The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-27

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Their discussion of the pClcN ot eApan-
sionoc coupled much Of the days session.
after " hch the Nicaragua canal bill
was taken up and considered for three
hours. After much debate n suhsti-
tute presented by Mr.. Morgan (Aia).
for The bond amendment offered by
Mr. Allison was adopted. All other
proposed amendments failed. In the
house bills were passed authorizing
the Arkansas & Choctaw railroad Co.
10 construct railroad through the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations in In
dian territory. and granting site on
Fort supply military reservation 10
Oklahoma for an insane asylum. after
which the house went into committee
of the whole on the post Office appro-
priation BILL
The United States military authori-
ties in Havana have cabled the Santi-
ago department an order directing
that not cent of the customs receipts
OF the department is 10 be expended
without the permission of Goy.-Gcn.
brooke The order also directs that
the greater part Of the sanitary work
iftIlhIiHfu risAi TX A'At NihtH'
money ray and for rations merely.
A resolution indorsing the expansion
policy II the administration and invii-
ing President Mckinley to visit Au-
gusta passed the Maine house Of rep
resentatives. on the 10Th. by unani-
,nous rising vote amid much enthusi-
asm.
\ dispatch 10 the London Daily Mail
from bucharest. Roumania. says that
a pack Of wolves. embroidered by
hunger. recently attacked a monastery
al Lopcvean. in the Nolda,ian noun
tains. and killed a friar.
The act to prohibit aliens from own
ing placer mines in British Columbia
has finally passed the provincial legis-
lature. and received the formal assent
OF the lieutenant governor. The act
goes into effect at once.
Premier Sacasta says that the queen
regent viii sign decree convoking
the cortes on the day following the re-
ccipt Of the news OF the ratification 81
the treaty OF peace by the United
States senate.
The charges ana specifications in the
conrt-martial of Commissary-Gcn
Eagan are. conduct uuhecoming an
officer and gentleman" and 'conduc,
rrciudicia TO good oruer and military
discipline"
Chief-of-Dolice Crow If SommcrviIle.
= j.. WAS shot and fatally wounded
:, lille chasing a burglar on the 10TH
In The senate. on the Goth. a session
Of i,e hours and half was PRACTICAL
~ barren Of results. Consideration or
the Nicaragua canal bin was resumed.
but It's completion was was blocked by
flibustering. In the house the post
Office bill was finally passed. spealS er
Reed announced the appointment OF
Mir PAYNE (rcp.. \. IA as chairman
OF the committee on ways and mea rs,
in place OF the late Mr.. Dinglcy, which
carried with il the leadership of the
majority on the floor of the house.
Four Of the new 12-inch breech-
loading rifle coast defense mortars
| which the Niles tool works. Of ilamil-
| ton. D.. are making for the United
States government. have been shipped
To the government proving grounds at
| Sandy Hook. y. j. The guns are ~
/ feet i'm length. weigh 10000 pounds,
and throw a 5o0-pound dynamite shell
ten miles.
Eighty-two members ofthc Astor bat
terry Of New York city passed through
Omaha. Neb.. on the goth. over the
Burlington route. bound home from
Manila. They travelled in tourist
slcepers. with a baggage car carrying
their freight and rations. Their mas.
cot. fox terrier. was with them.
The United States dispatch boat Iro.
| ano. sailed from san Francisco for
Honolulu on the 20fh. The vessel ear.
ried number OF special dispatches
some for the battleship Oregon. due a
the islands. and some that are sup
posed 10 relate TO the sending Of the
Oregon TO Samoa.
The extension OF the anti-contrac'
: labor laws TO Hawaii is strongly urged
) in report made ky the house commit
tee on labor. II says thousands ol
! contract laborers. mainly japanese
have been taken in to the islands sine,
; | TIE rising of the United States flag
! | over them.
/ Fire which. on December &c. brol<,
out in the Diamondville mine al Da
: mondville. Wyo.. continues to sprcat
despite All efforts 10 control il. and i
c is feared that the mine will have 10 b,
: abandoned.
Z The war department has issued ar
!. invitation for bids from responsible
shipping concerns Of all nations foI
the transportation ~ The Spanish pris
+ oncr~ in the Philippines from Manil;
= TO Spain.
The failures for the week ended or
2 the goth. as reported by X. q. Dun &
Co. were 2i9 ia the United States
against ga last year, and 81 in Canada
against 80 last year.