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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WORK on the Notifications at Ballast
Point. Cal. is being pushed with all
possible speed. Orders have been re-
ceived not to permit anyone to land in
the government reservation where the
big guns are to- be mounted.
The Ninth L nited States cavalry (col-
ored) has been ordered from Nebraska
to Florida, with full field equipment.
No regiment in the service has better
fighting record. The Tenth now IN
Montana (also colored), is likewise said
to have been ordered south.
The weekly statement of the Inn
perial bank of Germany. issued on the
4th. showed the following changes, as
compared with the previous account:
Cash on hand. decreased, 92,lo0,o00
marks; treasury notes, decreased, g
$50. 900 marks: other securities, in
creased. 1853, $50 900 marks: notes In CIR
culation. increased. 239,sso,oOo marks.
BIDS were opened at the treasury de-
partment, on the 4th, for furnishing
granite and erecting the superstructure
of the post office at Chicago. Fifteen
bids were submitted, that OF John
Pierce, .of New York city, for Sl,9s7,-
900. being the lowest.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Kansas
Millers' association have completed an
examination of the wheat fields in cen
trail Kansas, and report that the recent
cold weather did not injure the grow
ing crop.
INFORMATION from official sources,
which is absolutely correct, says:
Forty floating submarine mines were
secretly planted in Havana harbor. on
the night of the both, by the SPANS
government.
The employees OF the Ponomah cotton
mills, of Taftville, Conn, went out on
strike on the 4th. Two thousand hands
were employed. The strike was in
consequence of ten-per-cent. reduc
tion in wages.
REPRESENTATIVE HULL. Of Iowa
chairman of the house committee OF
military affairs, introduced bill, OF
the 4th, creating military reserve Z
be liable to active duty in time o
emergency.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE. the British
ambassador, on the 5th, drove to TIT
French embassy, and had q long con
ference with NJ. Cambon, the Frencl
ambassador. it is believed, in regard t
the suggested concert of the powers OF
the Cuban question.
THE movement of the powers of Eu
rope for Joint offer Of mediation be
TWEEN the United States and Spain ha
received severe and probably fata
rebuff, in the form of a definite refusa
upon the part Of Great Britain to par
ticipate in it.
: A DISPATCH from Victoria, b. c
4 says Jack Carr, a former United State
: mail carrier, has arrived at Departur
, Bay. from ST Michaels, via Dawson
with advices from Andrcc, the balloon
list.
A TELEGRAM from Rome, on the 5tt
said: 1.-The pope has dispatched ca
! BILE OF 500 words to Archbishop 1r,
land. urging increased efforts in tn
interest Of peace and further immed
ate representations to President Nj,
4 Kinley."
the gunboat Diogencs. recently pul
chased in England, has been rename
Topeka after the Kansas capital
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Kokomo, Ind, April s.-The repub-
lean precinct conventions in Howard
county disposed Of the candidacy of $.
+. Nicholson. of this county. who as
pired TO succeed MAJ Steele in congress.
Nicholson did not secure a single dele.
gate. is of the 81 delegates being for
Steele and three for Statesman, OF
Miami county.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Terre Haute. Ind, April s.-A Pitts
burgh dynamite factory declined TO fill
an order for 10 GOO pounds of dynamite
sent in by Terre Haute dealer who
supplies much of the Indiana coal field
on the ground that the price was adj.
vancing daily because OF the demand by
the government. II was also said that
IL war ensues there would be create
advance in price.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
VIII Oner His All Upon the Altar Of ~"
Country.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, April my
yacht Atalanta and everything ha'e
will be at the disposal of the govern
ment in case of war said George
Gould. OF New York, to a reporter yes
terday at the Union depot. lie was CT
route east from Omaha, and nae
stopped of here between trains. ano
what can this government expect rom
the moneyed men OF New York IN the
event of WARP" he was asked.
Whatever help and as much As I"
needs" replied Mr.. Go~'d
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

