Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-04
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

The Indian and the sundry civil APP
preparation bills became laws shortly
after 5 o'clock Friday when the prosi-
dent affixed his signature.
The state department has received
information from a consular repre-
sentative at Cairo that two vessels of
Camara'e SPA iron have entered the
Suez canal
Although the army now encamped
at Clickamauga has received no imme-
diate orders to move to the front,
preparations for such an event were
gting on Saturday.
A special dispatch from Madrid says
that after cabinet meeting Friday it
was officially announced that Adm.
Camara's torpedo boat destroyers will
return from Port Said to Spain.
A dispatch to Lloyds from Port Said,
dated 1o:4o Friday says that the Pe-
layo, Emporador Carlos Quinto, Osada,
Patriota, Buenos Ayres, Isla de Banay
Rapido, San Francisco, Isle de Luzon
and San Ignace de Loyola have gone
to sea.
The navy department received a
dispatch Friday from Adm. Dewey,
dated Cavite, June 81. He made no
mention of re-inforcements and said
he had avoided committing this gov
ernment to any policy and had left
Gen. Merritt free.
At Saratoga Springs, N. Y, in the
university boat race Saturday, three
miles, Pennsylvania won, Cornell AZ
lengths behind, Wisconsin close
third and Colum bia1 last Time: Penn
sylvania, t5:5l1a. Cornell, l6;o1; Wis
tonsin, 1907; Columbia, 1921.
The Texas and Pacific westbound
traiu was held up and the safe dyna-
mited late Friday night at Stanton
siding, near Midland, Tex. No one
was hurt Bloodhounds have been
sent to the scene from Pecos and two
posses from Midland are in hot pur-
suit
The report of the director Of the
mint shows that during the fiscal year
closed the coinage at the mints of the
United States amounted to $72, COG, ,933
as follows: Gold s64, e34, s65; silver sl6,
4s5, 5s4; minor coins Sl,4s9.4s4. The
standard silver dollars coined aggre-
gated $4,000, 7sO.
The Mccormick Harvester Co. has
brought suit in Quincy, Ill, against
the Adams Express Co. for $1,000 dam
ages because Of the rule Of the express
company that shippers must pay for
revenue stamps affixed to all packages.
1t is understood that other test cases
will be brought there.
In reply to a message asking Gen.
Shafter how many transports could be
sent back to Tampa in order that re-
Inducements might be sent him, Adjt.
Gen. Corbin late Friday night re-
ceived the following reply: Col Hum
phreys has been ordered to return as
many transports as possible at once. :"
Ben Jordan, of England, after ig ht-
ing % hard rounds with George Dix on,
the colored champion, was awarded
the honors by Referee Charley White
Friday night at the Lenox Athletic
club, New York. Both boys fought
we'll, and there was little to choose
between them
Vim. Fauo, chef in the restaurant
of Julius Smith, at No 251 Canal
street, New York, Friday stabbed the
proprie tor seven times with a carving
knife, killing him The murderer was
arrested. The stabbing was the re-
suit of quarrel between the two men,
growing out of Smiths refusal to buy
meat from friend OF Fauo's.
Vincerza Rosano, an italian woman
about "a years old, bride Of week.
was shot Friday at Newark, N. J., by
Giovanni Marighetti, a rejected suitor
and died Friday night in St Michaels
hospital Marighetti after the shoot.
ing leaped from a window in the
fourth floor and was so severely injur-
ed that he too died Friday night
The monthly statement Of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close Of
business Friday, the debt less cash in
the treasury amounted to S1,oo7 ,osS.
402, decrease during the month OF
$40, ,6Ss, ,26s. This decrease is account
ed for by corresponding increase in
the amount of cash on hand. The in.
crease in the cash comes largely from
the proceeds of the new bond issue.
According to advices received in
New York by ths Cuban Junte, Gen.
Diaz, in command of the eth army
corps in Pinar del Rio, had recently a
battle with the Spanish troops in the
western part of the province, in which
he came off victor, taking a great
many prisoners The Spanish loss
was heavy, while the Cubans lost Less
than 80 men.
Blanco's Under Secretary Captured.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 2.-Seno,