The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-12-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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gagged John fhinp Sousa and his band
TO play at the exhibition for four
weeks next October. After his Glas-
gov season, Sousa will take his band
10 London for n series of concerts, af-
ter which he will make tour of the
principal cities of Great Britain and
Ireland, returning to America about
Christmas time.
The Berlin National Zeitung devoted
its first page, on the 9th, to a care
fully-prepared editorial dealing with
the United States as a world power.
After pointing out the enormous
progress. economically and politically,
of America in The worlds affairs, the
editorial declares that in both re-
spects the United States is arrayed
against Europe.
During an almost unprecedented
gale on Lake Erie, on the 9th, the
ore barge S. ii. Foster, in tow of the
Iron Duke, plunged into an awful sea
and went d-foremost to the bot
tom, carrying with her every soul of
her crew of eight men. She saJnk in
nearly one hundred feet of water.
John McAuliffe, a well-known artist,
aged 20 years, was accidentally killed,
on the 9th. by falling from window
of his residence in New York. De-
ceased was especially we'll known in
connection with his pictures of horses.
Mrs. Mary l.. Mclean. the mother
of John X. Mclean, of the Cincinnati
Enquirer. and of Mrs. Dewey, died in
Washington, at 1880 a. N. of the 9th,
of acute heart affection, after two
days illness.
According to dispatch from
Bucharest, the Russian government
has broken off negotiations with
the Standard Oil Co. for lease of
the petroleum nelds.
c. Alfred Scharsch, head bookkeeper
of the Fourth national bank at Grand
Rapids, Mich, has been arrested,
charged with defalcations to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
A German sample room has been
formally opened at Constantinople.
The exhibits embrace an extensive
line of Germany's manufactured arti-
cles.
A fire at Borlange. near Falun,
Sweden, on the sth, rendered $50 per-
sons homeless, and caused damage to
the amount of half million kroner.
The duke and duchess of York will
visit the United States on their return
journey from Australia, via Canada.
In the senate. on the 10th. Hon.
A T. mr. in bod
by the governor Of Minnesota to sue.
c,ed the late Senator Davis, took tie
oath of Office. No business of import
ance was transacted in open session,
the senate going into secret session
on the Hay-rauncefote treaty as soon
as the routine business had been dis
posed of. In the house. the legisa-
tive. executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill was passed, after a reading
that occupied three hours and ten
minutes debate. The bill carries S2i,-
.96.30s. No other business was trans
acted.
Col. Picquardt, who was so promi-
nently identified with the Drcyfus
ease, has addressed memorial TO the
: IltHtn tidlilDtI vi dtDuiN0s Iit''Nt-
. ing against the amnesty bill. which,
he says. will include him among the
forgers and uttercrs of forgeries who
will profit by amnesty"
, Walter ID. Glenn. formerly cashier
OF the Traders Loan and building as.
sociaticn Of Chicago, who disappeared
last summer with charge of being
| Il 4.
his accounts hanging over him. was
: placed in The Cook county jail on the
, 10th, pending trial.
Gov Roosevelt of New York. on the
: 10th. appointed as delegates-at-larg,
!. to represent the state of New YORK
= at the meeting Of the National Live
4 stock association 10 be held in Sal,
4 Lake City, Utah, January Is to IS
o Isaac v. Baker, Jr., John Dwight and
Carl $. Burr. Jr.
j. The president, on the 10th, trans
Q tilted to congress extended reports
?. on the agricultural resources of Por
& 10 Rico, with special reference to thu
n establishment there of an agriculture
experiment station.
/, The Lorain (O.) Steel Co. resumed
e work, on the 10Th, Mt its blooming
+ converting, finishing and shaping
mills. with more thar three thousan,
> men employed in the entire plant.
n The statistician of the agricultural
. department reports 1c,100,o0O bales Al
J. the probable cotton production OF Ia,
United States for i90O-l90i.
= At the Presbyterian hospital in New
q York, on the 10th, Lieut.. Hobson wa,
1. reported to he greatly improved ant
> out Of all danger.
nj "Thc condition of the king d
o Sweden says a Copenhagen CORE
spondcnt, has improved lately, but i
In still serious"