Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-01-15
CONDENSED NEWS

States consul general, has arrived at
Tangier.
Mrs, Mary Cowden Clarke, author of
''The Complete Concordance to Shake
speare," died Wednesday at Genoa.
Thursday S statement of the condi-
ton of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, $3.50, ,274, sos; gold reserve,
S161, 0S2, RS.
Eleven reindeer arrived in New York
Friday on board the Wilson line steam
er Martello from Hull, and will be
shipped to the Klondike region.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
Co. has sold the tugboat Walloawa to
c. II. Pennington and others, who will
use her in towing between Puget Sound
and Alaska.
At Madrid the police precautions
have been redoubled in the vicinity of
the United States legation and around
the residence of the United States
minister, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford.
In consequence of the death OF Con
zaloz Monoz, the captain general of
Porto Rico, the execution of the de-
cree constituting the Porto Rico cham
Der of deputies has been postponed
until March /.
The executive committee of the
League of American Municipalities,
have decided to hold the next convcn-
tion in Detroit on August l to i, inclu-
sive. 1t is expected that there will be
in attendance upward of 1000 officials.
At Washington the Cuban scare had
subsidized entirely Friday and little in.
terest or anxiety was manifested in it
in official circles. President Mckinley
was unusually free from callers and
even the Office seekers were not on
hand III their usual numbers.
The Weavers Union has rejected the
offer of Richard Dairy, of the Massa-
chusetts state board of arbitration to
smooth over the difficulties. The loom
fXers', carders' and pickers' associa-
tions and slashers tenders have unan.
imously voted to strike.
A committee of tin plate manufac.
turers of the United States will attend
a meeting of the Tin Plate Manufac.
turers association in Pittsburgh next
Tuesday. The committee will report
on the prospects for pooling the tin
plate industry of the country.
The battleship Indiana left Newport
News Thursday afternoon for Old
Point Comfort, after taking on 95(
tons of coal, to join the other vessels
of the north Atlantic squadron. The
battleship Iowa came up Thursday
afternoon to fill her coal bunkers.
The supervisors of Queens county
went at the hotel bill of the Thorn
jurors Thursday with an AK. The
items of $780, 15 for wine. S23S. 40 fol
cigars and S52 40 for billiards were
stricken out and the net sum of the
bill was reduced from 81, ,O49 to $004.
The steamer BriXham, Capt. Durie
sailed from New York with freight fol
Seattle Thursday, and upon her arriva
there will be overhauled preparatory
to starting for St Michaels. Some
275 passengers from New York anG
Boston will join the vessel at Seattle
A special dispatch from Shanghai il
responsible for the statement that the
Chinese minister of war, Joung-Lou
has explained to the viceroys thai
Port Arthur was ceded to quiet Russia
because war cloud was looming and
all the powers had cast envious eyes
upon Chinese ports.
The British steamship RAMA cleared
from Savannah Thursday for Bremen
with 1S,200 bales of cotton weighing s..
9d5. S55 pounds, valued at 1924, 952. This
is the largest cargo of cotton ever ship.
ped from an Atlantic port and is 1000
bales more than was ever shipped from
this port on any other vessel.
Mr.. Seaton Perry, for many years
one of the leading dry goods mer.
chants of Washington, committed sui.
eide at an early hour Friday morning.
Mr.. Perry killed himself by shooting.
He for some years had been sufferer
from insomnia, brought on by nervous.
ness, the result of close application tc
his business.
The senate committe on privileges
and elections Friday decided to make
an adverse report upon Hon. II. W..
Corbett's claim to seat in the senate
from Oregon. The vote was to 8 and
was cast on partisan lines except that
Senator Burrows, (rep.,) who was alb.
sent. was counted upon his authority
in opposition to Mr.. Corbett.