Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-28
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the World b
Tolanro

Gathered From All Parts of the World by
Telegraph.
George Barrett, the jockey, is dead
in London.
The house passed the sundry civil
item appropriating 100000 for San
Pedro harbor, Cal.
Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, S225, ,461, $50; gold reserve, Sl67,-
500, ,770.
Sunday, March 90, has been set apart
by the general officers of the W.C.T.U.
as special memorial day for Frances
E. Willard.
The Calcutta correspondent of the
London Times says there is every pros
pect of one of the best harvests ever
gathered in India.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: Certain correspon-
dents of foreign newspapers have
been warned that it is advisable for
them to leave France"
Emergency preparations of the most
important character yet attempted by
the navy department, formally decided
upon, and the necessary orders for car
rying them out have been issued by
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt.
A dispatch from Singapore says: ut
is reported from Chinese sources at
landed at Kwan-C Wan, 240 miles
southwest of Hong Kong and inform
ed the Chinese that it intends to erect
buildings"
The steamer Mascotte, of the Plant
system, will make its first trip March
from Port Tampa, Fla, to Port An
tonic, Jamaica, touching at Key West.
The time between this port and jana
lea is about sixty hours. This line is
to be permanent.
Men have been put to work pacing
the sea coast batteries at sea girt on
the Jersey coast in order for service. At
the quartermaster generals office it
was denied, however, that this has any
significance, as this work is usual at
this time of the year.
Tom Power, the baseball player, is
dead at his home in San Francisco of
consumption. He signed with the
Baltimore's in 1890, playing first-base
| that season and next year played with
the Rochester team. He was very
popular in this state.
On the steamer Mascotte, from Tam
pa for Havana Friday evening, were
Capt Everett and John Hagerty, divers
of the Merritt Il Chapman Wrecking
Co., who are going to work on the
Maine. They took with them two as
sistants and large quantity of wreck
ing machinery.
ort, Of IN
COVE rnment Alaska relief expedition,
which has been lying at Departure
Bay, B. c., since February IS, has
again started for Dyea, tug having
been secured to tow the ship Lucille,
on which the pack train is being
transported.
James w. Jones, clerk in the office
of the auditor of the post Office depart
ment, was arrested Friday by officers
of the secret service on the charge of
forging United States money orders.
Gen. VIM. B. Shattuc, the Ohio con-
congressman, agreed to furnish
Jones bond, end he was admitted to
bail in the sum of $1,000.
Chicago island, with race track,
theater, bicycle track, chutes, intra'
mural railway, DdSeDdlI park anu every
other known feature in the world oi
, amusement and sport is to become d
e reality. The island is situated in the
e Detroit river, eight miles south of the
t city of Detroit, but it is to bear the
name Chicago, and will be dedicated tc
Chicago citizens
1 At Salamanca, Spain, a crowd of 5000
= workmen, accompanied by groups O
women carrying flags, paraded thu
I streets Saturday, shouting for worl
e and bread. Many houses were STONED
and the railroad station was storme'
and considerable wheat was stolen
= The authorities promised to find worI
J. for unemployed, and as this dispatc
was sent they were restoring order.
Lieut.. Morehead, the commander @
u the Quincy Qll.) company of naval re
serves, has received orders to motif
the members of the company to hol
&. themselves in readiness to report o.
IT six hours notice. There are 80 men il
the company and they say they ar
ready to respond to any call for thei
= services that may come. The order
came from Lieut. Commodore Porter
1t of Moline, the chief of the battalion.