Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-24
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

Failures for the week have been 3Ot
in the United States against 297 last
year, and II in Canada against IS last
year.
Star Pointer paced mile Friday
aftern oon at the Crosse Point track in
2:o11f, failing to equal his record of
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At least 1000 Of the volunteers
who 20 to Porto Rico are to be sup
piled with the Krag-Jorgsnsen maga-
zine rifle used by the regular army.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: 1T is as
serted here that valuable petroleum
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miles of Buluwayo,"
The London Daily Telegraph Friday
publishes dispatch from St Peters
burg which says the ladies of the Rus
sian court are greatly upset at the fact
that the czarina has forbidden cigar
cite smoking in her presence.
To the question, What is to be done
Win oCii. SioAtCL iva SOA Dos hc' -
Santiago?" the heads of the war adj
ministration car find but one answer.
That is to keep it in Cuba until every
vestige of yellow fever is stamped out
of it
A section of almost FIVE thousand
troops will sail for Porto Rico on Mon
day next from Newport News. They
will go on the auxiliary cruisers st.
Paul and St Louis and the transports
Massachusetts, Roumania and City of
Washington.
Ferdinand w. Peck said Saturday
that the headquarters of the commits
sioner general to the Paris exposition
will be at once established at the
Auditorium building, Chicago. Offices
will also be promptly opened in New
York and Paris.
Capt Otto Lehfeldt, we'll known
along the lakes, is dead at Milwaukee
after an illness of three weeks. His
death was due to stomach troubles.
In the civil war he was an officer on
the battleship Octorara, which cap
tured many rrzes.
James H. Donnelly, chief nightcierk
in the New Haven (Ct) post Office, has
been arrested charged with the embez-
element of money from letters and in
default OF $500 bond, was taken to
Jail to await a hearing before United
States Commissioner Wright, August S
The Hong Kong correspondent of
the London Daily Mail says: The
latest mail from Manila reports that
the rebels have lately suffered several
reverses and have lost territory south
of Malate. Gen. Aguinaldo has issued
an absurd proclamation dealing chief
ly with Official insignia.
In order to allow shipbuilders more
time for the consideration of the sub
ject, the navy department has extend
ed the time for the admission of pro-
posals for the construction of 16 tor
redo boat destroyers and 12 torpedo
boats from August o next, the date
set, until August 16, 3 week
later
The surgeon generals office of the
army states that the only cases of few
er reaching Newport, Ky, Friday on
the hospital train are those of typhoid
fever. There is not case of yellow
fever, or even suspicious case, say
the officials here This, il is stated.
applies also to Tampa, Fla, whence
the hospital train came.
Rev L. o. Stringer, an Anglican mis-
sionary, engaged among the Esquimo,
writes to friend in Ottawa, Ont,
stating that of the II whaling ships
that left the Arctic for the west last
fall only three managed to get out.
The others were caught in the ice and
had to be abandoned. Four men were
lost in trying to reach the land.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Post says: In the dis
cussion of the coaling question here it
is agreed that Commodore Watson
could, without infringing treaties, pur-
chase in British or French ports suffi.
cient coal to carry his squadron back
to the United States and then use il in
cruising along the Spanish coast"
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