Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-12
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Telegraph.

Hartford, has been offered the chair of
English literature in the University of
Minnesota.
In the wreck of the Austrian bark
Mattea for Pensacola, at Palermo, be-
fore reported, the captain and six of
the crew were drowned.
Steamers City of Seattle and Noyo
have sailed from Seattle, Wash, for
Alaska. The City of Seattle carried
500 passengers and the Noyo 200
Senior Juan L. Cuestas the president
of i. Uruguay ad interim, has exc
cuted his threatened coup d'etat and
has issued decree dissolving the as
sembly.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has reported favorably a bill to
ratify the agreement with the CO.
manche, Kiowa and Apache Indians in
Oklahoma.
Arrangements have been made to
transport the remaining detachment of
government relief expedition on the
steamer Lucille, which sails from Seat
tie next Sunday.
At Nowata, Kas.. John Wilson, city
marshal, in attempting to arrest man
named Dwyer, a whisky peddler, has
been shot by Dwyer. The marshal in
turn shot Dwyer. Both died within 10
minutes.
A special to the New York Herald
from Buenos Ayres says that advices
from Rio Janeiro are to the effect that
Japan has made an offer to Brazil to
purchase the warships now in course of
construction in Europe
Justice Sanford, of the United States
court at Tacoma, Wash, has granted
an injunction restraining the treas
urer of Lewis county from selling
Northern Pacific railroad lands for de-
| linqu ent taxes of 1891.
Senator Mark Hanna was one of the
guests of honor Thursday at the ninth
annual banquet of the Pennsylvania
| Scotch-Irish society. Senator Hanna's
speech was entirely humorous and de.
void of any mention of politics.
According to special dispatch from
Paris, Nine. Dreyfus is so seriously ill,
owing to worry, that she is unable to
trial, and in any case she refuses to
furnished any further testimony.
The queen regent is much concerned,
1t is said in court circles, over the un-
expected De LONE incident. Premier
Sagasta, Colonial Minister Moret and
other members of the cabinet, were as
tonished and much displeased with the
minister.
The house committee on military af-
fairs has reported favorably the bill to
restore Maj. j. w. Wham to his rank
and pay in the pay corps of the army.
The report fully eXonerates Maj.
Wham of the charge on which he was
court-martialed.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Mariposa, from Australian ports,
were so stalwart miners, who are on
their way to the Alaskan gold fields
They stated that at least 5000 people
would leave Australia for the gold
fields during the next few months.
The first of series of skating con-
tests between Joseph Donoghue,
the Canadian champion, and VIM.
Let's, of New Jersey, was skated
Thursday night at the Ice Palace, Phil
adelphia. The distance was one mile
and Donoghue won in three minutes,
| 46 seconds.
The senate committee on post offices
and post roads is not likely to report
the nomination of o. w. Petty to be
postmaster at Charleston, w. Va. A
general understanding has reached to
that effect. The senators do not want
to displace Mrs. Kenna, the widow of
the late Senator Kenna, who is present
incumbent of the Office.
c. M. Harris, of Hyde Park, Mass,
who has just returned from an expedi-
ton to the South Sea islands on behalf
of Baron Rothschild, reports that the
| volcano on Galapagos island was in
eruption. This volcano is known to
have been inactive for the past five
years, but when Mr.. Harris and his
party observed it it was belching forth
volumes of dense smoke and lava