Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 November 1898 — Page 2

UUtIiUi Courier.

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INDIANA

NOVEMBER 1898.

The w ivei of (jcneriil Firooke, Bh rIdaa and (.rant arrived at Sim Juan, 1. lt.. on the lt, on board tin- I nitcd Statt- transport Olxlain, which left New oi k on October

-1

When CoL Bood'i regiment took pan vos-ion of (.ibura. I ulm. tin- municipal Off . rs wer given tin- alternative of tfgmimg the oath of allegiance, r of being dinmisord All of them signed tin Oath.

t Sun. Mon Tu I ed. Thür. Fn Sat. 1 1 2 3 4 5 b 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 lb 17 13 19 I 20 21 22 23 24 25 2t 27 25 29 30

The navv department received a dispatch from San .luan, on the I Ith. stating that the evacuation of Porto Kico had leen completed bj the sailing of the last detachment of Spanish troops on that dav.

( ..I. .lames ('. Kiddle, who was Semper of ticii. Meade's staff, and nerved with dUtlnctioo in tin olvtl war. tiled at Mi home in Philadelphia, on the M, aged Hi years. A widow

ami two daughters survive

him.

A cablegram received at the navy dottartment, on the . ist, announced 'he urrial at F.ahiu, l'.rail, tf the battleships Oregon and Iowa. They were 1 da v s from Tonipkinsv ille, making au exceptionally smooth and rapitl ruu duw n the coast.

The Civil Service Reform leagUC has Bent a letter to the president, cn -s-tttg its bopfl that he will not. as reported in the public press, withdraw a number of places now tilled bv civilsen ice method from the scope of the civil-service rules.

The navv department is considering the advisability of modifying the plans for the new harlr monitors 1 inert Sting their sie from .'.Tun tOOS to 1,000 ton., enabling them to cany four 12 inch gUtti in two turrets. instead of only two guns in one turret. The Porto Eicon postal commission will SUggtSl the retention of the K-Tai m r.ice now in Operation to bo under the direct charge of a superintendent of mails, pending legislation that may be enacted on tin- suhjeet at the next session of congress. A tlispatcb fnun Mananillo says: "Lieut. Young has formally claimed, on behalf of the United States navy, the wrecks of the Spanish gnnboata thai went ashore or were sunk by the Tnited States gunboats in the inennv riililr engagement of Munanillo on lull I."

Word lms reached the Interior da partim tit of trouble threatened by a band tif young Sioux, on the I'ine liidge agency, in South Dakota, who re reported t have started an orpiniscd movement for the forcible removal of Indian Agent t iapp from the Teserv at ion.

Rapid increar in the business of the Mberian railroad is shown by a report to the state department by Consul Smith at htoacow that it has already been found necessary to send a nunmission along the road to determine some means of increasing its traffic onpabilltics.

An order has been jssuel by the war department directing that greater care be taken of the mngaines of the aaeoaat batteries, in order to prevent the deteriorat ion of the ammunition by da in put ss. instructions are given liovv to avoid dampness by a proper method ot ventilation.

At San Franc '.sen friendly Chinene have warned Kev. Dr. Gl nlner. interpreter of the Chinese b .:au. who is making an aggressiv campaign against the trade in slave girl-, that at a meeting of the highbinders it was decided to take the doctor's life it he persists in his course.

Tb whole Japanese cabinet has reaignedi the ministry being unable to uj'.i e upon the question of filling the portfolio of education. Thus the first attempt at party government in Japan las proved a failure. It is

pn nable the next cabinet will ! Coalition of liberals ami clan leaders. Ron. John Wanamaker, f Philadelphia, was served with a summons of trespass in slander when he sli pped from the train t Rochester, Pa., on tb id. The pia'mtitT is Thomas It, Bobinson, formerly state printer at Barriabarg, whose management of 'be atate printing ollicc Mr. Wanamakcr hud criticised.

A lettr left by Mrs. Amehla Sonnabend, who was found dead in her bed at Detroit, Mich, on the 1st. nine dns

after sin- had committed suicide, declares that deceased was a cousin of Priace Hohenlohe, the German chancellor. Statements by the woman's daughters seem to ear rotio rate this claim ot rchit imiship. Charit A. Schott, chief of the COOtpntation division of the United Stales COkSt ami geodetic survey, has bee?J gw aided the Wilde prise bv the Scad eniy of France. 1 he vilde prize Is the coveted honor Opened to the erorid, to be conferred on the one

but. tl to be the most worthy from i

nnmng those who make discoveries Off tvrita boohs on tstronomyi chemistry, geology, physics or mechanics.

