The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-09-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


At an inquest held at bridgeport,
Conn. on the ed, 10y Coroner Doten,
il was fully established 10y relatives OF
Miss Emma Gill, of Southington, that
the body found in Yellow Mill pond,
September II and Is was hers Her
father and three brothers fully identi-
fed the remains. and the coroner is
sued an order permitting them TO be
exhumod and taken TO SouihnSton
for interment.
Advices received from Bogota, the
capital OF Colombia, say that all rela-
tions between Colombia and Italy have
been severed. owing 10 the action OF
the Italian government in the Cerutti
affair. which the Colombian officials
considered arbitrary and in violation
of the treaty of 1892, which was there
by annulled.
The French government has decided
upon the immediate dispatch OF a COM
panv of Sengalesc sharpshooters and
a detachment of artillery 10 reinforce
Mai. Marchand, the French explorer,
who is reported to have occupied
Fashoda, on the Nile.
Gen. Jackson sent telegram TO
President Mckinley, thanking him for
the tender of a position on the com
mission TO investigate the conduct OF
the war, and expressing regret that
urgent private business compelled HIM
TO decline the honor.
/ no. pntaF-Gnn 1 = Il
millionaire silk manufactures. died AT
Cape May. y. j.. on the 2lst. very sud-
denly. Hemorrhage of the stomach
set in. and the utmost efforts OF his
physician were unavailing. lie was
40 years of age.
The acting secretary of war re-
ceived cable message from Gen.
Brooke. chairman of the Porto Rican
evacuation commission at San Juan,
on the 22d. saying that 500 more Span
ish troops had embarked for home.
Mai.-Gen. Miles. commanding the
army. has completed his plans for the
, reorganization of the volunteer forces
into corps. brigades and divisions, and
submitted them to the war depart
! ment for approval.
The French minister of foreign af-
: fairs. VI. Delcasse. has offered the
Spanish and American peace commits
sioners the use of the foreign office
for their meetings, which commence
on the 21st.
Hon. Aaron r. Pratt. ct Albany. a
former member OF the New York leg
jslature. who was in Denver. Col. Wis
iting his daughter. died suddenly. on
the god. of congestion of the brain.
With the departure of NJ. Cambon,
the ambassadors of France. Germany
and Italy will be abroad. leaving only
Great Britain and Russia with their
ambassadors in Washington. This
exodus toward Europe at the time OF
the meeting Of the peace commission
at Paris has given rise to reports thai
there is some significance in the trips
The Windsor house at Eau Claire
Wis. was burned early on the morn
ing Of the 23d Several womeI
! jumped from the fourth story. an'
2 a Mrs. Churchill was so badly injured
that She is not expected TO live. :
c baby thrown from the third story wa
: caught bv y. Charles. and escaped un
!. hurt. while Charles was injured.
? Mail advices which reached King
: ston. Jamaica. on the 23d. brough
}. melancholy relief 10 the suspense re
yarding the full extent of the hurr
y cane disaster on the islands of -. VI
Il cent. 81. Lucia and Barbados, show
e inp that the first accounts of avn,
e destruction of life and property WEI
4 not exaggerated.
:. The steamer Campania. from Me-
York. September Il. with the Unite
RS States peace commissioners on boar'
Id arrived ut Queenstown. on the 20
IN after an uneventful voyage. with
ir well on board, excepting Senate
ne GRAY. who had suffered from neura
gia for two days.
~ Ambassador Faya of italy in takir
r. a long vacation at Rome. and is N
on expected back TO his post in Washin
ton before next December. at viii,
er, time il is probable that Baroness FAY
MI who has spent much time abroad
l. recent years, will return with him.
II was officially announced in 10
ng don. on the 23d. that Hon. George
he Curzon. until recently parliamenta
for secretary for the foreign Office, who
ng TO succeed the earl Of Elgin rs vicer'
of India. has been elevated TO the pc,
III agc as Baron turlon Of kcdclston.
ON Failures throughout the country.
reported by II. q. Dun 4 Co. for q
lth week ended on the 23d. were II
frg against 900 for the corresponds
Ma week last year. For Canada the ia
ures were lG. against . last year.
yea Heavy storms are reported in {
po- Baltic sea. and 100 fishermen are 50
inc TO have been drowned between Pola
gen and Libau. seaport towns OF 7
province OF Courland. Russia.
~ Richard Malcolm johnson. the i
ma turer and novelist. died in Baltimo
1. Md. on the odd, after an illness
several months.