Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-15
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

Senator Foraker, OF Onio, arrived IN
Chattanooga at T:8o Thursday morning
and went at once to the camp He
will remain several days, the guest OF
the Ohio officers. 4.
Brig. Gen. Goblin, commanding the
Third brigade at Camp Alger, Wednes-
day received orders to transfer his
brigade to the Crittenden farm near
Dunn Loring, Va.
The bundesrath, or federal council
of Switzerland, has prohibited the inn
portation Of fresh and unpeeled dried
American fruit, with view of keep
ing out the San Jose scale.
According to advices from Havana
received at Key West Wednesday, Gov
Gen. Blanco attempted to commit sui
eide when he learned beyond doubt
that Adm. Cervera's squadron had been
annihilated.
d. n. A. Ray, clerk of the senate
committee on interstate commerce,
has been appointed executive officer OF
the Hawaiian commission. The COM
mission now expect to sail on the
Oceanic line steamer The Alameda ON
the 10th of August.
Assistant Secretary Meikle john We'd
nesday announced that the war de-
partment had secured by purchase the
steamship Arizona of the Northern
Pacific Steamship Co, She is a vessel
of over 5000 tons and is to be devoted
to transport purposes on the Pacific
coast
The defeat of the imperial troops,
near Woo Chow, is confirmed Thou
sands of bodies have been recovered
from the river and have been buried at
Woo Chow. The losses Of the imperial
force are proba baby more than l,5oO
killed, which was the number first an
nounced.
In response to an inquiry on ths
subject a news correspondent at Ber.
lin was officially informed Thursday
that nothing, either officially or unof-
6cially, is known by the German gov
ernment of the cruiser Irene's alleged
interference With the insurgents at
Subig bay.
The firm of D. Vanaken & Co., of
New York, have been awarded a con-
tract to build docks aud short rail-
road at Santiago de Cuba to facilitate
the movement OF American troops. Ths
government has placed at the disposal
Of the men, who will leave as soon as
possible, the ship Roumanian.
Col Geo. Leroy Brown was sworn in
at Knoxville, Tenn, Wednesday, with
the last company of his regiment, the
4th Tennessee. This is the first regi-
ment in the United States to be mus
tered in with the maximum number OF
enlisted men and the first to be mus
tered in under the second call
Gen. Blanco says the living condi-
tions in Havana are constantly grow
ing worse, the greatest distress neces-
sarily falling on the Cubans, because
nearly all the food is seized for the
troops. Of those there are about TO-
900 in the city, consisting of volunteers,
modified troops, militia and regulars
Capt Charles E. Clark, commanding
the battle ship Oregon, has been ap-
pointed chief of staff of Commodore
Watson, commanding the Eastern
squadron, under orders to proceed to
European waters and harass the coast
If Spain and to pursue and destroy the
Spanish feet in command OF Adm.
Camara.
Owing to the probability that re
publican rising in Spain would be fol.
lowed by similar movement in Portu.
gal, the Portuguese government is
preparing to take energetic measures,
such as sending Portuguese troops tc
the Spanish frontier and calling out
the reserves in the event of disorders
in Spain.
The president Thursday made the
following nominations: Jacob F.
Kent, to be major general of the vol
unteers; Samuel i. NJ. Young, to bt
ma jor general of volun nteers; Hen ry
Carroll, to be brigadier general of vol
unteers; William W. Harts, to be en-
gineer officer of volunteers, with ranl
of major.
| Advices received in London Thurs
day from the Canary islands, under
date of July 4, said the two Spanish
torpedo boats we're still at Las Palma
and it was announced that a Spanish
war ship was at anchor at Teneriffe
Ships are not allowed to enter the har
Dor after dark and the coast light
were extinGuished. Most of the visit
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