Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-08-23
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

The cable line between Hong Kong
and Manila is now being operated.
At NJ adrid the death is announced
of Don Federico Madrazo, the cele-
brated Spanish painter, in his s4th
year.
The Porto Rico commission, it is
announced, has been appointed by
Spain. 1t is composed of Adm. VAL
larino, Gen ortega and Senior Sanchez
de Laguila.
At New York the death is announced
of Charles Edward Pratt, founder of
the Bicycling World, first president of
the League of American Whe linen
and a pioneer in bicycling.
The American transports Peru and
Pue bla, having on board Gen. Otis and
Gen. Hughes, arrived at Manila at
o'clock Sunday morning. There was
no serious illness on board either of
the vessels.
The plant OF the High Falls Sulphite
! Pulp and Mining Co., located at Py.
rites, n. Y, has been destroyed by fire.
The cause is unknown. The loss is
| placed at $500. 00o and there was an in.
surance OF $4,000.
Conditions about the great state
war and navy building practically
have assumed their normal aspect
Only few clerks were on duty in the
principal bureaus Sunday and they die
only few hours work.
The missionary collection taken al
the Christian alliance meetings pre-
sided over by Dr.. Simpson Sunday
amounted to S6O,0J0, About $1,000 o
that amount was pledged toward send
ing missionaries to Cuba and the Phil
ippines.
Brig. Gen. King is in charge of this
troors on the Arizona. Maj. Gen
Merriam has instructions to erect 6
hos spital at Honolulu to cCst, with It's
site, $50, 900. barracks for at leas;
1900 tro2ps are also to be erected a
! Honolulu.
The ships belonging to Adm. Sanp
sons fleet at New York received thou
sands Of callers Sunday. The crowd:
which visited the war vessels were
4 second only to those which greete>
i, them during their progress up th'
North river on Saturday.
, A dispatch from Budapest to Lon
don news agency says that sunday
4 while a regiment was crossing pom
!, toon bridge over the River Maros. neal
Hoad, the riige collapsed. Three
: hundred men were immersed, and it il
feared that so were drowned.
Private James G. Walters, of troo-
: d, 9th cavalry, who was one of the frs
. party of sick soldiers sent to the New
Haven (Ct.) hospital from MontauI
! Point, is dead of typhoid fever. He wa
: about 20 years OF age and belonged il
, Knox Forks. Knox county, Ky.
The United States auxiliary nava
force, which week ago consisted o
+ Washington CORES spondeat Of the Ney
/ York Tribune. was reduced to % YES
sells. and by the end of next week i
will have disappeared altogether unit
another war shall call it into service
Notices have been posted at Frank
: ford arsenal, Philadelphia, to the c.
!, feet that the services OF all the extr
e men who were put to work since tn
'' outbreak OF the war will be dispense
i with on September l. About 200 PEI
y sons are affected by the order. Tn
reduction in force will reduce the dali
:, output from $50, 900 to 1900 cartridge:
5, The British steamer Toledo, Capt
y Wishart, which sailed from Galveston
on July 20 for Rotterdam, struc.i o.
r Grim rock, Sicily islands, Saturday
). night in dense fog and foundered a
~ most immediately in % fathom
e of water. There was just time /
launch large boat and all wer
=, saved, many cad in their night clothe