Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-04
SHORT SPECIALS.

Thursdays statement of the condi-
ion OF the treasury shows: Available
.ash balance, s195, 4,oes; gold re-
ierve, S17l, ,6sS, 55a
/ Eric Mackay, the author, is dead.
de was born in London in 1851. and
wrote q number of books. the most
prominent of which was Love Let
!ers of Violinist."
@. Tow, a Chinaman, has enlisted at
santa Ana. CAL, in the army, and will
DIN Company l., of this city, now at
he presidio, San Francisco. Tow was
porn in Sonoma county, CAL, 2S years
lgo.
A letter received from Paris says
considerable quantities of large and
mall ammunition are traversiny the
3yrenees from France into Spain, and
that there is no attempt to stop the
rattle
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, John F. Friend,
If Ft. Wayne, Ind, was sentenced in
SQUIRT Thursday to eight months inn
9risonment in the county prison. He
vas convicted of defrauding local
merchant out of $4,000.
Philip Welton stanford, of San
Francisco, is dead from pneumonia in
New York city, after an illness of only
three days. Mr.. Stanford was the son
If Col. A. p. Stanford and nephew OF
he late Leland Stanford.
The owners of the British steamship
Foscolia, which was sunk by the
United States cruiser Columbia off
Fire Island on Sunday last, will soon
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:laim fer damages in the sum of about
100000
The report that the Spanish troops
hip Alfonso MIL hal been captured
by al American auxiliary cruiser is
without foundation. 1t is announced
officially that the Alfonso MIL is now
andinC her cargo of provisions at
Porto Rico
Four batteries of heavy artillery
now stationed at the Preside, will go
to Manila with the next expedition,
and their places at the Preside will be
flied by men from the ranks of the
heavy volunteer force now in camp at
the Presidio.
a dispatch to the New York World
from London says: Cardinal Vaughan
in letter to MIR w. T. stead on Anglo
American relations, rejoices at the
prospect of closer friendship of thos.
who are one with Englishmen in blood,
language and ideas.
Secretary of War Alger and Capt
Mahan, of the naval strategy board,
were the guests OF honor Thursday
night ct the dinner of the Farmers
club given at A. j. Cassatt's Chester
brook farm, near Berwyn, Pa No
speeches were made.
Thirty-nine Spanish prisoners, cap
tured on the Spanish steamship Rita,
off Porto Rico. on May s, arrived in
New York Friday on the Clyde line
steamship Seminole. They were turn
ed over to the Austrian consul Tor
shipment back to Spain.
A large consignment of campaign
hats, gauntlets, Berlin gloves, trumpets
and ambulance guidons was shipped
Tuesday from the Schuylkill arsenal
to the United States quartermaster at
San Francisco. presumably for the use
of the Manila expedition.
The directors of the Oakland (Cal.)
board of trade have instructed Secre-
resolutions to be forwarded to the
California senator's urging them to use
every effort to secure Hawaiian an
nexation as soon as possible.
Assistant Secretary Meikle john, of
the war department, Thursday secured
additional transports of capacity of
approXimately 8, 900 men for the Cuban
army of invasion. This swells the to-
tai number of available vessels to over
so, with carrying capacity OF nearly
so. coo men.
The steamer Albion, from Copper
river, reports that there has been
zier. A number of pack animals were
buried in the snow, but no human ives
were lost The glacier is now impassa-
BILE aad traffic for the season is said to
be at an end.
The English newspaper correspond.
ents, Messrs. Whighan and Robinson,
recently captured on Cuban soil after
having been landed on the coast from
a yacht, have been released from cuss
tody owing to the represen Il lions
made in their behalf by Mr.. Alexander
Gollam, the British consul 1T Havana.
Representative OF John Jacob Astor
has been in st. Louis for the past two
days attending the mule market and
has purchased rs mules and so horses
for the battery that Mr.. Astcr is or.
ganizing in New York. The animals
will be examined by the government
authorities and If satisfactory will be
shipped to New York to Mr.. As4or.
Senator Faulkner Thursday intro
duced bill authorizing she secretary
OF war 10 appoint two matrons to
each regiment OF volunteers to serve
during the war with Spain. Their
duty is prescribed as follows:
To mend, darn, wash the clothing and
see to the sanitary condition of the