When woman wears pink IL dcn otes
the development OF the softer side Of
her nature. She lovcs-maybe the
whole world. but more likely some spe-
tial person. Here a man is entirely at
loss. lie may be in the rosiest state
Of love, but he is compelled by conven-
tionality to don black evening suit
and white tie. The only means where
by he may hint at his feeling is by the
choice of n flower.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Richmond. Ind. April s.-The stock
holders of the Cincinnati. Richmond d
Fort Wayne Railroad company met here
and elected the following directors:
w O. Hughart. W Shelby. J. III. p.
Hughart. T. J. O'Brien. Grand Rapids,
Mich. Joseph Wood. James McCrea. j. T.
Brooks, Pittsburgh. Pa: c. c. Binkley.
Henry T.. Robinson. John r. Miller Rich
mond. and David Studebaker. Decatur.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
FERN BLOWN UP AT HAVANA.
An Improbable story which. Ncverthe-
less. Spain Being Concerned, May
Prove All Too True.

WAsmINGToN. April o. 1870 a. m
There are rumors in circulation mere
early this morning that the United
States lighthouse tender Fern has been
blown up at Havana.
1t is impossible to verify the rumor
at the navy department.
The Fern was to remain in Havana
for the purpose of bringing away Con
sul-General Lee in case he should nos
be able to leave on the Olivette.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Indianapolis. Ind. April s.-From a
preliminary statement compiled by +.
w. Parker. statistician OF the United
States geological survey. ii is shown
that the total output of coal in Indiana
in 1897 amounted to over 1000. 900 tons.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
Special Trains Held In Readiness to Trans
port Troops to the Seacoast.

New YORK, April s.-An evening
paper says that orders were issued a.
the Pennsylvania railway station, Jer-
sey City. Yesterday, that two speciai
trains must be held in readiness on
Monday next for the transportation Oh
New Jersey troops to the seacoas''
The Jersay City board of trade has ar
ranged to organize volunteer reg'-
ment, which will be fitted ont at 'ns
boards expense.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

GREAT BRITAIN has demanded lease
of Wei Hai-Wei, on the Shan-Tung pen
Ursula, after the japanese evacuation,
us a compensation for the distur bance
OF the balance of power in the gulf of
Pe-Chi-Li. In diplomatic circles little
doubt is entertained that China will
concede the demand, which is believed
~ be favorably regarded by Japan.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

DURISs the consideration of the sun
dry evil bill in the senate, on the 9th,
Senator Cullom. of Illinois, offered an
amendment appropriating $4,000 to
restore the levee at Shawneetown, ILL.,,
which was broken by the high water
in the Ohio river. The amendment
was adopted.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
Omccrs Of the Army French stin Pursuing
N. lola.

PARIS. April 9.-The officers compos-
ing the court-martial which acquitted
Count Esterhazy met yesterday and de-
cided to begin civil actions for libel
against Emile lola and NJ. Perrcux,
publisher of the Aurore, who were re-
certly sentenced TO imprisonment. and
who were also fined for making charges,
which were not sustained, against the
conduct OF the court-martial. The offi.
GERS also expressed the wish that the
minister for war, Gen. Billot, would
ask that M. lola be expelled fr"'a the
legion Of honor.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

ADrsPArcH from Hong Kong says.
1.-The whole tsung-la-yamen Chinese
foreign office is charged with being
in the pay of Russia. 1t is asserted
that Russia expended l0,0oo,00 taels
in, bribery during the recent negotia-
tions regarding the cession of Port
Arthur and Ta-Lien- Wan. and that
Lii Hung Changs share was 1880, 100
taels-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Valparaiso. Ind, April s.-The con-
vention of the Woman's Pres byterian
Mission societies of the Logansport
presbytery has adjourned. Mrs ID. T..
Hutnum. of Logansport, was elected
presidents; Mrs. T. B. Young. of Ham
mond. vice president; Mrs. F. n. Hatch
of South Bend. secretary, and Mrs. ].
\. Crawford, OF Logansport. treasurer.
Monticello secured the next conven-
tim
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

THE London Times says that me
diation and arbitration are very beau
tiful theoretically, but very difficult in
practice; and the differences between
Spain and the United States are too
great and too substantial TO be treated
by that rosewater method"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

