The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-10-26

Philippines, has notified the post or
flee department that he has opened a
night scnool for native postal EN-
ployes at Samolpec, where they may
study English.
Prof. Pickering. of Harvard, arrived
at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 10th, TO
establish an astronomical observatory
at Vaudeville Immediately. He says
the surroundings there are favorable
for special researches.
A conservative estimate of Florida's
orange crop this year places the yield
at 1000. 900 boxes. The groves are in
healthy condition. Fruit will begin to
be marketed about the 1st. The ~.
erage price per box is two dollars.
Prof. Wilhelm Oncken, of the Uni
versity of Giessen (Hesse), who was
intimately acquainted with the late
Prince Bismarck, writes to Dresden
journal that Bismarck's last prayer
was: Lord. / believe. Help Thou
mine unbelief."
1t is regarded in Pekin as certain
that the alleged imperial edict order
ing the punishment of high officials
was forged, and was concocted with
the object of preventing the advance
of the allies on Pao Ting Flu. Both
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang deny
its authenticity.
Nicholas Scalp, Swedish naval
cook, who was on the battleship
Maine when she was blown up in Ha-
vana harbor, shot and killed himself
in Brooklyn on the 10th. His jaw
was shattered by flying iron in the
Maine explosion, and he had been un.
able to eat solid food since.
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The comptroller OF the currency
says that applications have been re.
ceived under the act of March IA, 1900,
for the organization of 496 new ma
tionai banks, with total capacity OF
$23, eos 900. OF this number 373 will
have capacity of less than $4,000
each, and 1913 of $50, 900 or more.
The report that the Dowager En-
press Frederick was married. last
April, to Baron Seckendorff, who was
hofmeister under Emperor Frederick,
although widely circulated abroad,
had always been strenuously denied in
Berlin, until the present crisis in her
disease. Now, however, it is being
circulated again and accepted as true.
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Former cabinet officer and senator,
john Sherman, is dangerously i'll at
his residence, on X street, in Wash
ington city. The attack has taken
the form Of q general collapse, in
part due to the debility incident to
old age and TO the effects of the seri-
Gus illness which he suffered while
on a trip to the West Indies two years
ago.
The bazaar for the benefit of the
homeless Galveston orphans. which
began in New York city, on the night
of the 18th, in the Waldrof-Astoria
was closed, on the 18th, by Marx
Twain, who spoke for about ten min.
utes. The management Of the bazaar
estimated the net receipts for the
three nights at between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Gov. Sayers of Texas was among the
presidents callers on the 10Th. He
was on his way back to Texas from
New York. where he went to attend
the charity bazar for the benefit of
the orphans of the Galveston disaster,
and stopped in Washington to pay his
respects to the president and to thank
him for the aid the government had
extended the victims Of the storm.
Secretary Long has ordered that
there be no further proceedings in
the case of Capt. Wilde of the Ore
gon, who was being investigated by a
court of inquiry to determine the re-
sponsibility for the grounding of the
battleshipin the Gulf of Pc Chi Ii. last
summer, while hurrying to Taku
from Shanghai. This action finally
disposes Of the case.
Gen. j. w. Fisher died at his home
in Cheyenne, Wyo.. on the 18th, at the
age of Sc years. He was one of Wy
oming's pioneers, going to Cheyenne
in 1871 as associate justice of the ter
ritorial court, appointed by President
Grant. He was afterward chief JUS
tice Of the supreme court for over
eight years. His war record was par
ticularly brilliant. rising from the
ranks of the volunteers to be briga-
der general.
Gov. Mount Of Indiana, on the 18th,
received a deed to the 16 acres of land
in Spencer county, Indiana, surround
ing the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The
deed conveys the land from the coun.
~ commissioners of Spencer county
TO the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial
association, OF which the governor Is
president. The work on the monu.
inent has begun, and will. IL Is be-
Ii.ved, be- completed this fall. when
dedicatory services will be held.
Seven ma ell OF men vyrecked the safe