Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-21
CONDENSED NEWS

Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
The steamship Etruria, sailing for
Europe Saturday, took out 1000
ounces of silver.
DIR. Patton, editor of the Dublin
Daily Press and Dublin correspondent
of the London Times, is dead.
An official denial is given to the re-
port that the armored cruiser Varese
has been sold to Spain by Italy.
The torpedo boat Foote arrived at
Key West Friday afternoon from
Charleston by way of Jacksonville.
The Bethlehem Iron Co. Friday night
shipped three five-inch guns, jackers
and hoops to the Washington navy
yard.
Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, S224, ,46l, ,199; gold reserve,
S170, SIC, ITO.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Brussels says no approach has
been made to Belgium for arbitration
over the Maine affair.
Rumors are in circulation in Saloni-
ka OF encount ters at various points on
the frontier between Bulgarian bands
and the Ottoman troops.
A dynamite explosion took place Fri
day morning in the government store
house on Montego bay, Jamaica. Eight
men were killed and many injured.
Austria will sell no warships to either
Spain or America. That much is sure.
The highest naval authority in Trieste
said to a correspondent, Austria needs
all her ships and will sell none"
The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and
the Panama railroad have advanced
freight rates 50 per cent on an average
on eastbound shipments from Califor-
MIA to New York via the Isthmus.
A terrible explosion took place Fri!
| day in the Santa Isabel mine at Bel
mez, providence of Cordova Seventy
corpses have already been recovered
and many men are as yet unaccounted
| for
Hancock & Co.. of Philadelphia,
grain dealers, have leased the Coats
worth elevator at Buffalo. The ele-
evator is the sixth in capacity in the
the harbor, having bins for 600, 900
bushels.
Manager Jimmy Dime, of the Man
haitian Athletic club, is in receipt of a
letter from Billy Rotchford, of Chi
cago, saying that he will meet, Sammy
Kelly, 116-pound champion of the
world, at Troy in April He will do
his training at Albany.
A subcommittee of the committee on
post offices and post roads will give a
hearing on Thursday next, March "a,
to those opposed to the postal saving,
banks project. Communications can
be sent to Representative Bromwcll,
chairman of the subcommittee.
The monitor Terror has been ordered
to leave New York and join the squad.
ron under command of Adm. Sicard at
Dry Torugas. Capt. Ludlow, com
manding the Terror, received orders
from the navy department to have his
vessel start for the south at once
The provincial legislature of British
Columbia has passed resolution re-
questing the dominion government tc
impose duty on American lumbe
and shingles equal to duty imposed by
the Dingley tariff. Resolutions called
forth sharp retalitory speeches, anc
but three members voted against The
measure.
Stock raisers in the vicinity of Fres
no, Cal, are circulating a petition
which will shortly be forwarded tc
President Mckinley. The unprece
deuted drought has been very hard OF
stock, and in the petition the presi
dent will be asked to proclaim tina
stock may Craze on certain portions o
the Yosemite park reservation during
the coming season.
Reports from the central part of Cal
ifornia indicate that apricots, plums
almonds and cherries have been com
pletely ruined by the heavy frosts o
the past few nights. 1t has burnt tn,
pits till they have turned and will
commence dropping off the trees in ;
| day or two. The fruit which hold
onto the trees will not mature as it ha
been frozen till it will eventual,
shrivel up.