The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-08-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ing him TO request congress TO appoin,
"A commission To investigate the horrors
of human slavery that are perpetrated
by those who hold Chinese girls in
bondage.
THE secretary of the treasury,
through the state department. has in
structed all consular officers of the
United States that. according TO the
provisions of the new tariff act. all
watch cases and watch movements for
export TO this country must be in
voiced separately. The combination of
tire two parts as a completed article il
not known in the act.
Ar n meeting Of a number of promi-
nent Jewish citizens Of San Francisco,
on the 9th. the general sentiment was
expressed by the speakers that the col
onists now in that city ought To be
helped, but that others who contem-
plate coming should be discouraged.
The steamer City of Para, from Pan
anna, was Immediately sent into quar-
antine upon her arrival at San Fran
cisco on the 9th, A. Frerere. a French
cabin passenger. having died at sea,
on the 5th. of yellow fever.
A GRAVEL train on the Chicago <
North western railway struck a street
car which was passing over the main
track of the road in GAINESVILLE. WIS,
on the 9th, injuring seven persons.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury. issued ON the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance. S22s. gsl, 762;
gold reserve, Sl40. 5ss, 457.
JUDGE JOSEPH KUHN, an attorney of
Port Townsend. Wash. expects to con-
duet n party of gold prospectors TO the
Copper river. Alaska. in the spring. a
section that is peopled with a hostile
tribe of Indians, numbering about
1000. with no less than 200 braves. 1t
is considered a very hazardous under
taking.
A storm struck Paterson.
n. j., on the 10th. The rainfall was
the heaviest in 25 years, and much
damage was done by the cyclonic wind
which accompanied it. Trees were
uprooted in some places, signs and
fences carried away and trolley cars
were stopped.
HI lhOtnihk linut>s VA AIiDDlC
Creek, Col. has been sold ~ j. T..
Siley to Frank j. Atkins and Gail
Hoag. two well-known newspaper
men, both OF whom have been for
years connected with the Rocky Noun
tain News. of Denver, Col.
WHILE flying a kite during a heavy
electrical storm, on the 10th. Walter
Ninson. a ~l2-year-old boy. who lived
in Chelsea place, Kansas City, Kas.,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
The inhabitants of Townsville, Ga,
are intensely excited over what appears
to be the existence Of n volcano near
there. The crater is about - feet
square and several streams of blue
smoke issue from it.
DESPITE diplomatic denials Madrid
dispatches reaching Havana virtually
confirm the report that President Nc
kinley and Secretary Sherman have
given Spain until January /. next, TO
end the war in Cuba.
The queen regent of Spain has de-
creed that the military honors observed
in the case of the funeral of "a marshal
shall be accorded the remains of the
late premier of Spain, senior .Canovas
del Castillo.
OFFICIAL information reached Ha-
vana. on the 10th. of a decisive battle
between Spanish troops and insurgent
forces in Matanzas. According to this
information the Spanish troops we're
routed, after a hard battle, with heavy
losses.
NOTICES have been c-onspicuously
posted about the town of Clayton. N.
NJ. warning all negroes 10 leave before
August Is. Nearly all the negroes there
arc preparing TO go away.
j. NJ. TRANT, who killed James Fleet
wood about ten years ago, was assas-
sinated In his own home at Ryan, /. H..
on the night of the 10th. by unknown
persons. Traut was the terror Of his
neigh borhood aud had many enemies
VIM +. QUINBY. of Detroit. lately
United States minister to the Neither
lands, arrived at New York. on the
10th. on board the steamer Western
land from Antwerp.
WM. LAMB PIcKSELL, of Boston, the
celebrated artist died in M~arblehead,
Mass, on the night of the 9th. lie wa
45 years OF aye.
Ex-kING MILAN Of Servia is 20 seri-
ously i'll. in Vienna, that some anxiety
is felt by his friends as To his eventual
recovery.
lr Is said thai the Philippine islands
insurgents are now following the Gu
bans tactics. surprising conveys and
detachments of Spanish troops. and
that up TO date they have been gcner-
ally successful in a..no-t ali tue en-
counters, this being really the only
means by which the liberators have
acquired the large number of Reming-
ton and Mauser rifles and supply of
ammunition they possess At present.
A SPECIAL dispatch. on the 18th,
from Paris, said that Planas. another
leader Of the Spanish anarchists, had
been expelled from France. being con
Quoted to Havre, from which port he
will come to America. Both Marmel
and Pianas, the dispatch added, called
themselves Cuban patriots