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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-23
TEXT OF THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS.


WASHINGTON, April l9.-The
Cuban resolution as agreed to by
the conferers and adopted by both
houses Of Congress is as follows:
Joint resolution, for the recogni
ton of the independence Of the PEG
pie Of Cuba demanding that the
government of Spain relinquish it,
authority and government in the
island of Cuba, and withdraw it,
land and naval forces from Cuba
and Cuban waters, and directing
the president Of the United States
to use the land and naval forces Of
the United States to carry these
resolutions into effect.
Whereas, The abhorrent condi-
tons which have existed for more
than three years in the island OF
Cuba, so near our borders, have
shocked the moral sense of the peo-
pie of the United States, have been
disgrace to Christian civilization,
eliminating as they have in the de
struction of United States battle
ship, with 266 of its officers and
crew, while on friendly visit in
the harbor of Havana, and cannot
be longer endured, as has been set
forth by the president Of the United
States in his message to congress OF
April IL, 1898, upon which the
action Of congress was invited
therefore,
Resolved, /. That the people OF
the island of Cuba are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent.
2. That it is the duty Of the
United States to demand, and the
government of the United States
does hereby demand, that the gov
eminent Of Spain at once relinquish
its authority and government in the
island of Cuba, and withdraw its
land and naval forces from Cuba
and Cuban waters.
3. That the president of the
United States be, and he hereby is
directed and empoweed to use the
entire land and naval forces of the
United States, and to call into act
ual service of the United States the
militia Of the several states to such
extent as may be necessary, to carry
these resolutions into effect.
4. That the United States here
by disclaims any disposition or in
tention to exercise sovereignty,
Jurisdiction or control over said
island, except for the pacifcation
thereof, and ass rts its determine
ton, when that is accom- plished, to
leave the government and control
Of the island to its people.
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.


For Congressman, Sd district,
WILLIAM L. ZENOR.
For Representative from Dubois and pike
Counties,
SASSER SULLIVAN.
For Prosecuting Attorney, 57th, judicial
District,
KERR TRAYLOR.
For County Auditor,
AUGUST ii. KOERNER.
For Clerk Circuit Court,
HERMAN ECKERT.
For Recorder,
PHILIP J. KUNKEL, JR.
For sheriff,
HERMAN III. CASTRUP.
For Treasurer,
CHARLES MOENKHAUS.
For Surveyor,
WILLIAM T. YOUNG.
For Coroner,
PHILIP A. GUCKES.
For County, Commissioner LIST District,
CONRAD JACKIE.
For County Commissioner, Sd District,
JOSEPH FRITZ.
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TURNED OvER.-As nine young
people were returning from Lauer' s
dance Monday night in Kunkel's
four horse omnibus, when they
were just at 18th and Main streets a
front wheel Of the vehicle jolted into
a deep rut and turned it clear over
on the side walk. 1t was only good
luck that the inmates we're not
badly hurt, as the horses stopped
Immediately, but one of the young
men thought the life was mashed
out Of him, when one of the fe.
males fell on top Of him. He is
averse to that kind of "mashes, y
any more.
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Notice to Property Owners
in JASPER.

All persons who have by order OF the
Jasper Town Trustees been heretofore
notified to build or repair side walks,
are now hereby notified that the Trns-
tees have ordered the Marshal, il the
walks are not built by May LIST, 1898, he
must have the work q me Immediately,
at the expense and additional costs OF
the said property owners. This order
was adopted April IL, 1898.
April l5-2t.' JoKN p. HuTHER, Clerk.
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1~The increased rates of d.

~The increased rates of duty
on coal do not seem to have adj
vanced the price to consumers. The
recent report of the statistician OF
the U. S. Geological Survey shows
that the amount of coal produced in
1897 was the largest on record, with
an average value per ton the lowest
ever known since the mining in
dustry developed, and more poor
miners on strike for living wages,
or starving to death than was ever
known before-thanks to the pro-
tective tariff barons united in a
trust. Other industries are having
the same prosperity"
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BANK STATEMENT.

Report Of the condition of the Dubois
County State Bank, at Jasper, in the
State of Indiana, at the close OF its bus
mess, April. 18th, 1898
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts, So ,97l 30
|Overdrafts, 3,547 OF
Due from Banks and Bankers, 81 ,oSl. lS
Banking house, Furniture and
Fixtures 100000
Current Expenses, 1851. 20
Currency and Specie l2,5s5.22
Total, $l2O, 1851
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in, $25, 10000
Surplus Fund, 100000
Undivided Profits, 100000
Discount, Exchange and
Interest, PAP. %
Individual deposits on demand, 81, 647 .33
Certified checks OF Deposit "A, 1850
Total. $l2O, 1851
l, Frank Joseph, Cashier OF the Dubois
County State Bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true.
FRANK JOSEPH, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 18th day of April 1898.
LIS. w. s. HUNTER,
Apr. 22, '9S.-lt. Notary Public.
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W-The Jasper Machine Shop
Co. has bought lot from Mr.. M.
Friedman fronting on Main and
running back to Newton ST., and
will move their large plant there in
the near future. 1t is an excellent
location for that business, being
near the X. X.
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FRANK c, KUEB[E
Jeweler.
JASPER, INDIA.
March IL, ls97-y
Madison Township Trus
Notice.

