The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-04-07


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$. q. Armour, head q the kansas
City MOI packing house OF 'rmour
a Co. and brother OF l.. ID. Armour, Of
Chicago. died at his home in Kansas
CITY of pneumonia on the goth
The April report of the Orange Judd
Farmer makes the general winter
wheat average SCI, compared with 80
last year. 1t is the lowest average since
the beginning OF the bureaus service
IN 1894
Senior Azpiroz. the Mexican ambas-
sador. visited the state department, on
the 2sth. in company with senior Go
dov. secretary of the embassy. and
paid his respects 10 Secretary lay. \
pleasant interchange of views was had.
A dispatch from Manila. on The 29th,
reported the fall Of Bocave before the
advance of our invincible army. II was
added that the insurgent capital had
been removed 10 SAN Fernando. The
army was only eight miles from Ma
loios.
Thomas II. Wigs. son of state
Senator Joseph : Wiggs. Of Pike
county. Ind. on the ed, liter
ally cut to pieces Wesley Hurt. young
man who entered Wigs school room
with a pistol and told him one Of them
must die.
Admiral Dewey has cabled TO the
department for more men and more
ships. This i believed 10 mean simply
a determination TO put into execution
a plan to more thoroughly patrol the
island and prevent filibustcring eSpe-
ditions from landing
On the Goth the president appointed
Col Edwin V. sumner Of the Seventh
cavalry. TO be brigadier in the regular
army. Gen. Sumner will Immediately
retire. and Col. Thomas NJ. Anderson,
of the Fourteenth infantry. will prob
ably be appointed 10 the vacancy.
Capt Hiram NJ. Chittenden, corps q
engineers, has been placed in charge
of the improvement of the Yellowstone
national park. which includes The con.
struction, repair and maintenance OF
bridges and roads. lie acts under the
direction of the chief Of engineers, re
tanning his station in IT. Louis.
The cruiser Chicago. which left
Hampton Roads. on the 13th.with order:
10 oyertake the American liner Pari:
and transfer from that ship e2-Secre
tary OF State John Sherman. who had
been taken seriously i'll, arrived at OlC
Point. Va. on the 2Sth. with the dis
tinguished invalid on board.
The heaviest fighting and most i'm
portant advance by our troops tina
have taken place outside of Manila, &C
Cured on the Goth and 9th, when III
combined forces Of Gen. Wheaton arr
Gen. Macarthur fought their way Z
a point beyond Newcanayan. nine mile
from Manila and only II miles from
Malolos, the insurgent headquarters.
Mrs. Minnie A. Hawkins, OF Peoria
H.. was arrested. on the 2ith. ant
bound over to the United States gram
Jury, accused of forging her dead hus
bands name to pension checks. ant
securing money thereon. This she di
for FIVE years. even after she had mar
ried again. She obtained $500 in thi
way.
The crews of the American flee
ashore on leave. at Kingston. Jamaic'
on the 27th. started rioting anon
themselves, over an old feud about I'll
flagship New York's absence fror
the fighting ut the battle of Santiag
de Cuba. The trouble lasted over wv
hours. and several men were slight
wounded, and one or two seriously.
+. Bates Soper, who was hanged .
Harrisonville. Mo, on the 30th. was a
lowed TO go upon the scaffold and tei
st. lie tried the trap, and offered snl
restion to the sheriff. He said: Il ca
hardly wait for the time of the eNecl
ton TO come. The suspense Ct wal
Ing is worse than the execution ca
possibly be-"
Although n forced construction OF Il
legislation of the last congress won
seem to authorize the president TO a
point an admiral of the navy IN add
ton 10 Admiral Dewey, IT is said ut u
navy department that there IS no ]
tention Of so doing. as il is perfect
clOr that the purpose OF congress VI
simply to provide for the advancemei
of Admiral Dewey TO that grade
The will of Joseph Medill, late edit
of the Chicago Tribune, was filed in q
probate court on the 27th. The cstai
estimated at about s2,o0o.0oo net,
bequeathed in equal shares to his ~
daughters, Mrs. Robert w. Patterst
and Mrs. Robert 5. Mccormick. In a
dition TO number OF requests TO rel
tives, Mr.. Medill left $1,000 each to
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