The news that the Spanish peace commissioners at Palis bad referred to their government formal demand of the American commissioners for the absolute cession of the entire Philippine group, caused the greatest surprise in Madrid on the Slsta The strongest feeling prevailed that lbs government should protest energeti callv aci.inst vvbu, is regarded as s

violation ot the mint of the protocol. ; the .id.

CUBBENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Rear-Admiral Bunco's retirement, on December S3, will make Bcwr-Admiral Dewey the senior ofBcer ol the navv, ami if congress revives the gratle of atlmir.il. as desired by Seer tan l ong, bil appointment to that rank will follow without any further jumping. Public sentiment in st. Loans und in t tit- cities and towns along the Illinois and Mississippi rivers baa become aroused over the dangers threatened through the pollution of their water supply by the emptying ol the sewage of Chicago Into the so-called ship canal now being completed to turn the water of the Chicago river into the Illinois river, ami thence into the Mississippi, and a conference f the towns Interested is proposed. The Massillon (O.I Stoneware Co. has volunteered to Increase the wages of its employee, restoring the v1-. per cent, cut of last winter. The force of employes will also be Increased per cent. The powderhonse of the New York and New England Titanic Smokeless Powder Co. at South Acton, Mass., was demolished by an explosion on the ;ist. There were 20 men employed in the building, all of whom escaped, with the exception of two. who were slightly Injur! d in the rush to get out. The work of raiding the Spanish cruiser Heina Mercedes, sunk JUSt inside the mouth of Santiago harbor, i about to begin, The task is comparatively easy. Work on the ristobal Colon continues, but much difficulty is found in using tin pontot.ii on account of the heavy si An earthquake shock disturbed the western part of the city of Norfolk. Vii.. at 5 a. in. on the ;;ist. B lidentl Ml the vibrations were from north to south, were distinct ami laste! several sect mils. The output of ore in the Cripple Cr.-ek (Col. i district for October is valued at 11 ,48,130, the highest fot any month in the history of the camps. The Fnglish governrncnt.it is asserted. is aiout to perpetrate a coup bleb it calculated to excite to the boittng pitch the angry pa-sions of the Frem d people, and possibly those, too, of other continental nations, naately lbs extending id a I'.ritish protectorate over Egj pt. ( onsiil Hanna, at San Juan. PortO Rico writes in relation to the designs of young Americans seeking their fortune in the island, warning them that Porto Rico is already the axwt densely populated island in the world, and that for the present only disappointment Would await them. 'I'hc night of the .1st saw the closing of the Tmnsmississippi exposition at Omaha. It has been a financial success, there being a surplug of $400,00 . The latter is likely to be tied up for some time with damage suits on the part of some of the concessionaries. The American peace commissioners at Fan-, on tbe -ist. presented, at the joint session, a written expression 'f

the purpose of the United States to take the entire group tif Philippine Island! and to assume such proMrtlon of the Philippine debt as has been spent for the benefit of the islands or their inhabitant-, in public works. Improvements ami permanent better1' menta. 'I he great and momentous question ROW pending before President McKinley for solution, are, tirstiv. whether Spain shall be Indemnified for the In of her possesions in the cast: second ly, what shall be the character Of the Indemnification, ami. thirdly, what

shall lie the sum total. .lames c. Rutehins, who for 3t yenra bad been employed in the composing room f the ( hiesirn Tribune, and for

tin- last :.o veins or more as niirht foreman, died, on tbe :.1st. from dropsy. The Halted States supreme cm it rendered a decision su-taiiii tiur theeotiStltUtiottality of that feature of the tax law, of New York vvhioh lavs a tax on foreign OOffpWations doing bus iness in the state, according to the capital employed. Mis Bda siekhs. only daughter of (,en. Daniel I". Sickles, former minister tO Spain, Is the bride of Da v it 1 1 !'.. M. Crackanthrope. third secretary of

the Britieh embassy at Madrid, The

wedding occurreU at irun. npain. I,'. T. Howell, an insurance agent of nghlHcpfii I, .. was arrested, on the ist. at the Instance of the est Virginia state an htor, for Issuing in Wheeling policies for companies DCi

