Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-31
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From Al Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

Gathered From AL Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Adm. Won Tirpitz, the secretary OF
the Imperial navy, has been appointed
a Prussian minister of state.
The revenue cutter Woodbury. has
been ordered to Norfolk to take on
board rapid fire guns for Key West.
Five rapid-firing Hotchkiss guns
were sent Monday night from Fort
Sheridan, Chicago, to eastern points.
Mondays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, 1924, 1913, sS3; gold reserve, STA
IS, ,6sS.
Gen. Miles, commanding the army,
accompanied by his aide, Capt Maus,
left Washington Monday night for
Cleveland, o.
Anton Seidl, the famous musical di-
rector, died at 1918 o'clock Monday
night in New York of poisoning, prob
ably from eating fish.
The Austrian cruiser Donau, which
left Havana on March 10 for New York,
was reported outside Sandy Hook bar
at sos a M, Tuesday.
n ldTPc Ol mos
been sent to San Diego to supply the
ten-inch breech loading rifles at the
Ballast Point Notifications.
Il he runners current in Madrid re-
Gently us to the possible assistance
Spain might obtain in Europe have
received no official confirmation.
The emperor and empress of Ger
many reached Homburg Tuesday. The
buildings and main thoroughfares
were decorated in honor of their maj
estes. who received an ovation.
BY night-fall Monday the ships in
the harbor at Key West except the
Cincinnati were painted a lead color
from water line to smokestack top. The
Cincinnati will be finished Tuesday.
The steam tug Winthrop built by
the Charles Hillman Co., of Philadel-
phia. for the Staples Coal Co., has been
sold to the United States government.
The Winthrop is one of the finest
steel tugs on the coast
The London Daily Chronicle says:
ut is inconceivable that the Spanish
government should be so mad as not to
meet the feeling of America as evi'
denced in the Maine report and the
presidents message half way"
The lighthouse tender Mangrove ar
rived at Key West from Havana Tues
day morning, bringing guns and
wreckage from the Maine. The SUR
vey steamer Bache arrived at Key
West Tuesday morning from Havana.
The London Morning Post thinks
the signs make for peace and takes 1t
for granted that there will be an
armistice until October, Spain and the
United States cooperating meanwhile
for the relief of the suffering Cubans.
Capt. Sampson announced his staff
appointments Monday. RI. Adm.
Sicard's force, with the exception OF
Commander West, who will take COM
mand of the Princeton. were reap
pointed. No chief of staff was named.
The officers of the United States
steamer Essex has received orders to
proceed to different sections to open
recruiting stations, and 80 men from
the Essex will be transferred to the
cruisers Columbia and Minneapolis at
once.
VIM. H. Edmonds, founder and edi-
tor of the Southern States Magazine,
died Tuesday morning at his hore in
Roland Park, Nd. He was one of the
founders OF the Manufacturers Record
and at one time proprietor of the An
niston, Ala, Hot Blast
Lieut. John j. Knapp, United States
navy detached from the United States
cruiser San Francisco Tuesday hoist
ed the stars and stripes over the tor
pedo boated purchased for the United
States at the Schichau ship yards, Ber-
lin, on Monday. She was renamed the
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President's Course Commended.