The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-10-26
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finance, in the course of pamphiet
just issued on the financial condition
OF the municipalities of the island,
urges better business management,
pointing out that municipality
should be as carefully conducted on
|! its financial side as business cor
poration.
The state department, on the 2lst,
received copy of the Anglo-German
agreement regarding China from
Count De Quadt, the German charge
d'afYaires. who, earlier in the day. had
received it by telegraph from Count
Won Buelow, the German chancellor
at Berlin.
The Vremdenblatt and the Neue
Free Presse, of Vienna, approve the
agreement between England and Ger
many. and express themselves as con-
| fident that all the powers will adhere
to it. because any power declining to
do so would excite distrust."
Baroness Won Ketteler. the widow
of the murdered German ambassador
| to China, arrived in Detroit, Mich, on
| the 2ist, and was Immediately driven
| to the residence of her father, Henry
Il. Lcdyard president of the michigan
| Central railroad.
All the London morning papers di-
late upon the high Importance OF the
| Anglo-German agreement. The Daily
Telegraph describes it as "thc most
remarkable success scored by British
diplomacy since the Berlin treaty"
| a. d. Price, of Palestine. Tex, a
student at the Bingham (N.C.) school.
died. on the 2lst, from injuries sus-
tanned in a practice game of football
the day before. His spinal column
was broken between the shoulders.
| Mr.. Robert Buchanan. the novelist,
| had a cerebral hemorrhage in Lon
dom on the 2lst. which was followed
by paralysis of the right side and
complete loss of speech. His condi-
tion is very critical.
Adviccs received from Hayti, on the
21st. assert that the revolution in
| fighting was proceeding in the in.
terror. although the revolutionists
were weak.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood. military
governor general of Cuba, arrived in
Washington on the 21st. During the
| afternoon he called at the White
House and had a conference with the
president.
The new British minister to China,
Sir Ernest Mason Satow,. arrived at
Pekin on the 2lst.
Reliable advices from Copenhagen,
on the 22d, asserted that the sale of
the Danish Antilles to the United
States will soon be effected. The
Danish minister to the United States,
DIR. Constantine Bruin, will start for
Washington, after completing his
home congo, bearing the formal terms
of sale.
Currency shipments by the sub
treasury at New York to various
points west and southwest, from the
latter part Of August up to the Goth,
amounted to s14,726,0o0. Of this
amount Chicago got s2,750,00O; ST.
Louis, S3,300,O00: Kansas City, $780,
900, and New Orleans, ss,467 600.
Gen. Leonard Wood, governor-gen-
eral of Cuba, saw Secretary Long, on
the 22d and recommended that steps
be taken to remove the wreck of the
battleship Maine from the harbor, as
il occupies great deal of space which
could be utilized to advantage.
President Mitchell. in an interview,
on the ed, practically admitted that
the anthracite coal miners strike
would end as soon as all the OPP
orators posted notices guaranteeing
the payment of ten per cent. adj
vance in wages until April 1.
! Gen. Andrce, French minister OF
war. has almost concluded, according
! to La France Mlitaire ct Rcligieuse,
+ martial by the substitution, at least
e in time of peace, of civil magistrates
/, for military judges.
The Spanish under secretary Of the
interior, the project of Madrid and
:, the mayor of Madrid, as well as sever.
: I'll projects Of departments, have re.
7. signed MS the result of the appoint.
ment of Gen. Weyler as captain-gen'
? eral of Madrid
Hon. John sherman, FORMER repre-
sentative in the house, for long time
: a member of the senate, and twice
, holding cabinet positions, died at his
: residence in Washington city, on the
7 22d, in the scventy-eighth year Of his
, age.
Count Won Buelow. by formal let.
: tors. on the ed. appraised the bundles
- -.
, mcnt and Of his own appointment M
. imperial chancellor Of Germany and
, president Of the Prussian cabinet.
The steamship City Of Seattle ar
. rived 1T Vancouver, Il. G., on the 22d
from Skayway. with 27s passengers or
, board and case Of smallpox. She
was anchored in mid-stream, flying
: the yellow flag.