Notice IL gwen that hereafter the
tee of Mad scn township will De al
Office Of DR.. Bean. in Ireland, on e
Saturday, for the pur ,ose of attendlD
township business, and all persons
ing business with the township are
pected to confine it TO those days. /,
The township library is KEEP. al
Alexander's in Ireland, where al
obtain the books. -,
The Indiana School books VII
found at VIM. T. Young's store q
times. JOHN +. NORMAN,
Aug. Is. '95-y Trustee Madiscn
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Wall Papa''

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fine China ware.
If you intend purchasing a Pl
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All repair work promptly done.
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United States Hotel !
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MILL STREET. JASPER. IND.

MILL STREET. JASPER. IND.
This hotel has been thoroughly overhauIcd.
and refitted new throughout, and Ii now
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prices reasonable.
1911 .s.,.,a ~ sv ,p.. ..,h hk .c'I.. !,
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Notice is hereby given that the under
signed, Administrative with the will an
nexed, OF the estate of Joseph Egg, de-
ceased, will On
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and the government is explaining that
they did not indicate serious dissatis-
faction with its policy.
Spain relies on starvation to induce
the Cubans to accept the armisticc.
The Presidents message shows that
the only tangible result of his weeks of
diplomatic dickering with Spain was a
proposition made by him to Spain for
an armistic until October 1. This
proposition was made March 81, after
the president had received the report
of the Maine Board of Inquiry. At the
same time he asked the revocation Of
the order of RECOMMENDATION, and com.
municated to Spain the finding OF the
Maine Board of Inquiry. Spain de-
clined to grant the arm; stice, proposed
to arbitrate the Maine affair and abaH
doned INSTRUMENTATION policy. An(
that is all diplomacy has done, the be
lated granting of an armistic by Spain
not being conceded by that government
to the influence of the United States.
The destruction of the lIaine and th
death Of 260 American seamen find
place in the message only as an illus
tration Of SPANS inability to maintain
order i'll Cuba.
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SQUADRON SAILS
With What Intent Reports Do
Not Agree.
Said to Have Torpedo Fleet as Objective
Secretary Long Says Practice Run.

Washington, April 13.-The flying
squadron has been ordered to leave
Hampton Roads this afternoon to inter
cept the Spanish warships and torpedo
fotilla, now on their way to American
waters.
The orders are to intercept; to de-
stroy if they do not surrender.
Old Point Comfort, Va, April 49,
The flying squadron sails at o'clock
this p. m. under sealed orders, for the
South.
Washington, April 10. Secretary
Long says the flying squadron is going
on 48 hours practice cruise
Washington, April ID. = 1t is the i'm
preston at the navy department that
the squadron will go outside the capes
and there await further orders.
1t is officially announced that Sigsbee
and Goodrich will be commanders OF
the St. Paul and st Louis.
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THE RULES OF WAR.
Some of the instructions to Our
Armies in the Field.
40 Conventional Restrictions Imposed on the
Methods for Whipping the Enemy.

A period of peace covering nearly
two-score of years has to a certain de-
gree, says the Washington Post, dim
med the recollections of those who were
once familiar with the exigencies of
modern warfare and the stern regula-
tions of the battlefield, and few of the
younger generation have had occasion
to become conversant with the laws of
war;
How would the United States navy
go about bombarding Havana? Would
Spanish subjects be expelled from the
country in the event OF war with Spain?
Suppose American troops invade the
island of Cuba, then what? How
would Cuba be governed while hostili-
ties continued? How severe are the
necessities of modern civilized war?
These and many other queries arising
from the existing apprehension Of a
Spanish-American war are daily elicit
ing variously incorrect and incomplete
answers. Accordingly no little inter-
est is aroused by perusal of "Instruc-
tions for the government of the armies
of the United States in the fild," pre-
pared by Francis Lieber. L. L. D., re-
vised by o board of officers, approved
by President Lincoln, and adopted by
the war department in 1863 These
regulations, with possible notifications
would govern the conduct of any war
prosecuted by the United States
Apropos of possible invasion of
Cuba by American troops, the regula-
tions declare that the presence of a hos
tile army proclaims martial law over
the territory occupied and over which
authority can be exercised. Therefore
martial law would be the government
of Cuba during Spanish American hos
tilities. The commander of the Ameri-
can forces might at his discretion pro-
claim that the administration of civil
and penal laws should continue, either
wholly or in part, as in times Of peace.
The commanding officer would also
have the authority to require of all
civil officers and magistrates in the is
land an oath of temporary allegiance
or an oath of fidelity to the American
government. Magistrates and officers
decliAing to take such oath would prob
ably be expelled from tbs island, or at
least removed frem office.
LAWFUL ExEGENoIES OF WAR,
One striking paragraph of the regu-
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Mortgage Sale.

