The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ana 40 passengers were tnToNH iHio
the Erie canal. Miss Mary Bradley, OF
Utica, n. ~, was the only person
killed.
Miss RUTH NJ. OSBORN, daughter OF
ID. w. Osborn, the millionaire reaper
manufactures of Auburn. y. Y. died
of consumption on the Union Pacific
train just as it reached Denver, Col, on
the sth. Her father and mother and
the family physician were with her.
ACCORDING to the most reliable in
formation the Spanish note accepting
the American terms is couched in dig
nified language. IL asserts that Spain
bows To the force of circumstances.
having lone nothing TO provoke the
war, into which She has been unwilling
ly led in the defense of her rights and
territory.
BRIG.-GEN. JoHN :. POLAND died in
Asheville, y. c.. on the sth, OF fever
contracted at Chickamauga. The re-
mains were sent to his home in New
York state.
WHILE leaning from a window of the
Shamokin Valley knitting works at
Shamokin, Pa, on the 9th, Miss Jennie
Allison. aged Is years, was electrocnted
by her nose coming in contact with a
telephone wire that had been crossed
by a live arc wire, and thus charged
with 1900 volts of electrical fluid. She
had her feet resting on a coil of steam
heating pipes at the time.
A DISPATCH from ~Cartagena, Colon
bia says the reason of the Colombian
government delaying its note replying
to Italv's demand cor a settlement of
the Cerruti claim is apprehension of a
popular uprising.
ONE HUNDRED miles of military tcle-
graph are now in operation in Porto
Rico. connecting the points occupied
by the United States troops with the
cable station at Ponce.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, $500, 900. Ill;
gold reserve. $3.50, 252. 696.
The Wade Porto Rican expedition has
been abandoned as unnecessary
AT "A meeting of the stockholders of
the Metropolitan Street Railroad Co.
of New York, on the 9th, it was unani-
mously decided to increase the capital
stock Of the company from $50. 600. 600
TO S45. oO0. 00o. OF the increase $40, 00O.-
900 will be used to liqaidate outstand-
ing obligations and the remaining S.
600. 900 will be held in the treasury as
a fund for improving the property of
the company
The steamer Signal, reported as
wrecked off the Washington coast, was
lowed into San Francisco harbor. on
the 9th. by the tugboat Sea Queen,
having broken a crank pin.
The steamer Farralon, from Skaguay,
Alaska, arrived at Vancouver, Il. c.. on
the 9th. The purser and captain claim
that 81 900. 900. 900 is in the safe in gold
drafts. The purser says that when she
left Skaguay the town was in flames.
and that the fire vas fast approaching
the dynamite stores, with no prospect
Of checking it.
THE town of Coamo, Porto Rico. was
captured. on the 9th. by Gen. Ernst's
brigade. after half an hours fighting.
The Americans had six wounded. The
Spanish loss is not known. Coama was
regarded as one Of the Spanish trong-
holds.
GEN. GOMEZ has won an important
victory over the Spanish forces under
Gen. Jiminez Castellanos, forcing the
trocha between Las Villas and Ca
maguey. Over 300 >paniards and 1870
Cubans were killed and many wounded
on both sides.
The monument erected at Frederick.
Md, to the memory of Francis Scott
Key, author of The Star Spangled
Banner was unveiled with appro-
pirate ceremonies on the 9th. Henry
Watterson delivered the GRAFTON.
NJ. ID. DAVIS died at his home near
Beverly, KY, on the 9Th, of malarial
fever, aged IL years. lie was m of
the organizers of the grange move
ment, and was the first grand master of
the order.
DS the 10th John VI. Lane. s~torekeep-
err of the United States transport Min
~newaska, dropped dead in his boa at
Savannah, Ga. The troopship was wait.
ing to carry the Third regiment of inn
munes to Santiago. lane was s. years
of age and the father of Capt. Lane of
Wv ~NthAh IOAAtt BlttlnNNs Y n.
On the 10th the British foreign Office
formally announced the appointment
of George y. Curzon, until nov the
parliamentary secretary of the foreign
Office. as %viceroy Of India, in succession
to the earl Of Elgin.
Oh the 10th Joseph Saxton, nm uncle
Of the wife Of President Mckinley, re-
siding at Canton, o.. was struck by
a street car and seriously injured. He
IS well advanced in years. and suffered
from defective hearing. His injuries
were not necessarily fatal.
AT 1T. Louis, on the 10th, the coro-
ner's jury in the ease Of Frank kaent.
ncr, who was shot and killed, on the
night Of the sth, while trying 70 escape
from Special Policemen Leincrt and
Cremins, whom he mistoolx for high
waymen, returned a verdict holding
Cremins on a charge OF homicide.
ADvIcEs received in Yokohama from
Seoul say Corea intends to adopt the
gold standard.