Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-16
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From A P,rts of the countr.

The Victor mill, OF CohoeS, N. u,
the largest wooden mill in the United
States, burned Tuesday morning.
The Ere ch chamber of deputies
adopted Monday the postal arrange
ments signed at Washington in Juno
last
A dispatch to the New York World
from Seoul, Corea, says that Russia
has withdrawn her advisors at Corea's 8
request.
Mondays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance s225, 593, ,7s4; gold reserve $780,
733. .13O.
Twelve thousand dollars will bo
raised by the Naval Reserve associa-
ton of Illinois to uniform and equip
the Chicago ships crew.
James S. Fowler, formerly of the
largest grain dealers in the west, died
Monday at st. Mary's hospital, Mil
waukee, aged 6s Mr.. Fowler retired
from business several years ago.
The United States cruiser San Fran
cisco sailed from Lisbon Tuesday, GO
ing in southwesterly direction. The
war department has decided to COM
plete the defenses of the port of Lisbon
as speedily as possible.
A draft of SO men for the Columbia
and Minneapolis at League island was
sent off from the Brooklyn navy yard
Tuesday. They were taken off by a
navy yard tug and sent to Jersey City
in charge of Warrant Officer Peter
Ward.
At Boston the receiving ship Wabash
was crowded Monday with applicants
who desired to enlist. Up to o'clock
Monday afternoon not less than 200
had taken the examination, but out
of this number not more than a dozen
passed.
A dispatch from Vienna to the Lon
don Daily Mail says the Agrarian re-
volt in Hungary is spreading. In Il
conflict between the peasants and
gcndarmes on Sunday at Duna Foldvar,
two peasants were killed and 40
wounded.
A,dispatch to the New York Even
ing World from Havana says: A tele-
gram received by Consul General Lee
from Consul Baker Monday afternoon
says the wife of Senator Thurston died
Monday on board the yacht Anita,
Sagua harbor.
According to the New York World
submarine mines are being' placed in
the channel off Sandy Hook by the
corps of engineers under the direction
of Col. H. M. Robert. The greatest
secrecy has been maintained by the
officers and men in charge of the
work.
According to an official dispatch re-
ceived in Madrid from Manila, capital
of the Philippine islands, Monday, 500
insurgents were killed during the
siege of Balinao. The dispatch adds
that the insurgent forces have not Of
fered any resistance to the Spanish
troops sent to the relief OF the garri-
son.
John Shore, one of the most famous
detectives in Europe, is dead in Lon
don. He was connected with the Lon
don police force for 50 years, and for
many years was at the head of the
criminal investigating department of
the New Scotland yards. In 1896 he
became the European correspondent
of the Pinkerton agency.
Col. Haywood, the commandant of
the marine corps, Monday made five
details of marines for cruisers now be-
ing repaired or ready for commission.
There are two drafts of 45 each for the
Philadelphia and the Charleston at
Mare Island, one of So for the Newark
at Nor.olk, and two of 80 each for the
Columbia and Minneapolis at League
Island.
/ The Dayton Coal and Iron Co., at
Dayton, Tenn, has announced an ad-
vance of 10 per cent. in the wages of
its miners, 1,1OO in number, to take eff
feet April l. Other laborers had their
wages advanced Monday from 10 to Is
per cent. Thisis the carrying out of an
agreement between the operators and
miners entered into in January just
after the strike was settled.