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

TnE navy department has concluded
To allow the naval commanders In Gu
ban waters to be their own strategists,
simply forwarding such information as
may, from time 10 time, come To hand.
DUKE AI.MEDovER DE RIO has ac-
cepted the portfolio of minister for Tor
eign affairs, offered to but declined by
Senior Leon v Castillo, the Spanish am
bassador at Paris.
TnE supreme court of Missouri n
banc. on the cath. rendered an opinion
declaring the st. Louis police pension
law to be unconstitutional.
AspECIAL from Key West says that
the man arrested on board the steamer
Panama on suspicion Of being d Span
ish spv. is Lieut.. Sobral, formerly ma
val attache Of the Spanish legation at
Washington.
from Hong Kong, on the
25th. said: Manila is tranquil. The
foreign cruisers have agreed upon CON
certed action for the protection of for
eigncrs in any emergency
The plant of the Stoughton (Wis.)
Wagon Co, n of the largest concerns
of its kind in that state, was damaged
$4,000 by fire on the a5th. Insurance
on the stock and building, si5o,0oo.
JAMES j. DORSEY was found dead in
a yard ut Key West, Fla, within a hall
block of the Key West hotel, on the
25th. His face and head were bruised
beyond recognition. This, together
with the assault Of a negro upon W
sailors, on the night of the cath, has
reused the people to demand that the
city be put under martial law.
Mrs. GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN has finally
decided to renounce the terms of her
husbands will and accept her dover
right in the estate, as permitted by
law. She will thus secure a one-third
life interest in the Pullman realty and
one-third Of the personal property alb
solutely.
The safe arrival of the battleshir
Oregon at Jupiter inlet. Fla. is spoken
of with great satisfaction by members
of the cabinet. Capt. Clark, in his mes
sage To the secretary of the navy. re-
porting his safe arrival, said that he
was ia condition for immediate active
operations.
ACCORDING TO advices from Copenha.
gen, the United States has resumed
confidential pour parleurs for the pur.
chase of the Lesser Antilles, the Wash
ington authorities desiring to get pos.
session of the st. Thomas harbor. The
prospects are said to be favorable.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 25th
stated that an expedition of $1,000 men
would be sent almost Immediately to
occupy Porto Rico. The Oregon, 1T was
thought, would convoy the troops and,
incidentally, batter down the defense
of San Juan.
The s~emi-annual meeting OF the
Women's Board of Missions of New
England and the territory east of the
Ohio began, on the Goth, at Worcester
Mass. Delegates to the number of Over
GOO were present.
A train on the Midland
Terminal railroad ran into a handcar
on a high ~trestle, near Gillette, Col.
on the Goth, and four men who jumped
from the handcar were killed.
JONATHAN BUTrERFIELD, of Chicago
died, on the 10Th, in Denver, Col.
where he had gone on account of ill
health. He was SO years old, and hi:
wealth was estimated at 81. 100000
Gov. BRADLEY has an nounced that
unless otherwise instructed by tn
4 president, the second of Kentucky
regiments on the second call will cor
sist of colored troops.
MADRID newspapers urge the cuttin
OF the American cable connection
: across the Atlantic if the Cuban cable
I are severed.