Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-20
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country by
Telegraph.
The island of Jamaica has been de-
clared free from yellow fever.
The native troops from Kassala have
captured another Dervish outpost,
Mugalla, west of Kassala.
Tuesdays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balances, $3.50, 9,s3S, AIT; gold reserve,
S162, ,S36,47
Exports to America from north Ger
many showed a falling off during the
last quarter of S3.2S1, S13, the decrease
principally in sugar.
The steamship La Normandie from
Havre brought $3.50, 00J in gold Tues
day consigned to New York banking
houses in transit to Cuba
The Norwegian bark Hassel, Capt.
Tillotson, from Savannah, December
Z Is, for Warborg, is ashore in the Ag-
ger, waterway in Denmark.
Very Rev. Henry George Lidell, the
former dean of Christ church, oxford,
is dead. He was born in 1911 and was
ia one time chaplain to the prince con-
sort.
The Androscoggan cotton mills at
Lewiston, Me-, have shut down all de-
| partments for an indefinite period
owing to the strike of portion of the
| operatives.
Forty persons were killed and IS in
jured by an explosion of gas in one of
the mines of the Donetzaer Co., in the
Tagenrog district, on the north shore
of the sea of Azov
The Brazilian government is consid-
ering the sale of the cruiser Aberu,
now building on the Tyne, and the
iron clads Deodoro and Floriano, which
are being built in France
| The British steamer G. e. Booth,
Capt. Acllerly, from Savannah, Decem-
! ber IS, for Bremen, stranded at TeXel
but was towed off later by q salvage
and steamer, proceeded to her destina-
| ton.
Preparations for the golden jubilee
of California-the fiftieth anniversary
of the discovery of the yellow metal
are making rapid headway. The cell
ebration will begin on Monday next
and continue during the week.
Henry E. Straight, who was arrested
in Jersey City a week ago, charged
with swindling business people in
Wilkes sbarre and Harrisburg, Pa, and
Baltimore and New York, escaped
from the Jersey City Jail Wednesday.
There seems to be possibility that
in addition to the other classes of man
ufac tured goods in which this country
is successfully competing with foreign
fnn ~ fo,. Hn Two do Nf hni-
own countries, bleached cottons will
soon be added.
The official returns just issued show
the imports in France for 1897 to have
been 1000, 126, 900 francs, as compared
with 1875, $50, 900 in 1896. The exports
for 1897 were 3,675 900 francs, COM
pared with $500, ,920, 900 francs during
the previous year.
After incessant fighting in the courts
for over yaar the Salvation army has
just established its right to hold open
air meetings with cornet accompani-
ments in the streets of Greenport, L.
l., Notwithstanding the existence of
all ordinances against it.
If the coal miners in the northern
coal fields of Colorado hold out for the
increase that they demand it is proba-
BILE that the strike will be long contin-
ued. The operators are even more de-
termined than the miners and declare
that they will hold out a year if neces-
sary.
The Central Washington railroad
was sold at Spokane, Wash, under
foreclosure. 1t was bid in by Attorney
Thomas Shepard, of Seattle, repre-
senting the bondholders, for S100, 900.
The road extends from Cheney to Cou-
lee City, in the Grand Coulee, west of
Spokane 10s miles.
c. w. Vosmer, of San Francisco, is
planning to go to the Klondike by bal
loon. He proposes to use the big bal
loon made for the Chicago Worlds fair,
where it was held captive, and he will
be accompanied by James Thompson,
of Cincinnati, Fl. Andrews, of Chicago,
and E. Klemtke, of Pittsburg, all ex-
perienced aeronauts.
At Steinway hall, Chicago, next
Tuesday and Wednesday there will be
a convention of delegates representing
the amateur musical clubs of the en-
tire country for the purpose of effect
ing permanent federation. The OBJ
| ject is to stimulate musical culture and
to enable cities and organizations un-
able to pay grand opera prices to Sc
cure by cooperation the services of
distinguished musical artists
The Weather.