Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-27
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

"A Speclal lrUtn CiDFdtVar saws TWO
Austrian war ships will sail Friday
for Cuban waters.
| Wednesdays statement of the cond.
ton Of the treasury shows; Available
cash balance. s2O4, 9lS, o57; gold reserve,
s173. S6S, ,64S.
| Dick Oliver, a young Negro, was
lynched near Donaldsonvill Ga. We'd
nesday for attempted assault upon a
white woman.
Thirteen miners were killed We'd
nesday by an explosion of fire damp
in a coal mine at Crachet- Picquery,
near Mons. Belgium.
| At San Diego, Cal, Alfred lambda, a
Frenchman, has shot and killed his
wife and committed suicide. jealousy
and drink were the causes.
Reports from the northwestern
states indicate that President McKin-
leys second call for volunteers, asking
for $4,000 men, will meet with hearty
response
AT New York, Julie Wyman, vocal
ist well known in Chicago and through
the west, was Wednesday declared in
sane and ordered committed to the
Poughkeepsie asylum.
| The Madrid respondent of the
London Standard says number of
merchant steamers loaded with coal
from England have arrived at BARGE
Iona, Cadiz and Bilboa-
Congressman Jerry Simpson wants
to go to war as colonel of a Kansas
regiment. He telegraphed to Gov
Leedy Wednesday for authority to
raise regiment. 1t is probable the
request will be granted.
The First Arkansas regiment, Col.
Elias Chandler commanding. left Lit
tie Rock. Ark, at { o'clock Wednesday
ev, ming for Chickamauga. The Sec
| ond regiment is complete and is ready
to move when orders are received.
The house Wednesday set apart June
II for tributes to the late Senator
Isham g. Harris, of Tennessee. Pur-
suant to an arrangement the house
then listened to eulogies upon the late
Senator J. z. George, of Mississippi
Two hundred naval reserves Lieut..
Stratton, en- route from Chicago to
Tampa. passed through Montgomery,
Ala. Wednesday. They ate dinner at
the Unios station, surrounded by
cheering crowd of thousand people.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says: Spain recently
sent note inviting the powers to pro-
test jointly against the blockade of
Cuba. The powers decided to take no
action and no replies have been receive
ed at Madrid.
Capt. Concha, of the ill-fated Spanish
cruiser Don Juan de Austria, destroyed
at the battle of Manila. says that the
Spanish commanders were quite aware
that fighting was hor eless, but were
forced to it by the state of public opin-
ion at Manila.
Extraordinary activity in the war
and navy departments Thursday
morning. which was not limited to the
higher officials, but included every in
dividual in both services, gave every
indication of important and immediate
developments in the conduct of the
war.
A regiment of mounted ritiemen,
made up of 500 men from different
military organizations in Colorado
state has been formed in Colorado
Springs kilograms have been for
warded to Washington to ascertain if
such a regiment can be accepted by
the war department
The Second regiment of North Caro-
lima volunteers has been completed.
1t numbers 9S2 officers and men, and
Col. W. Fl. 5. Burwin will command.
The adjutant general says that under
the presidents call for more volunteers
he proposes to have one 12-company
white regiment and one 1O-company
Negro reg. g.msnt.
The officers and men composing the
First Mississippi volun teers have been
into the service of the United
States, and Col. e. NJ. Govan has noti-
fed the secretary of war Of tae reri-
ment's readiness Tor duty. The ad-
jutant genera. has issued orders to shs
composing the Second reg.
iment to mobilize at Jackson at oace.