The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-03-23

over subscribed ten times, the appli
cants numbering $1,000.
\ bill was introduced in the senate
on the 18th, by Senator Foster. author
izing the construction by the govern
ment of a cablc from some port or
the coast of the State of Washing
ton TO Cape Nome and other points in
Alaska.
Officials or the Paris exposition said,
or the 18th, that there was no founds-
ton for the report circulated in the
United States that the date Of the
opening had been postponed a fort
night. The exposition will be opened
April Is. as advertised.
The Transvaal, having appealed 10
Germany, in common with other na-
tions, for mediation or Intervention in
the war with Great Britain, Germany
replied. on the 18th, that she declined
10 interfere. as she is in no way con
cerned in the conflict.
On the 18th the strained relations
growing out of the political situation
in Kentucky wcr distinctly improved
by more moderate action on the part
of the principal agents. and as but
one day of the Legislature remained.
hope was strong that the crisis nigh;
pass without bloodshed.
The will of the late Thomas Henry
Ismay. founder OF the White Star Line
Steamship Co. has BEEN %prohated,
showing a personal estate of 1i.2g7,-
es1. Numerous ~legacies, in all about
fa5.o0O. are left 10 charities. and the
remainder of the estate goes TO mcri.
beers Of the family Of the deceased.
The foreign mission board Of the
Reformed Church in the United States,
at a meeting in Allentown. Pa. on
the 14th. elected Miss ;. l.. Wiedner.
OF Flatrock, o.. teacher in the girls
school at Sendai. Japan. She will sail
in May. The election of other mis-
sionaries was postponed until April.
On the 18th funeral services for the
late Edward j.. Phelps. ex-minister TO
England. were held Mt New Haven,
Conn. Or. Timothy Dwight delivered
the funeral address. The college choir
sang two hymns: Lead. Kindly
Light and Abide With Me-" The
body was taken to Burlington. VT, foi
interment.
Mrs. Mary Foote Beecher Perkins
died, on the 14th. at the home of her
son. Chas. +. Perkins, at Hartford,
Conn. aged "a years and nine months.
On the same day her brother. Rev.
Thomas *. Beechcr. the elder and last
surviving brother Of Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher. died at his home in Elmira
~. u, aged 81 years.
Prof. Chas. Young. of Princeton, y.
j., that preparations are
now being made by him TO observe the
total eclipse of the sun which will
take place on May .. The work VIII
be mainly spectroscopic, including
particularly a determination. both
visual and photographic. Of the posi-
fion of the corona line.
The attitude of the British govern
ment on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is
that. having agreed TO all of Secrc-
tary Hays requests. without asking
for a guild pro quo, it can do nothing
more. nor express any opinion until
new requests are made through tie
same channel. As nothing of the kind
has peer done. no notice could be
taken Of the senatorial action
Under date of Bioemfon:ein. March
IL. Lord Roberts telegraphs TO the
British war office: by the help of
God and by the bravery Of her majes-
tvs soldiers. the troops under my com
mand have taken possession of Bloom
fontein. The British flag now flies
over the presidency, evacuated last
evening by Mr.. Steyn. late president
of the Orange Free State"
At n largely-attended meeting OF
representatives of the shipping and
wharf companies OF Hamburg. on the
18th. a resolution was adopted to send
a protest 10 the imperial chancellor,
frince Hohenlohe. against the enact
ment of the pending meat inspection
bill. on the ground that the measure
would inevitably lead 10 a disturbance
of trade relations with friendly
states
The Sheldon edition of The Topeka
Capital began its N weeks illustra-
tion Of what it's editor believes Jesus
would do as publisher Of a modern
metropolitan newspaper on the 18th.
Whatever may prove to be the result
I'm other particulars. there is no ques-
tion OF Its being a very profitable
venture from a money-making stand
point, the support extended to il from
Christians and wcll-wishcrs all over
the world being phenomenal.
The democrats in kentucky have