Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-23
CONDENSED NEWS


Telegraph.
Chas VIM. Moore, fifth earl of Mount
Cashell, is dead. He was born in 1926.
Lieut.. Commander Sobral stated
Monday that he is still the naval at
tache of the Spanish legation in WASH
ington.
Mondays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, s2a5, l4s, ,969; gold reserve,
s167, o41. 1926
1t is announced that the Chinese
loan of e16,ooO,OO0 (SSO, 900, ,0OO) has
been arranged with the Hong Kong
and Shanghai bank, of London, and
the German Asiatic bank.
A special to the New York Herald
from Madrid says: The marquisa of
Apezteguia, nee Ellen Vincent, of the
United States, and wife of the chief of
The constitutional union party of Cuba,
Is dead.
In making the new allotment of
justices to the various circuits, the
chief justice Monday assigned Asso-
ciate Justice McKenna to the Ninth
circuit. He succeeds Justice Field in
that circuit.
John Mulligan, president of the Con-
necticut River railway, and one of the
best known railroad men of New Eng
land died at his home in Springfield,
Mass, early Tuesday morning of dia-
betes, aged rs years.
Alexander w. Call, an old citizen of
Pana, ILL.,, is dead. A peculiarity con-
nected with his life was that, although
he was 60, years of age, yet he had
seen only 1G birthdays, having been
born February 80, 1928.
The dates for the Yale-H Harvard base
ball games were announced Monday.
The first one will be at Cambridge,
June %. the second at New Haven,
June rs, and the third, if a tie should
result, at New York, July .
Mr.. Mason, confidential clerk to Sec
retary Alger, who has just returned to
Washington from Fort Monroe, reports
that the secretary is showing great inn
provement. He is hoping to return to
his duties in Washington in few
days.
Mrs. Perasa f. Chase, of Lancaster,
n. H., sister of the late Col. Cross, the
Fifth New Hampshire volunteers, has
returned to the Fourth North Carolina |
volunteers, [. S. A., the battle flag
captured from that regiment by her |
brothers regiment at Antietam.
In the 20 round bout between
spike" Sullivan, the crack American
and Harry Greenfield, the
English boxer, at the National Sport
ing club, London, Monday evening,
Sullivan won in the 18th round, Green
field being outpointed from the start.
In the United States circuit court
Boston, Monday Judge Brown appoint
ed Frederick E. Snow and Thomas w. |
of Boston, and Bradley B.
smalley of Burlington, VT, receivers
of the Burlington Woolen Co. The
controls the Colchester Mill
Co., and the Winooski Worsted Co.,
and employs 1000 hands. nj
Capt. John T. Guyro, for more than
20 years diver in both salt and fresh
water, who helped raise the Milwau- i
zee, double turreted monitor sunk
oy torpedo in Mobile bay at the time
Of the civil war, thinks the Maine can
De saved: He says: "There is no ques-
ion about the divers being able to de-
.crmine whether the Maine was sunk
oy torpedo"
A dispatch to the New York World
rom Madrid says: The Spanish ad-
niral commanding at Havana tele-
yraphs that the Spanish official iuves-
,igation into the catastrophe to the
Maine has terminated and that the
irst exploration made by official divers
las shown, up to the present, that the
disaster was quite accidental and not
produced by any exterior cause.
disastrous fire occurred at Pres
'ott. Ariz., about midnight, resulting
in the total destruction of the John
son house, hotel owned by Miss
Christine Johnson. The house con.
tanned between 20 and 80 guests and
he fire made such headway before
being discovered that they lost nearly
everything and many had hairbreadth
escapes. No fatalities occurred, but
number of persons were seriously in.
ured.
scurvy Among Miners.
DAWSON, y. w. r., Feb. IS, via Vic
toria, B. c., Feb 22-Scurvy has de.
veloped among the miners to such an
extent that there are now II cases in
he public hospital. 1t is estimated
hat there are from 12 to I5 cases in
private cabins, swelling the whole
number to 80. Precautionary meas.
ires are being taken to prevent the