The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

have to organize another big free ex
cursion in the fall.
The United States transport olivett,
left New York. on the eth. for Santi'
ago. In her safes were $4,000 with
which TO pay the soldiers. She also
had on board u cargo OF d~elicacies foi
the sick aud wounded, and carried. be
sides, a corps of doctors and nurses.
LOUIS kEMpER has been designated
by Postmaster-General Smith To act rs
postmaster. under military supervi-
son, at Santiago, because Maj Stuart,
who had been selected for the place,
desired to remain with the army, hav-
ing a commission as major in the Eighth
Illinois.
The London Times. in its weekly war
review, expresses the opinion that the
measures taken by Gen. Shafter for the
protection OF life and property at San
tiago do Cuba will exercise a definite
influence in other parts Of the island,
where it will be understood that
Spanish loyalists are not TO be aban-
doned. whatever happens"
GEN. GOMEZ is quoted as saying: Il
have only to say that the only man that
has anything to say in the direction OF
matters is Mr.. Mckinley, and we shall
do whatever he says. have given in
structions to all my forces TO cooperate
with the Americans, to whom we are
much indebted
SECRETARY ALGER has received from
Mai-Gen. shafter an official report re-
garding the Punishment from Santiago
| of Sylvester scovel, representing the
New York World. and of three en-
! ployes OF the New York journal. The
latter are McNicholl, Mosker and Mus
grave.
The yacht Clipper. Of Toledo, cap
sized in a squall near Put-in-Bay. o..
on the 25th, and VIM. Arbuckle and
Marcus Batelle were drowned.
Two ~ FIFrY-FoUR Span
ish prisoners. captured on four prize
steamers, sailed FROM New York for
home on the Esd. As the IIesperia. on
which they sailed. dropped down the
bay, the departing prisoners heartily
cheered the American flag.
DoS CARLOS. the pretender to the
Spanish throne, arrived at Lucerne.
Switzerland, on the 25th. with his wife
and aide-de-camp.
INDICTMENTS were voted by the Cook
county grand jury, on the 25th, against
President George Ii. Wheeler and Sec
rotary James Howard Of the Washing
ton Park race track at Chicago,
charging them with violation of the
state gambling law.
Two FAMILIES. consisting of 10 peo-
pie, on the De Coursey farm, south Of
Leaveuworth. kas., were poisoned by
buttermilk said to have contained
ptoma.nes. One child. five years old.
died, on the 25th, and others were dan
gerously i'll.
GEORGE NJ. ALLEN. for IA years editor
of the Terre Haute lnd) Express, has
been appointed chief clerk to the first
assistant postmaster-general. In the
absence of Mr.. Perry Heath he will act
as first assistant.
WHILE Judge Parry, of the Lanca-
shire England county court. was de-
livering judgment, on the goth. can
ceiling the commission OF Court Bailiff
Taylor for misconduct. the latter drew
a revolver and fired three shots at the
judge. PROBABLY fatally wounding him.
ALMA POINT light, near Celta, the
Spanish penal settlement on the coast
Of Africa, will be extinguished until
further orders.
LORENZO ID. VI. SWEAT. who repre-
scented the First district of Maine in the
Thirty-eighth congress-. died in Port
land, Me, on the 10Th. aged 50 years.
Mr.. Sweat. a democrat. was an active
supporter of the Union in the civil
war.
The LAX met and North Fork
were announced to leave San Francisco,
on the both, for Honolulu with $50 men
of the New York volunteer regiment,
who will garrison the islands.
GEN. MILES arrived off the coast OF
Porto Rico, on the Goth, and captured
the harbor OF Guanica, Is miles west
of Ponce, after which he proceeded 70
discmbark his forces and munitions.
Two THOUSAND people attended the
twelfth annual regatta Of the Iowa
State Amateur Rowing associations "a
Ottumwa, on the 10Th. The day was
me, anu the course as smooth a. pldSS
REPORTS from Cooks Inlet say thai
not much mining has been done this
season on ccou of high water.
SPECIAL dispatch from Madrid. OF
the 26th, said: Miss Shafter [Schley
has been requested to leave spain
forthwith"
o. the 10th the navy department
issued an advertisement calling fol
proposals for constructing, bv contract
four harbor defense monitors provided
for by the naval appropriation bill
The bids will be opened Saturday, DC
tober /.
THE steamer Gaelic is carrying ex'
Queen Liliuokalani from San Francisc'
to the Hawaiian islands for the las
time. She has but n short time to live
the ravages of cancer having made sucl
Roadway that medical aid can only
delay the death which is stealing upol
her.
THOSE in charge of the wrecking op
erations at Santiago say that the wreck
Of the Reina Mercedes and the Mari'
Teresa will be floated and safely towe,
into Santiago harbor within a few days
The Colon is likely to be lost unless tn,