nuthorixed to do business in the täte,

A telegram has been received in Sau

I Francisco from the agents of v. Oil, ! McDonough, owner id Ormonde, stat- ; ng that the duke of vv e-t minster's ' effet of 180,000 for the famous race horse bail been declined. 'I he monthly rti lernen! of the director if the mint shows the total coin age nt the United Mates mints dnritu: October to have been w,flno,Mi, a fi lows; tbdd. 5,10,000; siDer. $:.:k'.4,Ifitl minor col us, v ,050, The b'lsirioss portion of tbe tow.- nt ' Divide, Col., Wan Wiiud out l are on

President McKinley will go to fantoo to cast hi vote. All the member! of hf COOfBCl have likewise decided to go to their luune. t" vote. unless something Interferes to ttetaiu tium la YVnshinc toll. Comm. i ntler Snovt, who is to relieve triad rel Be hie j as eomasaadamt of tbe San JaaU naval station, sail-! from New York on the it. n tba Solace. The Ipaalsh steuincr Mnnterrut arrleed at Cadi, on the Id, from Saiitiago lc t aba with repatriated troops There wen- M deathi on board during the voyage, and -00 of bot pass nt rs vv ere sick, 'I'hcre is a faunae of grain cur: at many ianf points. M ;s Bdlth Tod, daughteff of the hit joha Toil, ami granddaughter of the late David Tod war governor of Ohio was married at ( lev eland, O., on the Cd. to Mi .lames K. Sheffield, of N w .rk. The Yicksburg sailed fr m Norfolk. :i . on the 2d. for Barhsdoes, She probably will form the nucleus ol the new South Atlantic squadron.

I fill Mil.

They Are in a Better Sta'e of Preparedness Than Ever Should an Emergency Arise. OUR BIG SHIPS HAVE BEE OVERHAULED.

HOOSIKfl HAPPENINGS

Told in Brief by Dispatchej Iron Various Localities.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

ne the t he

The reported rupture of peace gotiatlona between Spain am! 1'nitid States is not credited i

French foreign efftce. Irnnce vaüiIngly will serve again as an Intermediary, in the baps of putting Spain

as lian

under permanent moral a-- well financial obligations, thus strength Inn her own oosition in the Kurotx

ba ance of power. United Statt -s Senator Bed field I'roctor. who arrived in Montpelier, t.. m the Bd, after a trip abroad, address I the joint assembly f the bouse and senate, vrhlch last month re-elected him. Senator I'roctor's address vvas

brief , and waa confined to an outline of the foreign situation which confronts the government of the United States. Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive president of the Keystone national bank of ' Philadelphia, which collapsed "i March l-'al. has letuni 1 to that cltT, after an absence of over seven yeora, and surrendered hi bis bondsman, u in. II. Wansmakcr. Adndrul Dewej cabled tbe navy department, on 111' 3d, that the Chat ! Ston had .-ailed from Manila for lloilo, on the Island f Panay. This Is ths hut seal of Rponlsb power of any uccount In the phllippinea. At a meeting of tin United RtatCS Bubber c.. held at New V'ork, on the 3d, Samuel P. Colt was elected president of the Goodyear Metallic Rubber ' Shoe Co.. in place nf GcOTgC A. Lewis, resign d. The transport Panama, which, it was rumored, on the d. had been lot on the Cuban coast, arrived safely at Havana, on that date, landed several , passengers, and proceeds to .vv York. The Baltimore v Ohio railroad has! ordered 2,000 freight car- from the' Missouri ;ir and Foundry Co, of Bt, I.onis. making a total of over J'.. I purchased in the past two yeara, Julius Goldschmidt, United titates

consul ffeneral at Berlin, died, on the night of the fed, in that city, from heart disease. BV was .".' renn of age ad resident of f" .vaukee. Drought and hoi winds have played havoc vvith i Australian wheat Heids, The commissioner tif agriculture savs there will tint bt enough wheat for local demand. A London correspondent, on the 3d, cabled that a general and satisfactory arrangement has been renched be tween (.rest Britain and France on the Paaboda question. Thomas Jefferaoj Efayneo, populist nominee for congress from the Grund Rapids i Mich, i district, hns made publie a statement over his tignoton that the populist tii ki-t was put in the lb Id for the sole purpose of defeating tbe

