Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-07-21
SHORT SPECIALS.

The war lbs 81 the Nerth Atlantic
squadron left Narragansett Pier, R. l.,
for Newport at $50 o'clock Thursday
morning. saB
Louis Billow has been arrested near
Elsenb burg, Wash, on charge OF muir
der committed at Fremont, o., three
years ago.
The Philadelphia baseball club Of
fered prize of 50. 600 to the players II
they win the pennant this year and
81, 500 II they finish second.
Michael o'Connor, aged 40 years and
Michael McGlinchey, aged IS years,
painters, were killed Wednesday by
the breaking Of a swinging Acaffold at
Philadelphia.
Gen. Brooke Thursday cabled tho
war department of the death at San
tiago on Monday OF Herman Peine,
master-sergeant, 9th infantry,
of yellow fever. There were no deaths
on the 18th instant.
The retirement of Col. Evan Miles.
.1st infantry, was announced Wednes-
day. Lieut.. Col A. A. Hanback, be-
comes colonel, Maj. Sumner Lincoln
lieutenant colonel, and Capt George
Leer becomes major.
A second case of yellow fever has ap-
peared in the 18th infantry. A team
ster in the sth cavalry has also been
stricken. Both of these regiments are
In Porto Principe, Cuba. The 10Th
will move into new camp.
At Pound Gap Va, Henry Gillian
shot John Hall. Gillian claimed Hall
was too intimate with Gilliam's sister.
Gillian escaped. Both are young men.
Gillian belongs to one of the wealth.
lest families In Letcher county.
There was a rumor in Halifax, N. s.,
Wednesday night that the Allan line
steamer, Norwegian is ashore at Tre-
pasSy, N. F., but no verifcation of it is
ObtAinable. s. Conrad & Co., Halifax
agents of the Allan line, have received
NO Advices OF a wreck.
4 statement of the war department
shows that of 30 officers and 1, ,S18 en-
listed men of the Cd Oregon regiment,
10 were killed in battle or died OF dis
ease during the campaign in the Phil
ippines, a percentage Of S.6. Only two
men marked as deserters.
Glasgow university Thursday con-
fSrred the honorary degree of Doctor
Of laws upon Sir Henry Irving, who.
on the occasion, was given an ovation
by large audience. Upon the confer
ring of the degree the students sang
Hes Jolly Good Fellow"
Col Charles II. Alden and Majs. @.
II. Torney and J. L. Powell, of tha
medical department Of the army, have
been detailed to represent the depart
| ment at the eighth annual meeting OF
| the association of United States mill.
tary surgeons at Kansas CITY, No,
September 97-29.
Miss Sills, an invalid, and her nErSe
Miss Phillips, both of Toronto, who
hoHS OCCh ECSAuinB az ohLh, were
drowned in the Moot river. Thsy
were out in a rowboat, and venturini
too near the mouth of the Moot chute
were caught by the current and swep
down the chute.
James Mccarthy, a magazins writer
and novelist, whose writings nndel
the nom de plume of "FitzmRck'' ar,
well known, was struck by an eleetri,
car at the corner of Broadway anC
Colfax avenue, Denver, COL, knoclre et
from his bicycle and SO badly injured
that he will probably die.
At Wescott, Mass, Abbie Phillips
aged II years. niece of Warren w
Phillips, was married Wednesday /,
Bernard b. Kennedy, who is employed
by the family as coachman. The girl
parents died when she was about /
years old, leaving her SO. OOO 900 in tFus
until she became of age Miss Phil
lips is graduate of the high sohoo
and is prominent in the best circles.
Bride Goes Insane.
WkvEBIY, o.. July 21.-Julia Yah
raus-Powell, a young and handsom
bride of this city, was taken Wednes
day morning to the insane asylum a
Athens. She tried TO kill herself b
cutting her throat.