Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-21
SHORT SPECIALS.

Mondays statement of the condition
Of the treasury shows: Available cash |
balance, s3l7, ,7s6, ,oSs; gold reserve,
s243, 551,655.
Kid Mccoy refuses to hold any
further conference with Corbett and
his manager relative to the change Of
date and place of his NEE ting with
Corbett.
A special from Ocala, Fla, says:
Rev. A. B. Morrison, chaplain of
Roosevelt's rough riders, and Miss
Elma Boyd, of Anthony, this county,
were married Monday afternoon.
DR.. Henry Otto Claus. 7a years old,
committed suicide in his Office in New
York Monday by shooting. He had
large practice and was worth $780,
900. The cause of suicide is not
known.
1t is the present intention of the adj
ministration to send to Cuba as gar
rison force for the island about 10000
troops, in addition to the force now in
Santiago under the command of Gen.
Lawton.
Gen. Miles, when asked how many
regiments would be stationed with the
volunteers at the different garrisons,
eplied: About $4,000 regulars in
Cuba 1000 in Honolulu, 5000 in the
Philippines and 1000 in Porto Rico"
The most influential commercial bod
les in California have united in send
ing resident Mckinley a telegraphic
invitation for him to visit that state
and San Francisco immediately after
his contemplated visit to Omaha next
month.
The joint high commission appointed
by the United States and Great Britain
to consider and adjust certain inter-
national questions, for many years in
3 controversy between the United States
: and Canada, reassen oled at Que bee
Tuesday.
All the members of the American
evacuation commission at Havana
went ashore from the steamer Reso-
lutte Monday morning and are now in
stalled at the Trocha hotel All are
we'll Maj Allison sprained his ankle
but the injury is not important.
At San Francisco the troops just or
a dered to the Philippines are all anx'
: ious to depart as soon as possible and
@ their wishes are likely to be gratified,
for Gen. Miller, who hopes to head the
expedition, is doing everything he can
to expedite their transportation.
The Illinois central will begin the
con truction of direct line from Chi
cago to Omaha early in the spring.
Only 125 miles of new road is required
= to complete the line. The company
will tap its Sioux City line at Fort
Dodge, Ia, and will build thence west
to Council Bluffs.
c There are over 100 typhoid fever pa
tients in the division hospitals a
Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, and thu
Red Cross wards were increased t.
double their former size to accommo
J. date this class of patients. The soci
5, ETY. has S5 trained female nurses on tn
- ground taking care of the most seriou
cases
The queen regent has replied to tn
q circular of Count Muravieff, the Rus
re sian foreign minister, proposing tn
lie reduction of the excessive armamen
of the powers and the maintenance @
"a real AID lasting peace. Her majest.
We praises the czar's project and promise
r. to send delegation to the propose
We disarmament conference.
or A destructive hurricane Monda,
y; swept over southern Spain, doini
'.' great damage in the province of Sc
vile and Granada. Six persons wer
of killed and many injured and numbe
IS, Of buildings were destroyed at Sevill
We and SIS houses were demolished an
w many persons fell victims to the storr
at Guadix, in the province of Granada
ar 1t is the intention of the navy de
Mt partment to place three men of war i
ye commission during the coming month
These are the cruisers Chicago and A
20 lanta, which have been undergoing re
pairs at the New York navy yard fo
two years, and the gun boat Yorktown
%. which has been put in condition fc
service at the Mare Island navy yarc
ng Nearly one-tenth of the populatio
ta- Of Plainwell, a little village in A
is legan county, Mich, is i'll from eatin
nd canned pressed beef at a church socia
l. Fifty i've persons were poisoned
Twenty are dangerously i'll and for
are expected to die, the doctors ha
ing expressed no hope of their r,