Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-01
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

Advices from Charlottesville. Va,
state that Gen. Rosser's condition
grows steadily better.
Tuesdays statement Of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, s.92.s25, 1a1; gold reserve,
Sal3, e36. 3O4,
A receiver has been appointed for
the American Life association, OF
Syracuse, n. Y, at the instance of the
state insurance depar rtment
j. c. Winter, of Akron. o., a private
of Battery NJ, 5th United States artil-
lery. died of malarial fever at Fort
Han cock, Sandy Hook, Tuesday.
Prof. E Phillips, formerly professor
of pedagogy at the state normal
| school, Athens. Ga, has been elected
,, to chair in the university of Denver
and will take charge of his new work
in few weeks.
The twentiet tn annual meeting of the
Western Hay Fever association is be-
ing held at Marquette, Mich. Five
hundred hay feverites are in the city.
E. r. Goldsmith, of Hamilton, O., has
been reelected president.
a dispatch from Surgeon Borden at
Montaull to the surgeon general de-
nies the report that the sick on the
san Marcas had had no bedding except
blankets He says all the sick had
mattresses, pillows and blankets.
The death of Maj. William V. Nc
Cracken. president OF the Louisville,
st. Louis and Texas railroad, is an
nounced in New York. He was q
mem Der OF the Lotos and Oiynpi
clubs the Loyal Legion and the Ohio
society.
Now that hostilities ara over the
United States is at liberty to receive
from the British builders the fine
| cruiser Albany sister ship to the New
| Orleans, which was one of the two
acquired from Brazil just prior to the
out break of the war
A dispatch to the London Daily Tcle-
graph from Manila. dated August %,
says: "All the outskirts of Manila are
in state of complete anarchy. Inc
insurgents are hunting and pillaging
the Spanards. while the natives gem
orally are sacking villages, roboing
vehicles and stealing horses"
David Coblen,z, aged 81 years, a
member of the volunteer hospital
corps, San Francisco, jumped from a
window while delirious from typhoid
fever and killed himself. He was the
son of a wealthy liquor merchant and
was removed from the field hospital to
his parents home in this city Sunday.
Louis Goldschmidt, consul at La
Guayra, says there is an excellent
market in Venezuela, and doubtless in
many other South American countries,
for coal produced in the United States.
At present nearly all the coal con-
sumed there is mined near Cardiff,
Wales, and shipped in sailing vessels.
An order was issued Tuesday di.
recting the resumption of contract
mail service on Monday next between
Tampa, Fla, and Havana, via Key
West. The vessel on this line had
been during hostilities making trips
! to Key West three times week The
service to Key West and Havana 70,
the present will be semi-weekly.
The corouer's jury in the case o.
Emeline c. Reynolds, who was found
dead in a room in the Grand hotel
New York, on August 49, returned 6
verdict Tuesday that death was caused
by blow inflicted by some person Oh
persons unknown. The coroner re
manded DR.. S. j. Kennedy, the dentist
charged with the girls murder, t.
await the action of the grand jury.
The navy department has received {
cablegram from Ponce, Porto Rico
announcing that the Puritan, Amphi
trite, Terror, Hannibal and Montgom
cry sailed from Ponce Wednesday
morning. They will go to Newport
R. I. The main object is to get th'
crews of the vessels away from th'
tropical climate to northern waters