Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-18
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The house Monday passed the senate
bill to establish an assay Office for the
Klondike gold at Seattle.
The Charleston will sail from San
Francisco for Manila Tuesday night
or Wednesday at the latest
MONDAYS statement of the condition |
of the treasury shows: Available cash |
balance S2Os, 763,34 gold reserve Sl76,-
1905
The American cable companies in
London have issued instructions to
their agents to refuse to transmit any
Spanish government messages.
A dispatch to Madrid from Blanco
says small naval toat has been blown
up off Cardenas, resulting in the loss
of II lives. Nationality not stated.
The senate's chaplain in his invoca-
tion at the opening of the session
Tuesday paid tribute to those who suf-
fer at home through horrors of war
Instructions have been given to the
maratime authorities of Barcelona not
to permit the departure of large steam
ers which might be used as auxiliary
cruisers.
The cen tral cable office of the West
ern Union Telegraph Co. has issued
notice that the Porto Rico government
prohibits all messages to or from the
United States.
The schooner Anna Louisa Lock
wood, from Conaives, Hayti, for Ches-
ter, Pa, and which was reported to
have been captured by the Spanish,
PASSED up Delaware bay Monday after
noon.
The Illinois congressional delegation
has been notified that 200 picked men
from the Illinois naval reserves will be
Immediately accepted and sent to Key
West for distribution among Adm.
Simpsons fleet.
The British second class cruiser
Pique has been ordered to the islant of
Iloilo, of the Philippine groupe, for
the protection of the merchants whose
lives and property are threatened by
the insurgents.
The United States cruiser Whining
| ton, Commodore c. c. Todd, when
about 80 miles east of Havana fired
four shells into Spanish trap in the
shape of derelict sinking it and thus
doing away with another piece of
Spanish trickery.
The Hawaiian government will not
proclaim neutrality. This stand is
taken on account of the existing rela-
tions between the United States and
Hawaii. The executive considers that
a proclamation of neutrality would be
breach of good faith.
The London Daily Mail says Tues
day morning: According to the most
trustworthy information the Spanish
cruisers Cardenal Cisneros, Princess
De Asturias and Catalina are not yet
ready for sea and therefore can not
have arrived at Martinique"
The torpedo boat Mckee and the
auxiliary torpedo boat destroyer
Yankton have been placed in commits
sion in the Norfolk navy yard Monday.
Lieut.. C. NJ knepper is in command
of the Mckee and Lieut.. Commander
j. E. Adams is in command of the
Yankton.
Maj. Gen. Merriam, commanding the
departments of California and the Co
lumbia, and his aide, Lieut.. Bennett,
arrived in San Francisco from Van
couver barracks Monday morning. He
at once assumed charge of all arrange
ments for dispatching the troops for
tho Philippine islands.
The Spanish squadron under Adm.
Cervera which left Curacao Sunday
evening after the cruisers Vizcaya and
Infanta Maria Teresa had taken on
about 700 tons of coal and great
quantity of provisions had not been
sighted Monday. When the squadron
disappeared it was going westward.
The cruiser Newark will go into
commission at the Norfolk navy yard
next Saturday, but may not be entire.
ly ready for sea for two weeks yet.
Capt. Albert S. Barker, now member
of the naval stragetic board, has been
assigned to the command of the New.
ark and will join that vessel on the 21st
inst.
Senator Gray and other influential
men have made strong protests agains,
the cruiser Columbia and other fine
war ships being kept on the New Eng
land coast when the enemy's ships are
in southern waters Senator Gray
had business with the president Mon
day and called his attention to the
matter
Chicago Defeats Cleveland.
CHICAGO, May 17..-Monday after