Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-17
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

ronto Wednesday passed resolution
unanimously favoring an Anglo-Amer-
lean union. They then sang "Amer-
ica" heartily.
The president Wednesday reprieved
until the first Thursday in January,
1899, VIM. Strother and Edward Smith,
two Negroes under sentence to hang
in Washington Thursday.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Times says: 1T is under
stood that NJ. Faure urged NJ. Meliue
to reconstruct the ministry but that M.
Meline sire nuously refused"
A decree has been gazetted prohibit
ing the use of carrier pigeons in Spain
on the ground that they are powerful
auxiliaries in times of war and that
government is projecting the estab-
lishment of pigeon service.
A dispatch from Cadiz via Gibraltar.
says: There is great excitement there
owing to fears of the American fleet
coming TO Spain. 1t has been decided
to send further reinforcements to the
Balearic islands, the Canaries and
| Ceuta
Lieut.. Col John Jacob Astor does
not propose that with the close OF the
war his mountain battery shall cease
| to exist 1t is known that ne has
made such provision as will insure a
trip of the battery to the Paris inter-
national exhibition.
| A dispatch from Gibraltar says: The
Spanish steamer San Augustin of the
Transatlan tica line, has arrived in
Ballast from Cadiz. She is loading
coal presumably for Cadiz and the Ca
mara squadron. The American consul
has lodged a protest.
Jamie Fernieres, who says he is the
first officer OF the Spanish hospital
ship Alicante. was brought into Key
West Wedn esday morning as a pris-
oner of war on board the British prize
steamer Twickenham, captured by the
cruiser St. Louis on June 10.
j. L. Winston, the st. Louis gun ex-
pert, has broken all former st. Louis
and Missouri records at the traps. at
handicap live bird event at Dupont
shooting park he killed so straight
birds from a scratch basis. P. M.
klins, DIR. Starkloff and other local
experts were among the contestants.
Conservative estimates of Chicago's
probable subscription to the new war
issue OF bonds, places the total amount
in the neigh borhood of $4,000, 900.
The banks of the city will probably
take at least SIS, 600. 600, insurance and
trust companies Of the city and indi.
viduals are expected to take as much
more.
Official dispatches to the marine
hospital service show there have been
no fresh developments in the yellow
fever situation in the south. They
announce the opening of Camp Fon
taine ebleau, the detention point jus'
out of McHenry, Miss. and that there
are now 81 suspects from McHenry il
the camp.
During the consideration of th'
| pension calendar in the senate 81 bill
were passed in SO minutes A major
ity of the bills provide for increase o
pensions already received. Among
those passed was one increasing th'
pension of Mrs. Margaret Love Skier
rett, widow of Rr. Adm. Skerrett
| from $40 to $50 a month
According to estimates made b,
Adjt Gen. Corbin, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the New Yorl
Times, the total number of troop
left at Tampa after the sailing of tn,
Santiago expedition is in the neighbor
hood of $4,000 This includes the por
tion of the Fourth corps remaining a
Mobile, which is regarded as SUI
station OF the Tampa camp.
When the last transports disappear
ed from Port Tampa, the count show
ed that there were SO vessels bearin
the United States army of invasion
These 36 transports were accompanie
to Cuba by IL war vessels. Many {
the transports were literally blac
with soldiers, the great loads o; h,
manity causing the vessels to draw q
the way from 16 to 81 feet of water.
Hobson to Be Advanced Zen Numbers.
WAsHINGroN, June 16-The pres