i.iirM-rntH lie savs be was iiromisei

rir int i' outs see K-iy as Pivaiptlf Xlrtiu.e.l I In- Vim U Wrtl llrllle.l aiol PtsetatUMtt sott ins " rr t iri u Pms sesC aT i at BM v, -aii see w Btttaa tos Upala Washington. Nov. The atlminiHtmtiou i s smiting results from the pt at coiiuni-sion with ipinniiiiity in the realization that the gov eminent is perfect!) well prepare for any turn the negotiations ma take. 1 1. x,i i- vu Mnsnsps The navv especially is La a state t preparedness, should it conic to a resumption of hostilities, far in advance of its condition at the outbreak of the war. One bv one all the splendid fighting machines of the North Atlantic squadron, srhicb has been braucht north at the earliest moment

1 were docked, cleaned and thoroughly i refitted at the Sew orW and Norfolk i navy yards. Their ammunition supplies were replenished, ami they are ' now. with possible one or two exceptions, ready foe instant service in

luiost any quarter 01 tnc fiooe. DwSjrt I I- i Sil I" tt.oil I rin. Admiral Dewey has taken considerable precautions In the) cases of his own ve.-sei. having dfepatched them one by one to the big British docks at I long Kong, where they have been placed in a good condition as possible outside of our home port. Secretary Long has prudently declined to part with the numerous Beet of auxUforj ve.-st ls acquired by the gorcm,...,t IiikI nri.ir to and during the

' ' . war. These were all inspected, by a technical board, which found that a number f then were not particularly w.il adapted to navy uses, but tbt secretary concluded that these ressela are still suth.-i.'ntiv servlcgable for eiiu rgt noy nam and. accordingly, kept them in condition to be oomuiiaafasaed at sl'.ort notice. ii- .inuy Mur rsiiMs Tone Kvee As f;r as Um arng is concenieti. whUe the original fore.- of neurly o quarter f t million men Balled into s. rvici by the president baa been largely diminished by the mustering I out ot many regiments and organisations, it is tbe opinion Of expert military Officer that the army, us a whole, M really a more formidable weapon now than it was at any period during the war. This apparently paradoxical BteUemsnl is explained by the fact that such of the troops as are now in the n-rvice tiave had the di-cipline of several months- hard training; tbe lin n have steadih improved in efficiency, and their officers know how to take rare of them, as well as to tight battles. BfU the Matt CSIlfc The staff COrps have cured many of tbe evils from whieh they suffered during the war. and are preoare.i to move troop- with rapidity, with due care for their health and for their adequate rationing during any campaign that might be expect, d. In fact, all branches of the military snd naval l- Ib.- evo.1 it nee of

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the war. a nil an stlltetl, in better fore.

aat in- Wile " Mlaiaetl Boottsbnrg, lud.. Kov, 4. liarioa Tyler, of ladianapolbt, arrived hare for the u at pose oi effecting raaonrtlkv tin.: with Ins wife. v lit hail ieft hin. Issl sbauner, After leveeal hours of vain plead! an be deliberately shot bar in the face, sin fi ll ami In again shot her III the side. II- then turned the wc.poii a himself, inflicting two fatal wouiitU His wit- regained bet feel snd ran nearly a b!K-k and Ml anOOBSCiOBa. 1 here is some hop' of hT rcco1 crv . Mrs. Tyler is a beautiful woman f 30 years, wealthy ami of a prominent laniUy, ib r busbaad'i pareats live la Ma l.ea lisUiro. III.

MAI UK 1

h.

The Cuban Patriot Army in H PtWÜMM Literally Dyiiij tor Want of Food. THERE IS ENOUGH ALL AROUND THEM

PUS Bel I Vll. n.luiiee. Indianapolis. Intl. Nov. 4. The ort booming report of State nperint endeat of Pttblhs I nst nu t i. m I M. Oe ting will show that the compulaorj law baa been responsible for the large!) inr reused attendance in the pablic schools throughout tbe stale. 1 .ring tin- year there has been an average dally Attendance of I34.8M In the s'ste, gain of 32,00V over l-'.'T. tf Ibis gain the report show- that -i.ut pupils here brought Into school aade the proviamns of the tpuloory law by truant officers, iMstttotc tor ths Bllaeb IndiannpoliSi Ind., Soy, 4. The re port of lbs trustees of the Indiana institution for the education of the blind has bu n Ried with Uov Mount Tba total property Interests are valued at IS '.''' i. All appropriations made during the year have been practically exhausted. The receipt- from the industrial enterprises of the institution w. re :: The enrollment sras lös, tbe largest ever known. Tbe per capita i xpeuse for educating snd caring for each child was f 192.80.

