The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-05-27

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SENIOR SAGAsTA. on the 10th. visited
the palace and formally handed to the
queen regent of Spain the resignation
of the ministry.
GEN. JAMES +. SMITH. commanding
the First regiment. California volun-
teers, was ordered, on the 18th, to leave
san Francisco with his regiment for
Manila on the steamer City of Pekin
on the night of the 10th.
GEN. FIrzHUGH LEE viii command
the Seventh army corps. Gen. Lee has
positive assurances that active opera
tions viii begin before the end of May,
and that his corps. to be composed of
troops from the south Atlantic. gulf
and middle states. shall be among the
f-st to land on Cuban soil.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at st.
Hyacinthe. Quebec. on the 10th. when
1t. Joseph's convent was burned. caus-
! ing the loss of seven lives and the in
Jury OF a number of the inmates. There
| are also five persons dnaccounted for.
ACCORDING to a telegram from India.
a terrible cyclone has destroyed a great
| part of Bima. a seaport town on the
| island OF ~Sumbawa. Malay archapel-
ago. The shores of Sumbawa bay are
covered with the bodies of thousands of
victims
MAJ.-GES. WESLEY MERRITT may not
go to to Philippines after all. He OBJ
iects to taking command unless he has
5.OOOregulars as the nucleus of his army
of occupation.
IT. lll--.lt-- u.t.I-.a hna haap
given a free hand at last. Wherever
Notifications are found along the Gu
ban coast the crews OF the ships will
be given a chance for target practice,
and there is likely TO be dirt and ma
sonry flying at a likely rate.
In a recent engagement seven leagues
from C~ienfuegos. Cuba, Gen. Gomez de
feated 1000 Spanish troops and com
PEELED the Spaniards to retire to tn,
city. The Spanish were also obliged
to abandon the minor outer fortihca
tions.
on the 10th the queen regent o
Spain charged Senior sagasta to form
new cabinet.
MADRID newspapers assert that let
tiers for Spain. even those containing
check 5 and other valuables. have beer
stopped at New York and destroyed
The papers demand that the govern
mcnt make rcprisals upon American
resident in spain, especially in the cas-
of the correspondents of America
newspapers
GES. MERRITT has wired Secretary Q
War Alger that the interviews put
lished in the New York papers, on tn
10th, Were in every way incorrect an
unauthorized.
Ir is expected. owing to the stric
I block ade and the famine resulting froI
It, that the city of Manila. capital {
+, the Philippines, will be compelled I
s capitulate to the American blockadin
a squadron under Admiral Dewey.
By the falling Of an elevator use
. for hosting building material at u
uncompletcd warehouse of the Bosto
Wharf Co. in Boston, on the 18th, OF
man was instantly killed and five dis
soon after Of their injuries. Two OF
I ers were probably fatally injured.
:. THE British secoad-class cruiser Pip
= has been ordered to the island of Iloil
Of the Philippine group. for the pr
= lection Of merchants whose lives an
:, property are threatened.
The torpedo boat Mckee and the an
Hilary torpcdo-boat destroyer Yankto
II rave been placed in commission at u
N Norfolk navy yard
n AT the request Of Rear Admin
Sampson. the Encouragement has a
pointed Edward X. Jones. o. New ior
to act as special counsel in the trial
!. prize cases
L. CAPT. LEUTz. commanding the Unit
States steamer Alert, nov at San deg
CAL. reports that there are two spa
3 ish gunboats Of about $50 tons Mt Qua
q aouil. Ecuador, and that they ha
been there much longer than neutrali
q laws allow.
Ie GEN. ESvER PASTA and Capt. Ha
a Bey. according To a dispatch from Go
= ~stantinople. have started for the Unit
l. States on the order of the sultan 10 q
,r company the American forces durii
he the war with Spain as military Al
naval attaches respectivcly.