The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-06-24

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY has -onicrr~.
the degree of LII ID. upon Admiral
Dewey.
THREr attachments Of marines rein
forced by Cuban allies. attacked the
Spaniards in the vicinity Of Guanta-
namo, on the i4th. completely routing
them. The Spanish loss is estimated
at about 100 killed and zoo wounded
A large number of Mauser rifles. 10000
rounds OF ammunition and a complete
heliograph outfit were captured, and
water station destroyed. The Amer
leans only had two or three men slight-
IL wounded, and the Cubans lost two
men killed and half dozen wounded.
The landing OF Gen. Skaters tlfth
army corps or Cuban soil Is the most
interesting event the military world
has known for long time. IL is many
a year since one convoy has carried -
many men. horses, heavy and field ar
tillery at the same time. Not since the
Crimean war has such feat been at
tempted.
CHAPLAIN A. r. MORGAN of the Sixth
Illinois has rendered his resignation.
The chaplain assigns as the reason for
this step his inability to withstand the
hardships of active service MIR. Nor
gan is a Methodist. and halls from Cuba,
"a small city near Havana, Ill.
The Spanish lieutenant captured in
the fight of the l4th. near Guantanamo.
admits that the two American sentries
killed ON the llth were rssassinated by
Spaniards who stole up on them. The
assassins are said to hrve been killed
in the battle of the l4th-
GEN GOMEZ reports tn AZ many Span
ish soldiers are deserving their army
and joining the Cuban forces, on ac-
count of the fact that they have re-
ceived no pay for long time. and have
no prospects of getting any in the near
future.
The second Manila expedition sailed
from san Francisco, on the 18th, ON
board the Senator, Colon, Zealandia
and China. all under command OF Maj
Gen. Greene. The troops were given a
fine send-off by the San Franciscans
They numbered $500 men.
THE Spanish government has author
lied Gen Bianco 10 entertain proposals
for an exchange of Lieut.. HobSon and
other prisoners taken when the Amer
lean collier Merrimac was sunk off the
entrance to the harbor OF Santiago d'
Cuba.
PAssENGER train No. ). west-bound
: and No. 6. east bound. on the Atchison
: Topeka 4 Santa Fe railroad. collide'
on siding near Conroy, Col. on tn
10th. Several persons were sllghtl,
in INJURED.
: JAMES JOHNSON, the negro soldier Oh
trial for the murder of Jacob Collins a
Lakeland. Fla. has been convicted o
murder in the second degree and sen
fenced to life Imprisonment.
SIXTEEN HUNDRED members of tn
=, Chicago Woodworkers union, en-
r ployed in sash, door and blind fa'
: tories, struck. on the 10th, for highe
wages and shorter hours.
GRAF CAssISI, ambassador Of Russi
to the United States, reached New
:. York city. on the 10th, on the Mort
German LLOYD steamer Kaiser Frede
rich. from Bremen.
LATE official dispatches to the marin
= hospital service showed there had bee
!, no fresh developments in the yello'
:, fever situation in the south
= The story of the mutilation of tn
j dead bodies of our marines at Guar
tanamo is denied.
i In the Bow Street police court
London. on the 10th. John Todd, WI
shot Count Arco- Valley, the first seer
!; tary of the German embassy while Il
latter was emerging from the embass
,n that city, was remanded unit
! the a2d.