Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-17
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Tuesdays statement OF the condition
Of the treasury: Available cash bal
ance, S2lo, ,967; gold reserve, $780,
l62. 065.
tages at Rockaway Beach were de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday night, entail
ing a loss of $780, 900.
FL IHeraldo formally denies the story
published in Havana newspaper that
one of Senior Canalejas' own employees
distracted the De LONE letter.
The first news received in Madrid
direct from Havana said the explosion
on the Maine was caused by fire, and
that the warship, enveloped in flames,
afterwards sank.
American securities opened firm on
the stock exchange Wednesday owing
to the belief that the Cuban difficulties
We're ended; but later they fell rapidly
owing to the news of the disaster to
The United States battleship Maine in
Havana harbor.
At "Elsoma," the beautiful winter
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Wyman Jones
near Thomasville. Ga, was the scene
of marriage ut six o'clock Tuesday
evening, the principals being Miss Lii
lian C.. Hanna and Preston Baldwin,
both OF Clevs Land, .:
Mrs. Mary Mcbride, of Burlington
Junction, just buried at st. Joseph,
Mo-, weighed $50 pounds. A casket
large enough could not be secured, and
It was necessary 20 encase the body in
a pine box and convey it to the grave
on dray. Mrs. Mcbride was 45 years
DID.
On motion of District Attorney Cur
ley in the United States court of APP
peals, New Orleans, the proceedings
against the alleged Cuban flibusterer
Dauntless were dismissed Tuesday
morning Proceedings will be contin-
ued against the Dauntless in the Flor
ida circuit.
Nothing Is known at the state de-
partment or the white house of the re-
ported intention of United States Min
ister Angel to resign his ministry
next fall. He has given no official in
formation to that effect, but there is
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ness of the report.
Tuesday was the seventy-eighth an
niversary of the birth of Miss Susan B.
Anthony, the president of the National
Woman's Suffrage association, and she
was given luncheon by Mrs. John r.
Mclean, who afterwards received the
members of the association at her
home in Washin pton
The only parallel to the Maine hor-
ror in the history of the United States
navy was the great Samoan disaster in
March, 1889, when four officers and 46
men of the Pacific coast squadron lost
their lives in hurricane which swept
the harbor of Apia, Samoa, and sur
rounding waters March Is and lG.
Range riders, just in from the Blue
mountain country, east of Green river
and along the Colorado line, report cat
tie dying daily on the range, on ac-
count of wet and cold. One cattle man
states that he fears the loss will
amount to from so to rs per cent. be-
fore the country dries up in the spring.
a tugboat said to be the frankie
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lower bay, New York. 1t is said that
at least five men were lost. The ferry
boat Castleton of the Staten Island
line was on her way to New York
when the tugboat was heard whistling
for help. The ferryboat went to it's
aid, but the tug sank quickly. Two
men were saved.
The steamship st. Paul, sailing for
Europe Wednesday, will take out 5S2,-
900 ounces of silver. Tuesdays weak
ness in silver was attributed to the
official statement by the Russian finan-
cial authorities that their purchases
silver will hereafter be much reduced,
as notes are now convertible into gold
at the pleasure of the holder.
At Rochester, N. Y, the bout be-
tween Joe Hopkins, of New York and
Tommy Hogan, of Chicago, before the
Rienzia Athletic club Tuesday night,
was stopped in the fifth round and the
decision given to Hopkins. Hogan de.
liberately fouled the colored lad with
his elbow at every opportunity.
Pete Maher and "Thunderbolt'
Smith, the colored Buffalo heavy
weight, met at the Arena in Philadel
phia Tuesday night in a six round bout
and Maher won in the third round
The building was crowded to overflow.
ing. Both men appeared to be in fine
condition, though Smith complained
of sore hand. The fighting was fas
and Maher had all the best of it.