Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-18
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

Vigorous efforts are to be made to
ret the Hawaiian annexation resolu-
ton through the senate by the end Of
next week.
The sultan has given notification Of
the appointment of Oscar s. Straus, of
New York, as United States minister
to Turkey, in succession to Or. James
B. ANGEL, resigned.
In New York there is no abatement
for the demand for the new war bonds
Exrerts agree that the total of indi-
vidual subscriptions will not exceed
the SO, 900. 900 mark.
The president announced Thursday
that he would send to the senate
on Friday long list of appoint
ments of lieutenants in the army.
There are said to be between 150 and
200 of them.
Antonio Taribarillo was instantly
killed and nine laborsrs were injured
by the caving in of builling at
Avenue Is and Second street, New
York, Friday morning. The building
was in process of demolition.
Garrett Cochran, the famous Prince
| ton football coach, who passed the
medical examination preparatory to
enlsting in the volunteer army, has
changed hi, mind and will remain at
Berkeley, CAL, to coach the State uni
versity football eleven this year.
Instructions have been sent by the
navy department to Commodore Wat
son, commander in chief of the block
aiding squadron, directing him to send
Capt. Nicol Ludlow, commanding the
monitor Terror. to Havana, to nego-
tiate for she exchange of the Merrimac
heroes
Prof. Haupt, of the Nicaragua canal
commission, was before the senate
committee on the Nicaragua canal
Thursday. He expressed the opinion
that the canal as proposed was entire
ly feasible and placed the cost of con-
struction at between 500, 900, 900 and
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Ten federal prisoners arrived at
Seattle, Wash, on the steamer Queen,
from Alaska. in charge OF United
States Marshal Shoup. They will be
taken to San Quentin. Over one e-half
OF them are murderers under sentence
of Imprisonment for terms from six
years to life.
The question who shall command
the cruiser Philadelphia has been set
tied in favor of Capt George II. Wad.
leigh, now on duty at the Boston navy
yard. Capt. Wadleigh was formerly
in command of the cruiser Minneapo-
lis He has been on duty at Boston
only about year
Franl: Bellew, the Dixon prisoner,
was hanged at the Folsom (Cal.) prison
Thursday. He made 10 confession or
statement on the scatfold, but reiter-
ated the statement he made after his
arrest, in which he admitted he mur-
dered his brother and sister because
he had not received fair share of his
fathers estate.
1t has been decided to hold the in
ternational conference between the
United States and Can ada at Quebec
on the 10th of July. The Canadian
represen tatives will be Sir Wilfred
Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright and
Sir Louis Davis. Hon. Francis Lam
geller will in all probability be the
legal agent for the Dominion.
News was received at San Francisco
Thursday that all the troops in that
city and assigned for duty in Manila
will leave by the third expedition.
This body of men will be augmented
by the regiments now on the way to
that city. Only four transport ships
have actually been secured to handle
the men and it is announced that 10
more will be needed.
None of the Spanish soldiers in Cuba
have ever been in anything like bat
tie. They have been beset by small
insurgent bands, when they could not
avoid them, and they have sometimes
discharged their Mauser rifles into the
brush in the hope that there was some
thing to hit The experience of meet
ing with armed forces that will not
run when attacked will be an entire
novelty to them.