of
Rhodes.
George A. Taylor, the former CASH
ier of the defunct Argentine (Kansas)
bank, who mysteriously disappeared Il
month ago, returned home Thursday,
and Friday voluntarily submitted to
arrest on warrant charging him with
illegal banking
The French embassy in Washington
is actively assisting the French Tele-
graphic Cable Co. in efforts it is maxi
ing to lay new cable from Brest,
France, to Cape Cod, Mass, which
shall take the place of the old cable
laid is years ago
The United States legation at Con-
stantinople has advised the state de-
partment that it has secured the re-
lease of Padaras, n naturalized Amer
lean citizen who has been under arrest
at Mitylene since February s, on a
charge of homicide.
A dispatch from Liberdad, province
of Pinar del Rio, says that the well
known insurgent leader, Julian Zar-
raga, who is charged with having
blown up several trains with dynamite
in Pinar del Rio, has surrendered to
Vic SDdllSlI iuIlOIIlltS LllCIC Will INC
of his followers, all armed
Col. w. L. Kellogg, commanding the
Fifth United States infantry, died at
Mcpherson barracks, near Atlanta,
Ga, Saturday morning. He had been
in i'll health for about year and only
two weeks ago Il retiring board con-
sidercd his case with 4 view to reliev-
ing him from active service.
Secretary Gage has instructed the
customs officer at Pembina, North Da-
liota, to admit the 40 Chinese who are
en- route from China to the Nashville
exposition. This action is taken on
the statement OF the director general
that their admission is necessary under
concessions made to exhibitors and
others.
The mystery as to the identity of
the perpetrators of the tiendish butch
cry o, the S3icer family at Winona, y.
D.. has been partially cleared up.
Alex Coldot, the French haf- breed,
under arrest, has made a coaf.'s sion in
which he mplca ces Black Iawh, the
Negro half-oreed, who is also under
arrest, as 4 suspect
Capt Haavig, Mate Hellisen and 10
seamen Of the Norwegian ship Senta,
who were supposed to have been lost
at sea, were brought into Philadelphia
Friday on the British ship Snowflake
from Penarth for Philadelphia. No
one on board the Senta was lost, but
all experienced distressing time DUR
ing the q hours prior to their rescue.
Consul General Collins, whose de-
parture from London will be much
regretted, has declined a public dinner
rendered him by the leading mem bers
of the American colony here. While
he deeply appreciated the compliment,
Gen. Collins is modestly averse to
accepting any demonstration. He
will leave London at the end of May as
quickly as possible.
John Hays Hammond, the American
engineer and former member of the
Johannesburg reform committee, ar
rived in London Friday from South
Africa. He says that while affairs at
Johannesburg were very unsettled,
precluding discussion of politics, he
did not think an outbreak of war be-
tween Great Britain and the Trans.
vaal was likely to occur in the imme-
diate future.