Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-07
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.

The house foreign affairs committee
agreed to take no action until after
The message was received. They adj
iourned at noon after general discus
sion of the situation. ttC
The senate in executive session made
the following combinations OF post
masters: George G. Clifford, San An
tonic. Tex; VIM. l.. Buford, Nicholas
Vile, KY; S. II. Jumper, Aberdeen,
5. d.
Specials from points in the west
where army posts are located indicate
that orders have been received from
Washington to have everything in
readiness for the movement on short
notice.
Miss Cisneros, the heroine of the
somewhat famous escape from Havana
a few months ago, was one of the con-
spicuous ladies in the senatorial gall
lery Wednesday. She had a seat be-
side Mrs. John A. Logan.
f. G. Connolly, treasurer and busi-
ness manager for Thomas w. Keene,
the tragedian, is missing. Serious
fears are entertained that he has been
robbed and wounded or murdered He
had about S. 900 in his possession.
Lieut. Commander Wainwright, OF
the Maine, arrived at Key West from
Havana and left for Washington Tues
day afternoon. Thirty tons of provi-
sions for the Cuban reconcentrados
left by the Mascotte Tuesday night.
The agent of the Spanish govern
ment who has been buying mules at
Atlanta, Ga, has shipped 100 to New
Orleans on orders to rush them
through. He has instructions to get
500 more to New Orleans before Satur-
day.
The battle ship Texas sailed We'd
nesday to join the flying squadron at
Hampton Roads. She cast off her
lines at the navy yard dock about s a.
M, and proceeded rapidly down East
river and through the harbor to sea,
followed by salutes of steam craft.
News has been received from a reli-
able source that Gen. CaliXto Garcia,
after disultory fighting with Gen.
Pando. in the province of Puerto Prin-
cipe, evaded Pando, with 5000 men,
had reached the Moron Jucaro trocha,
and formed q junction with Gen.
| Gomez
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse has again
| lowered the record from Southampton.
She arrived at New York Tuesday,
having made the passage in five days
and 90 hours, which is two hours and
35 minutes less time than her previous
| record
Two companies of artillery and two
battalions of chasseurs sailed for the
canaries Tuesday. The crew of the
French training ship lphigene cheered
the departing troops. who, with the
crowds on the quays, warmly recipro
Gated, making Franco-Spanish dem.
onstration.
A reccoinsance in force, with caval.
ry, artillery and two Egyptian bat
tal:ons, to the camp of Mahmoud Pasha
Tuesday morning brought the enemy
out in force. The fighting lasted from
nine until half-past ten. The British
loss was killed and 10 wounded. The
Dervishes lost about 200
Seventeen judgments aggregating
S317, ,S19 were fled in the county clerk S
Office, New York. Tuesday, in connec.
| tion with the failure of J. Stettheimer
| IL Co., and Stettheimer & Bettman, oil
| producers of New York. The total
liabilities of the several firms, it is
stated. exceeded 81, ,000, 000
Officers of one OF the marine insur-
ance companies New York. demurred
| Tuesday about accepting n war risk
| upon an American vessel sailing a
week hence from the south side Of
Cuba. The rate asked was ten per
| cent. but the offer was not accepted.
The rates quoted Tucsiay were about
the same as prevailed Monday
On the highest authority it is an
nounced that the British government
has assured the United States of its
fullest and most cordial sympathy in
its Cuban policy. This assurano. wa.
| given with the most complete knowl
edge of the latest developments in the
negotiations between the United State!
and Spain and on the understandine
that events are tending steadily
towards armed intervention in Cuba
Hayti, through her minister a
Washington, M. St Leger, has in
formed the state department of her in
tention to remain entirely neutral il
case of war between the United State
and Spain. San Domingo, on the otheI
hand, has intimated to this govern
ment that her wishes lie with tn
American people, and she will max
public acknowledgment to the worl,
of her desire to aid the United State
in every way possible.