The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-11-30

COMPLIED from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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luton setting apart the third Sunday
in June 10 be observed by members
of the organization throughout the
country AS a Grange memorial day
Lord Roberts horse fell with him,
At johannesburg, on the 18th. giving
him a severe shaking up. but his in
juries were not severe enough to in
tcrfere with his performing his usual
duties.
The Berlin vossischc Zeitung points
out 1.-The danger of permitting Beers
TO trek into German southwest Arr.
ca, since they are manageable and
incapable of accepting orderly condi-
tons"
A law has just gone into operation
in Norway permitting the conditional
discharge of a convict for good be-
havior after he has served two-thirds
of his sentence.
Senator Davis condition was re-
ported. on the 21st. as showing no
material change. Temperature, 90;
pulse, 10; respiration, rs.
The telephone franchises were sold
at auction in st. Petersburg on the
Goth. The new regime begins in No
vember, 1901. The government pre-
scribed the conditions of rentals and
the franchises were given 10 the par
ties fixing the lowest subscription.
A blunder in calculating the time
the Gelderland would require between
Port Said and Marseilles resulted in
the fzzling out. on the 2lst, of the
intended demonstration to Dom Paul
on that day.
The Grand Rapids board of trade.
on the night of the 2lst. celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary Of the incor-
poration of the city by monster ban
quet at the Armory hall in that city.
Capt. McGowan has been ordered to
Key West, where he will become com
mandant of the Key West naval sta
ton, succeeding Capt. lmpie. who is
transferred TO San Francisco.
The hospital ship Relief. which was
of such valuable assistance TO the
army in China during the recent hos
tilities, left Nagasaki. on the 21st. for
Manila, her regular station.
Two old women. Violet Colley. y
years old. and her niece, Jane Cath
Colley, who lived alone, five miles
north of Charlotte. y. c.. were muir
dered. robbed and their bodies
burned. The old women were re-
ported to he wealthy. There is no
clew to the perpetrators of the deed.
Sheriff Manion. at Mount Vernon,
ILL.,. was notified. on the 21st, that
Prof Amos Harvey, with his young
sister-in-law. Sallie Gardner. with
whom. he eloped. November :. were
under arrest at Black Rock. Ark.
Upwards OF sixty persons were
killed and many scores injured dur
ing the progress of the tornado which
swept through portions of Tennessee
and Mississippi, on the evening of the
mense.
Miss Theresa Heating. highly re-
spectacle young woman, was found
murdered in vacant lot off Davis
street, near the New York Central
railroad tracks, at Rochester. n. ".
on the 21st. She had been robbed OF
her money and maltreated.
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means committee of the house of rep
resentatives that a reduction of ths
war taxes TO the amount of about
$50, 100000 will probably be made
This is q much heavier reduction tnar
was recommended by Secretary Gage
a movement is on foot among tn,
members Of the New York chamber
| f,f IN mi 4 l.s,,
committee of seventy to fight Tam
many hall and vice. The movement
has been under way for several days
and meeting will soon be held al
the chamber OF commerce rooms fol
the purpose of efrccting an o.ganiza
ton.
The duke and duchess of Manches
ter, on arriving at Tanderagee castle
Armagh, were received with great re
joicings. Bonfires blazed and illumi
nations were general. The crowd
cheered as the couple drove through
the town, and the duke thanked hi
tenants for their reception of hi
bride.
Frank Wilson, who was arreste,
with lawyer named Elmer and 9th
ers, in connection with the ''divorc'
mill" conspiracy, in New York. plead
ed guilty before Recorder Golf to fou
indictments for perjury found agains
him in connection with these cases.
Six bandits held up the Irol
Mountain cannon ball near Malvern
Ark, on the night of the 2lst, and al
most wrecked the express car in thei
attempts to open the big safe. Al
the loot they secured was the loca
. express box, containing $500, and SO
in silver. Messenger X. $. Avery, 0
ST. Louis, was badly hurt by a flynn
splinter.
A cablegram has been received b.
the family of Lieut.. 4. w. Allstaette
of the United States engineer corps
announcing that he has been liberate
by the Filipinos, and will start 70
home soon. Lieut.. Allstactter was car
tured, about three months ago, Will
building railway near Manila.