Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-21
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Dy AetoSfaPhs
TUESDAYS statement of the condition
OF the treasury shows: Avaiiabla cash
balance sac, 5S1, ,643; gold reserve, ,s17s,-
ssi, 736.
A dispatch to the New York World
from Port au Prince, Hayti, says:
"Hayti will not aid Spain in procuring
supplies. Spain has no coal in Hayti."
Gov. Holcomb, through Adj. Gen.
Barry, has issued an order permitting
several companies of the Nebraska ma
tional guard to recruit up to the limit
of 65 men.
The infantry at Fort Reno, o. T.,
left Tuesday via the Rock Island rail-
road and Fort Worth, Tex, for Mobile.
The calvary left via the Choctaw rail-
road for Uhickamauga.
Five companies of the Thirteenth
United States infantry, under com
mand of Col. A. T. Smith, left Buffalo,
n. Y, at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
on the Nickel Plate road for Tampa.
Gov. Tanner has ordered 30 50-calibre
Springfield rifles sent to Rosborough,
near Sparta, Randolph county, and
1000 rounds of ammunition to be used
in quelling disturbances of rioting
coaling miners.
Mrs. julius McAfee. a daughter of
the late Gen. Humphrey Marshall, of
Kentucky, died in Washington very
suddenly Tuesday morning of heart
disease. Mrs McAfee was poetsss
and authoress of some note.
On account of the question raised as
to the status of the militia in case of
war and the prospects that they will
be held at home to repel invasion, the
services of the Montana national
guard have been rendered the govern
ment in the capacity of volunteers.
Light battery ID" Fifth artillery,
under command of Capt. Thorpe, start
ed from Fort Hamilton Tuesday at ,
o'clock for Chickamauga. There were
20 men in the command. The Balti-
more g. Ohio railroad carried them
south.
The police commissioners of San
Francisco have adopted resolution
declaring that in case of war police Of
fcers who enlist will not lose their
places, which will be filed during
lDGlI dOSChGC ALCh NhooC oPpoihs
ment shall be merely temporarily.
Gen. Jos. W. L. Vance, of Spring
field. ILL.,, has issued call for regi-
ment of volunteers in case of war with
Spain, to be placed at the disposal of
the state authorities. Gen. Vance at
tended West Point, was an officer in
the union army and was adiutant gen.
eral of Illinois from 1884 to 1891.
There have been many applications
at the United States embassy and at
the United States consulate in London
this week for enlistment in the United
States army or navy. Most of the ap.
plicants were Englishmen, including
several officers and former officers OF
the British army of lieutenants grade.
Gen. Miles made another addition tc
his staff Tuesday. Brig. Gen. j. C.
Breckenridge, now inspector general
of the United States army, will serve
on Gen. Miles staff as chief of inspec.
tion department. This makes four
staff officers selected for assignment,
on Gen. Miles staff within the last few
days. '
Tuesday afternoon the Third regi'
ment of United States infantry left
Fort Smelling for Mobile in three sec
tions on the Milwaukee &c St Paul
road, passing half an hour later
through the union depot sheds, where
a crowd of several thousand people en-
Enthusiastically cheered them during
their short stay
The tug Vigilant has been added tc
the feet of Americas naval vessels
The purchase price is 100000. The
vessel was Immediately taken to the
naval representative at the Union Iror
works and formal transfer made. The
Knights of the Red Branch Rifles have
volunteered their services in the even,
of war with Spain.
1t is stated in New York that Spain
unable to wait until her orders fo
guns at Krupp's cannon factory arr
executed, has been. trying to purchas'
| guns elsewhere in Germany, says tn
Berlin correspondent. of the New Yorl
World. She has not been able to Sc
cure any yet, as the government look
askance at all such proposals.