The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-10-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.



Charles Francis Adams, president OF
the Massachusetts Historical society,
delivered the formal dedicatory adj
dress of the Wisconsin State Histori-
cal socicty's new library and museum
building at Madison, on the 18th, be-
fore large audience.
Marquis Ito has formed a new Jap
snese cabinet. Visconnt Katsoura
Taro and Admiral Yamamato retain
the portfolios of war and marine re-
spectively. The other members OF the
ministry belong to the premier's new
party.
1t was officially reported. on the
18th. that there were 100 cases OF
yellow fever in Havana.
The statistical bureau of Berlin has
been awarded grand prix at the
Paris exposition.
Mr.. j. Clancy gave notice. on the
10th. that he would move, at the next
meeting Of the corporation. that the
freedom of the city of Dublin be con-
ferred upon ex-President Kruger OF
the Transvaal republic.
The municipal council of Berlin, on
the 10Th. adopted resolution TO build
municipal street railways after the ex-
piration of the present charters.
Nearly four million dollars in gold
arrived at San Francisco, on the 10th,
from Australia, on the steamer Ala
media.
There was no material change in
Mr.. Sherman's condition, on the 18th,
EXCEPT that he showed signs of in
creasing weakness. The patient was
partially unconscious much Of the
time, rallying and Frightening at in
tervals. He has disagreeable cough,
which irritates him great deal in his
debilitated condition.
The state department, on the 18th,
received report from the consul at
Nagasaki, Japan, of the death at that
place, on September IS, of Bertrand
w. Ragsdale, vice-consul and marshal
OF the consular court at Tien Tsin,
China. He had gone from Tier Tsin
to Nagasaki in July for the benefit Of
his health.
Prof. Joseph Whitley, principal of
the Salt Lake City (Utah) school of
Law. dropped dead out of his chair in
a restaurant, on the 18th, from hem
orrhage of the brain. Re had taken .
degree at Oxford university, and, be-
fore coming to America, was clergy
man in the Church Of England.
The Ohio Society of California has
received information of a definite ma
ture to the effect that President Nc
Kinley will visit San Francisco next
April to witness the launching of tbs
battleship Ohio, which is now nearing
completion at the Union iron works in
that city.
The department Of education in the
Philippines has decided to place some
natives in United States schools 50
that they may come in contact with
American social and political usages.
The first lot of students probably will
not be sent over until next summer.
The duke of Tetuan, Marquis Villa
verd, Senior Il. Olivier, director gencr-
al of the civil register, and Senior Tor
res Campos, have been appointed
members, on the part Of Spain. of The
Hague international arbitration
board
1t is announced that the immedi-
ate danger attaching to the illness OF
King Oscar has passed, but that he
will require long rest.
Rabbi Heyman Schwarz, well.
known Jewish litterateur, died al
Houston, Tex, on the 18th, aged 76
He had an international reputation a
q writer on the Jewish religion.
A home for women students at the
Berlin university will be erected, fol.
lowing the general plan of college
dormitories in the United States.
Former Gov. w. +. Dillingham; was
elected United States senator by the
Vermont legislature, at Montpelier
on the 18th.
Hard coal prices will never be re
duced to the point where they were
before the Pennsylvania strike in the
opinion of retail coal dealers. They
say that the strike has permanent,
raised the price of coal at least 81
cents on the ton.
William Millham, OF Solomon City
Kas.. a veteran of the civil war, AMI :
furloughcd inmate of the nationa
military home at Leavenworth, kas.
was killed, on the 18th, at st. Louis
by the Kinloch special on the Wa
bash railroad.
United States Marshal Hammac'<. n
Eureka, Springs, Ark, has just com
pleted the capture of an entire han'
of counterfeiters, who have been op
Grating in that neighborhood 70
many years. Their headquarters wcr
in a cavern known as Benefits cave
four miles from Eureka Springs.
Maj. Mott II. Peterson, chief com
missary Of Cuba, died of yellow fever
at Las Animas. on the 18th. An hon
later his wife shot herself fatally
The remains were inferred the sam
day with military honors. The Gag
at FL MORO and on all the publ
buildings were half-mastcd.
The agony is over. Brooklyn
champion OF the baseball world. tn
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