Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-07-13
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMs.

Maj. F. II. Il, Ebstein, 10th infantry,
has been retired.
Tuesdays statement of the condi-
tion of the treasury shows Available
cash balance, s27s, 74O, 450; gold reserve,
s245, 749,O O44
Lieut.. Col. John J. Brereton, APP
pointed Monday, has been assigned to
the SD volunteer infantry, to be or
ganized at Fort Sam Houston, Tex
Gen. Duchesne has delivered to the
minister of war, Gen, Marquis de Gal
lifet, his report of the relations of Gtns
Pellieux with Maj. Count Esterhazy.
Cardinal Tedolfo Mertel, vice cham
cellor of the holy Roman church, who
was raised to the cardinalate in 1858,
died Tuesday in Rome in his 03d year.
Seven persons, already have died in
and near New York from lockiaw
caused by 4th of July pistol accidents,
and others are in prccarious condi-
ton.
The house of lords Tuesday evening
passed the second reading OF the bill
requiring shopkeepers to provide seats
for their assistants by vote of 73 in
favor to 2s opposed.
The cruiser Chicago has arrived at
Cape Town. Adm. Howison has re-
mained inland and is now at Johannes
burg, whence he will 80 to Cape Town
to join the cruiser.
Mrs. Chauncey Talbot, aged 2s years.
the wife of well known business man
of Putnam, Ct, drowned herself and
her two-yealeold boy Wednesday,
whilertemporarily insane.
The report that the king of Belgium
would visit Newport this summer is
discredited in official quarters in WASH
ington. No such intimation has come
from any of our officials abroad
Ambassador Won Holleben, OF Ger
many has made his farewell call on
Secretary Hay and will leave WASH
ington on Thursday for New York,
| whence he takes the steamer for home.
Jules Philippe Louis Albert Grevy, life
senator and former governor general
of Algeria died Tuesday, in his roth
year lie was a brother OF the late
Jules Grevy, former president of the
republic.
The orders issued last sumner which
allowed go cents day per man for
soldiers undergoing hospital treatment
have been revoked and an order issued
allowing 40 cents per man from the
appropriation subsistence of the army.
A delegation of Methodists left San
Francisco Wednesday for indianapolis
to attend the annual convention of the
Epworth league and to make strong
bid for the convention of that organ
ization to meet in San Francisco in
1901.
Mrs. Potter Palmer is authority for
the statement that it has been decided
that the marriage of her niece, Miss
Julia Dent Grant, and Prince Canta.
cuzene will be solemnized in Newport
in September. The exact.day has moi
been fixed.
lightning caused the destruction
Wednesday of half the business portion
of Frewsburg. near jamestown, N. Y
Loss, SEQ, 900. The village has no ap
paratus for fighting fires. This elcc
trical storm was the most severe evel
known there, and continued through
out the night.
The adjutant general Wednesday re
eeived dispatch from Col. Comba, Al
Bonago, near Santiago, announcing
the death of Capt. Thomas NJ. Wood
ruff, adjutant of the 9TH infantry. IL
died of yellow fever Tuesday night
Capt. Woodruff was a West Point grad
uate, appointed from the District o
Columbia.
The wedding is announced in New
York of Miss Harriet Pierce Graham
daughter of Brig. Gen William Mont
rose Graham, United States army, re
tired, and the great-grandaughter o.
her mothers side of President Pierce
to Lieut.. Archibald Henderson Scales
of Greensboro, N. c., instructor il
mathematics at Annapolis.