Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-08-17
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

The collier Nero has sailed from
Manila for Guam. The cruiser Mar
blehead has arrived at Panama,
Lieut.. Col Egbert Il. Savage, 1871
infantry has been retired on his owr
application after 80 years service.
All of Egypt is affected with the
foot and mouth disease There have
been 1, s97 cases reported since July Is.
The resolution appropriating $780,.
600 for the Dewey reception was pass
ed Tuesday by the board of aldermen,
New York, by vote of 80 to 8.
The companionship of the Order OF
st. Michael and st. George has been
conferred upon Il. B. s Makes, British
! consul at Samoa.
Gen. Brooke will be called to Wash
! ington to hold a conference with Sec
retary of War Elihu Root on affairs in
Cuba. The date of the confab is not
yet set
There was considerable rioting in
the Catholic quarter of Belfast Tues
day evening. The police were stoned
and windows and street lamps were
smashed.
The St Petersburg correspondent of
the London Daily Telegraph says that
Emperor Nicholas and the empress
will visit Queen Victoria about the
end of the present month.
Reports to the effect that combina-
tion of the leading cigar manufac-
turers in Key West, Tampa and Ha-
vana is being organized are current in
the tobacco trade in New York.
by a vote of to 6, the Glasgow
tramway committee Tuesday accepted
the tender of the Edward p. Allis Co.,
of the United States for the engines to
supply elecric power The figures of
the successful tender are e114,54A
The London Daily Mail says that
Gen. Lord Garnet Wolsley, the COM
mander-in-chief, has sanctioned 100
volunteers of the London Scottish
Rifles going to South Africa in event
of war.
Four young boys, ages ranging from
16 to 10, were arrested Wednesday
morning in connection with the at
tempt to blow up two cars during the
late strike on July 2S, at Cleveland, o.
The loys are charged with suspicion.
Prof. c. X. Gilbert, of the United
States geological survey, has arrived
in Seattle, Wash, to ascertain whether
the Pacific coast is sinking into or out
of the ocean. He will study the coast
line as far down as San Diego, Cal.
At Havana Mr. Mills, clerk in the
headquarters of Gen. Brooke, was
stricken with yellow fever Tuesday
and has been removed to the hospital.
Other clerks having rooms at the same
house where he lived have been quar-
antined and their effects fumigated.
Frank Tossell, cashier of the Free
hold Loan and Saving Co., Toronto,
Ont, was arrested Tuesday. A Short
age of 81, 300 has already been discover
ed in his accounts He is said to have
been speculating heavily in New York
stocks.
The British ship West Lothian, Capt.
Curtis, which arrived at Cardiff on Fri
day from Tacoma via Falmouth, re-
ported that during gale encountered
east of Cape Horn, on June 6, she lost
top gear and sails, and on June the
second mate jumped overheard.
A newspaper published in Macao,
the Portuguese seaport at the SOUTH
west entrance of the Canton river, re-
ports that France has occupied the
Island of San Chau, west of Macao, as
an assertion of her right to the pro.
vince of Kwang Tung in the event of
the partition of China.
Prof. George A. Hench, of the uni
versity of Michigan, who was injured
in a bicycle accident at Franconia, n.
H., Saturday, was taken to Boston
Tuesday and is at the city hospital
with fractured skull and contusions.
He had undergone a successful o.era-
tion and the physicians speak hope
fully of his case.