Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-04
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

IN the United states against 19l last
year, and 90 in Canada against 25 last
year.
A United States weather bureau has
been opened in Colon, Colomb bia, and
reports Of weather conditions are be-
ing cabled daily.
The war department Friday received
word that the steamer Resolute, which
IS to carry the Cuba n commission to
Havana, will not be able to leave New
York until Monday
On the recomme ndaton of the Swed-
ish Norwegian council, King o car
has notified the czar of his acce ptance
0 the invitation to send delegates to a
peace conference
The following is Gen. Lawton's re-
port of health conditions at Santiago:
santiago, Sept 2.-Total sick. 800;
total fever, 139; total new cases fever,
I; total returned to duty, 10; no deaths"
In answer to kilograms from Gov.
ClCdgh, the war department Friday
night telegraphed that orders for mus
tcring out the 18th and 14th Minnesota
regiments would be issued immediate.
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All the factories along the Staten
Island sound were closed Saturday,
owing to the intense heat Ntar.y
1000 men were forced to stop work.
Six cases OF heat prostration are in the
hospital.
Secretary Gage has given instruc-
tions to bank examiners to make such
inspections of 1apers held By the
banks as will enable the examiners to
report whether the war revenue act is
being or has been complied with.
At Greedy, Ia, Friday night John q.
Cooksley, a boy who Lived with an old
man named Glover, shot and killed
Glover and then killed himself. after
the house had been surrounded by
neighbors who demanded admittance.
Battery i, Illinois national guard,
left Galesburg, ILL.,. Friday night for
Springfield with their two gatling gurs.
They will go into camp at springfield
and will be ready to proceed to Pana
on short notice. All was quiet there
Friday night.
The marine hospital service was Off
c:ally advised Friday of the ten new
cases of yellow fever which have been
discovered at Orowood, Miss. The
officials are at sea as to the origin of
the fever there and have no definite
theories to work upon.
The third hospital train sent from
Philadelphia under the aus spices of the
Medico- -Chirurgical hospital, arrived
from Camp Meade, Pa, with more
than one hundred sick soldiers on
board Saturday morning. Most of the
men are suffering from typhoid fever.
Gen. Miles and his army of between
four and five thousand volunteers, now
en- route to this country from Porto
Rico, will not parade in New York City
or elsewhere as a body upon their ar
rival. The official announce ement Of
this fact was made at the war depurt-
ment saturday.
A fire which originated Friday in
| Alex Caswell's livery barn in the vii.
Iage of Rapid River, Mich. destroyed
$4,000 worth of property, on which
there was but very little insurance. A
dozen buildings We're burned. Twen-
| ty-fve horses were burned to death in
the livery stable.
Joe Malone was hanged in the coun-
ty Jail in Dallas, Tex, for outraging
Mrs. Frederick Stein, an aged Ger.
man woman. He died fearlessly, say
ing he was going to Heaven and that
he richly deserved his fate. Malone
was a young Negro of shiftless char.
acter and no fixed habitation.
Surgeon General Sternberg Friday
received a dispatch from Chief Sur
yeon Woodbury. at Ponce saying that
the hospital ship Relief will arrive at
Philadelphia next Tuesday morning
with e4s patients from Porto Rico
aboard. They will be distributed
among the hospitals at Philadelphia.
The British war office has received
q message saying that the British gun.
boats which went up the Nile beyond
Nasri island have returned to Nasri.
They cleared the right bank of the
river of dervishes and demolished the
forts on Tuti island without suffering
any damage from the return fire OF
the enemy. The howitzer practice oi
the Gunners was excellent.
Triple Alliance.
TACOMA, Wash, Sept Late