Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-10-29
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Work on the cruiser Chicago is ad-
vancing rapidly, and it is believed that
she will be ready next week to go into
The steamer L. X. Doty, with her
crew of Is men, is believed by marine
men to have been lost in the great
storm in midlake off Kenosha.
1t was reported in Paris Thursday
evening that the British cabinet at
Thursdays session decided to proclaim
the protectorate of Great Britain over
Egypt.
Philip R. N. Hildreth, 20 years old,
a member of Troop A, New York vol
unteers, committed suicide at his home
in New York Thursday, while delirious
from fever contracted in Porto Rico.
NJ. Dupuy, who was interviewed as he
was leaving the Elysee, said the ques-
tion of the Dreyfus revision was pure
ly judicial, adding: mo honest politi-
clan will decline to accept the decision
which shall be given"
In the feather-weight contest arrang-
ed for 90 rounds in birmingham, Eng,
Thursday evening, between j. White,
of Birmingham, and Mike Sears, OF
Boston, Mass, the Englishman beat
the American in II rounds.
The members of the 1st battalion OF
the 22d Kansas regiment, who have
sailed from San Francisco for Manila,
carry ballots with them and will vote
on Kansas officers about midway be-
tween Honolulu and Manila.
1t is understood that a presidential
edict, removing a large number of gov
ernment offices from the civil service
probably will be promulgated shortly
before Thanksgiving day. The order
is one which has been in contempla-
ton many months.
President Mckinley was the guest of
honor Thursday night at the peace
jubilee banquet of the Glover club,
Philadelphia, where he met nearly all
of the distinguished visitors to the city
and the leading citizens of Philadel-
phia as well.
Capt. A. S. Crowninshield- acting
secretary of the navy, has given in
structions to Commander West COM
manding the gunboat Princeton, direct
ing him to proceed with his vessel to
San Juan, p. R., and take station there
until relieved.
1t is stated at the 4Irooklyn navy
yard that the cruiser Brooklyn will
sail for Manila by way of the Suez
canal, on Monday or Tuesday, with re-
cruits, ammunition and supplies for
Adm Dewey's fleet. On her way she
will coal at Colombo, Ceylon.
Two more men-of-war will probably
follow the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo to
the Asiatic squadron. Orders have al
ready been given to the gunboat
Helena to prepare for her long trir
through the Suez canal to the far east,
and as soon as she is Ready she will
start.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin must stand trial
in San Francisco in the superior coart
on the charge of the murder of Mrs
John p Dunning, of Dover, Del Th'
grand jury, after a prolonged session
: has voted to indict her At 5 o'clocl
: Friday afternoon the Indictment wa
presented to Judge Belcher.
; For three hours Thursday William
Mckinley, commander-in-chief of tn
United States army and navy, saw hi
victorious sons pass in review befor
him at Philadelphia. It. was militar
and naval day of the great peace jub
lee. Twenty-Five thousand men march
ed in the most brilliant and spectat
ular pngeant the country has witnesse
in many years.
1t is said at the state department
that there is nothing Gsquieting in tn
i situation at Havana. The evacuatio
: commissioners are meeting at interva,
: to suit their convenience and the neet
: of the work in hand Spanish trooI
# ans being shipped homeward, aud tt
S way is being cleared for the occupatio
i of the island by the American garrison
she. end of the present year.