Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-28
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Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Secretary Alger has directed that the
rendezvous for Texas troops be changed
from Houston to Austin.
A dispatch from Manila says the
Spaniards have captured the American
bark Saranac loaded with coal.
Tuesdays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, s219, l57, ,9sl; gold reserve,
SIZE, Cos, ,902.
Ham mburg- line officials an
nounce that Fuerst Bismarck and
Hamburg have been purchased by
United States.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt has de-
tailed the New Jersey reserve battalion
to the Resolute and Badger, mem bers
of the coast patrol feet.
Senate foreign relations committee
Wednesday considered but took no ac-
tion on proposition that the United
States should annex the Hawaiian is
lands.
The Hong Kong correspondent of
the London Daily Mail says that a
number of Philippine rebels there ask
ed permission to accompany the Amer
lean feet to Manila.
The torpedo boat Porter has arrived
at Key West from off the Cuban coast
and reports that the position of the
blockade continues unchanged. There
has been no firing on either side.
Advices received at Havana say that
H.
fuegos with money and ammunition,
but make no mention of a blockade
having begun before her arrival.
The Spanish merchantlnan Teles-
fora, Capt. Harminage, bound from
Galveston to Liverpool with a cargo of
cotton and grain, put in at Kingston,
Jamaica, Tuesday, fearing capture.
1t is rumored in Plymouth, Eng,
that Spanish gunboat is patrolling
the entrance of the channel, off the
Lizard, the lighthouse situated on the
| extreme southwestern coast of Eng
land.
1t is reported from Madrid that the
Spanish fleet has been at sea for soma
days, and the news of the lombard
ment of American coast towns is eX-
pected at the Spanish capital before
long.
Gen. Miles and Cuban representa-.
tives at an important conference We'd
nesday went over plans of operations.
The Cubans have arranged for Lieut..
Rowan's safe conduct to the insurgent
camps.
The Russian press thinks that if the
United States fails to gain naval vic.
tory soon Spain's honor will be saved
and Europe will insist upon the latter's
capitulation in order to prevent loss to
commerce.
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
Tuesday captured Lieut. Pedro Fer
nandez of the Spanish army, who was
returning to his family on a small
sloop. Lieut.. Fernandez is detained on
the flagship.
Spain, according to dispatch from
Rome 70 London news agency, has
bought the Italian Navigation Co. s
steamers, Sirio, Orione and Regina
Margharita for conversion into auxil-
iary cruisers.
The navy department has declined to
accept the Fuerst Bismarck and Co.
lumbia, rendered to the government as
auxiliary cruisers, for the reason that
the vessels are said to be unsuitable for
such service.
The work of building the fortifica-
tions at Gull and Plum islands, the ex-
treme end of Long Island, is almost
completed. When the guns are mount
ed the approaches to the sound from
the ocean will be well guarded.
At London the anti-Parnellites Tues.
day adopted a resolution expressing
their ''warmest sympathy and best
wishes with the government and peo.
pie of the United States in their
humane efforts to liberate the Cubans. /"
After careful consideration the board
of directors of the Philadelphia mu.
scum has decided to send CONNIE rcial
com mission to China early next month
for the purpose of extending the trade
relations between the United States
and China