Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-02
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

| Orders have reached the Brooklyn
navy yard for the cruiser Topeka in
command Of Capt. Cowles to proceed
at once to Key West.
Among those upon whom Milton coll
lege conferred honorary degrees Thurs
day we're Rev. Charles Frederick Goss,
'yS, of Cincinnati, doctor of divinity.
A train with United Sta.es fotces
aboard, fitted up at Altares, was run
over the railroad to within three miles
of Moro, whers it was ambushed. 1t
retreated without loss.
A newspaper dispatch boat, the Ely,
went ashore Wednesday night on a
rocky point near the eastern end of
Jamaica. She will probably go to
pieces Langdon Smith, correspond
ent, was on board OF her at the time.
Gen A. W. Greely, chief signal of
dcer. THURSDAY night received dis
patch from Lieut.. Col Allen. chief sig
nal corps officer in Cuta, announcing
that a telegraph and telephone station
had been established at point within
two miles of the city of Santiago.
1t is the general understanding
among army officers at San Francisco
that the next expedition to the Philip
pines will get of about July IL. AL
though the transports have not all
been chosen, the available vessels can
be got ready for sailing without much
delay.
The Paris correspondent of the Lou-
don Daily Mail says: In conversation
Thursday with a mem Der of the cabi-
net, he said that he did not believe
that Spain would offer any concessions
to secure peace, but. he added, peace,
nevertheless, can now only be mat.
ter of days. The Spaniards can not go
on much longer"
Statements published Thursday to
the effect that the Cleveland. Cincin-
natl, Chicago and St Louis Railroad
Co. (Big Four) has agreed to purchase
the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louis
vile railroad were authoritatively ce-
MED Thursday afternoon. The story,
it is said, is without foundation.
| A represe n tative in London of Agui-
naldo, leader OF the Philippine insur-
| gents, in an interview Friday is quot
ed as saying he has received dispatch
from Cavite saying repu blic has been
proclaimed by Aguinaldo, under the
protection of the United States and
approved by Great Britain and Japan.
The French cable, cut some time ago
near Guatanamo by the United States
auxiliary cruiser St Louis, has been re-
paired by the cable boat Adria. Thurs.
day a connection was esta blished be-
tween Gen. Skaters headquarters at
Baiquiri and Guantanamo, the line be-
ing used for govern ment business SO
far.
| Mr.. Hatch, the Hawaiian minister,
spent some time in conference with
MIR. Moore, acting secretary of state,
Thursday, presumably with reference
to the method to be adopted of putting
into effect in Hawaii the provisions OF
the pending annexation bill, which is
supposed to be approaching final pas
sage.
Mrs. Dora Klein, widow aged ca,
was found dead in a well at St Louis
Thursday. Ever since her boy volun.
teered and left with the Missouri
troops for the front, Mrs Klein has
been grieving. 1t is believed that in a
moment of temporary alteration
caused by grief over her absent son,
she committed suicide.
Intercepted dispatches from Adm.
Cervera show a critical state of affairs
at Santiago Both food and ammuni.
tion are reported to be getting very
short and the latter will be exhausted
soon. For some days the feet has
been unable to draw shot from the
batteries off the harbor entrance, even
though going very close inshore.
Nine Negroes were drowned neas
Plaquemine by the upsetting of a skiff.
The drowned were Randolph Johnson,
three children of Mace Thompson,
three of Borey Washington, and one
child of Dennis Washington and one
of Totine johnson. Young Richard
(white) and three colored men were
saved by holding ON to the skiff.
In the midst of the preparations o!
the lst Ohio Cavalry TO go to Lake
land. Fla. Friday morning, the NOV
ing orders we're countermanded by the
war department 1t is not knowr
when the regiment will leave. 1t il
said here that the government i,
awaiting the issue of Fridays battl,
before sending any more troops south
President siEns the Bankruptcy Bill
WASHINGTON, Ju.y 1.-The presiden,