Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs

at Assumption, capital of Paraguay.
Mondays statement OF the condition
of the treasury: Available cash bal
nnce, 1884, 100, 564; gold reserve, $685.
e47, 467.
Twenty deaths from the bubonic
plague took place at Hong Kong last
week. Eighteen new cases have been
officially reported.
The appraisal of the personal prop
erty of the late Roswell p. Flower,
puts it's value at S. 73l, 900, on the basis
of what stocks were worth on May 10
last.
Cakes A. Ames, a member of the
well-known Ames family and brother
of the late ex-Gov. Oliver Ames, died
at his home here Tuesday He was 20
years old.
At Key West, Fla, 81 new cases of
yellow fever have been reported in the
past As hours, and three deaths, maxi
ing a total number of cases TO date of
362 and II deaths.
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from New Orleans Monday with 1853, ia
bushels corn and 16O,OO bushe.- oats.
This is the largest cargo of grain ever
taken from that port.
The United Railways Co., of St
Louis, Monday filed with the secretary
of state a certificate of increase of its
capital from $4,000, 900 to $40, 900, 600.
The fee paid was $4,000.
In the bout between Tommy Ryan,
of Syracuse, and Frank Craig, the Har-
lem Coffee Cooler" at the Coney Is
land sporting club, the referee stopped
the bout in the tenth round and award
ed the contest to Ryan.
The National Zeitung, denies that
Germany contemplates withdrawing
her military attache from Paris, and
says: "The good relations between the
French and German governments have
undergone no change on account of the
Dreyfus case"
r. f. McClannanin, a well known
actor, fell dead at the supper table of
a hotel in Hartford, Ct, Monday, aged
65 years He was a member of the
James X. Hackett Rupert of Hent-
Eau" company, and formerly supported
Maggie Mitchell.
A new mainsail was bent on the Co
lumbia Monday which apparently is
much larger than any used previously.
From appearances the new sail is of a
different quality than that of the sails
formerly used on the big boat and also
is considerably heavier.
The Pacific Express Co. has forward
ed to Gov. Richards, of Wyoming, a
cheek for 81, 900 as its contribution to
the relief fund being raised for the
family of Sheriff Hazen, the Wyom-
ing officer who was killed while in
pursuit of the Union Pacific train rob-
bers.
VIM. Rockefeller was elected MEM
Der of the board of directors of the
New York Central railroad to succeed
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. VIM. X.
Vanderbilt succeeds his brother, the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt, as president
of the New York & Harlem River rail-
road.
The states general were convened
Tuesday by Queen Wilhelmina, who,
in the speech from the throne, referred
to the great work of the peace confer
ence. Her majesty said she had rea.
son to hope that all the comforting
powers would sign the treaties drawn
up at the conference.
One of the principal cigar merchants
in Cuba, when interviewed Monday re-
garding the reported consolidation OF
tobacco interests, said that he knew
nothing of any plan to consolidate the
manufacturing cigar houses of New
York, Chicago, Tampa and Key West
nor of any Tampa cigar syndicate.
The German government has em-
phatically informed President Kruger
to expect no assistance in the event OF
war with Great Britain, and that the
German consuls in the Transvaal have
been instructed to inform Germans
who volunteer their help that they will
be aiding President Kruger at their
own risk.
The French Free Masons, composing
the assembly of 1899, adopted resolu.
tion Monday in the name of the order
of the Grand Orient declaring the an.
ti-Semite movement criminal and odi.
GUS, and pleading with the French
government for support against "Cler-
ical, militarism, imperial and monar.
chist conspiracies."