The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-03-25


Tnr wife OF Senator rhurston, Of No
braska, died, on the l4th, on board the
yacht Anita, at Sagna la Grande lCuba)
harbor. This information was sent by
Consul Barker 10 Consul-General Leo
at Havana.
Tur senate committe, on naval af-
fairs, having under consideration the
resolution instructing IL to make an
investigation of the Maine disaster, de-
cided. on the 18th, by vote of six to
five. to postpone action for the present
TnE Victor mill, at Cohoes, n. ",
the largest wooden mill in the United
States, was burned on the 18th.
Ii is confidently asserted that, after
three weeks work, the divers at Ha.
vana have discovered that the powder
and she'll carried by the Maine have
been accounted for in full and found
intact. The shells were taken out of
the hull and opened. All the armor-
piercing shells have been found empty.
TnE impression is gaining ground at
Madrid that the United States is re-
luctant to declare war. and that, while
it will continue its policy of INJECTING
all sorts of sights upon Spain, taking
advantage of its difficulties, it will
stop short of an actual decla ration of
war
SIR HENRY BEssEMER. the celebrated
inventor of the Bessemer stcel-malSing
process died in London, on the even
ing of the 18th. aged 50 years. lie was
knighted in recognition OF the value OF
his invention.
Ten murders in two days is the re-
cent record in South Carolina, all re.
ported from the eastern half of tho
state. Two of the victims were women.
The French minister for the colonies,
NJ. Lebon. has refused the petition OF
Mime. Dreyfus, wife OF former Capt.
Dreyfus, TO share the latter's imprison-
ment on Devils island.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Kiel says
Japan has purchased torpedo cor.
vette. which was being built there 10y
the Krupps for Brazil.
THE German troops have been re.
called from Crete.
TIE United States lighthouse tender
Mangrove arrived at Key West, Fla,
on the 10th, from Havana. having on
board the members of the United States
court of inquiry, appointed TO inquire
into the loss of the battleship Maine.
A DISPATCH from Berlin, on the 10th
said: "Senor Sandoval. the Spanish
agent, is negotiating for the purchase
of number OF old and slow steamers
of the North German Lloyd steamship
Co.
THE Michigan state military board
has issued an order. at the suggestion
of the secretary of war requiring the
division of national guard companies
into squads, for the more ready mob
ilization OF the state troops in ease
of call TO arms.
THE Spanish fishing smack Carmen
was towed into Punta Gorda. Fla, on
the 18th. by the United States revenue
cutter Forward. having been seized for
violation of the navigation laws.
ACCORDING to dispatch from Lon
don. on the 18th, the United States
government had purchased a torpedo
boat destroyer from ship-builder
nalacd Doxford. of Sunderland.
inE United States dispatch boat
tEh drfl'eu AT iia'aiia vi INC l'tH.
lr was announced at the marine bar
racks in New York, on the 18th, that
an order for the immediate enlistment
of 473 men had been received from
Washington.
INVESTIGATION at Athens shows there
is no truth in the report in circulation
that the United States had purchased
some of I he Greek wan. ShipS
Hon. BLANCHE X. BRUCE. register OF
the treasury, died in Washington, on
! the nth