Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-05-28
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

1t is said that all Spanish steamers
from 1000 tons mp are to be impressed
,or use as auxiliary cruisers.
Thursdays statement of the condi.
lion OF the treasury shows: Available
,ash balance, S2o3, $50, sa6; gold reserve,
s17S, ,235, ,5o2
A special to the New York Herald
from Provincetown, Mass, says: The
cruiser San Francisco is bound for
Boston with 10 of her men i'll.
The steamship India, which will
probably be chartered by the govern
ment to carry troops to Manila, arrived
at Seattle, WASH, Thursday night, 80
days from Philadelphia.
A crew OF naval militia from San
Francisco, numbering SO. has been or
iered to the Mohican at Mare Island
navy yard, which will depart soon
with ammunition and stores for the
Hawaiian naval station.
Information received at Armenian
Colony, Nashua, n. H., shows that an
entire Klondike party of seven men
from that city and Haverhill, Mass,
were drowned by the breaking of the
ice in Frazer lake on May ,.
The Academy of Music in Brooklyn
was filled Thursday night with the
friends OF Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,
United States minister to Spain. The
occasion was caption rendered him
by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences.
The official trial trip of the torpedo
boat Rowan will probably take place
next Monday or Tuesday off Seattle,
Wash. Lieut.. Commander Charles p
Perkins, commanding the Mon adnoclS,
has been designated as president OF the
trial board.
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman has re-
nounced the terms of her husbands
will and chosen her dover right. The
share which, under the dover arrange
ment, will fall to her. is conceded to
be materially greater than under the
provisions of the will.
A passenger train on the Midland
Terminal railroad ran into handcar
near Gillette, Col, Thursday and four
men who jumped from the handcar
were killed They were: Benjamin
Ebbert, William Flynn, James LANA
nan and Edward Elynn.
Count D'Apchier lie Maugin has ar
rived in Washington from Paris to join
the staff of the French embassy. He
has recently been third secretary of
the French legation at Hayti and is de-
tailed here owing to the increased u
ties of the embassy of late.
There are now at the Mare Island
ov-l T,st L.
follows: Philadelphia, Monterey. York;
town, Alert, Mohican, Pensacola, In
dependence, Unadilla, Monitor. Co
nanche, Hartford, Thetis, Ranger,
Nlmchow and Peter Jebsen.
The new navy auxiliary boayi has
sent to Washington list of 40 yachts
which it recommends for purchase.
Among the vessels named are George
iould's Atalanta and John Jacob AS
.or's Nourmahall. Each is recon-
nended for purchase at SlOo. 600.
Word reached Pottsville, Pa, Friday
morning that while miners were
in the Red Ash vein of the
haska William colliery, about ten
niles east of here Thursday a large
oody of water was struck and six men
ire supposed to have been drowned.
The war ships at Cadiz, forming
Spain's reserve squadron. under COM
nand OF adm Camara, are busy test
ng' their guns and machinery prepar-
1sory to their departure from that
,ert- Their. destination can not be as
:ertained- Large quantities of coal
tn arrive at Cadiz.
At the Mare Island navy yard the
United States steamship Philadelphia,
after being thoroughly reftted, was
Thursday afternoon and the
Monterey took her plsae on the dock.
The bottom of the Monterey win be
'craped and painted after which she
sill be ready for her trip to Manila
First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath Friday said that hereafter sec.
'nd and third class mail would be for
Sarded to- soldiers in the same manner
lsletters. Only first class mail under
he general rule. can be forwarded
rhen mail as originally addressed does
not reach the person to whom. it was
,ant.
Second Assistant Secretary Of gar.
WAsHLSSroS, May 27.-Socn after