Whereas, June 20, 1892, G. KrEpAt-
rick and Mollie l. Kirkpatrick, his
wife, execute Il mo.tGage to secure n
loan made by The Holston National
Building and Loan Association to them
Of two thousand five hundred dollars,
($2500) on a lot Of land ! and improve
ments thereon, situated in Johnson
City, Tennessee, being lots MS. rs and
26 in the johnson City Real Estate
Company's addition, situated on Wal
nut, Ash and Roam streets, and
Whereas, said mortgage, which is
registered in Trust Book, No. 6, page
627, of the registers Office Of Washin e.
ton county, Tennessee, provides that
if the interest, premiums, fine g, dul
and insurance premiums provided for
10 said mortgage become in arrears for
more than six months, then the whole
amount OF said items and loan shall
become due, and said mortgage fore
closed, and
Whereas, by reason Of more than six
months arrearages, the whole indtbt-
edness hes been de Jared by the Hols-
ton National Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION to be due, Therefore, unless
said amount and costs are sooner paid.
| will, on
FRIDAY, APRIL 18TH, 1898,
sell said house and OF III front Of tho
court house door at Jontshoro, Tenn,
between nine O'Clock a. N. and four
O'Clock p M, to the highest and best
bidder, for cash in hand, and in bar of
the equity of redemption, homestead
and dover, subject to taxes, to satisfy
said debt, and the costs and commits
sions of sale.
THIS the 25th day of March, 1898.
Holston National Building and Loan
Association.
By L. L, Lawrence, Agent.
717.4t printers fee $l2.
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PROTECTION TO NoN-coMBATANTs.

By the laws of nature the bearer in
good faith Of flag of truce is together
with his escort, inviolable. Firing is
not required to cease on the appearance
of flag Of truce in battle, and if the
bearer of a flag presenting himself dur
ing an engagement, be killed or wound
ed, it furnishes no ground Of complaint
whatever.
The United States acknowledge and
protect IN hostile countries occupied by
American armies, religion and morali-
ty, strictly private property, the per-
sons of the inhabitants, especially wo-
men, and the sacredness of domestic
relations. Offenders are rigiously
punished. This rule does not inter
fere with the right of the American
army to tax the people or their proper
ty, to levy force leans, to billet soldiers
Or to appropriate property, especially
houses. lands boats and ships and
churches for temporary military use.
These regulations governing the con-
duct of war prosecuted by the United
States are purely American in thier
authority. At Brussels, in 1874, there
was held q conference of delegates
from all the countries Of Europe, where
rules and regulations concerning the
conduct of modern civilized war were
formulated. The United States was
not represented, neither was this gov
eminent called upon to become a par
ty to the proposed rules, yet it may be
remarked that the regulations adopted
by our war department in 1868 do not
differ in any important particular from
the laws Of war accepted by European
nations.
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but neither death nor any other kind
Of punishment may be visited upon him
for his attempt to escape, which the
law of war does not consider crime.
1t is against the usages of modern
war to resolve in hatred or revenge to
give no quarter. No body of troops
has the right to declare that it will give
no quarter, and therefore will expect
none from the enemy; but command
er has the authority to direct his troops
to give no quarter when in dire straits,
and when his own salvation makes it
impossible to incumber his command
with prisoners. Troops that give no
quarter have no right to kill enemies
already disabled on the ground or pris-
oners captured by ether troops. Troops
who fight in the uniform of their enemy
without any plain, striking and uni
form mark of distinction can expect no
Quarter. II American troops capture a
train containing uniforms of the enemy
and the commander considers it advis-
able to distribute them among his men
some striking emblem or mark must be
adopted to distinguish the American
soldiers from the enemy.
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Mortgage Sale.

