The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-10
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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army. announcing his arrivalin Havana
province with la, 900 men.
GEN. WooDFoRD. minister to Madrid,
expected TO start from Paris to san
> sebastian. ON the 3Oth, to present To
the queen regent the proposition of the
state department for ending the war in
Cuba. The result OF his mission is
awaited with much interest.
liz is estimated that in Oklahoma ter
ritory. during the year 1s9-, the stock,
grain, fruit. and all other products will
amount To 500. 900. 900. OF this the peo-
pie at home Will consume 90 per cent,
leaving Gao. 600, 600 of products for ex-
port
SECRETARY GAGE and Attorney-Gen-
eral Mckenna issued a joint circular.
on the Both, TO collectors and customs
officers and United States attorneys
and marshals relative to the enforce
ment of the Chinese exclusion laws. 1t
is proposed to let the suspects pass on
to their destination, and arrest and try
them where they are supposed to be
known and can be identified If their
claims are genuine.
HERMAN w. VAN ZANDES, private
secretary to Secretary Carlisle in he
last administration, and Dennis j..
CAVITY. formerly a clerk in the inter
state commerce commission, were ar
rested in Washington, on the 3Oth,
ON warrants charging them with EN-
b~ezzlement of s4.ss7 from Viking X
Co. a brokerage firm. They were
charged also with maintaining a gam
bling table.
A SPECIAL from Anaconda. Mont, on
the 30th. said: "A fierce forest fire Is
raging a few miles west of here and
spreading with alarming rapidity to-
ward this city. The fire has already
burned over 10, 900 acres of timber A
messenger from the burned district
saws that Georgetown and Silver Lake
are both in the track of the fire..
OPERATIONS were resumed at the At
lantic mills at Lawrence, Mass, on
the 30th, after a shutdown of four
weeks. This gives employment to
about 1000 hands. Work was also re-
sumed in the weaving department of
the Methuen company's mills at
Methuen. Mass. where nearly all of
the fJU operatives thipA's td ~
mills are now at work
The Catholic board Of school com
missioners of Montreal, Can, having
refused to comply with the order of
the provincial board of health TO re-
fuse entrance to their schools to chill
dren without vaccination certificates,
the city will station officers at all the
Catholic schools TO vaccinate the chill
dren.
The Great Falls cotton mauufactur-
ing mills at Somersworth, y. u, re-
sumed operations on full time. on the
s0th. after having run 40 hours q week
since May.
The First state bank of Mcpherson.
Kas.. OF which senator Royal Mat
thews is president. failed, on the 3lst.
with liabilities amounting To SIS. 600.
The bank was placed in charge OF
Bank Commissioner John w. Breiden-
thai.
The board of naval officers appointed
by the secretary OF the navy to exam
inc facilities for the manufacture Of
armor plate investigated the plant OF
the Illinois Steel and Iron Co. at South
Chicago, on the 30th. Three days will
probably be spent in looking over the
various branches Of the works
AT the session of the Zionist con
gress. held in Basic, Switzerland, or
the 30th. the delegates present nnani
mously adopted, with great enth dsiasm
the programme for re-establishing tn,
Hebrews in Palestine with publicly
recognized rights.
TnE ear will visit Paris at the en-
of autumn.
Mus. ANNIE KIRK and her husband
w. :. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwood
= San Francisco dentist. for $3.50 dam
ages. alleged to have been sustaine,
because he positively refused To exam
inc the lady's teeth after he had agree,
to put them in good condition. Tn
reason for his refusal was that sh
went to his office on her bicycle an
wore bloomers.
Ar Harrisburg, Pa. on the 31st, by
vote of ~ to 20. the state Democrat
committee adopted a resolution deciar
ing vacant the seat of William r. Har
rity. of Philadelphia, on the Demo
cratic national committee.
ANXIETY as to the fate of the Iukoi
steamer r. Il. Wearc. said TO be lade
with gold. was set at rest, on the Sis
by advices that the Weare was tied u
! near Circle City, repairing her boile
!, hues.
OK the 3Ist the Seattle Wash. chan
Der Of IN received a letter frol
miners at Skaguay. warning people q
. the futility Of trying to reach tho Y,
kon by that route this season.
ONCE more Paris Is singing the Maj
seillaise, and accounts from the pro,
. inces show that the whole country
!. given up to delirious rejoicing over tn
. Russian French alliance.
WHILE making hay near Bartlesvill,
l. T., on the 3ist, Smith Lonsbury 81
n fire to the grass. in order To destroy
n nest Of bees. The fire got beyond hi
control. and considerable hay and sc,
sral farm buildings were DESTROYED bs
fore 1t was subdued