Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-06-15
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

Mondays statement of the condition
Of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, sls9, ,s5a; gold reserve,
S165, oil, 400.
Sir Adolph Chapleau, former lieuten-
ant governor of Quebec and secretary
of state of the Dominion, died in
Montreal Monday.
According to dispatch from Madrid
to the London Financial News three
Spanish ironclads from Madagascar
waters have ARRIVED inside OF Manila,
and Adm. Dewey's ships have gone to
meet them.
The revenue cutter Mclean arrived
at Port Tampa Monday morning for
water from Sanarbee Island, where
she has been guarding the Key West,
cable. Gen. Miles is at Port Tampa
observing the activity on the bay.
The private secretary of the Spanish
premier was quoted Monday in dis
patch from Madrid, published in Brus-
sells, as formally declaring the Spanish
government will now accept any peace
proposal not submitted by the enemy
In the senate Tuesday bill report
ed from the military affairs commit
tee by Mr.. llawley (Ct.) providing that
advertisements for supplies needed
by the war department may be insert
ed in the newspapers of Washington,
was passed
Justice DAILY, OF the New York SUI
preme court, has issued an attachment
against the property of Joseph Letter,
the wheat speculator of Chicago, for
s97S,9 S,9a5 in favor of Otto E. Lohrke,
| Vim. p. Caliaghan and VIM. Knight
grain dealers, for money advanced.
The death sentence of Salter D.
| Worden will be committed to life i'm
prisonment by the governor. Worden
is the man who, during the great rail-
road strike of 1894. helped to wreck
southern Pacific train near Sacra-
mento, killing an engineer and three
soldiers.
Arrangements for the second expe-
dition of invasion from the United
States for the West Indies are being
hurried at the war department There
seems to be no doubt that this expe-
dition if its number approaches the
first will be sent from the east coast Of
the United States.
Lieut.. Col Bangs, of the Canadian
American regiment, has received a
telegram from Springfield, Ill, telling
that Gov. Tanners son, John A. Tan
ner, had accepted the colonelcy of the
regiment Owing to this fact there is
little doubt that this regiment will be
called out immed d. .ately.
Edward q. Montesi, who was arrest
ed on Saturday as he was about to
l-ave the country on the Prince line
steamer Tartar Prince, on suspicion
that he was Spanish spy, and con-
fined in Castle William on Governors
Island, has been released. There was
not sufficient evidence on which to
hold him.
The navy department has opened
bids for 90 sets of forgings for fve-
inch breech-loading rifles. The bid
ders were the Bethlehem Co. and the
Midvale Co., 90 cents per pound each;
the Illingsworth Co., o. cents; the
Whitestone Forge and construction
Co., 2215 cents. The time of delivery
varies from 80 to rs days
| Acting Admiral William I. Sampson,
commanding the naval forces operat.
ing in the West Indies, whose actual
rank in the navy is that Of captain,
will become a commodore on the third
proximo by the statutory retiremen,
for age of Rr. Adm. William A. Kirk
land, commandant of the Mare Island
Cal, navy yard, who is now the rank
ing officer of the navy.
The collapse of the Letter whea
corner has caused a panic in the Liver
pool market. In London the news o
the collapse was received with equa
' nimity. The concensus of opinion
: of number OF operators on Marl
: lane is that the English markets vii
gain steadipess now that ''the plunge
|. operating without regard to marke
preceden nee is shaken out"