Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-20
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

Steamers sailing for Europe Thurs
day took out 100, 600 ounces of silver
and $4,000 Mexican dollars.
Wednesdays statement of the con-
dition of the treasury shows: Avail
able cash balance, s206, l10, ,51l; gold re-
serve, l15,614,0O6.
The cruiser Columbia, which anchor
cd at the Delaware breakwater at noon
Wednesday, weighed anchor at 4;22
p. M, and passed to sea. Her destina-
tion is unknown.
After forty years of service on the
st. Louis police department, the past
ten being at its head, Chief Laurence
Harrigan has resigned his position be-
cause of i'll health.
United States engineers began We'd
Desday the construction of sand bat
teries at Seguincs Point, Princess bay.
When completed they will be mounted
with ten-inch rapid FIRE rifts.
Arrangements have been com pleted
by which Newspaper Correspondent
| Thrall and Jones will be exchanged
for Col. Cortijo and Surgeon Julian,
Spanish officers now at Fort McPher-
! son, Ga.
Representative Bromwell, of Ohio,
has introduced d u joint resolution au-
thorizing the return of captured con-
federate flags On application of gov
errors Of states whose troops carried
The flags
Sixty emergency contact mines were
delivered at Fort Wadsworth Wednes-
day afternoon and are in readiness to
be planted in the Narrows, from shore
to shore, between Fort Wadsworth
and Fort Hamilton.
IL is announced in Buenos Ayrcs that
the Spaniards of Argentine have tele-
craphed another million francs to
Madrid as a war subscription and that
the collection of money for the same
purpose will be continued
News has been received from Raw
Inns, Wyo, OF the death at his home on
Snake river, so miles south of Rawlins,
of Jim Baker, the famous scout and
Indian fighter. Bakers death was due
to old age, he being about 80 years old.
The central cable Office of Western
Union Telegraph company has sent
out notice that the Porto Rico govern
ment has modified its order of May II,
and now permits messages in plain
language to and from the United
States, subject to the sender's risk
A number of applications have been
received at the adjutant generals Of
fee for copies of muster rolls with
which to form the nucleus of national
guard organizations in the various
states to take the places of commands
absorbed by the recruiting in the vol
unteer army.
Gen. VIM. Writ Lowe died in Omaha,
Neh., Wednesday, of paralysis Of the
heart, aged 65. He graduated from
West Point in 1855 and served on the
distinction during that struggle. He
retired rom tie army in 1878 and set
tied in Omaha
The corps encampment at Falls
Church, Va, near this city, was Off.
cially designated Wednesday us Camp
Alger in honor of the secretary of war.
Maj. Gen. Graham, commander of the
of the gulf, who is to be in
command of the troops at Camp Alger,
has not arrived yet.
Rev. James v. Schofeld, brother Of
Cen John schofeld, is dead in ST.
Louis as the result of lingering ill
ness, aged 70 years. He hal been a
resident of St. Louis for nearly thirty
years and was for many years pastor
of the Fourth BAPTIST G..a...-.ca. He was
born in ChautGlGaa, y. Y. 4
The frst-class battle ship Pelayo,
the armored cruisers Emperador,
Carlos ", Alfonso MIL, Vit,oria and
Giralda, he auxiliary cruisers Raj lido,
Alfonso NIL, Buenos Ayres and An.
tonic Lopez and three torpedo beats,
now at Cadiz, are re ady for sea They
are expected to sail for the Philippines
before the end of this month with IL.
600 troo.s. -rsSss' >.t8-.. |