Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-10-25

1t is reported that Spain has provided
E,00O, 900 to pay the army In Cuba and
ss,00O,000 more will be advanced in q
eew days.
The United States transport Manito-
ba, with the Third Wisconsin volun-
teer regiment, sailed from Ponce Sum
day for New York.
AT Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa,
Gen. Graham has ordered an investiga-
into the 'spread-eagling" of the three
West Virginia privates.
The emperor of China is believed to
be afflicted with an incurable kidney
disease, though it probable that he
will linger, for considerable time. :
John Ii. Dialogue, 6S years old, senior
member of the shipbuilding firm Of
John Ii. Dialogue S Sons died at
Camden, N. j., Sunday afternoon of
heart failure.
The amount of coal now on its way
to Cincinnati from Pittsburgh on the
present rise in the Ohio aggregates
about 100000 bushels, requiring $50
barges and 25 coal boats to carry it,
John Anderson, colored, charged
with the murder of Charles Holmes,
well known white farmer, was lynch
ed at Lafayette, Ala, Sunday by
mob of people of Fredonia and West
Point, Ga.
II has tcf Inuo1NraI f,ut fhn Cor.
man bark Satisfaction sunk during the
recent gales in the North sea. The
captain, his wife and crew of nine
were drowned, being all on board ex-
cept boy who was saved.
! John Melchert, Chicago photo
grapher employed at the exposition
grounds, Omaha, shot and killed Lii
liam L. Morris, his affianced wife, and
committed suicide here Sunday. Jeal-
ousy of the woman was the cause.
The vessels composing Adm. Camara's
feet are now dispersed to various
ports chiefly Cadiz, Carthagena and
Ferrol with their crews reduced to a
peace footing, the majority of the Off
GERS ON leave and the marines ashore.
A small band of insurgents near
Cienfuegos, who left camp on Thurs
. day, are reported to be committing
depredations. So far they have killed
no one, and an attempt will be made to
persuade them to give up their arms
and go home.
M. Pareira, a drummer whose home
is at Albany, N Y, was shot and in
stantly killed by George De Moss at
Houston, Tex. Pareira is alleged to
have offered gross insult to Mrs.
De Moss and she told her husband at
once on her return home.
A small skiff in which were Louis
Baban, son of wealthy brick manu-
facturer of Evanston, ILL.,, William
Schaffer and another man whose ideu-
tity has not been established, cap
sized in Lake Michigan about five
miles off Wilmette Sunday, and all
were drowned.
Gen. Ulysses Heureaux- president OF
the Dominican republic, arrived at Mas
sau. N. p, Sunday on the Dominican
warship Restauricon, to confer with
Smith NJ. Weed and other Americans
who arrived there as special commits
sion last week on the United States
cruiser Montgomery.
The apple crop of the United States
is smaller than it has been since relio
bic statistic have been collected. The
total supply from the 1898 crop of the
United States is 27,7OO,OOO barrels com
pared with something over 40,o0O,OOt
last year and 7O,OOO,OOO in the record
breaking crop of 1896.
At San Francisco, Richard Chetwood
of Company 1, 1st Tennessee. was stab
bed in the back Monday morning while
in saloon. Chetwood was on the pro
vost guard and was trying to arrest al
unknown Tennessee private when th'
latter stabbed him with a bayonet
Chetwood's condition is critical.