Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-04
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered from All Parts OF the Country
by Telegraph.

by Telegraph.
| A battalion of the Cameron Eirh-
landers has been ordered to be in read
mess to ascend the Nile a fortnight
hence.
There are from six to eight inches
of snow at Saranac Lake, N. Y. The
thermometer was SO below zero at s
o'clock Sunday morning.
The Hudson river is frozen solid and
preparations are ready for the early
cutting and storing of ice. Indications
are that it will be colder.
The London Times in it's financial
articles Sunday morning urges placing
the Indian currency upon a gold basis
as soon as possible, for otherwise the
mints must be re-opened.
The Rome Tribune reports that bf cad
riots have occurred in the province of
| Girgenti, Sicily. The rioters have fred
upon and looted the municipal build
ing. The troops have been called out.
Mr.. Charles q. Dawes, of Illinois,
Monday took charge of his Office as
controller of the currency, and Mr..
N. b. Scott, of West Virginia, assumed
his new duties of commissioner of in
ternal revenue.
An official dispatch from Manila,
capital of the Philippine islands an
| nounces that the Spanish flag has been
hoisted at Camorent and Biacubato.
1t is added that the insurgents rem
dered military honors and checrcd for
Spain.
The Coney Island Jockey clubs great
AL F,,4 L..
meeting of 1900 will close on jan
uary 4. The futurity has $3.50 added
money, of which $3.50 will 90 to the
breeders. The entry list is expected
to be large.
The British warsbip Powerful has
arrived at Hong Kong. The Powerful
| is first-class cruiser of over $4,000
| tons displacement and $4,000 indicated
horse power, with an estiroated speed
of about 30 knots. She carries a crew
of $40 men.
A dispatch from Cairo via Paris on
Friday announced that French expo
dition had occupied Fashnda, on the
Nile, about 400 miles south of Kltar-
toum, and that it was reported among
the natives that the, French were de-
scending the river.
| Mrs. Mary Lamb, No. 2214 Cuthbert
street, Philadelphia, died Sunday night
in the Mcdico-Chirugica hospital from
| fractured skull, and her son by first
husband is under arrest on Suspicion
of having caused her death. The son 5
name is Malachi Scanncll.
1t is semi-officially announced in
London that the movements of British
troops in Egypt are entirely due to the
news of the threatened northerly adj
| vance of the Dervishes, and that they
do not imply an immediate advance in
the direction of Khartoum.
! At Melbourne, in the second test
match between the Australians and
the visiting English cricketers. the
| former were al out Monday for $50
runs. At the close of play Monday
afternoon the Englishmen had scored
| 20 runs for one wicket down.
The British steamer Khio, from Car.
diff for Galveston, has put into Lisbon
with machinery disordered The Nor.
wegian bark Undyne, Capt. Hansen,
from Tyne for Table Bay, was aban.
doned at sea. Part of the crew have
arrived at Nazareth, Portugal. Eight
were drowned.
The sash and door plant and planning
mill of the G. j. Hamilton Co., of Buffa-
10, n. Y, employing $50 men, was prac-
tically destroyed by fire Sunday night,
together with an immense stock Of
made up lumber. The loss will reach
sl2O,oOO with $4,000 insurance, princi.
pally in New York companies.
Novosti publishes an article strongly
urging a Russo-Japanesc alliance as
the best means of guaranteeing their
mutual interests and the maintenance
of the political equilibrium. 1t is un-
oerstood this view is favored in Rus.
sian official circles, in which it is felt
that such an alliance would contribute
to avert serious complications in the
far east.
1t is announced that China has
yielded to the demand of Baron Hey.
king, German ambassador at Pekin, for
the dismissal of the commandant ol
the Chinese garrison at Tsao-Chow,
province of Shan-Tung, because of the
use of threatening language to the
German missionaries there. The Chi.
nese government has telegraphed dis.
missal of the commandant
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF
the London Times says; at is report.
ed that China has given consent to
Russian surveys for railway to Port
Arthur as a branch of the Russian
Trans-Manchuria railway, and not a
mere extension of the Chinese Tien
Tsin railway. 1t is also stipulated
that the route is to avoid Hukden, tho
capital city OF the Tartar dynasty"
The Weather.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3-Ohio--Fair Tuesday.
except light snow In northern portion; light