Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-21
SHORT SPECIALS.

The Madrid correspondent OF tns
Paris Temps says that IL Is reported
there that Manila has oapitula'cd.
though the ministers have notreceived
any news to that effect ssN.t
News of the temperance of yellow
fever at McHenry, Miss, caused NO ex.
citement at Key West Fla Key West
is considered healthy town and has
had no fever for seven years
Another gov, rnment vessel reports
MORO castle keeps firing heavy shells
at the bleekading squadron. On Fri
day 1a-inch she'll exploded danger
ously close to an American war ship.
A special dispatch from Belgrade,
Servia, says ex.Queen Natalie is or
ganizing an expedition to the seat OF
war between Spain and the United
States, in order to nurse both Amer
leans and Spaniards
The United States cruiser Columbia
which has been undergoing repairs at
the Brooklyn navy yard since Decora-
ton day, left the yard in command of
Capt. sands 4t o'clock sunday and
passed out to sea an hour later
1t is said in Madrid that Capt Gen.
August resigned the military leader
ship at Manila SO that the capitulation
OF that place may be signed by per-
son of less Importance than the captain
general OF the Philippine islands
Capt Aunon, the minister of marine,
who arrived at Carthagena Saturday
and inspected the iron-clad Lepanto,
reports that the Lepan to and the cruiser
Cardinal Cisneros and Princess de Aus.
turas viii be ready for sea in month.
| In view OF the approaching visit OF
Emperor William to Palestine, an
aid de camp of the sultan is eXamin-
ing and having repairs made upon all
the roads in Syria and Palestine, and
all the troops have been presented with
new uniforms.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, Capt
Engelbart, has arrived at Southamp.
ton from Bremen with damaged rud-
der and is in dry dock having i. re-
paired She will proceed to New York
on Friday next
Three Polish miners were suffocated
by smoke and steam from fire in the
Unity coal mine, near Latrobe, Pa
Their names were John Anger. Albert
Schebelk and John Willl. The FIRE
was caused by garments hung up
to dry falling on an oil stove and
igniting the coal
Fire has rract cally destroyed the
Grant opera house building in Albu-
quereue, n. NJ, causing loss approx
mating s2OO.OOo. Tie building con-
tanned numerous Offices, the contents
of which were totally destroyed. In
surance on building and conten IS
amounted to Si27.0OU. i,
Horatio W. EuLens, counsel for the
Cuban Junta, in an interview Sunday
| characterized the report that Maxine
Gomez was protesting against the in
! tervention of the United States as "a
lou ne Sdll Hp SuCli
letter as that ascribed to Gomez has
been received by the Junta.
Mai Gen. Merritt may sail for Ma.
Mia on the cruiser Philadelphia which
has just received orders to be ready
for sea by July /. The prospective
governor general of the Philippines is
| anxious to reach the islands as soon as
possible and it has been assumed that
he would go on the Indiana Of the
third feet of transports.
George Pearson, colored, was hanged
Saturday in the Madison comfy
(Tenn.) Jail for the murder Of San
Walker, colored. on the night OF May
3 1896. Pearson shot Walker from
ambush. Pearson met his fate with
perfect GOODNESS, making a brief tall
on the scaffold expressing confidenc.
in forgiveness of his sins .- y
At Tampa, Fla. Private Carter
Company Is, Fifth Maryland voiun
teers, while handling qua earelessly
caused its discharge, the ball goina
through three tents and striking Pri
vate Ostercamp of Com pany G, sam
regiment, passing into the abdomeI
and through the right lung. His in
j1ries have been pronounced fatal