Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-10-06
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EreStuent taure lueSudy TeCeiNSu
the American peace commissioners
Specials from Hallock and Stephen,
In extreme northwestern Minnesota,
report the first snow storm of the sea-
son.
Tuesdays statement OF the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, SsO7, 800, 7l4; gold reserve, Sa4S.-
Os7, ,647
The bodies of six soldiers of the 1st
Illinois infantry who died in Cuba
are to be brought back to Chicago
for burial.
James Arkell, of ajoharie, N V,
has made u general assignment due
to endorsing notes for his son, W. J.
ArkeI of the Judge Publishing Co.
A boiler explosion at the saw mill Of
Laherty & Lee, six miles from Verdi,
New, cost two lives Three persons
were seriously injured. The building
was destroyed.
1t is feared that the Labrador mail
steamer Leopard, with a crew of Is
and l2 passengers, was lost during a
severe storm off the northeast coast OF
the island last week.
This is good year to send Amer
lean fruits, especially apples to Ger
many. Europe's fruit crop is anything
but good, according to Consul Mon
aghan, of Chemnitz
The mem bers of the reace commits
sion refused to disclose the views Of
Gen. Merritt or Adm. Dewey in reg ard
to the policy to be pursued toward the
people of the Philippines
Alexander Stafford. of Lethbridre,
Alberta, has just returned from the
klondike and reports the finding on
his claim of several tusks and bones of
mammoths and mastodons.
/ Rains Tuesday have quenched the
forest fires in the vicinity of Cumber-
land, Wis Relief committees are now
fully organized and will begin the
work of distri button Wednesday:
State Superintendent of Public In.
struction Charles f. Skinner, of Ne W
York, disapproves of the various move
ments started to raise money in the
public schools for patriotic purposes.
AT Reno, New, Gen. c. C. Powning
died Tuesday of progressive analysis.
Gen. Powning has occupied many
places Of honor and trust in that state.
He was born in Jefferson, Wis, in 1854
The Galveston, La Porte g. Houston
railroad was sold Wednesday by Spe-
cial Master John Grant, under order
of the United States Circuit court, to
J. L. Smith, of Kansas City, for S425,-
o0O
The Petit Bleu, of Paris, does not ac-
cept the view that the work of the
peace commission will be concluded
before December but expresses the
belief that it will require longer
time.
The gas stove manufacturers of the
United States formed an association
at Cleveland, O., Tuesday, for the pur-
pose of which is to simplify and sys-
tematizc their business and to regu-
late prices.
A report was current Tuesday night
that the Philippine Agent Agoncillo,
who recently arrived in this country
representing the insurgent govern
ment, had been refused recognition by
the president.
Lexington, KY, has been named as
an important depot at which officers
of the subsistence department of the
army are assignable to duty for the
purpose of purchasing and shipping
subsistence supplies.
Another case of yellow fever has de-
veloped in the African colony in jack
son, Miss, and owing to the fact that
many Of these people are huddled to.
gether in narrow quarters there is .p-
prehension of a rapid spread of the
disease.