Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — MARINES RUSHED TO COLON. [ARTICLE]

MARINES RUSHED TO COLON.

Dixie Soils with 600 Hen and Fire ' Months' Supplies. The auxiliary cruiser Dixie sailed from the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, the other day en route for Colon, carrying 600 marines and five living and fighting supplies for 1,000men. | Six companies of marines divided into two battalions sailed on the Dixie. Company A is composed of men from Boston, Company B Washington, Company C Annapolis, Company D Philadelphia, and Companies U and F Brooklyn. Nearly a train load of army supplies, hospital tents and blankets has arrived at San Francisco under rush orders, having been expressed by the government from Omaha to the superintendent of the transport service in San Francisco. The consignment had been carried on the fastest trains through the West. Mrs. A. S. Rosenthal of New York la expected to win her suit for her part of $25,000,000 worth of property situated In Mudgee, a fashionable suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and in Melbourne i*•eif.