Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-03-12
CONDENSED NEWS
Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.


Gathered From All Parts of the Country
by Telegraph.
Gen. Merritt will start on his trip to
inspect fortiications upon the sea
coast of the southern states Monday.
At Lewiston, Me-, the Androscrog-
gin mills weavers have voted to re-
main out until the New Bedford strike
is settled.
Thursdays statement OF the condi-
tion of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, SECS, 1857, 300; gold reserve,
S169, os7, ,2s6.
c. A. Sprecklcs, of the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar Co., is now in
New York negotiating for the pur-
chase of two steamships to be engaged
in the trade with the Hawaiian is
lands.
Inquiry at the Dupont powder works
Thursday afternoon elicitod the in
formation that a comparatively small
quantity of smokoless powder is now
being manufactured for the United
States.
The house of the Iowa legislature
has adopted a resolution favoring free
iOll lpI NuDt @NO WI u VI oDDOSl
was offered to- the resolution and APP
plause followed its adoption by a
unanimous vote.
At New Haven, CT. Judge Townsend of
the United States court Thursday de-
cided in customs case that the Ding
ley tariff bill did not become law
until President Mckinley had affixed
his SIGNATURE to it.
Senator Rawlins, of Utah, introduce
ed a bill Thursday to provide for the
disposal of the asphaltun lands with
in the Uncompahgre Indian reserva-
ton by sale of claims 500 by 1,j00 IL
feet to the highest bidder.
The seal fishery began Thursday.
Nineteen steamers, carrying 1000 men,
sailed from st. Johns, n. f., for the
ice field in quest of seals. The voyage
will last about month. The weather
prospects are very favorable.
| At ST. Louis Mrs. Helena Schwann
was burned to death while lighting a
| gasoline stove. She spilled some of
the liquid on her dress while filling
the tank. When she struck match to
| light the stove her dress ignited.
The veterans of the civil war living
in Oakland, Cal, have decided to offer
the services of a full company to the
government in the event of war with
Spain. A company of 100, with c. K.
King as captain, is being organized.
At meeting of the British Empire
league at Ottawa, Ont, Thursday reso-
lutions were passed in favor OF Canada
establishing a naval reserve for the
training of sailors for the merchant
service and to be used in time of war.
An English steamer has successful lily
assembled the Yang Use rapids as far
as Chung King, province of SEE Chwen,
at the junction of Kia Lin Kiang with
Yang Use, thus opening to navigation
the most fertile tract of the Yang Use
valley.
1t has been announced that strike
which threatens to extend to every
branch of the building trades in ST.
Louis will be inaugurated on April /,
when from 1000 to 1,S00 members of
the Bricklayers union will lay down
their trowels.
The battleship Oregon, now at San
Francisco, is to receive at once 400
tons of ammunition. This quantity
will prove full complement for the
42 magazines of the ship. Friday the
| powder, shot and she'll were brought
from Mare island to the Oregon an
chorage in Mission bay.
1t has been arranged that the cases
prepared by counsel in the Venezuelan
boundary arbitration shall be ex-
changed in Washington the 10th of the
present months. The exchange will
take place between Sir Julian Paunce.
fote and Senior Andrade, and four
months later the counter cases will
| be exchanged.