LATER accounts from the disastrous
food at Shawneetown Ill. modify great
ly the statements as TO dead and miss
ing, the latest statement placing tho
number of the lost at less than 100.
But the picture of suffering and dis
tress of the homeless victims can
scarcely be overdrawn. Relief sup
plies were, however, pouring in from
ell directions
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

A TELEGRAM received at the navy de
partment, on the 9Th, from the COM
handing officer of the Mare Island
navy yard, showed that the amou ut Of
demage suffered from the recent earth
quake shock was $4,000. Secretary
Long will ask congress for specia
appropriation 70 make the necessary
repairs to the buildings and other prop
srty damaged.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

SEATTLE, Wash, April 9.-Later adj
vices from Skaguay say that 1T is now
believed that so or 100 people were
killed in the slide. Twenty-Five bodies
have been recovered and identified and
% were brought out alive.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

ADvIcEs from Shawneetown, Ill, OF
the 9Th, stated: The gap in the levee
Is now over 100 feet wide, and gradu-
ally widening The water is from ten
TO fifteen feet deep all over the town.
With the continued cold rains. and the
loss Of life, the suffering and sorrow
are little abated-"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

The New York Evening Worlds cor
respondent at Havana cabled denial,
onthe fth, upon the authority of Con-
sul-General Fitzhugh Lee, of the re-
port that he Gen. Lee had asked the
british consul-general, Mr.. Gullin, to
take charge OF his effects. as he was
about to leave the country.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Miss CLARA BARTON has returned t.
Cuba with the positive assurance from
President Mckinley that this govern.
ment will send aid Immediately to the
starving reconcentrados. She consid-
ers the sum suggested by congress
$500, ooo) as inadequate to accomplish
the result looked for.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

The body of Assistant Engineer OAR
W in Ii. Merritt. who lost his life in the
blowing up of the Maine, at Havana,
was brought TO New York. on the 5th,
on the steamer City of Washington. 1t
will probably be sent TO the officer 5
late home In Iowa
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Ir lis announced that the following
officers of the rank OF commander have
been named to command the four Nor
gan steamers recently bought by the
government; Commanders W. III. Brown
son, W. III. Emery, {. j. Train and w.
Davis
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Indianapolis. Ind, April s.-The ma
tional headquarters of the United Mine
Workers have been moved from Column
bus, o.. to this city, in accordance with
decree of the last national conven-
ton,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Princeton, Ind, April s.-Thomas
Corn disappeared from here 90 years age
and his wife married Wyatt Gentry
Now Corn has returned very rich.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

JUDGE TAFT. of Toledo, o.. issued a
decree in the Glover Leaf railway lit
igation, on the 4th, which finds sl2.0as.-
500 to be due on first mortgage bonds.
and orders the sale of the road. the
time of which is not fixed, at an upset
price of $. 10000.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

The steamer Mascotte left Havana
for Key West. on the 9Th, at $3.50
O'Clock. with 90 passengers. many of
whom were Americans. She arrived
at Kew West, Fla, at $3.50 p H. The
Fern, Bache and Mangrove were still
at the Cuban capital.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

SaAwSEErowS, ILL.,, was suddenly
flooded, on the Sd, by water from the
Ohio river bursting through the en-
bankment, reaching from hill TO hill,
for the protection of the city. Early
reports said that hundreds-possibly
1,ooo-souls had perished in the en-.
Culfing avalanche, which submerged
the town to the depth Of from 20 TO ~
feet
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

OK the 4th Gov. Tanner issued a
proclamation calling upon the citizens
OF Illinois TO contribute for the relief
of the shawneetown food sufferers
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

on the eth Gov. John w. Leedy of
Kansas, with members of the kansas
commission. visited Omaha and select
ed site for the Kansas state building,
and arranged for placing a large state
exhibit in the rransmississippi exposi-
ton.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

OBERLIS college, one OF ohio's big
gest, oldest and most famous institu-
tions, may have 10 close its doors. II
i in sore financial straits. and has no
president Both of these facts threaten
the old institution with ruin.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

VESSELS were dispatched To Havana,
on the 5th, to take off Gen. Lee and our
consular officers. as we'll as all Amer
leans who desired to leave the island.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
A CONFERENCE OF BANKER S.
An Important Meeting of Prominent
Financiers at J. Pierpont Morgans
once In New York.