Whereas, May 14th, 1894, W. A.
Dickinson, executed mortgage to Sc
cure loan made by The Holston Ma
tional Building and Loan Association,
to him, 0! Six hundred dollars, on lot
OF land in Johnson City, Tenn, begin
ming $50 feet from the northwest
corner of Roam and Walnut streets,
on line dividing lots q and %, on the
north side of Walnut street; thence
northerly with said divid ng line, 1852
feet to Ashe street then westerly SO
feet with south side OF Ashe street, to
line dividing lot No. 81 and Hunts
lot, then southerly with said dividing
line, 1862 feet to Walnut. street, thence
easterly with north side OF Walnut
street to the beginning, and
Whereas, said mortgage, which is
registered in Trust Deed book No. 8,
page 424, of the registers Office of
Washington county, Tenn, provides
that if the interest, premium, fines,
dues, insurance premiums and taxes
provided for in said mortgage become
in arrears for more than six months,
then the whole amount of said items.
and loan shall become due and eaid
mortgage be foreclosed and
Whereas, by reason of more than
six months arrearages, the whole in
de9tedness has been declared by The
Holston National Building and Loan
Association to be due, therefore, unless
said amount and costs are sooner paid,
/ will, on
FRIDAY, APRIL 10Th, 1898.
sell said lot, on the premises, between
nine O'Clock, q. m. and four o'clock p.
M, to the highest and best bidder, for
cash in hand, and in bar OF the equity
of redemption, homestead and dover,
subject to taxes, to satisfy said debt,
and the costs and commissions of sale.
This the 25th day OF March, 1898.
Holston National Building and Loan
Association.
BY y. l. Lawrence, Agent
717-4t priter's fee $l3.
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Brownlow may have his enemies but
he also has his quill" The latest in
aication of the latter is the appoint
ment Of Silas Cooper as National Bank
Examiner. Mr.. Cooper has received
notice from Comptroller Dawes to re-
port for duty May 9th. Silas will give
satisfaction and his appointment will
please his numerous friends.
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SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Norfolk, Va, May 5th-12th, 1893. Reduced
Rates via. Southern Railway.

on account of the meeting OF the Southern
Baptist Convention at Norfolk Va, May 9TH
18th 1893, the Southern Railway will sell tickets
from all points on its lines to Norfolk and ec
turn at rate of one fare for the round trip,
Tickets will be sold May End to 9Th inclusive,
limited to return fifteen days from date Of sale
but If deposited with agent of terminal lines at
Norfolk on or before May 10Th, the return limit
will be extended fifteen additional days,
The schedule via this route is excell, mt ar d
parties contemplating attending the Southern
Baptist Convention should communicate with
the nearest agent of the Southern Railway
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Entered dtths PoStofice at Johnson City, Tenn, az
Second Class Matter.

Commodore Stay is rushing the fly
ing schooner under sealed orders. 1t
is supposed he has Admiral Connolly
and Midshipman Rea YES on board with
instructions to sober them up on Dry
Tortrregas.
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Monthly Pains cured by DIR. Miles Pain Pills.
Notice to Creditors.
In re Petition of John |. Cox, Rec.
No. GA.

To the creditors of the First Nation
al Bank, of Johnson City, Tennessee
You are hereby notified Of the fling
of the amended petition Of John l.
Cox, Receiver, IN the above cause and
are warned to appear on or before the
first Monday Of May, 1898, and show
cause, if any you have, why the prayer
of the petitioner, John !. Cox, that he
be allowed to sell publicly or privately
the remaining assets of said First Ma
tional Bank, or to compromise The
debts due and owing said association,
il he deems that best, and finally wind
up his trust, shall not be granted.
This March 20, 1898.
E. A. SIMPLIFY, @. h NJ.
By G. w. HODGE, d. G. & M.
716-4t
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seized and removed. Ultimate owner
ship will then be decided by the ensu-
ing treaty of peace.
PRIVATE PROPERTY MAY NOT BE SEIZED.
Private property, unless forfeited by
crimes or political offenses of the OWL
or, may not be seized except in case of
extreme necessity. Money and other
valuables found on the person of pris-
oner are to be regarded by the Ameri-
can army as private property, the ap-
preparation ef which is considered dis
honorable. Nevertheless if large
sum of money be found upon the per.
son OF prisoner it shall be taken from
him and appropriated at the discretion
of the commander, after deducting a
reasonable amount for the prisoners
support.
AS concerns prisoners of war, the
regulations yield little information
that is not generally known, Citizens
who accompany the army for any pos
sible purpose, suffers, contractors, cor
respondents" vivandiers, etc., may be
declared prisoners of war and detained
as such. The enemy's chaplains, Off
GERS of the medical staff, apothecaries,
hospital nurses, and servants. if fallen
into the hands Of the enemy, are not
prisoners of war unless the commander
has good reasons for OBTAINING them
A prisoner of war who escapes may be
shot or otherwise killed in his flight.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10Th, 1898.
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