Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-12-15
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

Inc Brooklyn, Texas, Castine and
Resolute have been ordered to Havana.
The annual convention of the Amer
'can Humane association began in
Washington Wednesday.
A combination of all the rubber con-
Germs of Trenton, N. j., has been
formed at meeting in New York.
AT Toronto, Ont, a syndicate has
been formed to build yacht which
will next year be the Canada cup de-
fender.
The johnson Chair Co.'s warehouse,
365 North Green street, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire Tuesday. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, S75, 900.
The house naval affairs COMMITTEES
Tuesday ordered n favorable report
upon the bill to create the rank of adj
miral and vice admiral in the navy.
The Union iron works of Root, Mel
son & Co., Sacramento, Cal, have been
destroyed by fire, which started in the
engine room. Loss 500, 900; insurance
sec, 900. .5-,a te,..
The Spanish troops withdrew from
Guanabacoa, suburb of Havana, at 10
o'clock Monday evening. The inhabi-
tants rang the bells and discharged
fireworks in celebration of the event.
Naval officers believe the battle ship
Massachusetts must go out of commits
sion, and that practically a new keel
and several new frames must be sun
piled to her before she will be fit for
sea.
Wednesday the United States peace
commissioners called upon President
Faure and M. Delcasse, the foreign min
lister, to thank them for the hospitality
OF the French nation and to make their
formal farewells.
Officers at army headquarters in
Omaha, Neb., are absorbed in II g re-
ports from Washington that the 18th.
Goth and 22d infantry, all from the de-
partment of the Missouri, are to be
sent to the Philippines.
Advices from Narciso, province of
Santa Clara, says that Gen. Maxine
Gomez left there Monday with an es-
cort, for the province of Havana. He
expects to reach the house of his
niece at Guanabacoa by Christmas eve.
During the discussion of the esti-
mates in the reichstag Tuesday Herr
Basserman, national liberal, declared
that his party desired the government
to give vigorous protection to German
interests in its dealings with America.
The Rome correspondent of the
London Standard says: "The pope
has addressed a letter to Cardinal Glib
bons on his theories of Americanism,
1t will not be published until it has
been communicated to the American
Episcopate."
Michael o'Donnell has served 10
years of 30-year sentence in Sing
Sing prison for burglary which his
brother James and two other men COM
mitted. On his deathbed, in the Presby-
terian hospital, James confessed the
crime for which his brother Is suffer-
ing.
The barrel mill at the Moosic pow
der works, Scranton, Pa, blew up at
noon Tuesday, wrecking the mill and
doing considerable damage in the adj
jacent town of Moosic. The workmen
were at dinner at the time of the ex-
plosion and consequently no lives were
lost.
AT Berlin the trial of Frank Knaak,
of New York, charged with les ma
jeste in referring to Emperor William
as ''sheep's head" has been fixed for
December 90 He is still in prison, bail
being refused and the United States
embassy being unable to interfere in
the case.
At the Old Bailey, Central criminal
COURT London, Tuesday, the treasury
officials declined to prosecute Kate
Lyon and Mrs. Mills, for alleged un-
lawful conduct in connection with the
death of Harold Frederic, the Ameri-
can newspaper correspondent, and the
defendants were discharged from Gus
tody.