I I Mi. .1.1 ndianapolis, Ind. Ing to an opinion .IiiiIl'i Monks, of road sunervi Mira m

ii e latou. . s .4 Accordbanded down by he supreme court, ly 1h' compell d by

: mandate of a court to keep the -t ads in their districts In irood condition snd may also b fined for failure to do so. The opinion vvas given in 1 1 - ca t of John F. ( nt ter against Road gupcrvisoff .lohn Ohertate, of Ohloconnty.wto.lt b nlleged, permitted the roads in that eountv to become IsamtssaMe.

1 1. .i I. Li i imm Dev. looli, Ind., ov. t.

(im

now, as prenwwj diape than BVCff be-

A FORMIDABLE. FLEET.

the Uriel botch of

isoiiiit t arrive in

1300 for the BSC of his nam' as a candidate, lb- admits having received 1100, but savs be accepted it solely for exposing tbt scheme. Haynea refund to give the nanus of nun whom he IB y I bought him. Berentcen Cubans arrived 1 New Yrk. on the tth, in the MeamcT Kolser Wiliiidm, having been rcleaaed from the Spanish prison at CctU reeetttly. They were ecu! to thi eoun lev :.t the eXOeOSC of the I nlted States

government, and in

released polil ica I

N , i rk. w. f. Mink, a young st. Umbt ghv

zier, who HB in irri. !. DU tue ..u. to IfbM Minnie Veager, Was fatally intured the next day wbOe walking bw r.iehth Htreet. bv a bri-k blowa

the W itid frOm the apple'

,ir-. w hich truck him on crushing his skull. The ubniut who have

p'ov ed tri i is

atrnek for higher wages, Ihough they have been receiving fit dny, or M ,ents and two rations higher wages than ever befofft paid for similar work. Advices from the Cuban military commission are to the effect that tbe rlpanish evacuation of Paerto Principe

w ill take i

V-a-U Niiw on

I ha vv. to vi Min w tu , i sees ii fcsea W Irr.

I i.uiai

doUUt has is-iieil the regular The- l.ss: i v i t i ir proelamatioB la which be says that "in obedience t0 i custom trai atltted by our fathers, and vvith a keen Hens.- of our gratitude to Almighty Hod tor His abundant mercies, the people of Indiana with thankful hearts, should Obaervc the 4tb iust.. as Thank-giving day. which but beea Ml aitlt by 1 1 . .eiain.it h hi of the president o the United states." Heta for M ttOa sirlker. W ashington. Intl . Nov 4.-Austin Kocher, the aonunfon adner vv ho shot bon Ragsdale sad Hit haul Beibmeistes, -l ike lead r-. lias been hound over to the circuit court on a charge of shoot inc. with intent to kill. He gave -c bond for his appearance at the .lanuary term Reibineifter ami Kagsdale are Improving, i ii in ii. i Andcraon, Ind., Nov. 4. A. s. Brown a w ii-know n it icn w ho removed with his femfl from Newcastle a few M ars (TO, dieil suddenly at hi- hontC here, lie had just gum- from the hrcakfa I table, when he f H snd died without being able to speak word Re wa77 years old snd lea vet i children.

Ihr, rr Kralndnnl from Id I lug tl li.ni' l.i supply idrlr Hniii. b lu !- t lM Hi' A merit mi I'. . OrStl eoesasti ahjes Affoeahrf .. sss iu riOUlllnl til l.i.l.k IlitUtUS .U.tll. l. Washington, Nov. S, The follow! S letter fiom Lieut. -ol. Carboune, o

1 tin 1 11 ban army vv at liavattS

bei 11 received bi Secretary Queiaila u the Cuban delegation here, wie. i,., laid it before Secretary Alger, with a urgent reqttesl that st.ps taken relieve tii- extreme listress it forth. Ueut.-Coi. Carbonns is tbt 11 veator of tbe exphuMve known as eai bonite, and is regarded as the re; n Mutative at Havana ot the Cuba bailers and forces in the field. B writea as follow-, the letter beariii flat Havana, ( letober '-".': a m satis gssttsti "1 am Just back from the camp Gen. lienoeal, chief of our army this province, and let me tell v 1 1 Some faint way the true state Of 0 Mnr and suffering army, snd th sequences that may come to the c

