The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-09-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

25-per-cent. rule.
President and Mrs. Mckinley spent
a pleasant hour at Camp Meade, on the
eth, en- route to Somerset, Pa, for a
short vacation.
DR. John Hopkinson, an English
electrical engineer. and his son and
two daughters were killed while as
cending, without guide. the Dents de
Veisivi, in the Canton of Nalais, Switz-
erland, the mountains of which are
among the highest in Europe, and
which are exposed 10 furious torrents
and destructive avalanches.
The Austrian and Hungarian pre-
miers reported to the emperor, on the
Goth, that. as result of the Ausglech
negotiations, final agreement on the
subject was expected the next day
1t is officially announced from simla
that for the week ended on the 27th,
there were $500 deaths from plague in
the Bombay presidency. The epidemic
is spreading.
Capt. Lows c. Duncan. surgeon of the
Twenty second Kansas regiment, Is
held by the sheriff of Fairfax county.
Va. to answer an indictment charging
HIM with desecrating confederate
graves at Bull Run. near Manassas.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury. issued on the Goth. showed:
Available cash balance, S292, OOO,2ll;
gold reserve. S213, lj2,6si.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: spain's peace
commissioners will be Senior Leon
Castillo, Spanish ambassador at Paris;
Senior Urrutia. Spanish minister Mt
Brussels; the duke of Najer, governor
of Cadiz; Senior Marcortu and Senior
Abarzuza.
The Oakla land Red Cross society has
established a hospital at Piedmont,
across the bav from san Francisco.
Three sets OF dies for making quar-
tiers, dimes and nickels were discovered
in the coal mines of the Kansas peni-
Tertiary at Leavenworth on the Goth.
A gang of convicts had been making
counterfeit money for several weeks.
and might have continued had not a
fight occurred over the division Of the
coin.
The instructions to the Cubans and
Porto military commissions were
drawn up and approved by the presi-
dent before he left Washington.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell. WAS reported.
on the 29th. TO be dying at his home
near Paradise. Ky. He was taken sud
denly ill, on the eth. and the attend
ing physi> an says that he can not live.
He is 50 years old.
Mai. Gen. Otis is acting governor of
Manila. in the absence of Gen. Merritt.
Halvor Floren, aged 90, and Annie
Dillnar. aged Is, were drowned while
boating on Diamond lake, near Grove
City, Mimi, on the 30th. Morris Elof-
sen and Jennie Nelson, who were IN
the same boat, had narrow escapes.
On the 3Oth the war department was
notified OF the death of Col. j. J. Van
Horne, of the Eighth United states IL
fantry. at Fort Russell, Wyo.
The statement OF the condition OF tho
treasury, on the 30th, showed: Availa'
kble cash balance, ss02, 225, 12l; gold re-
serve. s213, ,30s.
Brig. Gen. Royal T. Frank has been
assigned to command temporarily thu
Third army corps, formerly com
rnanded by Gen. Wade, the latter hav
ing been relieved to become a membe
of the Cuban military commission.
Admiral W. ;. Schlev and Gen. VIM
w. Gordon. United states commission
ers to settle the conditions for tn
Spanish evacuation of Porto Rice
sailed from New York, on the alst, 10
I a. 4 4. at..s., &nfa
A court-martial at Nancy, France
has lust sentenced a private soldier
three months imprisonment and 81
francs tine for shouting "Vive lola
.. james Elliott. OF Detroit, Mich, on
81 the oldest fire chiefs in the Unite
States. died on the 3ist, o. stomac
| trouble.
On the 3lst President Mckinley q
pointed c. II. Woodward, profess
, in Columbia university, as one OF II
commissioners to represent this go
! eminent at the Paris exposition. al
:. title is that of assistant commissioning
!. general, and the position is one
= trust and requiring great execute
ability.
The Mckinley" bale of cotton tn
has been going the rounds OF !
!. boards OF trade Of the country. bel
sold at auction for the benefit OF
! United States hospital fund, was az
!, toned off on the Kansas City IN
~ exchange. on the 3lst. for S3c5.
"a The transport steamer Olivette, VII
I. has been lying near the Guarant
:. station. at Fernandina, Fla, throu
=, some mysterious agency sank On
3ist. Aboard the ship were the
pital corps Of IS and crew OF - .
h. sons, all OF whom escaped without
~ jury. but in scanty attire.
st Unknown incendiaries tried To
w. the family OF Fred Langs. farm
nd living near Mclrosc Park, Chics
mo- suburb. by setting fire to his ho
xo Mrs. Langs and her child were asl
I've in the dining room mt the time, and
IN. a narrow escape from death.
ID, Four suspicious cases of fever W
re- | declaredat Taylor, Miss, 40 miles SO
Of Holly sOr'ngs' on the aist