The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-06-03

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE transports sfustralia, City OF
Picking and City of Sydney left San
Francisco, on the 25th, for Manila,
Philippine Islands, with $500 troopsto
reinforce Admiral Dewey. Wild scenes
Of enthusiasm on ship and shore
marked the departure.
The statement of the associated banks
of New York city for the week ended
on the 2lst showed the following
changes: Surplus reserve, increase,
s3,7ls,0 OPS; loans. increase ST,s5s, 500;
specie. increase, S., 1868, 500; legal ten
ders, increase, 81, 3al, 500; deposits, in
crease, IA, 267 500; circulation, increase,
s5l 900.
ACCORDING to a dispatch received in
Paris from Rome, Italy has protested
gains the blockade of Cuba, claiming
it is ineffective.
The war department. asked Gen.
Roe, on the 23d, if he could have an
other New York regiment ready
TO start upon call. Gen. Roe re-
piled in the affirmative, and from this
it is inferred that the First or Third
may be ordered to join Gen. Merritts
forces in the Philippines.
Two HUNDRED and five members of
the Illinois naval reserve Were sent to
the gulf coast on the cath. 1t is said
they will be given a chance to serve
with Admiral Simpsons fleet.
FROM 4 discussion in the Spanish
senate on the 23d, it appears Spain Sc
riously contemplates having
to privateering in the near future.
Up to the pad 30 bodies had bee re-
covered from the Zollern mine at bort
mund, Prussia, in which fire broke out
on the 22d. 1t was believed at least 40
miners lost their lives.
THE new French chamber of depu-
ties is composed Of 254 republicans, i0i
radicals, "A radical-socialists, 81 social
lists, IS rallidcs, Al reactionists and III
free lances.
The First California volunteers re-
ceived an ovation, on the 23d, as they
marched from the Presidio to the Pa
cifc Mail dock in San Francisco, To
board the steamship City of Pekin, on
which they are to make the trip te
Manila. The demonstration was on.
long TO be remem bered.
RUMoR is current at Madrid tina
Admiral Montojo has been court-mar
tailed and shot by order of Capt.-Gen
Augusti at Manila, for culpablc negli
pcnce. 1t is asserted that he kept N
lookout at the entrance TO Manila bay
and didn't even nave steam up on hi
! ships when Dewey sailed in.
The Massachusetts Unitarian asso
citation want the government to refus
to purchase goods of any kind bearing
/. the MOTTO Remember the Maine Oh
the ground that IL is provocative OF
spirit OF vengeance.
A SPECIAL train on the Florida Ger
trail a. Peninsula railway, carryin
North Carolina troops en- route I
Florida. collided with "A north-boun
! vegetable train on the ed. Privat
!. William Barbee. Company i. of Dui
|, ham, n. C., was killed, and Private 4.
NJ. Colclough was fatally injured.
n Gen. MERRITT. 62 years of age, 90
into an engagement en- route to IL
Philippines. lie captured Miss Laur
Williams. n ~20-year-old Chicago bell
: IL is also asserted that after he gc'
fairly established at Manila, Mi
Williams will join the general and u
4 wedding will take place there.
COMPANIES A n g., OF the Fou
I, teenth infantry, U. ;. A., arrived
I, San Francisco. on the Esd. on the For
Z land express. There were 1876 men
the two companies. in charge OF Ma
Anderson. The boys had been on du'
~, in Alaska.
4. NOTICE has been given To all I
q, powers that, pending the present nc
t~ilities, the United States will not on
hold coal To be co~ntraband of war, b
vessels carrying it will be regarded
alien enemies.
~, A SENSATIONAL story was circuiat
at Key West, on the 23d, to the eff
that the Mangrove had been captur
by the Spaniards while graphing
- the Santiago caole. The story, no
u ever, lacks confirmation.
!. Tux house. on the 23d, passed !
'I senate bill providing for the PAYNE
~ of volunteers from their enrollm'
N and authorizing the secretary OF "
49, to pay troops c%mbarking for Man
one month in advance.