' trv if we d0 not find in a short : a rented which will save us. Tht i ban army is dying ol hunger. - terrible words in no wny exagj the actual eomlitions. lien, M took me to s.. his weak. lOtteii aqualkl soldiers- made so on aeeoni of the want ot food and ths acl cessities of life and think that l bei men were in sock state bj n obeying their chiefs, vv ho desire, u all. to reupeel the ordara ol tk Ann r ica n gov c run lent. i .mi in ihr i;isftsae Uesemmtsi "The Cuban kaders In camp to tell you that they will DWintai p ignntlon and potieucU and above a) faith in the American sjoverotnenl u the pr. -ident. -Mr. M Kiuit v j at lk mme time art it b- nnderstoo aesi hungry! that Wf have in the I fields of t uba all that i- need way of food, but that We are forh'n den to touch it by reasoa of the pe order. They do not get from tfavai ! one-fourth of what they aeed, and o ! soldier- are .Ivim.- St the g it. - nt t , city for lack of food What shall v do i Nt Sim . ..r l.r o i i in lltv.tnn.

"The time will come wlien we c. not bear it nny longer, and then wk win ba the result? I returaed disci srdate to Havana, ami tried to get mi COr, but the people are already so pa that I obta I nothing. We went the American commission, which i ceived us very well, ami offered linn b. but up to the present time lb bare given us mithin..', if bp nri fortune we are driven by the aeei idties of our army to get by force wh We need, so as not to die of hun.'. will the people of the United Btsl fond, inn us. or will the nation- of ' world. Urbich do not know what is I pentng. judge us unworthy of the syi pathy ot the American people? Hai'i'i In I li'lr MLery. "V- are utv bappv to hear your I rurain es as t ur republic. V Ii. never doubted tin good faith and pe erosity of the I'nited State-. To it v owe th. complete bherty which have been unable in many um - tu tsblisk our-clves." Secretary Alger Mid that be ana look Into the matter, and would t.-1 graph the commission at Hava ia instructions as wer' appropriate the äse.

tin

build head.

been cm

in eteantng and repairing the of rtantkuro de ( aba have

till.

I

note, I md governnu nt

M irii t by exam-

rff than expi

ami that it w ill be desirable to Iho troops, designated! in the ord the Ith. lis tarty as the 1Mb.

A seini oilicial French on the Ith, snj - that tin

has res Ivcd not to retain tin chand mission ' rasboda, ; that this lid lton was arrived th-eabimt after an exhsuatlve

Ina t ion of I be question. In Little River, Iva- . on tbe (th. fire destroyed ever building on tbe west side of Main street, including it bouses and bbtel. Ths east sid.- of the street wa- onlv s;ie, by hard work: lo-s. .s.ntni. Insarfnce itnali. The tran-pun Mbfhlgan arriml nt Savannah, (in., on the 1th, vvith four batteries of heavj artillery from Wew etfi i .,.i I, ..I I, i i.kn i.r ..ii ir! fi(.r.

11.112 11,1... ,i.i,t . ... - The Miehiiran salkfd, OU lb Mh. with the Fifth cavalry, for Porto Kico.

Washington, Nov.".. Admiral Bunc tadegraphed the navj department that the cruiser Buffalo,! nmmander Hemp, bin. bad nailed at noon for tbe Philip pines ia Sue. The gutiltoat Helena sailed Thursday foe the same destination. With these accessions coming Immediately upon the heels of ( apt. Barker's npuadron of battleship and colli, i s. Admiral Dewej will have a formidable fleet, probably second In offensive p w. r to only one Europena nation, namely, Kngland. In eastern

waters, it is not believed, however, Thei ar- located some little distance

i a oiiie Member. i t rre Haute, Ind., Nov . t. P u B'fteiity, tin- oldest member of tin Ani . ot Order of Hibernians in the United State-, died here. He became s Diemhi r mi his eighteenth birthday, Christmas. 1841, In Dublin, where he graduated from Trinity college, He cam tt this country I "' Reafttarlam i alonee, Tipton. Ind.. No. 4. It was the rj and health finwl factory that burned here and not the sanitarium

that be will have need of all this force, ami he doubtless will be able to s-,;. i-.. some of the vessels Wl ich may lie in need of repair to return to Mare la land.

from the aaiiit.-trium. The hiss was bout 11,500 partially Insured. The plant will be rebuilt at once.

