Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-17
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

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Adm. Schley has been assigned 10
command the South Atlantic station.
The steamship Umbria, sailing for
Europe Saturday, too6 out 100000
ounces of silver
Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, s2sS, ssi, 800; gold reserve,
1856, ,511,O Ol6.
The National Association of Travel
ing Railway Engineers adjourned at
Cincinnati Friday night, to meet next
September in Cleveland.
Business failures for the week num-
Der 140 against 1913 last week and 173
in this week year ago and compare
with 169 in 1897, sl5 in 1896 and sls in
1895.
Kid Mcfarland of New York, Fri
day night before the broadway ath-
letic club, gained decision over Otto
Seiloff, of Chicago, after fighting 20
rounds.
The British high commissioners Sir
Alfred Miner, has issued proclama-
tion prescribing severe penalties for
melting the natives of Basutoland and
other districts to rebellion.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna arrived in New
York Saturday on the st. Louis from
Southampton. He said that his health
had improved somewhat while he was
abroad, and that he had good time.
In compliance with requests from
farmers and dairymen in all parts of
Georgia the agricultural department
of Georgia has decided to begin Wig
orous campaign against the sale of ole
omargarine in that state.
The Danube is still rising and is now
476 centimeters above its normal level.
AS yet no serious danger threatens
Vienna, but the railway station and
the streets along the BANKS of the river
are submerged.
Adm. Dewey, during his stay in
Washington, will be the guest of Mrs.
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r. Mclean, the democratic nominee
for governor of Ohio Adm. Dewey is
a friend of the family of long standing.
A dispatch from Gmunden, on the
river Traun, upper Austria, says that
an iron bridge over the Traun coll
lapsed Friday afternoon while 90 men
were engaged in endeavoring to
strengthen 1T. Nineteen were drowned.
The Eastern Star, of johannesburg,
asserts that martial-law proclama-
ton is being printed. 1t is reported
there that the reply of the Transvaal
government to the British note will
suggest seven years franchise.
Great Britain and Portugal, it is re-
ported, are about to sign convention
by which the latter leases to the for
mer certain territory and stations in
Portuguese East Africa. Germany, it
is said, has also secured similar adj
vantages from Portugal.
James A. Chambers, of Pittsburgh,
President of the American Glass Co., is
authority for the statement that win
dow glass com bine has been finally eff
fected. The new concern will take in
fifty of the largest concerns in the
country. 1t will be capitalized at Sl7,-
900, 900.
Corp George Damphoffer of Com
pany b, 10th infantry, who was sem
fenced to death at Manila, by a mill
tary court-martial, was resident of
Van Couver, Wash. His mother, who
resides there, is Frustrated at the news.
Young Damphoffer always has borne
an excellent reputation.
Alfred Day, representing IA Phila-
delphia syndicate, is shipping men and
material to Alaska from Seattle for the
construction of the second railroad in
that territory. The road is to be is
miles long and to be used in connec-
ton with the development of %, 900
acres of coal lands on Kachkemo hay,
Cook inlet.