The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

! ties in different leNicons might suit a
country like Spain, but the United
7 States does not transact business In
that fashion. Nor will il lose time in
making known its emphatic purpose
10 complete the treaty or 70 take pos
session of the Philippines without re-
gard 10 trivial and eyasive arguments.
Z The Admiral Dewey. the first aux
I iliary crusier class OF merchant YES
sells To be constructed under the act of
congress authorizing the work, left
Boston, on the 2ist. on her speed trial
/ over the government course off the
New England coast.
The Thanksgiving banquet of the
American society in London, which
was held at the Hotel Cecil. was glor-
ifcation OF Anglo-American friend
ship. Three hundred Americans and
their English guests sat at table I'M
der the entwined flags of the two ma
tions.
Emmett Loucks, a young man of
Cheyenne. Nyo.. fell from Union Pa
ciiic train. on the night Of the Goth.
near Borie station. and one OF his legs
was cut of by the wheels. lie lay be-
side the track all night with the
temperature near zero. and died soon
after being found.
The French line steamer La Nor
mandie which arrived at New York
on the 21st. from Havre, was detained
at quarantine owing to smallpox
among her steerage passengers.
The Alabama house Of representa-
tives. on the 2ist. read and ratified
joint resolution appropriating $500
10 buy a sword for Lieut.. Hobson. of
Mcrrimac fame.
The American peace commissioners,
on the 2ist. notified the Spanish COM
missioners tina; the United States must
have possession of the entire Philip
pine archipelago and offering S2o.oo0.-
o0o 70 Spain for treaty cession Of the
islands. 4 reply was requested by
November as.
A dispatch was sent from Paris. on
the 2lst. stating that Senior Montcro
Rios had announced the Withdrawal
O. Spain from further negotiations
with the United States. Inquiry de-
yelopei that the statement was who'll
ly Unauthorized, and that the cable
company had been imposed upon by
stock jobbers.
The London morning papers of the
2ist concede the generosity of the
offers of the United States peace com
missioners and express the opinion
,I,+ Gr,s,, ,,4r,,fI h.. Filth q. 49,.
them They express universal gratifi-
cation at the announcement of ian
open-door policy" in the Philippines.
The Cuban general. Ruis Rivera.
who was captured by Gen. Hernandez
de Nelasco in March. 1897, and who
had been a prisoner in the Montjuich
fortress, at barcelona, since the be-
ginning of the present year, has been
released. He was seriously i'll. and
has been taken TO Paris.
Ex-Tax Collector j. c. Keogh was
arrested at hoiyoke. Mass. on the
21st. on three warrants. charging en-
bezzlement 10 the amount OF $4,000.
One warrant charges an embezzle-
ment of $4,000 in 1897. one "A similar
amount in 1896, and the third is for
$4,000 in 1895.
Lieut.. Hobson. who has recently
received n handsome sum for an ar
ticle in the Century magazine on the
sinking of the Merrimac, has devoted
the money TO lifting n mortgage on
the home of his father in Alabama.
The United States has notified Spain
that upon coming into full possession
of the Philippine islands an open
door" will be maintained for the COM
merce of the world.
The long-talxed-of American sar-
dine trust 20 control the output of the
manufacturers and packers of this
country, is finally assuming shape. al
though il viii be controlled by Brit
ish capitalists. 1t will be capitalized
at s3.000,000. with shares Of 500 each.
The wrecking tug Merritt arrived
al Nassau. y. r.. on the 2lst. She re-
ports that the cruiser Infanfa Maria
Teresa has been abandoned. She is
going TO pieces rapidly. and her con-
tents are floating through her broken
sides.
Fire, on the 2ist, in the Wholesale
district Of Louisville. KY, Quilted the
millinery store of David Baird & Son,
at SIS West Main street. \ new stock
valued at between $4,000 and SEQ, 600
was destroyed. while the building suf-
fered $4,000 damage. Adjoining
houses suffered from fire and water to
the extent OF $4,000.
Big Four Brakeman Frank w. Fort
ney. Of Bellefontaine. o.. was thrown
from his train at Brightwood. Ind, on
the pod. and almost killed. The acct
dent was caused by the trains speed
being checked suddenly, by an I'M
known man throwing himself in front
of the engine.
Wash King, a jockey who has rid
den on eastern and western tracks for
the past Is years, died at his home in
A;chison. Kas.. on the god. from the ef-
fccts Of fall received while riding at
Denver Col. two years ago.
DIR. Charles Massey IIammett, for
merly health officer and coroner OF
the District Of Columbia. and a WELL
known practitioner. died IL Washing
ton. on the e2d. Of Bright's disease,