The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-19

The August report Of the Statistical
of the department Of agriculture shows
the following average conditions ON
August 10: Corn, 81; spring rye, aS. Z;
barley. 1913; Irish potatoes, $50; spring
wheat, 81. .: oats, si.a; buck wheat, ss.3
The London Daily Mail, commenting
On the appointment of MIR. Iurzon as
viceroy of India. says that "A charming
incident OF the new ~viceroyalty Is the
nationality of Mr.. Curzon's wife, who
was formerly Miss Letter, of Washing
ton. 1t adds that this is the first time
an American lady has been called TO
assist the imperial government.
CONSERVATION has been caused at
Madrid by the realization that the
United States will not under any cir
cumstances permit the debt OF Cuba to
be foisted on the eventual masters OF
the island, whoever they may be. The
Spaniards have been hoping that the
tail would 90 with the hide.
The Spanish government, responding
to an offer of the United States TO sur
render Admiral Cervera and the 800
prisoners taken from the Spanish fleet
at Santiago. declines the offer, on the
ground that the spanish government
has never consented to the p~rsles OF
Cervera and his men.
PEACE protocol was drafted, ga che
10th, and handed to NJ. Cambon, the
French ambassador, acting for Spain.
II embodied the presidents original
demands on Spain, and was accom-
panied by the assurance that If II was
not promptly signed negotiations would
cease.
PLANS for the temporary government
of Cuba and the territory which Will
be acquired from Spain as a result of
the war are now under serious consid-
Grafton by the president and members
of the cabinet.
The steamer M~ariposa, conveying
the Hawaiian commissioners and l54
men of the First New York volunteers
TO Honolulu, sailed. on the 18th, from
San Francisco. She was detained at
her dock all night awaiting the arrival
of delayed English mails.
AMBASSADOR CAMPO y received a ca
blegram, on the morning of the 18th,
announcing SPANS approval of the
peace protocol and directing him. as
the diplomatic representative of Spain.
to attach his signature TO the instru'
ment. which vas expected TO be done
in the diplomatic reception roc at the
state department some time during the
day.
The steamer City of Topeka. which
arrived at Fort Townsend, Wash,
from skaguay. Alaska, on the 18th. re.
ports that the recent fire at Skaguay
was not as disastrous as reported. Only
a few deserted houses in the outskirts
of the town were burned. A few hun.
bred dollars will cover the loss.
WOLFE CooSE, a full-blood, and Watt
Duncan. a half-breed. have been nomi.
mated for principal and assistant chiei
of the Cherokee nation. The nomina.
tons show the attitude of the full.
bloods. 1t means that they will bitter
ly resent any changes proposed by the
United States.
ApvICEs from Kaigoorlie, West Aus
t~ralia. say thousands of people are
rushing to the vicinity of Lake
Gwynne, close TO kanowna, where a
nugget Of gold weighing % pounds
was recently discovered. The excite
ment in the mining districts is reported
to be intense.
THE transports Manteo and Berk.
shire sailed north from Santiago, on
the 18th, with the Twenty-first reg.
Mar infantry and the balance Of the
Seventy-tirst New York thus compile
ting the embarkaton of the First di-
vision.