The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-10-19

The Topeka ~prcsbytery, in session
at kansas City, kas. on the 18th,
voted i'm favor Of revision of the Con.
fession of Faith.
The Cape Colony house of assembly,
on the sth. passed To n second reading
q bill 10 raise a loan of & 10000 to
insure the immediate payment of half
the losses sustained by private per-
IONS through the val.
The steamer Strabo, with 1920 bags
of coffee, discharged her cargo at
New Orleans on the 18th. This is the
first coffee from Santos, Brazil, since
the plague broke out there eight
months ago. The plague is believed
to be stamped out.
Maj. Seldom Noyes Clarke, . widely
known newspaper man, who had been
connected with the Washington bu-
reau of the New York Tribune for %
years, died in Washington, on the
9th. of heart failure. He was an au-
thority on political and economic
questions.
Mrs. JIM. Beachanp. of Kansas City.
Has, has asked the police to assist
her in finding her husband, a Congre-
%gational clergyman. who left home
August 10. saying he was going to
Colorado or Wyoming to work among
the railroad men, and has not been
heard from since.
Mr.. Chamberlain, British secretary
of state for the colonies, speaking, on
the 9th, at Stourbridge. said: Great
Britain's foreign policy. as l sum it
up, il to remain on friendly terms
with every great country in Europe,
and on something more than friendly
terms with the United States"
1t is semi-offciall.y denied in Paris
that the French government has beer
approached on the subject of the sug'
gested Decentralization of Former pres
idcnt Kruger. at Marseilles, whence
he could O France to The Hague
On the contrary, it is added, Mr.. kru'
ger is expected to land directly in
Holland.
A telegram from Gen. Su, reports
that a serious rebellion has broker
out in the southwestern part OF
Kwaug 81 province, IN China; that his
10000 troops are inadequate, and that
he needs at least 100000 TO cope with
the danger. which IS directed against
the manchus and thcatens TO become
worse than the Tai Ping rebellion.
Gen. Greedy received a c~ablegram
on the 10th, saying that the sigma
corps line from Tien Tsin to Pekin
along the Pei Ho, had been completed
Within a short time it was expected
that the signal corps line would b'
completed from Tien Tsin to Taku
making a through connection over thu
United States military line from Pc
kin to Taku.
Admiral Remey, on the 18th, cablet
thc navy department of his departure
from Chinese waters. He goes on hi
1agship, the Brooklyn, from Taku Il
Che Foo, thence to Nagasaki, japan
Although his dispatch does not an
nounce his movement from that point
Il Is the understanding at the nav.
department that he will next go I,
Cavite, p. 1.
According to reports fromSt Pierre
~ fishing vessels that were operating
on the Grand Banks during the gal,
Of September ~, are still missing
with crews aggregating over two
hundred men,. A number of other yes
sells arriving at st. Johns. N. F., re
port a loss of one to seven men each
The fatality list probably exceeds
three hundred.
A disastrous freight wreck near tn
East Bound Brook signal tower on thu
Central Railroad of New Jersey, OF
the night Of tho 18th. tied up all trave
on the road, except that which coul,
he sent around the wreck b. way o
the Lehigh Valley tracks. One engi
neer was cut in two, and n engin'
and many cars were demolished.
Z. X. Rawson, superintendent o
naval wal records, has made his IN
nual report to the secretary of tn
navy. showing that the entire work o
publication, which was begun abou
six years ago. will be about half com
pleted by the end of the current yea
through the publication Of tn
twelfth, thirteenth and part of tn
fourteenth volumes.
President Mitchell of the Unite'
Mine Workers issued n call, on tn
Gth for n convention Of the etrikin,