Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-09
TEIEGRAPHIC BREvITyEs.

md Brutus started for Manilaat 1850
tuesday afternoon.
From all indications the cable be-
ween Hayti and Cuba has not worked
ince Monday at midnight. 1t is prob
| bly, cut.
| No news has been received in Paris
% justify the rumor on the bourse
tuesday that war had broken out be-
ween Chill and Argentina.
A dispatch to the London Daily
chronicle from Gibraltar says that
ldm. Camara, with the Cadiz reserve
.ouaoron, will sail for Cuba in fort
tight.
A Washington dispatch says that the
donadnock has been ordered to 60 to
laval with transport carrying q
arge number of marines, raise the
american flag there and establish
'ase of supplies
Lieut.. Commander Sturdy was buried
1t Key West Tuesday with military
lonors The services were held in the
Methodist church, in front of which
rs marines, including bugle and
lrum corps were drawn up
Irving NJ. Scott, president of the
Union Iron works, San Francisco. in a
etter to the Milwaukee Journal
stated that according to his belief the
,ew battleship Wisconsin" would be
aunched some time in Novenber
At T:l5 Tuesday evening the navy
department received dispatch from
Adm. Sampson announcing that be-
sween 1850 and 10 o'clock Monday
| morning he bonn barded the Santiago
| rortifcations and entirely silenced
them.
The siege guns that are going to
ba with the army of invasion have
! nearly all come from small ports not
! part of the regular coast defense plan,
out open to attack from the sea, and
from many cities of considerable i'm
oortance.
Several New York papers publish
| dispatches from points in the West
Indies stating that Spanish torpedo
boat destroyer, supposed to be the
Terror, was sunk on Monday night
near the mouth of Santiago harb Dor.
The reports are unconfrmed
At ribault, Mimi. Miss Jane Whip
Pile Scandrett, granddaughter ter of Bishop
Whipple, and Russell Ross Burt, Of
Los Angeles, Cal, son of President
Burt of the Union Pacific railway,
we're married Tuesday. Bishop Whip.
pie performed the ceremony.
A proclamation issued by Aguinaldo,
The insurgent chief, points to desire
to set up native administration in
the Philippines under an American
protectorate. Aguinaldo, with an adj
visory council, would hold the dictator.
ship until the conquest of the islands
and would then establish republican
assembly.
4 special from Goldsboro, n. c., says
l2 stores were burned at Mount Olive
Monday night. Loss, 100000, with in
surance not to exceed $1,000. The
prin :ipal losers were: R ]. Souther-
land, j. d. Switzerland, DR.. L. p. Aaron,
c. B. Hatch, James R. Hatch, B. H.
Hatch, John 0. smith, c. b. Price and
Parker Brothers.
News has just reached the Cuban
junta in New York of victory
achieved by the Cuban forces ever
division of the Spanish army at Jigu-
ami, province of Santiago, on May %.
1t was one of the most decisive bat
ties which the patriots have gained in
many months, and the most important
one since the war was declared by the
United States against Spain.
Kinder Fl. Hargo, full b.ooded
Seminole Indian, is row pris ,ner in
the United States Jail at Miami charged
with the murder of Mrs. Laird, for
whose death two young men, Sampson
and McGeisey, were burned to death
by a mob near Newark, !. T., last
January. The government ali along
las meiatqiaea that the two Indians
bnrne1 to death were innocent.
The navy department has decided to
give the naval cadets at Annapolis an
opportunity to see 'real warfare by
taking assignments on the war SHIPS
IN lieu of customary summer vacation.
As a result about half of the second.
class men and quite a number of the
third-class men have been assigned to
duty on the Indiana, New York, Iowa
and other ships in West Indian waters.