Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-04
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From An Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.

by Ieiegrapn.
The Russian steamer st. Petersburg
has passed through the Bosphorus
with 1853 recruits bound for Vladivo-
stock.
A bill appropriating S100,o for the
erection of public building at New
castle, Pa, was passed in the senate
Wednesday.
There is continuance of the activ-
ity at the New York arsenal. The
shipping of shells and other projectiles
to the Notifications about the harbor
continues.
Twenty-Five Englishmen bound to
the Yukon gold fields arrived at Hall
fax Wednesday on the steamer Lake
Huron. They brought with them 20
trained Belgian dogs.
Gen. Gascogne, commander in chief
of the forces in Canada, arrived in
Washington Wednesday. His visit is
understood to have no official signiti-
canoe. He is accompanied by Mrs.
Gascogne.
Senor Campossales has been elected
president and Senior Rosasilvo has
been elected vice president of Brazil
by large majority. The opposition
in Rio Janeiro abstained from voting.
There was no disorder.
The steamer George w. Elder has
sailed for Skaguay and Dyea with 400
passengers. Her freight space was ta-
ken up with miners outfits, and several
hundred tons of merchandise had to be
held over until another steamer.
Gov. Lowndes, of Maryland, Wednes-
day signed the Crothers anti.racing
bill, which is designed to put stop to
horse racing in Cecil county where the
Iron Hill, Barksdale and Elliton win
ter racing tracks are located. The bill
takes effect on April 4.
Several leading Kansans have sent
letters to Washington asking the fed
eral government to dismiss iEdict-
ments pending against six Stevens
county men sentenced to death in Par
is, Texas, in 1890, for their completely
in the famous Haystack murders
At Bristol, R. l., the new United
States torpedo boat Talbot was We'd
nesday given her first builders trial
over the seven knot course. The trial
was in every way success and it was
announced at the close that the boat
made the record of 90 knots an hour.
Terrific weather is reported from
Northern Persia, the worst known in
a quarter of a century. The high road
from Resht, on the Caspian sea, tc
Teheran is impossible from snow
drifts. More than hundred persons
have perished, and many others are
missing.
The London Standard Thursday
morning says: ''The government is
negotiating with Russia and Germany
in an endeavor to embody the agree
ment regarding China in a convention
but it is doubtful whether those pow
ers will bind themselves in such a def
mite manner"
Among the passengers who arrived
Thursday in New York on board the
steamer Alliance, from Colon, was Gen
Thomas Moonlight, of Kansas, eX
United States minister to Bolivia, ant
Hon. Granville Stuart, of Montana, ex
United States minister to PARAGUAY
and Uruguay.
The report that Spain is negotiating
to buy from Chilli three warships nov
in course of construction in England
is characterized as absurd by govern
ment officials in Valparaiso. The.
laugh at the story and declare that tn
Chilian government has never receive,
even the most remote hint from Spail
as to the purchase of warships.
Fifty head of pure bred Herford cal
tie sold at Sunny Slope farm, near EN-
poria, Kas., Wednesday, brought price
averaging over $4oO per head For tn
imported yearling bull, March Or
$1,000 was realized, and Miranda,
yearling heifer raised on the farm
brought S9O6. Stockmen from all owe
the west are attending the sales.
1.-The United States will have ever
town on the Spanish coast blown t
atoms, am ready to wager, mont
after the beginning of hostilities
said William Allan, NJ. P, to the Ne
York World correspondent. Mr.. ALA
represents the Gateshead division
the house of commons, is one of til
largest ship builders on the Tyne an
is an acknowledged high authority c
naval questions.
Rurial of the Victims