NEW YORK. April 81. Pierpont Nor
gan has had an important New York
bankers conference at his office touch
ing upon national financial affairs A
big prospective bond issue was dis
cussed. After the meeting member
of Morgan's firm hurried to Wash
ington ostensibly in the interests OF
the bond project. This move may prove
Of vast immediate Importance. That
government loan must soon be
negotiated is fully realized, and the
suggestion that it be made popular
loan met with general approval. j.
Harsen Rhodes, OF the Greenwich saw
ings bank, when asked his opinion,
wanted to know what security the
government was going to give.
A dispatch from Philadelphia. quot
ing c. X. Lewis. banker. said that
city would probably take SIS 900 900.
Isadore Newman, "A banker, inter-
viewed at New Orleans. thought So
900. 900 of government three per cent
sc bonds could be disposed of at par in
that city.
julius Rungc. Galveston financier,
there
J. J. Mitchell. of the Illinois Trust
and Savings bank. at Chicago. is q uoted
as saying: IF the loan was Ss0),00o,-
900 and issued in bonds ranging from
$50 to $500. they would be rapidly
snapped up at par. don't think a
popular loan netting under three per
cent. would go.
When a country is confronted with
war such bonds could be sold very
quickly. for the people would be in
fuenced by sentiments of patriotism
as well as by the knowledge that such
bonds could not fail to be good as in
vestments. Ishould say Chicago would
take SIS 200. 900 of such bonds"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Miss JESSIE T.. PARKER has been elect
Ell mayor OF Kendrick. Idaho. after a
spirited contest. lleropponent was one
Of the most popular men inthe city.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
Uadly Injured.

Wabash. Ind. April s.--Dr. A. J.
Smith was thrown from his buggy and
dangerously injured.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

indianapolis. Ind. April s.-Frank @
Darlington. division superin tendenc OF
the Pennsylvania railroad, was stricken
with paralysis and is in critical condi
ffnp
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Warsaw. Ind, April s.-The farm
residence OF William Metzger was de.
stroycd by fire. Loss. $4,000.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Elisha Morrow, one Of the best-known
contractors about Green Bay, Wis, Is
dead, aged 70.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15

Women who like to wear red are
usually cratic. prone to quick likes and
dislikes, fond Of odmiration and ieal
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-12

The largest tank steamer in thu
world" belongs to the Standard Oh
Company, and was made at the Roach
shiDyard, in Chester, Pa. The capacity
is 100000 gallons of oil and the
cost $250,000. The dimensions are:
Length over all, 254 feet; beam, 40
feet; engines, 1900 horse power; speed,
IL knots per hour. The ship was de-
signed by John Haug of Philadelphia.
The tanks are arranged fore and aft,
with the machinery and mems quar-
tiers amidships. A longitudinal bulk
head divides the tank space in half,
and three watertight cross bulkheads,
forward and aft, make twelve main
tank divisions. To prevent the oil
from reaching the fires by leakage, two
wells are situated, one on either side
Of the machinery space, and these are
filled with water. Each well can be
pumped out from the deck through
small tank Gaping each we'll. Ex-
tension tanks on deck, connected
with the main tanks, take up
any surplus oil shifted by the
rolling of the ship, and keep the main
tanks always full. Large vent matches
cap each Of the deck tanks and pro-
vide means for the escape Of gas.
-Four filling mains connect with the
deck tanks, and through these mains
oil will be pumped into the tanks at
the company's docks. Arrangements
are also made for carrying and burning
fuel oil,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-12
Freaks of the Senses,

A recent writer in the Century mag
azine calls attention to the keenness of
the fireman's hearing while asleep for
signals for his own station. He will
hear his own numbers, while those of
an adjoining station will fail to awak-
en- him. In the same connection he
quotes the fireman as saying tina: his
wife hears the baby when 1t stirs In the
crib, but never hears the gong, while
he never hears it, but will Jump at the
stroke of the gong over his bed at
home. DR.. Nansen, the Arctic expIor-
er, relates remarkable change in the
keenness of the sense of smell during
his long absence among the northern
ice fields. Upon his return he was able
to detect the odor of the soap used by
the first white he met, and when he
got to Franz Josef land, and entered a
house for the first time, he could de-
tect the odor of almost everything IN
the house. These facts would seem to
indicate that the senses were capable
Of very ready cultivation.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-12

