The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-05-26
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steps in establishing supreme court
OF nations, and asking the sennte 10
ratify an arbitration treaty with Great
Britain. were adopted at 4 public meet
ing held in Philadelphia. on the 18TH,
Under the auspices OF the Evangelical
alliance and the National Reform
league.
W. W. Rockhill. United States min
lister to Athens. arrived in Washington,
on the 18th. ard called TO pay his re.
spects 10 Secretary Hay. After set
Ting up some private business, Mr..
Rockhill will assume the duties Of d.
rector of the bureau OF American re-
rublics, TO which he has been elected
by the executive committee.
w. c. Hunt. W. A. King and W. +. ,
Wilcox. chief statistcians in the CEN
sus Office. have been appointed COM
mission 10 make practical tests of cleo 4
trio counting or tabrlating machines, 4
which may be presented for considera-
ton by the directors of the census. T
| The competition will begin at the cen
sus Office June :.
The seven Filipino commissioners
passed through the American lines at
daylight, on the 10Th. and proceeded
direct TO Manila. saying they had come
tc Internationally surrender the main
division OF the insurgent army. under
| A2uinaldo, 10 Gen. Otis.
A cablegram from Miss Agnes Slack,
in London. to the officers of the Ma
tional w. c. L. L.. received in Chicago,
on the 18th, announces the reelection
OF Lady Somerset TO the presidency of
the British Woman's Temperance asso-
citation.
NJ. Deschanel. president of the
French chamber OF deputies, has been
elected a member of the French acad-
emv. i'm succession to the late Aime
Marie Eduard Herve. editor of the
Soleil. who died on January last.
The peace congress assembled at the
blouse in the Woods in the suburbs
OF The Hague. on the 18th, the ears
birthday. VI. De Staal, Russian am
bassador TO Great Britain. was made
president of the conference.
The Maryland Steel Go. shipped, on
the 18th. on the steamer Falls OF the
Pee. $50 tons Of steel rails for the Aus
tralian government. The same con-
Germ is shipping another consignment
to the same government.
Mai. John a. Logan. assistant adj
iutant general OF volunteers, rendered
lis resignation. on the 18th, and was
honorably discl arged.
, An eminent member Of the peace
. conference at The Hague says il is
. simply an act OF pollteness to the car
end will yield no practical result. sim
o ply because il can not The powers,
/ he asserts. are too disunitcd and watch
each other too closely 10 arrive a. any
h understanding in their programme.
G His prediction is that there will be c
long discussion and then "first-class
i burial of the ears peace proposals.
i Charles T.. Tinsley. an engineer in
n a Kansas City (Mo) apartment house,
/, who had been exposed 10 smallpox,
l. locked himself in his house, on the
y 18th, and defied the officers TO remove
Kim to a tent on the city hospital
a grounds set apart for suspects.
IS Mrs. Martha Il. Baker. of Galva
L Henry county. ILL.,. was found dead II
: berth of a sleeping car on the Nickel
L Plate road al Buffalo. y. -. on the
l. 18th. She was II years old. and was on
r her way 10 New York. Heart failure
was the cause of death.
= A man was killed by a West Shore
= train at Fort Montgomery. \. y. OF
= the 10Th. The body was hurled into
the air. and one of the victims legs be
~ came cntangled in the telegraph wires
: the body swinging there until removed
- by the coroner.
!, The funeral ship Crook, which ha
- been transformed into a regular arm.
transport. sailed from New York. OF
"a the Goth. for Savannah, Ga, where sh
- will embark the Second regiment of in
a. fantry for transportation to Cienfue
ar Cos, Cuba.
TO- Mai. John \. Logan. who resigned
he from the army has returned home. an
will leave shortly for CUBA, where h
or will represent large party Of capital
is lists in developing the sugar and min
he eral resources Of the island
ed Aguinaldo's peace commissioners
of who arrived az Manila. on the lstl
only offered the twice-re iectcd propo
RS sition for an armisticr. This Gef
he Otis again promptly rejected.
MS, HAVANA IL in fcrmcnt again owe
he The idea that the Washington admins
nd tration has determined to take th
ar arms Of the Cuban troops and retail
OF them in military possession.
'en Carnegie a. Co.. Of Youngstown. 9
bought 10000 tons Of pig iron from III
The Mahoning and Shcnango valleys. o
ncs the 18th, paying therefor Si6 per ton
ma Licut.-Col. Edward j. McClcrnan
the assistant adjutant gcneral) has bee
ordercd To Matanzas. Cuba. as adjutar
general of that department..