Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-13
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Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, si9o, o,s4s.69s; gold reserve,
sl66, SAT, ,392.
A dispatch just received at Newport
News from Cape Henry says four Span
ish war ships are lurking in the vicin.
igcsf the capes.
Sir Charles Stewart Scott, British
minister at Copenhagen, has been APP
pointed British ambassador to Russia
in succession to Sir Nicholas O'Con-
nor
A dispatch from Teneriffe announces
that an English vessel has arrived
there to take off English residents who
are leaving in fear of the arrival of an
American feet .~>A~
The report of an c,ss~s
by a thousand natives on ~assian
post gsxrisoned by 800 infantry, at
Andijan, Ferghana province, Turke-
stan, is onfrmed
An American, it is reported, was arr
rested at Algeciras, on the Bay OF Gi-
braltar, Spain, Friday night, charged
with being in possession of the plans
of the Notifications at Cadiz
AS a result of strike in the noun
tain iron mines at Redding, Cal, 500
men are idle. Feeling runs high be-
tween the strikers and management
and serious trou Bile is anticipated.
The Merchants association of New
York, to which the selection of New
York state day at the Omaha exposi-
ton was delegated by the New York
commission, has selected Tuesday,
July II, for the New York state day.
A dispatch to the New York World
from Port Antonio, Jamaica, says:
The United States auxiliary cruiser 81.
Louis was off Morant Point Friday.
She reported that she had captured a
Spanish merchantmen just out of
Kingston.
The Horr coal mines, including 5000
acres of coal lands in the eastern part
of Butte, Mont, have been sold to a
New York syndicate for three quarters
of a million dollars. 1t is the most
extensive plant in the west. J. How.
ard Conrad owned four-ffths, for
which he gets $500. 900.
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn has
directed the release of Jose Castel-
lanos, confined at Mcpherson barracks,
Ga. The man is a Spaniard and was
arrested at Tampa, but there was no
evidence against him at his examine
tion to show that he was engaged in
any actions prejudicial to the govern
ment-
A torpedo exploded while being test.
ed at St. Johns Bluff, near Jackson
vile, Fla, instantly killing J. ].
O'Rourke and Edward Houston, of
Jackson Vile, seriously iujuring Lieut..
Harts, of the United States engineer
corps, and painfully wounding stem
ographer named Barnham and Ne
gro laborer.
The government water barge which
was lost from the steamer Leonidas
off the North Carolina coast has been
discovered on the bar in Elmers inlet,
about 90 miles from Wilmington. The
barge at low tide has only about a
foot of water around her and it will
be difficult matter to get her off the
sand.
The navy departmenthast taken steps
to begin the court-martial against
Engineer G. White for neglect of duty
in the construction of the big dry dock
at Brooklyn, and has also taken meas
ures to have suit brought by the de-
partment of justice against the sure
ties on the bond of the contractor who
built the dock. ~
Private Geo. D. Coun, of Company G,
10th Pennsylvania volunteers, was ac.
cidentally wounded during target
practice at the Presidio. he was mark-
ing at the butts when bullet struck
an iron rod sustaining the target, .
fragment of which became detached
and inflicted painful but not neces-
sarily fatal wound upon Coun's head.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph says: Authen-
tic reports have been received here
that the situation in Madrid is adj
vancing with the greatest rapidity.
There is no doubt that a crisis exists
Spain will entreat the intervention Of
the powers almost Immediately; and
con fidential inquiries in this sense
have already been made here.
EnCiish Gunboats Go to Manila.
LONDON, June 1.-THE Hong Kong
correspondent of the Daily Mail says:
The British gunboat Rather will