The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The present crisis has been a most
impressive object lesson 70 the United
states When the $4,000. 600 was voted
for national defense there was not on
hand i've rounds per gun for our ships
OF war. and even less for heavy batter
les in coast decreases. There were less
than 5000 Of the new krag-Jorgc nsoa
rifle. adopted by the United States
army. in our arsenals
COMMODORE >cHLET said on the 18th.
that he hoped 10 have the New Orleans
aud san Francisco attached 70 his aeei.
but as yet had received no notification
f. ti4v laAsy department " such an
assignment.
In is reported that Spain Is attempt
ing to raise ss0.O0e.OJ0 loan IN Lon
don.
NAY Is has been fixed as the date for
the launching OF the United States ba.-
tleship Alabama. in course OF coastrGc-
tion at Cramps shipyard in Phiiadel-
phia. Miss Morgan. daughter of United
States senator Morgan, viii. it Is
stated. christen the ship
CYRUS A. BELL. a miner. has been ar
rested at Butte. Mont. charged with
attempting to burn Mrs Marian Kelly
and her two children TO death in their
house. She had refused 10 marry him
The perpetrator of the crime cntcrel
her house in the early morning. bound
and cEloroformed her and her Oldest
daughter and then set FIRE to the house.
Her screams when awakened by the
flames summoned the neighbors who
rescued the inmates and put ont the
flames
The steamers New York and Paris.
chartered by the government. have
been rcchrisiened Harvard and Yale
respectively.
Gov. BUSHNELL. on the i9th. ordered
the Ohio national guard 10 be recruited
to its maximum strength $500
THE war department has practically
decided that the first call TO arms will
be for $1,000 men. TO be taken from the
militia OF the several states
Ir was officially announced in Mad
rid. on the 18th. that negotiations were
progressing with the Cuban insurgents
TO obtain their submission as = result
of further concessions
FouR inches of snow fell at Ironwood
Mich. en- the night OF the 18th Mani
towoc. Depere and Plaintield. Wis, also
reported a heavy fall of snow.
The pneumatic gunboat Vesuvius
made successful test of her guns in
Narragansett bay on the 18th.
GOLD was quoted at Buenos Ayres.
on the 10Th. at Ice. 30.
GEN. MILES is quoted as saying that
the army for the occupation Of Cuba
should not be less than 10000 men.
with a sufficient force distributed along
the Atlantic coast for concentration in
case the Spanish should assume The Of
fensivc.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY expected to
sign the Cuban resolution and the ulti-
matum to spain at the same time. on
the morning of the Goth. transmitting
copies of the latter to congress. to Min
lister Polo and by cable TO Minister
Woodford at Madrid. and then await
SPANS reply. which would he due
early on the morning of the s3i.
CrBASs at Key West, Fla, on the 10th.
adopted a memorial TO President Nc
kinley requesting him. after tbs Span
iards have been driven from Cuba. to
appoint Gen. fitzhugh Lee governor
general Of the island until stable re-
publican government can be estab-
lished.
AT Sioux Falls. 5. ID. on the 10th. IA
indictments were returned by the
United States grand jury against a
number of prominent men in NebrasiSz
and the Black Hills on the charge of
stealing timber from government land.
CHAIRMAN CANNON of the house com
mittee on appropriations says that no
war appropriations will be made cx-
cept upon regular estimates from the
various departments.