The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-26

THE statement OF the condition ~
the treasury. ISSUED on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balance, S.7i,
eO6, ssJ; gold reserve, Slgs. 76o, $50.
TnE United States transport Nigi.
lancia has arrived at New York, aud
il held at quarantine for disinfection
The Nigilancia is loaded with supplies
which she has carried for long time
HEAVY rains have flooded large
part of TRAM, Italy. Many houses
have fallen in, their occupants being
Obliged To take refuge in the public
buildings. The authorities have or
dered the troops to construct canal tc
drain the town.
A SERIES of terrific electrical storms
accompanied by high winds and heavy
rain, passed over Lancaster county,
Pa, on the night of the 18th. doing
great damage. Hail in some sections
cut and rddled the tobacco, most OF
which was almos; ready to cut, ruin.
ing the crop.
The cornice of building in course
of erection in Philadelphia fell, on the
18th, carrying with il a scaffold upon
which several men were at work.
Two of them. Albert Green and Thorn.
as Lyon. were killed, one man was ia
tally injured and four others were seri'
ouslv hurt
AT White Lake, on the Mohawk 4
Malone railroad, Fred Recknall mis-.
took his son Philip, aged l6, for deer
while hunting, on the 18th, and shot
him, death ensuing soon after. few
years ago another son, George. was
shot and killed in mistake for bear.
The Admiral Dewey, the first of the
four steamers being built by the
Cramps for the American Mail Steam.
ship Co., was successfully launched at
Philadelphia, on the 18th.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury, issued on the 18th. showed.
Available cash balance, Sells ,5l2;
gold reserve, Si99. 403.9sg.
SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS FRAZER. bart
the author, and one of the queens
bodyguard, for Scotland died in Lon.
don on the 18th.
A MANIFESTO by Don Carlos is an.
nounced TO appear shortly. The span
ish ministers assert that the pretendei
will not be able 10 find enough money
to run a revolution, and Will be forcec
to postpone the rising until next
spring There are signs, however, that
Don Carlos will not wait so long.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily News says that Generals
Blanco. Castellanos and Leon and Ad.
miral Manterola have been appointed
| g., Ia
Macias and Ortego and Admiral Val.
lariano for Porto Rico
The war department has been try.
! ing 70 ascertain the wishes of the troops
as to being mustered out. ii being the
object To accommodate the troops as
far as possible. 1t looks as if most OF
the volunteers wanted TO remain, and
that the mastering out will have to be
by arbitrary order
rAPAL encyclical addressed to the
| Spanish clergy and papal letter adj.
dressed to the Spanish people have
been received in Madrid from Rome,
exhorting them to remain faithful tc
the queen regent and to defend the
monarchy
WORD has reached the Presbyterian
hospital in New York that Sergt. Rob
ert H. Sillman. of the Astor battery
was killed at Manila. August 10. Sill
man was formerly assistant superin'
tendent of the Presbyterian hospital.
COMMODORE J. w. PHILIP. having re.
ceived his commission, will surrender
command of the battleship Texas to
Capt. sigsbee, who commanded the i'll
fated Maine when she was destroyed in
| Havana harbor.