The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-11-18

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JASPER INDIANA
The statement ofthe condition of the
treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, $500, 1yl,l76;
gold reserve. s242. ls0,3 800.
st. Petersburg newspapers announce
the coming visit to that city of
Thomas a. Edison, the American in
yentor The scientific societies are
preparing TO give him a brilliant re-
seption.
According TO actual and estimated
ma iorities by counties. in New York,
received up to the morning Of the 9th.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt carried the
state, for governor, by a plurality Of
el,537.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: "A Belgian
syndicate, under the presidency OF
King Leopold of Belgium, has offered
TO lease the Philippines under Spanish
sovereignty, paying Spain large
rent"
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says: 1T is asserted
positively that Maj Marchand has es-
tablished communication with En-
peror Menelik of Abyssinia, and that
France is now intriguing with that
monarch"
Hamilton (O..) promoters, having just
completed the organization of plug
tobacco trust in New York. are about
TO consummate another big combine,
which involves the consolidation of al
most every manufactures of school
desks and furniture in the United
States.
4 dispatch to the New York Herald
from Washington. on the eth. said: In
President Mckinley's message 10 con
gress will be a very strong and urgent
appeal for immediate legislative ac-
ton for the construction of the Mic
araguan canal under government di-
rection.
An explosion of gas in the national
capitol. on the 9th. wrecked and set
on fire the rooms occupied by the SUI
preme court, doing much damage 10
the building, causing irreparable loss
OF court records and law LIBRARY. and
destroying several pieces of historic
statuary.
Judge Theo. c. Sears. prominent in
Kansas and Washington. died NJ Lake
View. near Tacoma, Wash. on the
9th. Mr.. Sears was one OF the 1906"
who stood solid for Grants third nom
nation. He was prominently men
TONED at one time for United States
senator from Washington.
Admiral Schley has cabled the navy
department that Capt. SNOW had ar
rived at San Juan on the Solace. and
that he had relieved the admiral of
the command of the naval station on
the 9th. The admiral announced that
he would start for the United States
on the Newark, his flagship.
Metamore, a colonel in the Cuban
army, and formerly bandit. OBJ
jecting 10 the humdrum WAYS of
peace, recently took to the hills with
20 men, and is now carrying on his old
vocation, robbing plantations and
farms OF cattle and horses, holding
people up. and setting in every way
bad example.
In the hold Of the Leonidas. which
arrived at Norfolk. Va, on the eth. are
81 of the guns of the destroyed Spanish
fleet. ranging i'm size from TO IL
inches. Some of these are still loaded
as the charges could not Toe extracted
The raft upon which Lieut.. Hobson
left the Merrimac after he had blown
up the boat in the mouth of Santiago
harbor. is also i'm the hold.
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Postmls Emory Smith
has issued an order admitting private
mailing cards. authorized by the act
of May -. 1895. into the foreign mails
at one cent postage each for Canada
and New Mexico and two cents each
for all other postal union countries
This permits the sending of any kind
Of "A card in lieu of requiring the usual
postal card. provided the size is the
same as official cards.
Miss Kate Lyon. member Of the
household OF Harold Frederic, of Lon
don. late correspondent Of the New
York Times. who died on October 10
at Henley. England, and Mrs. Athalie
Mills. the Christian scientist, who at
tended Mr.. Frederic. and against
whom verdict of manslaughtcr was
rendered by coroner's jury. were ar
raigned in the peace court At Henley.
on the 9th. and were remanded for a
week. They were admitted 10 bail.
The main question now before Gen.
Leonard Wood, governor Of the mill
fary department of Santiago de Cuba.
Is not political. 1t is the question OF
water. which is a serious problem.
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