One Of the most remarkable traits
In the Pasha's character, says an Eng
lish writer, was his mania for foreign
ers, an eagerness to welcome strangers
Of every degree, to listen to them, re-
ward apd help them If possible, and
above all to persuade them to believe
in his schemes of reform. In his opin-
lon, the fellah was a serf, beast of
burden; the Turk hopeless barbarian,
fit only to be his sergeant, or tax COL
lector; but third element remained,
by the cultivation Of which he might
create an instrument of profit, a bull
wark of defense, and even a final ref
uge from his enemies. In no respect
did he prove himself more conspicu-
ously to be a born leader of men than
in his consummate handling Of Euro
peans with whom he had to deal.
He was only an ignorant Major of
Bashi-Bazouks, knowing little of our
civilization, yet by his genius for ex-
plotting the wants and ambitions, the
vices and failings of Europeans in
general, by making himself indispensa-
BILE to all of them In turn, he gained
their loyalty and enthusiasm Just as
II he had been one Of an old and long
established dynasty Of Christian Kings
in Alexandria. The fact remains to
his credit that, as a whole, the inter-
ested European colony Of Egypt glor-
led in the strength of Mohammed All.
feared him and lamented his fall, at the
hands Of Palmerston as the ruin Of
their own fortunes.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-12
AMERICAN GUNNERS.
seME RaA6oNe rH4F THEY ARE THE
~. BEST IN THE WORLD. s

English Naval Onlcey ON the Puritan Dur
ing Bombardmsnt Of Mantanzss Said Had
Dewey Had the Spanish Squadron az ma
mia He Gould Have Whipped Them.
1.-THE grandest shot ever saw or
ever heard of. You Americans are the
deadliest gunners on EARTH" SO said an
English naval officer, by courtesy on
board the monitor Puritan, when
man at the guns planted ten-inch
projectile plumb In the vitals Of the
Spanish rampant at Matanzas.
I'm my opinion II Dewey. with his ex-
pert gunners, had been in command Of
the Spanish squadron at Manila, he
would have been the victor just the
same, for all the world knows that in
workmanship nothing ever could
equal our boys" This was the remark
of an officer at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. He was. referring especially to
that superb shot from the cruiser
Raleigh that struck the magazine Of
the Don Julian de Austria and blew
the Spanish warship into splinters.
The naval powers of the earth are
standing aghast at the havoc wrought
at Manila by the men at our guns. It
has placed us at one stride in the front
rank Of naval powers, demonstrating
that with the total transformation in
methods ushered in with the birth Of
ironclads the American navy Of 1898
has solved the problem with superior
gunnery, just as it solved the problem
Of our success in our earlier wars, when
the graphing iron and the hand-to-hand
combat on deck called for superior
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-12
Columbus and Santiago.

The voyage of Columbus, the discov-
erer Of the Spanish Main, are of more
than usual interest to-day. His second
voyage is especially interesting.
He sailed from Palos Spain, on Sept.
25 1893, with II vessels and 1900 men,
discovering the island of Dominica on
the Sd Of November. Leaving there he
landed on several of the Caribbee ISL
ands, and had several conflicts with
the natives. Then he coasted along
Porto Rico, and probably called in at
San Juan, so recently bombarded by
Admiral Sampson. On the 25th of No
vember he reached the harbor of La
Navidad, on the coast of Hayti. He
found that the colony of 43 men he
left there (the first Spanish settlement
in the New World) had been killed by
hostile Indians. In December, on a new
site farther east, he founded Isabella,
the first European town in the New
World. He explored the interior, and
in the spring set sail westward, when
he discovered the south coast of Cuba
and called it Santiago, where now, 400
years later, his fellow countrymen are
besieged by the American fleet.
Here's New BOuillon.
A gentleman recently astonished his
hostess at an afternoon tea by refusing
sugar and cream and asking for pepper
and salt. She tried it and found it
delightful, tasting like a most dr:;"-ka
bouillon.