Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-07-16
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMs.

The United States cruiser Olympia is
due to arrive at Trieste July 10
The steamship Campania sailing for
Europe Saturday takes out sa4, 900
ounces OF, silver.
Albert August Becker, the Chicago
wife murderer, was Saturday sem
fenced to be hanged October 1s
Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury: Available cash bal
ance, $3.50, 258 400; gold reserve, S2lO,-
62S, 2S4.
Blazo Petrovics, a relative of Prince
Nicholas, of Montenegro, has been ar
rested on a charge of completely in the
recent attempt to assassinate former
King Milan, of Servia.
At Sandown Park, Saturday, L. Reiff,
the American jockey, won the Gotham
plate on Richard Crokers Knicler-
booker. Dominican was second and
Earl OF Annandale was third.
A dispatch from Kiel says the Ger.
man cruiser Geier has left Corinto,
Nicaragua, for Guatemala to join Great
Britain in demonstration in behalf
of the foreign creditor of that republic.
Col. A. b. Jones, of Admission, Ala,
United States consul to Tuxpan, Mex,
died at Tuxpan Friday morning. The
nature of his illness is not known.
The remains can not be shipped home.
The Baldwin locomotive works has
received an order for 1S consolidation
engines from the state railways of
Finland, These locomotives are to
be ready for delivery by January l,
1900
The plan and scope committee of the
Dewey celebration committee has re-
ceived word from Charles Dewey,
brother of the admiral, that the ad-
miral will arrive in New York about
October l.
The Peary expedition steamer D ana
sailed from st. Johns, N. f., for Sgd
ney at II a. M. Saturday. She has sup
plies for two years and carried crew
of IS men, we'll accustomed to arctic
navigation.
The National Glass Blowers' Associa-
tion of America decided at it's session
Friday to affiliate with the American
Federation of Labor. The question of
amalgamating with the flint glass
workers was laid over for a year.
The strict enforcement of Gen. Woods
quarantine and sanitary order seems
to be REFRESHING the yellow fever out
break at Santiago. One death and
three new cases were reported Friday,
but there have been no new cases
among the United States troops.
Monday reward of $1,000 will be
offered for the capture of Daniel
Coughlin and William Armstrong, who
recently evaded trial for alleged jury
hribing at Chicago. The reward will
be offered by the board of commissions
ers Of Cook county. No trace of the
men has been found as yet.
The cup challenger Shamrock went
for spin Saturday morning in South
ampton water. She started under her
working sails and off Calshot Castle
hoisted her club topsail. Near the Isle
of Wight she caught spanking breeze
and went down the west channel ap-
parently at tremendous pace.
Annie and Mary Kinney, aged II and
10 years respectively, and their cousin
Ella, aged Is, were drowned Frid ay
night while bathing in the e(Housatonic
river at Lower Derby, Ct The first
two are daughters of Michael Kinney,
a railroad contractor of this place.
Their cousin was visiting them.
The Furness line steamer Manches-
ter Port, Capt Williams from Mon
treal, July 8, for Manchester, with cat
tie and grain, has put in at st. Johns
N. F., with her bows stove, having
been in collision with an iceberg in the
straits of Belle Isle. The vessels forel
part is badly wrecked and she had q
narrow escape from laundering.