The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-05-06

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A DECISION was rendered in the
United States supreme court, Oh the
25th, in the Illinois inheritance tax
case, sustaining the law on which the
case was brought. The opinion was
rendered bv Justice Mckenna.
TIE senate, on the a5th, confirmed
VIM. y cambridge. of Iowa, as second
secretary of legation at Pekin. China.
The report that the war with Spain
will cause a p-ostponement of the Trans
mississippi exposition at Omaha, Neb.,
is declared to be utterly without foun-
dation.
Gov. WoLcoTr has issued a statement
setting forth that the Massachusetts mi
litia must be used to guard the states
coast line. Volunteers to the presi-
dents call must be volunteers in fact.
LAKE LAURA, a summer resort owned
by Peter Stein, on Lake Laura. Wis,
was burned. on the night of the 2ith,
together with all the adjacent cottages.
Mrs. Stein and her three children were
burned to death. Cause of fire un-
known.
RECRUITING OFFICER DAY. located at
Cleveland, O., received orders from
Washington, on the 25th. TO enlist all
the men between II and 81 he possibly
could for the hospital corps. experienced
men being preferred.
REAR-ADMIRAL SAMPSON has asked
the navy department has the request
under consideration. II is CALLING to
the pride of the navy TO be constantly
fired at and not be allowed To respond
in kind.
Gov. TANNER of Illinois has declined
to- turn down Maj. Young. a West
Pointer. who is at the head of the cav
airy arm of the Illinois national guard.
to make room for John A.. Logan as
colonel of the cavalry regiment or
dered into service.
Under the provisions of the army re
! organization bill. which was finally
passed. on the e5th, the regular army
may be increased, in time of actual war.
from %, 900 to $1,000. This will L: i'm
mediately acted upon.
The war department refuses to CON
firm the contract made by the quarter
master at ~. Louis with Sparks Bros.
of Kansas City. for 300 pack mules al
SOB. IS per head. 1t was also broadly
intimated from Washington hat no
more mules would be bought in Kansas
City. as the government will not allow
itself to be robbed.
GOVERNMENT officials at Jacksonville,
Fla. are making arrangements looking
to the immediate invasion of Cuba.
Twenty of the leading Cuban physicians
have been engaged To go with the army
from that city, and 20 young men who
speak English will accompany them as
interpreters.
liz was announced. on the 25th, that
the queen regent of Spain still hoped
for peaceful foreign Intervention.
CONGRESS, On the 25th, passed a bill
in response to a request from the presi-
dent. declaring a state of war to exist
between the United States and Spain.
The president promptly signed the bill.
NAVAL officers high in the service
make no secret of the fact that they
expect to fight across the water. They
point out that this country Is making
quite too extensive preparations for a
war to be fought on this side only.
The United States government. it is
reported, has offered Greece As, 00o, OcC
francs for her entire fieet of wsrships.
Grecian sympathy is with the United
States. and the proposition may be con
| sidercd.
The United States gunboat Newport,
Capt. IL. 4. Tilley, on the goth. lowed
to Key West, Fla. the Spanish sloop
Pacquett and the Spanish schooner Pr
reneo. coasting vessels, which she had
captured off Havana.
COMMANDER HORACE ELMER. until
recently commander of the Mos
quito feet, and who was retired be.
cause Of ill-health, relieved by Admiral
Erben. died at the Mansion house in
Brooklyn on the Goth.
The Italian Red Cross society has Of
fered its services with the use OF its
paraphernalia to the Red Cross socic.
ties Of the United States and Spain.