Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-03
SHORT SPECIALS.

The house Thursday passed bill
providing for the establishment of
,ost offices at military posts and camps.
Arthur A. Zimmerman, the renowned
bicycle racer, is dangerously i'll at his
lome in Freehold, N. j., with Mexican
ever
Wednesdays statement OF the con-
lition of the treasury shows: Avail
,ble cash balance, s195, 754,s15; gold
reserve, s171, ,054.
| The senate agreed to an amendment
quitting a tax on oil and sugar reiner-
.es where gross receipts are over $780,
)0o The vote was 33 to 81.
Prof. Samuel NJ. English, state super
'ntendent of public instruction of Illi-
nois, died Wednesday night of nervous
prostration at Kenosha, Wis.
The senate refused to insert the Cor
man amendment for tax on corpora
tions of more than $3.50, 900 income in
the war revenue bill. Vote % to S4
The Australians are as keen for tie
success of America in the war with
Spain as the Americans themselves.
Advices by the steamer Moana show
that the war feeling is intense.
The religious ceremony of the we'd
ding OF Miss Edith Stuyvesant Dresser
to George W. Vanderbilt took place at
the American church Paris at noon
Thursday. The civil ceremony was
performed Wednesday.
At Lincoln, Neb., fire Wednesday
night burned the Worthington acad-
smy, the Episco al college of the state.
The college. which was three miles
from the city, was wholly without fire
protection. Loss 5000 insurance
s35, 900.
The pacing stallion Guinette, 2:o5,
matched for $50, 900 with John r. Gem
try, a:O01l, and owned by James A.
Murphy, of Chicago. is dead of heart
failure. Guinette was bought by MUIR
ply on October 80 last, of A. L. Libby,
of Boston, Mass, for $1,000.
Naval officers at Key West, Fla, dis
cussing the reports of the lombard
ment of Santiago, are of the unani-
nous opinion that the plan is to re-
duce the Notifications there and de-
stroy or capture Adm. Cervera's ships
or any others without delay.
A special to the New York World
from Key West says: The United States
marshal has sold the prize steamer
Pedro to the United States government
for $500, 900. This amount is to be de-
posted by the secretary of the treas
ury to the credit of the secretary of
the navy.
A special from Santiago confirming
Tuesdays bonn bardment SAYS great
events are expected hourly there.
American warships are in front OF the
harbor Insurgents are gathering on
the hills. The Spaniards have taken
extraordinary precautions to guard
the harbor entrance.
AT Key West, Fla. in the United
States circuit court Wednesday Judge
Locke ordered the condemnation of the
cargo of ., 100 tons of coal on the Brit
ish steamer Restormel, captured off
Santiago harbor on May 81 while try
ing TO enter, presumably to deliver
coal for the Spanish feet.
Capt. James Rodgers, of the goth
United States infantry, in charge of
the recruiting Office which has been
open in Kansas City since May O. has
been ordered to Mobile to join his reg
iment Eighty-fve recruits have been
accepted and forwarded south, and the
regiment has now been filed.
Lieut. Gen. Weyler has arrived at
Santander, on the Bay of Biscay.
where he has been received with an
ovation. Thousands greeted him at
every railroad station on the way, but
the demonstration was particularly
strong at Santander, where '.vivas"
were shouted in honor of the modest
general.
AT the opening of Thursdays session
the senate PASSED a bill conferring
American register upon the steam.
ship China, one of the feet of the Pa
cit!c Mail Steamship Co. The China
has been chartered by the war de part.
ment to transport troops TO the Philip.
pines. The China is now under the
Hawaiian flag. W.
The work of the Y. NJ. C. A. at
Chicksmauga is now assuming large
-Four large tents are lsept
open and in each one a long service is
leld, daily. In the tents substantial
Libraries, supplied with nearly all the
newspapers and periodicals of the
country are maintained for the benefit
IF the soldiers
The condition of the population of
santiago since the beginning of the
blockade has grown rapidly worse, and
I is now said to be nearly desperate.
ood Is very scarce and the poor peo-
Die are finding it almost impossible to
'btain any because of the enormous
prices The expectation is general
hat Santiago must soon fall into the
lands of the Americans.
Prospect House Burns.
NYAcK. y. V, June 2.-The Prospect
iouse here burned to the ground