Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIYZs.


Col. Cyrus A. Page, publisher of the
3oston Beacon, is dead. @
The house, by 1s4 to IL, Wednesday
passed a resolution for the election of
ienators by popular vote.
An official dispatch from Havana
says: THE enemy's squadron has dis
appeared. Five war ships have gone
eastward"
A special dispatch from Madrid says
formidable Spanish expedition is be-
ng organized for dispatch to the Phil
ppine islands.
The president has appointed Gen.
Wesley Merritt, of the regular army,
10 the command of the volunteers from
the Pacific coast.
Wednesdays statement Of the con-
lition of the treasury shows: Avail
able cash balance, s2l / 1,53l, ,o96; gold re-
serve, $50, ,696, 944.
The government of Uruguay has re-
fused permission to establish at Mon.
teviteo Red Cross society in aid Of
the wounded Spaniards.
The SPIT nish torpedo gunto1t Temer-
ario has arrived at San Nicolas, On
The Parana. 80 miles below Rosario.
1t is said she is on her way to Para
guay.
Two persons we're killed and four
In iured in q fire which DESTROYED a
three-story boarding house at a25 La
Sale avenue, Chicago, at 4:90 Thursday
morning.
At ontreal, Senor Polo and his
party have declined all social atten-
tions owing to the news from Mani. "a.
1t is probable that the party will sail
for home on Saturday.
A British warship. which has ar
rived at Hong Kong from Manila, re-
ports the whole country to be il a
state of anarchy and Adm. Dewey pow
erless to restore order.
George Downing, the Spanish spy ar
rested in Washington several daySago,
committed suicide Thursday morning
by hanging himself at the barracks
where he was confined.
Reports from the Sacramento and
San Joaquin valleys, the great wheat
growing sections of the state. say that
the wheat crop this year will be all
most total failure in California
The navy department has received
no word Of an engagement Wednesday
at Cienfuegos, as reported from Ha-
vana, and think the Havana reports
refer to the Cardenas engagement.
Brig. Gen. John L. Rodgers, the SEN
ior officer of the artillery branch OF
the army, Wednesday was appointe
chief of artillery of the army and
lace il charge of the heavy artillery
of all the coast defe asea.
The return of the Spanish squadron
from the Cape Verde islands to Cadiz
disgusts the Germans, who expected
the feet 10 give grand account of it,
self in battle with Adm. Samson g
ships in the vicinity of Porto Rico.
The democratic convention of the
Seventh Missouri congressional dis
trict Wednesday nominated Hon. Jas.
Cooney. of Saline county, by acclama-
ton. Resolutions were adopted COM
mending the patriotism of the federal
administration.
Two German war ships, one French
war ship and a war ship of Japan are
now at. Manila. A Russian vessel is
expected there shortly. Astrong anti
British feeling exists among the popu-
lace at Manila and the people are des-
perate and starving.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: adm. Ber-
mejo, minister of marine. denies that
the Cape Verde squadron has returned
to Cadiz. He affirms that this feet at
the present moment is where it ought
to be, according to the Instructions
given it,