The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-23

Or the 18th IL was reported in Mad.
rid that an official telegram had teen
received from the Philippines, 10 the
effect that serious outbreak had
taken place in Fuluan. and that the in-
surgents had seized the telegraph sta
ton, the operators barely escaping
with their lives. Troops had been sent
To quiet the outbreak.
On the 18th Seaator Hale introduced
. joint resolution, at the instance of
the navy department, providing for an
auxiliary naval force for coast defense
To serve for one year
Oh the 18th it was officially announced
at the navy department that Capt.
Sigsbee and Commander Goodrich will
be the commanders of the ST. Paul and
st. Louis when those steamers are put
into commission. No decision. how
ever. had been reached regarding which
officer would command the different
vessels.
COAST survey steamers Patterson,
Macarthur and Gedney and the fish
commission steamer Albatross have
been turned over to the navy depart
ment for survice in case of need.
FIRE broke out in the village of Os-
borne, o., on the l2th. The Dayton fire
department saved the village from total
destruction. The loss is about $4,000,
chiefly to business houses.
STATEMENT of the condition of the
treasury April ID: Available cash bal
ance. S225, i6e, 6ss; gold reserve, sl19,-
555.6ss.
On the 18th it was announced that
the national council of Switzerland
had suggested that the bundesrath
consider whether it could not offer to
mediate between the United States and
Spain. The proposition, ii was said,
would be considered, but that it would
doubtless be rejected.
ADvIcEs from Carludgena confirm the
report that the United States consul
and the United States vice-consul at
that port, both of whom are natives
of Spain, have resigned.
THE senate committee on foreign re-
lations. in its report on the presidents
Cuban message, says: 1T is the opin-
ion of your committee that the destruc-
ton of the Maine was compassed either
by the official act of the Spanish au-
thorities or was made possible by a
negligence on their part so willing and
gross as to be equivalent in culpabilty
to positive criminal action"
A sEMI-OFFICIAL note was issued at
Rome. on the 18th. VIII ich states that
1.-The powers have now considered direct
action in the Spanish American diff
L.. IL
war break out strict neutrality will be
observed by them"
| AMONG the stories ahoat is one TO the
effect that the order which will be sig
nailed to Commodore Schley's flying
squadron when il goes into action. will
be the significant words: Remember
the Maine
THE queen regent of Spain. on the
14th, signed the national subscription
decree to increase the navy.
The fruit steamer Barnstable. from
Cienfuegos, Cuba, reached Boston, on
the l4th. having on board United States
Consul McGarr. Mr.. McGarr said all
was quiet when he left Cienfgos
The pope has appointed Rev. Alex
ander Christie, rector of st. Stevens
church, Minneapolis, to the bishopric
of Vancouver.
HENRY II. PIERCE, secretary of the
commonwealth Of Massachusetts, for i6
years. died at his home in Abingdon on
the l4th.
THE Spanish cruisers Vizcaya and
Almirante Oquendo it now trunspires
sailed from Porto Rico. on the 9th,
with secret instructions.
the Madrid newspapers regard war
"A newt able