Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-10-14
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS.

The Paris correspondent of the Len.
don Daily Chronicle says: "1learn that
Maj Marchand's return from Fashoda
by way of Cairo has already been ar
ranged on both sides"
Maj Gen. Henry w. Lawton, gov.
srnor of the military depart
ment of Santiago, left Wednesday for
the United States on the Michigan, ac.'
,ompanied by his aides
The Vermont house Wednesday
unanimously passed a resolution
memorializing congress to restore the
rank Of admiral and confer that title
pom Rr. Adm. Dewey.
Christian Daniel, inventor of dozen
important machines used in the shoe
manufacture, is dead at his home in
Brooklyn. His machine was the first
used for sewing welts in shoes.
The cruiser Montgomery sailed at
noon Wednesday from Newport, R. l.,
under orders to proceed to Lamberts
Point, Va, a coaling station. 1t is be.
lieved she will be sent to Havana
The Spanish mail steamer Reina
Maria Christina has sailed for Spain
from Havana with 1913 officers and
troops, 651 cases of military archives
and a heavy cargo of ammunition.
The Adams & bishops Co., manufac-
turers and wholesale dealers in paper,
with offices in New York and mills at
T, New Windsor, n. Y, have made an
assignment. 1t is thought the liabili.
ties may reach 100000.
The custom receipts for the month
of September at the ports of Sagua,
Cardenas, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Nue.
vitas, Caibarien and Havana amounted
to S., $50, SOS, which was S655,2a0 in ex.
cess of the receipts OF September,
1897.
The annual report of Commissioner
Hermann, of the general land office,
estimates that over eleven billions of
feet of public timber have been de-
! stroyed by fire in the past s5 years,
representing in value many millions of
dollars.
At Kansas City, Mo, Frank R. Ma
son, graduate of West Point, plead
cd guilty to burglary in the criminal
court and was sentenced to serve ten
years in the penitentiary. He was ar
rested for stealing watch and chain
from the home of a physician.
There is every sign that the strike
in Paris will be soon ended The con.
tractors for the public works
have consented to pay the laborers
80 centims an hour The cabinet
will take into special consideration
the issues raised by the strike.
Maj Gen. Wade cabled to the war
department Wednesday announcing
the death of Maj. S. B Beebe, ord.
nance officer, United States volunteers,
who died Tuesday OF yellow fever at
Havana He was a resident of Thomp'
son, Ct, where his widow lives.
Fire broke out in the candy and
cracker factory of the Winn johnson
company, Macon, Ga, early Thursday
=, morning and completely gutted the
building. The adjoining building, oc
cupied by T. c. Burke, painters sup
plies, was also burned to the ground
The position of Texas toward Louis
lana and Mississippi resumed more
, serious status Wednesday morning BY
Gov. Culberson issuing a general ant
very rigid quarantine proclamation
entirely forbidding any communica
ton of any kind between Texas ant
the two states above named.
A number of race horses in training
the property of ]. R. Keene, ]. A. Ben
nett and others, were sold at auction
Wednesday at Morris Park. Handse
was sold to j. j. McCafferty for 81. 600
DIR. Parker to ]. D. Smith for So. 900
Sanford to w. n. Clark for ST., $50
Loiterer to J. ]. McCafferty for ST., $50
rhird Ohio VIII Quit.
SPRINGFIELD, O., Oct. 1s.-The G
regiment, o. V. l., has been ordered t.
report at Camp Bushnell next Satur
day. 1t is now settled that they will
be mustered out October go.