Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-15
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Wednesdays statement of the condi-
lion of the treasury shows: Available
:ash balance, S2a5, ,462,6ss; gold re-
,erve, Sl79, 555,62s.
In accordance with the instructions
given by the Spanish minister of ma
.ine, the mobilization of the Spanish
naval force at Cadiz continues.
Brig Gen. Graham, commander Of
The department of the Gulf, left At
anita hastily Wednesday night for Sa-
rannah to hasten to completion the de-
lenses at sullivan Island.
At Chicago, Henry W. King, the
millionaire clothing merchant. was
found dead in bed Wednesday. Death
Is supposed to have been due to heart
disease. Mr.. King was 20 years of
age.
Gov. Wolcott, of Massachusetts,
signed the bill providing for cleo
;rocution for persons condemned to
leath, in place of hanging, all sem
sences to be carried out in the state
prison.
Lieut.. Wilcox, of the First infantry,
mas gone to Washington in response to
Geographic instructions The destina-
ton OF Lieut.. Wilcox is Fortress Mon
roe, where he will be in charge of the
torpedo station. He is an expert in
the handling of torpedoes.
Charles A. Bernay, who was convict
ed of the murder of George Marcus
Nichols, of Trumbul on July - last,
was executed at the state prison at
Wethersfeld, Ct, shortly after mid
night. The drop fell at l2:ls, and at
1881 he was pronounced dead.
On motion of Senator Daniels the
senate adopted a resolution calling for
all diplomatic correspondence with
Spain and specifically asking if this
government had submitted to Spain a
proposition for Cuban independence,
and if So how and under what condi-
tions.
Official con frmation has been given
to the announcement of the departure
| Of the armored cruisers Vizcaya and
The Almirante Oquendo from Porto
Rico for the Cape Verde islands, where
the Spanish torpedo feet is lying, says
Herald.
Vaclay Haas, a farmer residing near
Monroe. Neb., killed his two children
and wife and committed suicide. He
used razor and almost severed the
heads of the victims. All were found
dead in their beds Wednesday. Haas
was in a prosperous condition and
left nothing to indicate the reason for
his acts
According to special dispatch from
Madrid Spanish cabinet minister has
declared in an interview that should
President Mckinley notify Spain to
avacuate Cuba, this government will
Immediately and emphatically refuse
and will add it is fully prepared to
take the consequences"
The United States cruiser Topeka
formerly the Diogenes) and the United
States torpedo boat Somers, which put
in Portland, Ore, owing to the sever
ity Of the weather on Sunday last,
after leaving Weymouth for the United
States on April 10, sailed again We'd
nesday. The crews have been largely
changed.
AT Madrid it is reported that an Of
fetal telegram has been received from
the Philippines saying that serious
outbreak has taken place in Fuluan,
and that the insurgents have seized
the telegraph station, the operators
barely escaping with their lives
Troops have been sent to quell the
outbreak.
The London Daily Mail publishes
Thursday morning an interview with
Joseph Pannell Gibbons, the su brna-
rine expert, in which he ridicules the
Spanish denials of his statement as to
the sale by him of submarine mines to
Spain, and declares that he can prove
that the United States war ship was
wilfully and deliberately blown up.
Information has been received by
Capt. ONeil, chief of the bureau OF
Ordnance, that all the guns purchased
in England, numbering l33-one, three
| and six pounders-have been shipped
so that if war should break out there
will be no chance of an application oi
the neutrality laws by the British
government, even if it desired to do So
The spacious residence of Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, at Nahant, Mass.
has been taken for government pur
poses. 1t will be turned into a sigma
station, the headquarts for this par
of the coast. The house commands ;
sweeping view of Massachusetts Bay
and the entra nee to Boston harbor
The entire estate here was rendered Il
the government by Senator Lodge.