Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-06-26

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spector general, has been detailed as
a member of the board of officers APP
pointed by the secretary of war to
consider regulations, with a view to
the establishment of war college for
the armv.
Inc English government is buying
ponies in Montana for the Transvaal
service. t....
Blue Jackets have been landed at
Woo Sung to protect the telegraph
station.
Gen. Butler has pressed his advance
TO Paardekop, the Beers retiring
northward.
large mass meeting of Filipinos,
held in Manila, resolved to secure
peace If possible.
Parry Wagner, convict in the
penitentiary at Rusk, Tex, was hang
ed for numbering a fellow convict.
Five convicts escaped from Jail at
Coleman, Tex. One murderer was
awaiting death sentence and another
had life term.
The big iron railroad bridge across
the Gunnison river at Gunnison, Col,
was wrecked by giant powder. No
clew to the perpetrators.
\ monument to the. memory OF
Samuel Hahneman, founder of the
homeopathic school of medicine, was
dedicated in Washington.
Joel Hunt, his wife and VIM.
Barnes, Negro farm tenants, were
killed near Corsicana, Tex, in a quar-
rel over division of crops.
Senator Bacon did not eat toad
stools, mistaking them for mush-
rooms as reported. He is in perfect
health at his home in Macon, Ga.
Adm. Kempff reports that Tien Tsin
was being bombarded and that the
american consulate, as well as other
foreign missions, are being destroyed.
Gov. Roosevelt will not be inter-
viewed, saying he would reserve all
he had to say for the committee ap-
pointed to inform him of his nomina-
ton.
AS soon as the republican national
convention adjourned visitors and
delegates began leaving the city. and
before midnight nearly all were out of
the city.
The most famous Indian chiefs of
the land will be in attendance at the
democratic national convention at
Kansas City as delegates from the In
dian territory.
Many business men in St. Louis are
already feeling the effect of the boy
cott on account of the street car
strike, and are protesting to the
unions. \ little girl was probably fa-
tally injured by being hit on the head
by rock.
The posse comitatus in ST. Louis
will be reduced to 500 men.
German reinforcements from Kiao
Chou and British reinforcements from
Hong Kong have arrived at Taliu.
President Kruger's principal condi-
ton for immediate peace is that he
be allowed to stay in the country.
Another international column, con-
sisting of British, Russian and Japan
ese troops left Taltu for 1ien Tsin.
The British forces in South Africa
have wide web around 6.000 or 5000
Beers under command of Gen. Steyn.
Unusually heavy rains in Cuba have
caused yellow fever to break out in
many places unknown for several
years,
Judge L. ii. Thompson, of the YER
mont supreme court, died at his home
at lhasbnrg, of pneumonia, aged SO
years.
The fiatteners refused to accept Of
decrease in wages and the window
gass factories of the country are not
likely to start up when it was ex-
pected they would.
The United States attorney at New
York is about TO take action looking
TO the prompt removal of Neely, the
alleged embezzler of Cuban postal
fnuds, to Havana for trial.
During a labor riot in Chicago Gus
Ponokomin, contractor, was shot
and severely wounded. He was not
mixed up in the quarrel, but was just
passing by and was struck by stray
bullet
Mckinley and Roosevelt will be i'm
vited to attend the reunion of the
Blue and Grey at Atlanta, on July 20.
A barbecue will be spread in the
trenches over which the contending
armies fought SO years ago. Many
prominent commanders on both sides