The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-12-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


There will be no session Of The Chi
cago board Of trade from December
:. TO December 20.
Information Of the signing OF the
agreement at Pekin was received. or
the evening of the 18th. with much
satisfaction by the president and
Secretary Hay. 1t was not surprise.
for the instructions TO Minister Con-
ger practically determined the set le-
ment.
A party of about 200 negroes left
Nashville. Tenn, on the Goth. on y
special train, en- route for Honolulu.
The negroes are going to work on
sugar plantations. Another large
batch will leave in few weeks. as
the sugar plantation owners want TO-
600 southern negro families.
Gen. Macarthur has issued a procla-
nation warning the inhabitants of the
Philippine archipelago that here
after strict compliance with the laws
Of war will he required of non-com-
batants as well as combatants. The
proclamation sets forth the principal
laws of war.
Former President Benjamin Harri-
son has received his fee for his serv-
ices in connection with the arbitration
of the boundary dispute between Brit
ish Guiana and Venezuela. In addi-
ton the Venezuelan government has
paid the American mixed claims and
the interest on the foreign debt.
The chief Of police of FL Paso. Tex.
received a letter. on the 10th. from
gang of ''grafters" in Hot Springs.
Ark, Offering s. 900 for the privilege
of doing business in FL Paso during
the midwinter carnival. and agres -ng
not TO touch any one man for more
than five dollars.
Senator j. X. Jones. according to re-
rorts in democratic circles. soon will
call a meeting OF the Democratic ma
tional committee in Washington for
The purpose Of resigning as chairman.
IL is said that Jones friends are in
favor of Mayor Taggart. Of Indian
Epulis. the Indiana committeeman. as
his successor"
Charles A. Carter. merchant ~
Mattoon. H.. was bound over. on the
10Th. on a charge Of receiving stolen
goods. Arthur Baker. d 16-year-olG
boy, testified that Garter had hired
him and several other lads to steal
articles which he would buy from
them.
O. L. Mason. Dowie elder Of Chi
k. f.rkf ~
the 10th. while delivering a lecture
at the opera house in Gainesville. q.
The speaker made bitter attack
upon the masonic and other score.
orders. and was assailed with rotten
eggs, vegetables and other missiles.
Mrs. Elisha Dashiell died in Wash
I ington. on the 10Th. at the age Of f01
years, at the residence of her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Caroline Blackiston. She
quietly passed her one hundred and
second mile stone the 10th instant
Two years ago her centennial birth.
day anniversary was celebrated with
much eclat.
The 1J-yelr-old son of Edws I'd
Cudahy, the millionaire Omaha pack.
er. who was abducted. on the evening
Of the 18th. was secretly returned "a
his home early on the morning Of the
Goth. a demand for $4,000 had been
made brit II is not known yet whether
Cudahy put up or the abductors got
scared.
Lord Lansdowne. British secretary
of state for foreign affair. has con.
cluded negotiations, according 10 the
London Daily Mail. by which RUSSIA
will, January ], give Great Britain en-
tire control of the railway from. Pc
kin TO Shan Hal Kwan.