Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-12-20
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Capt BorehgrevinlS's expedition has
started from Hobart, Tasmania, for
the Antarctic regions.
= The British ship punford, from Ham
burg, 1ss days out and overdue, has ar
rived at San Diego, Cal.
Ambassador Jules Cambon will sail
from Havre for New York on Janu-
airy to resume his duties at Washing
ton.
Col. William j. Bryan left New York
for Washington on the midnight train
Sunday, after spending the day with
friends.
The steamer Werra, which sailed
from Havana on December 8, with
about 1000 Spanish soldiers, has ar
rived at Malaga.
The gunboat Castine, resplendent in
now coat of white paint, left Boston
harbor Sunday for Havana. She should
arrive there In about five days
At Havana terrible explosion shook
the little steamer Fanita, when some
steam pipes In the boiler room blew
out, killing one man and fatally scald-
ing three Others.
Steamers which have just arrived
at Auckland, N. a., report that the
French are actively engaged in forti-
flying Tahiti, the principal island OF
the Society group, which is under the
control of France.
The Midland Railway Co. of England
has ordered 30 freight engines in Phil
adelphia and New York. AS a conse-
quence of the engineers strike, the
English firms are only able to cope
with arrears of work.
The Baldwin locomotive works has
within the last few days received or
ders for SO locomotives, of which 10 are
for the Imperial railway of China
making the second order received from
that country within ten months.
The British steamer Pawnee, which
arrived Sunday from Mediterranean
ports, brought 10 ship-wrecked people
eight men and two women, who were
taken from the disabled schooner Deel
Hill, of st. John, N. D., in mid-ocean
At Dominion City, Man, Simeon
Cuzby was arrested Sunday, charged
with the murder of Wasyl Bocehk,
and fivo children, six weeks ago at the
SturtburR Galician settlement. Tn,
prisoner was taken to Winnipeg Mon
day.
The duke of Connaught will go t.
Khartoum as the representative of th'
queen to lay the foundation stone o
the Gordon Memorial college to b,
erected there under the direction o
Lord Kitchener for the instruction o
Soudanese youth.
Rat Portage, Ont, is wild with ex
in the Milsado gold mine. The ore fill
slope 40 feet high and "a feet wild,
and the richest ore is worth on a con
servative estimate from SIS, ,OGO to $35,
600 a ton in free milling gold.
At New York former Police Capt
John j. Mount died suddenly of hear
failure Sunday night, aged so years
Capt. Mount was appointed to the mu
nicipal police force in 1850, becam
captain in 1861, and distinguished
himself in the draft riots of war times
News was received in London Mon
day of the death at Florence, Italy, o
Francis Napier, Ninth Baron Maple
and Ettricl1, the former ambassador
who was minister to the United State
from Great Britain in 1857. He wa
born in 1919 and entered the diplomat
service in 1910
Nearly the whole of the busincs
part of the town of Tifton, Ca, in til
center of the peach belt was burne
Saturday night. An oil lamp in
boarding house exploded, The Ma
sonic hall and ten stores were destroye
and hotel and large lumber mil
were. damaged.
Destructive Fire ut Baldw,nsviiie, NJ Y.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Dec, 10; Baldwins
vile, located 12 miles north of thi
city, was visited by disastrous fir
Monday. The fire started in the plan
of the Kenyon Paper Co., and sprea
rapidly to a building occupied by tn
New Process Rawhide Co. and tn
stone mill of Hotaling & Co., the build
ing occupied by Clark, Mercer & &c