Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-30
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

The United States monitor Terror,
which arrived at St Thomas, d. w. l.,
Wednesday for the purpose Of coaling,
left Thursday night
At Montre the United States rev.
enue cutter Gresham was raised and
put together, an1 will leave for Boston
as soon as she ships coal and supplies.
The steamer Portland, from St
Michael, arrived at San Francisco
Thursday evening, bringing seven re-
turning miners and quantity of gold
dust.
Whitslaw Reid narrowly escaped
severe injury in runaway while driv-
ing from his home, Ophir Farm. to
catch train for New York at White
Plains
Horatio S. Rubens, counsel for the
Cuban junta in an interview said that
the reason Spain made peace proposals
at this time was that Havana could not
hold out much longer.
The Soldiers Aid society of Color.
ado has decided to send DR.. Rose Kidd
Beere to the Philippines as special
Red Cross nurse for the Colorado sol-
diers. DIR. Beere was formerly super
intendent of the Colorado state home
for dependent children.
Nearly two hundred Michigan and
Wisconsin editors have arrived at Vic
toria, i. {. The Dominion govern
ment steamer, floating the stars and
to visit the vessels of her inajesty's
North Pacific squadron.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
been awarded the contract by the
navy department at Washington to
make all move ments of seamen, naval
recruits, marines and their accoutre-
ments throughout the United States
for the year ending June 80, 1899.
Won Veltheim, who shot and killed
Woolf Joel, the trustee of the estate of
the late Barney Barnato, the South
African millionaire, on March IA last,
was Thursday acquitted of the charge
of murder. The announce ment of the
verdict of acquittal was greeted with
loud cheers.
According to dispatch from Berlin
a newspaper there processes to know
that the Porto Rican colonial legisla.
ture has adopted autonomy and has
resolved to protest against American
occupation Of the island as violation
of the principles the United States
went to war to enforce
The Sd battalion of the South Da-
kota volunteers, the 18th Minnesota
recruits and 155 of the 1T Colorado re-
cruits broke camp at San Francisco
Thursday and marched on board the
transport steamer st. Paul, which
pulled out into the stream late in
the afternoon. The vessel sailed Fri-
day.
Twenty thousand Krag-Jorgensen
rifles have reached Newport News for
Sili pheub " L VI " IlcO lOT Luc uSe Ol
the volunte teers who compose tho mass
of the invading army. 1t is the un-
derstanding of the ordnance bureau
that these arms were shipped on one
of the transports that accompanied
Gen. Brooke.
The government OF Hayti has declin-
ed to permit this government to es-
tablish weather station on its do
main. Its action for this was request
for this privilege made by the secre-
tary of state at the instance of the
secretary of agriculture with an exc
press explanation of the purposes
sought and that the Haytien govern
ment would thus get the benefit of our
weather service.
The san Francisco Evening Post, in
an article published Thursday, says
that the United States will soon be
connected by cable with her newly &C.
quired Pacific possessions aud the ca.
BILE will connect the United States
from this city with Hawaii, the Lad.
rones, the Philippines and Hong Kong.
The paper says that most of the sur.
veys have been made. The contract
for the laying of the cable has already
been let