Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-02-19
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Thursdays statement of the condi.
ton of the treasury shows: Available
,ash balance, S219, ,97S; gold re-
serve, Sl66, Gas, ,739
A decree has been gazetted, accept
ing the resignation of Senior Dupuy De
LONE, as minister of Spain at Wash.
Ington, and severely criticising him.
A movement has been set afoot to
have the United States erect monu-
nent to Gen. Lafayette in the city of
Paris, to be dedicated during the Paris
exposition.
The Dominion government has de-
,ided not to issue free miners certifi-
Gates at Lake Tagash and American
ports The miners will have to get
them at Vancouver or Victoria.
The navy department has received
cable dispatch from Capt. Symmonds,
commanding the Marietta at San Jose
De Gaueinala, reporting all quiet at
that point, with the town under mar
tial law.
August Ringling, father of the Ring
ling Bros, of circus fame, is dead at
Baraboo, Wis, after an illness of sew
eral months aged II. His death oc-
cured on the 46th anniversary of his
wedding.
AS result of the conference held
in New York Thursday by representa-
tives of Yale, Harvard and Cornell,
there will be triangular race be-
tween Yale, Harvard and Cornell at
New London this year.
Christopher Merry, the peddler, who
was to have been hanged Friday for
wife murder was Thursday respited
for 60 days by Gov. Tanner. Merry's
lawyers asked for time to appeal to
the Illinois supreme court.
The house committee on naval af-
fairs which has charge of the appro-
priation bill is at work on the meas
ure. An appropriation of 100000 for
the building of a new ship for duty on
Lake Erie has been agreed to.
Both houses of the Virginia legisla-
ture Thursday passed resolutions or
dering the national and state flags
over the state capitol half-masted for
"a hours as a mark of respect to the
post of duty on the Maine.
The Spanish government has cabled
instructions to the commander of the
warship Viscaya, leaving it to his dis
cretion when to quit New York. Or
ders have also been issued to Capt.
Peral to open an inquiry into the cause
of the disaster to the Maine.
Vice President Clark, of the Western
Union Telegraph Co., says that the
published report that the cable be-
tween Havana and Key West is down
is not true. He says two cables are
working all right, but that there has
been some delay on land wires owing
to high winds
The post Office department has been
informed that after March l samples
of liquids, greases, powders and glass
will be admitted to the mails of Great
Britain. Samples of these materials
are already admitted to the mails of a
number of countries.
Martin Riorden, a submarine diver
of Key West and a survivor of the
Maine, has been telegraphed for from
Havana by Consul Gen. Lee and Capt.
Sigsbee and will go over Immediately
to dive under the Maine and discover
the cause of the disaster.
Charles Eliot Norton, the distin-
guished critic and professor in Har-
ward university, has announced that
with the end of the present academic
year he will retire from the active du-
ties Of his position. Prof. Norton is
the Oldest member of the faculty.
The work of preparing the revenue
cutter Corwin for her Arctic trip is al
most completed and in a few days she
will be ready to start from San Fran
cisco for Alaska, where she goes to
supplement the work Of the Bear in
reaching the ice bound whalers. The
hull of the Corwin is being heavily
sheathed as a protection against the