Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-22
SHORT SPECIALS.

After the troops ROlHS W Mduild oa
the Rio de Janeiro embarked on that
vessel on Friday, there will remain at
Camp Merritt ass officers and 7,9ls en-
listed men.
The steamer Lakme arrived at Seat
tie Wednesday from St Michael with
100 passengers and gold dust estimated
at $3.50, 900, in addition to drafts repre-
senting a large amount
1t is reported that Senator Perkins
has received telegram from Secretary
of War Alger, stating that the 7th
regiment of California volunteers will
sail for Manila next week on the trans.
port Scandia.
The gun boat Iroquois, formerly the
tug Fearless, is about to make the
longest tow ever undertaken. She is
to haul the ship Tacoma from San
Francisco to Manila by the way OF
Honolulu, a distance of about $500
miles.
AT San Francisco rifles have been is
sued to the recruits from Pennsylvania
and their equipment is now practically
complete. The 3rd battalion of the
Tennessee regiment has been pre-.
sented with splendid silk flag by the
women of McMinnville, Tenn.
Gen. Miles telegraphed the war de-
partment Wednesday afternoon an
nouncing the arrival there from Tam
pa OF the transports Lampasas and
Neuces Wednesday night with about
600 men on board. These are suppos-
ed to include the District of Columbia
engineers and an artillery battery.
Secretary Alger announced Wednes-
day afternoon that it had been finally
and definitely decided that the ships
taken in Santiago harbor by the sur
render of that city become United
States property, not prizes of either
the army or the navy. This is in ac-
cordance with a former supreme court
decision.
1t is announced at Seattle that the
government has chartered the steam
ers Lakme, Alliance and Tillamook of
the Alaskan fleet to transport troops
to Honolulu. 1t is also stated that ne
gotiations are pending for the charter
of the Charlie Nelson. The Alliance
and Nelson are now due from St
Michaels
Postmaster General Emory Smith
was in conference with the president
Wednesday over the extension of our
mail service to Hawaii on a domestic
basis The orders to this end prob
ably will be issued Immediately. Sena-
tor Morgan, of Alabama, had an inter.
view regarding the work of the Ha.
waiian commission.
The Compagnie Generate Transit
lantique's steamer Olinde Rodriguez,
formerly the Franconda gross tonnage
3,17S, net 1870 plying between Havre
and Haytien ports, is now three days
overdue from Porto Plata, Sauto Do
mingo. 1t is supposed that she has
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run the blockade at San Juan d. Porto
Rico
A member of the Bear relief expedi.
ton writes from Point Barrow under
date of March ~, confirming the news
received from Capt. Tuttle that the
i'm prisoned whalers had been reached,
and that they were better off than had
been expected. Most of the vessels can
be saved and the men have not suffered
seriously, having subsisted on fish and
wild reindeer.
With bands playing and 3o,OOo peo
Pile cheering, the first expedition to
follow Gen. Miles to Porto Rico got
away from Charleston, 5. c., Wednes
day evening. The expedition is under
the command of Maj Gen. J. Fl. viii
son and will. when complete, consist
OF the 2nd and 3rri Wisconsin, the l6Otl
Pennsylvania regiments and two com.
panies of the 9th Illinois
Our Cas- uaities 10 ore THAI the Enemy.
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