PROPOSITIONS RLFUSED. thr apasUsk r anliiMfifi Rejectea a rilllli lii. I'l ...-il e.n. Hut X.-yoll-II. in, ii. rr X.it r. i ..... r, (T.

Beetsosl Mai I son, Ind., So ver Allen wai at th

I ii , n r. .1. . t. Lineman li top of a clt v tii-r

I'Hn-. .n the peat

h..ns

The joint se--dnn of commbtsiom lasted two

The Spaniards refused the

propositions made by the Americans i ii Monday bist, but tbe negotiation! were not broken off. While it is InHeved that no formal counter proMsition was made, (her was i dl lakm rf the Philippine tliesti uitside tht lines of the American propositions i he commissions then adjourned until Tuesday next. Sill. Iile mt H lt. ..I. mi Bess Vl.il.lrr. Ii miUtlni from I SCI! of Wrk.

v irveiaiiil. I., tiv. :.. A man. parently (0 or (U years if age.

alarm teiegmpk pole ail justing th. I wires when the pole broke nt a n 1 myed point underground snd fell with him. Allen was Injured internally ami is ; ;i a exit ionl condition.

ominiMi ii Salvia, Jefferson vt lie, Ind.. Hot, i. Prank ri stcr. an employe of the qiinrtcrnuiKtr"s tlejMit. committed suleJde at the saloon of Thorns Anderson bv shoot Ing himself through the bead, Me waa n resident of New Albany and h aven a wife

PORTO RICAN GRIEVANCES A ( hin Has Ceass tHsr Mm aaatses si I 1-lMllll nCvsStMS I Ii.' lire I I. Ilel s ansjosessi i' i - New York Nov. :.. Gen. Roj -aim has just returned from I'or BiCO, savs: Tbe people of Porto Rico arc aoi all s.iti-t;..i with American rule, i to is a growing difference between tl natives sad militia, which b toi, regrtted. u hen thearmy ofow nation first invaded Ihe i land tht tives received tbe lm-rkane no i 1 dially that they expected lo ie as people of this country and noi a eompiered province. Tbe ireatmei tbey have received from nui hand- bi been just the opposite. 'I his OS ,i dttced a chill. "What the POrtO Kiea at want i- to! taken in ai a part of the I nit tl ! Tllty OU HOI expect to enter tl I'nitUl lis a state, hut as a pi opie training to in- at) v a need to stUtehoo I a addition lo this tbey Waat fn

with the Cnited Stat--, snd Iben I no reason that I .- why thej ibou ! not have it. At present thev are foro ' lo pay duty on all nnpurti d :: I Spanish goods included, which wit ' free before."

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ir two BBO as alohn iloneSa Boston, Mass., was found dead in his room late Thursday alght. An empty vial laix ied chloride hydrate, accompanied by the following note, told the story of n suicide. The notC was as folti iw s : 'My name is Smith: live in Hoslon; I am a brass moulder bv trade, m fnt of work; bd the yravc dlggaff do t he r st."

neehc hi Keek Lafayette. Ind., Nov. b -Albert Me harry, nf Shawnee Mound, fell when overcome bj Illness mooch manner as to break hla neck, dying instantly. He was M yenra old and had hea an lagalhf for yearn. I M 1. 1 ( e e I r I plila mle I.e'iann. Iml . Nov ( dijd'therla Mddemli i" raging Ihronghonl thi. mnnty. Seven eountv schoo. ; have al ready Wen cloned

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to the Star from .lefferson ( i!,v. Mj n : Jamci H. Aldrh b, v Im to the penitent iay lu re in M . to serve a two years' sent " ' stealing gtT,0tW from Kansas I it..-' " Scott V .Memphis lUHway t .. wk paj to asb r and 'alii r be x ' " yearn, .i released, hi term expired under the gol behavior " He was Immediately learreeted t srarruat sworn out by lbs Amen Surety Co., who bnd gone hi- 1h'" fend WCffa comp lied to make fOOU short.'