The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-05-07

WEEKLY COURIER.
G.. DOANE. Publishes.
THE Ohio medical law has been de-
clared constitutional in the lower
courts. IL requires physicians tn
register and have certificates based
upon practice or examination.
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THOMAS STEEP, the Cuban corrs-
pondent OF the Scripps-McRae league
is alive. A cablegram has been re-
ceived at the league headquarters
saying that he is safe at Kingston, ia
maica-
SENATOR oRviLIE II. PLAT, OF Con-
necticut, was married, on the Goth. TO
Mrs. Jennie l.. IIoyt, Of Upper Mont
clair, ". j. Very few Of senator Platts
colleagues We're aware of his
nuptials.
DISPATCH from Manila, capital of
the Philippine islands, says that $4,000
insurgents. who have not submitted to
the Spaniards, have taken up a posi-
ton in the mountains and are offering
. stout resistance to the troops.
from Athens. on the 2sth.
said: The report hat King George
was compelled to sign a decree recall
ing Prince Constantine from the front
is unfounded. The crown prince will
remain at the hcad of the army.
FAILURES throughout the United
States, for the week ended on the 9Sd.
as reported by X. e. Dun & Co, were
2ls. against 3 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 81. against A last year.
PRIVATE letters from the interior of
Cuba report wholesale starvation.
Some of the cases are especially heart
rending. Children are dying in the
streets of Matanzas. and babes have
been found dead in the arms OF their
exhausted mothers.
AT a French cabinet meeting. on the
10Th, the minister Of foreign affairs, Nj.
Ha%noteaux. explained the course OF
events in the east and the progress of
the negotiations of the powers to bring
about "A settlement OF the dispute be-
tween Greece and Turkey.
THE London Daily Chronicles Athens
correspondent, on the 25th, said: King
George means TO GO to the front and
make a decided stand at Pharsala,
which was the line of defense advised
by Gen. vosseur and some members of
his staff from the very beginning.
THE Atlantic Transport line steamer
Mobile. Capt. Layland, which was
scheduled to sail from London. on the
goth. for New York. had the contents
of her main hold severely damaged By
fire the day before. which lasted five
hours. Her departure was therefore
delayed.
TIT executive of the l. lood
Sufferers Relief association Of Mem
phis, Tenn, published an
ment, on the goth, to the effect that all
refugees would be provided with means
of transportation To- their respective
homes, thus relieving planters of this
responsibility.
WIru wondrous pageant by LAND and
water and in the presence of 1000. 600
spectators, the nation. on the eth. dedi-
Gated the massive and beautiful mau-
solcum at Riverside park, New York,
that is designed forever to hold and
protect the body of the hero of the age.
Ulysses ). Grant.
The Turkish government. acting upon
the recommendation of the ambassa-
dors of the powers. has authorized the
Greeks in the service of the consul
ates. hospitals. foreign missions and
post offices to remain IN Turkey. All
other Greeks. however, will have to
leave the empire.
Ii n duel between VI. Clemenceau.
editor of the Echo lie Paris. and the
prince de Chimav. on the 25th. grow
ing out Of an article by the former on
the prohibition Of the princess de Chi
mays appearing at the Folics Bergere,
the first named was severely, but not
dangerously, wounded.
THE weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks for the
week ended on the cath showed the
following changes: Reserve, increase,
s., POI, OO0, loans, increase, $50. 900;
specie. increase. S+4a,400; legal ten
der. increase. sS,323. 900; deposits, in
crease, S5,925, 900; circulation, decrease,
S.. 500.
ARNOLD HALEY, a bookkeeper and
ax-1fa,,tanaut In the Garma m army shot