Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-29
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

The commissioner of internal rev.
snue has held that merchandise brolI-
ers are not required to stamp both
buyers and sellers contracts under
the new act.
A step taken by the post office de-
partment indicates that the Spanish
prisoners at Annapolis possibly may
be permitted to communicate with
their friends in Spain.
Gen. Merritt has reached Manila,
according to the most conservative es-
innate of the war department authors
ties, and the announcement is momen-
tarily expected from Hong Kong that
he has assumed the military governor
ship of the Philippines, as directed by
the president
Ten new cases of typhoid were sent
from Camp Alger to Fort Meyer We'd
,esday. There are also many eases of
Malaria, intermittent fever and other
ailments in camp which might develop
into typhoid. Owing to the numerous
cases of this sort in Company G, 12th
Pennsylvania, it has been isolated.
With great ceremony in the pres
ence of an immense concourse of peo-
pie Wednesday afternoon, Hon. Alex
ander Ramsey, territorial governor,
only survivor of the famous union war
governors ex-secretary of war and eX-
United States senator, laid the corner
stone of Minnesota's new capitol build
ing in st. Paul.
The body of Lieut.. G. L. Snead, of
the First Louisiana, who died in
Mania Fla, of typhoid reached New
Orleans Thursday morning and was
met at the train by large body of
citizens and menb bers of the press.
Lieut.. Sneed was assistant city editor
Of the Times Democrat and one of the
best known newspaper men in this
section.
The United States steamship Phila.
ielphia sailed for Honolulu Wednes-
lay. Adm. Miller transferred his flag
from the Albatross to the Philadel-
phia Wednesday. The Philadelphia
will make all speed to Honolulu. Adm.
Miller, it is believed, carried no spec
cial instructions with him. but will re-
main at Honolulu until ordered else
where.
The London Daily Chronicle an
nounces that an expedition headed by
IAN American who has seen much
service in the Congo district" will
leave Europe month hence to lay a
line of telegraph from the western
shore Of Lake Tanganyika, Central
Africa to Stanley Falls. The king of
the Belgians will bear the entire ex.
pense of the undertaking.
Levi q Letter Wednesday filed for
record warranty deed conveying to
Marshall Field, for consideration of
So, lS5, 900, the property at the south-
east corner of State and Madison
streets, Chicago. The corner is con-
sidered one of the most valuable tor
business purposes in Chicago, War
revenue stamps amounting to s., l35
were attached to the deed.
The news that the government j. SUI
ing for peace has caused neither sur
prise nor sensation in Madrid. The
attitude of a majority of the news
papers show that the country will
welcome peace if it can avoid the pay
ment of an indemnity and the loss of
the Philippines, where, it is now taken
for granted the United States will re-
tain a coaling station only.
The l6Oth Indiana infantry broke
camp at Chickamauga at an early hour
Thursday and marched five miles to
Rossville, Ca, where Southern rail-
way trains were boarded for Newrort
News This regiment goes to New
port News, thence to Porto Rico, in
place of the 5th Illinois, which was or
dered back to camp after it had half
finished loading for departure.
The Berlin National Gazette says:
Although Americas haste to obtain q
footing in Porto Rico is rather con.
trary to the strict canons of military
usage, it is perhaps justified by the as.
sumption that its conquest will place
America in better position to dictate
terms OF peace. AS spain is unable to
pay indemnity, America has q right to
demand an enforced compensation"