The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-07-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The initial fight of Col Woods rough
riders and the troopers of the First n
Tenth cavalry will be known in history
asthe battle.of La Quasina.
ALL the hills about Santiago are COW
cred with blockhouses. There are 81
lines of intrenchments, and behind
these are four lines of rifle pits, while
the fronts are protected by rows OF
barbed wire.
OK the 27th the pope received in au-
| dience Rt. Rev. Sebastian Messmer,
bishop of Greenbay, Wis.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Fiume, the
seaport town of Austria-Hungary,
saws an Austrian vessel is Oh her way
to the Philippine islands with 500 tor
pedoes INTENDED for the Spanish
fleet"
THE Bellingham Bay Improvement
Co. S mill at New Whatcomb Wash,
was burned on the 27th. Loss esti-
mated at $500, 900. The mill employed
l4O men.
THE O'Higgins has not been sold to
Spain, and positive information has
reached Washington that Chill VIII
not sell the ship to any government
The statement of the condition of the
United states treasury, on the 2sth'
showed: Available cash balances, sl94--
49,, 344: gold reserve. Sl65. 723,699.
THE water supply of the city of San
tiago was cut off on the night of the
26th, and nothing but ~cistern water IS
now available.
JESUS AscEvEDo. a Porto Rican, who
arrived al New York on the 9th on
the steamer Pretoria, from st. Thomas
was arrested. on the 2sth, on suspicion
Of being n Spanish spy.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London
Daily Mail. at Port Sand, says that
distinguished naval ofiicerthere laughs
r at the idea of Admiral Camaras ships
going to Manila, and says there is not
a vessel in the lot fit to make the trip
: adding that the Spaniards are wise tc
a keep their ships out of reach OF tn,
: Americans.
c As GoyERNoR-GESERAL of the Philip
r pine islands Gen. Merritt has prepare,
a proclamation which Will be ISSUED
t Immediately after his arrival at Manila
lie expects to enter that city withou
| serious ItSlSldntt. u III t''N
sity is prepared to use both the nava
: and military forces at his T.
! take forcible possession of the place.
; A UNITED STATES registered lette
q and money order office has been estat
: lished at Baiquiri, Cuba. 1t is full
equipped and capable of performing
any duties which may devolve upon II
u l.. Kemper is in charge of it, and h
will remove to Santiago and a charg
of the post Office there wheni it has bee
|. captured.
l. THE war. department has given o,
a statement that ''the sending OF del
- cacies TO the army. although most gel
= erous and fully appreciated by the wa
= department. will no longer be encoul
e aged, as IL has been found that sue
'e delicacies for troops in the field are Il
furious rather than helpful
A LETTER received at Warren, G
:, from John Muldoon, a citizen of job
:, sonville, who is now in the Alaska
u gold fields, says that of the l01 mi
who left Seattle with him in Marc
only four survived. Two were browne
and the others persisted from cold al
hunger.
:. THE understanding at the war d
partment is that the total number
regulars and volunteers which will
:. dispatched 10 Manila in command
!, Maiden. Merritt will approximate 2
~ 600 men. OF these 10000 already ha
!, left San Francisco in three separate {
A. petitions.
THE president. on the 2sth, ISSUED
20 proclamation extending the blockade
no Cuba 10 all ports OF the south coa
". from Cape Francis to Cape Cruz, incl
nj sive; also the port Of San Juan, Por
d. Rico.