Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-26
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Gathered From All Parts of the World BY
Telegraph.
Thursdays statement of the condi-
tion of the treasury shows: Available
cash balances, s225, 619, ,05s; gold re-
serve, Sl67 7,2O1,T47.
A secret proclamation just issued by
the Macedonian revolutionary COM
mittee calls upon the people to join in
an insurrection this spring.
The government has dismissed NJ.
Leblois, one of the witnesses for M.
Zola, from the position of deputy
lmayor of the Seventh arrondis of Paris.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, fire Thursday
night destroyed the Badger block at
Tenth and Francis streets, and the
Calhoun Mantel Coz works. Loss $780,
900.
The Canadian government has de-
cided to station mounted police in the
Stickeen river country. A small de-
tachment of police have left Vancouver
on the steamer Danube.
Col. Shelf, commanding officer of the
South Dakota national guard, is re-
cruiting regiment of cowboys for
service against Spain. Col Shelf says
that these men are the hardest on
earth.
Maitre Laborie, counsel for NJ. Zola,
Thursday lodged u notice of appeal on
behalf OF NJ. Zola from the sentence
imposed upon him Wednesday. Friday
q similar notice will be fled in the
case of NJ. PerrieuX.
Advices RECEIVED from Costa Rica
state that at a banquet given on sun
day night, President Iglesias in a
speech said the situation between
Costa Rica and Nicaragua was such
now that war is inevitable.
Robert Law, the pioneer coal dealer
of Chicago, died Thursday of Bright's
disease. He was 7G years old. Mr.. Law
began operating coal mines through
out the state in 1850, and until recent
years was one OF the leading opera
tors.
Next Saturday the Canadian Pacific
Co. will make cut rate from San
Francisco via Victoria to New York of
$40 first class and $50 second class
This is two dollars lower than the cut
recently made by the Oregan Railway
and Navigation Co.
Mrs. Harriet Adams, of Washington,
the dependent mother of j. I. Adams,
a coal passer who lost his life on the
Maine, Thursday filed an application
for a pension. This is the first PEN
sion claim filed in connection with the
loss of life on the vessel.
Half the Chinese loan, amounting to
eS. 900. OOo was fully underwritten in
London Thursday afternoon. Some of
the applications had to be rejected.
The issue price is 80, and the interest
from the loan is AZ per cent. 1t will
be offered publicly u week hence.
The Cubans of New York held mass
meeting at Chickering hall Thursday
night to celebrate the third anniversary
of the outbreak of the revolution.
Conspicuous among the decorations
was an American flag draped in mourn
ing and festooned with the flag Of
Cuba Libre.
L. Moser, of Chicago, who was man.
ager of streets of Cairo at the Worlds
fair, announces that he has purchased
40 camels with which to establish a
pack train between Skaguay and Daw-
son City. Three camels will arrive in
few days and be sent north on an
experimental trip.
The British steamer Strathlyon,
Capt Bailey, from Philadelphia for
Hamburg, while proceeding up the
English channel, collided with and
sunk the schooner Percy, of London,
off tho Tizar1 Friday morDinr Tho
crew of the schooner were rescued by
boat which has landed them at Fal-
mouth.
The much-needed rain has come at
last and ended the long drought which
seriously threatened the farming
regions of the principal valleys of
California. A downpour which com
menced shortly before midnight We'd
nesday has been the heaviest for some
time past and extended all over the
northern part of the state and as far
south as Monterey.