The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-05-25
Personal AND GENERAL.

The British chancellor Of the ex
.hequer Sir Michael lIicks-Dcach
speaking at Bristol. on the 10Th, com
graduated the audience on the fact
that the cloud Of war was fairly lif:-
ing. and that there were streaks of
light portending a glorious dawn.
The Berlin Lokal Anzieger says that
the question Of the disputed territory
in the Lake Kiboo district OF the Con-
90 Free stare. which is said TO have
preciptatcd hostilities between the
Belgians and Germans there will prob
ably be submitted to arbitration.
Tolstoi's drama, The Power of
Darkness" has been forbidden per-
Torrance simultaneously by the CEN
sor in Lcipsic. Stuttgart and Carls-
ruhe. Germany.
The house committee on labor. on
the 18th, authorized Chairman Gardi-
ner to call up the eight-hour bill ami
the prison labor bill at the earliest
practicable tine.
Preliminary steps are being taken at
Hamburg to organize meteorological
service for German agriculturalists.
All railroads have agreed 10 n rate of
one fare for the round trip for the re-
publican convention at Philadelphia.
The president, on the nth. signed
the free homes act. making a law OF
measure that gives TO the settlers
in Oklahoma homcsteads valued NJ
si6.000.Oo0. Delegate Flynn has the
pen with which the bill was signed as
souvenir.
The news Of the passage Of the Ia
waiian bin making Hawaii TERRITORY
under the presidency of Sanford =.
Dole. was received IN Honolulu on May
with rejoicing. Preparations are be-
ing made for immense public celebra-
tons.
Levi Bresson. of Foster, Il. l.. be-
came the father, on the 18th. Of his
forty-frst child every one of whom
have been boys. and % Of them still
live. Brcsson is G5 years old
Philip W. Shaw.a prominent planter.
was shot and fatally wounded by Will
liam Fisher and his son. negroes, tw,
miles from Minter City. Miss. on tn /.
night Of the nth. A posse was organ
lied and both negroes caught, and talk
and shot
There Is talk in Pretoria Of Presi-
dent Kruger contemplating departur.
from the capital. There seems no
longer any doubt of the intention Of
the Transvaal 10 transfer the seat Of
government TO the Gutenberg district.
and 10 endcayor TO make final stand
there.
Eev. William Armstrong Eckcls. pas
tor Of the Presbyterian church at MID
Jleport. o., and a commissioner 10 the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church. a, st. Louis. fell dead in the
auditorium of the church on the 18th,
lust before the converting Of the as
scmbly.
Friends of Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
say that the latter has changed her
mind since her return TO Washington.
Mrs. Dewey, her friends saw. hopes
that the admiral will reconsider his de-
termination 20 enter politics.
Gov. smith Of Montana will enter
vigorous protest against the recogni.
ton of Clarl. as United states sena-
| tor. whose appointment. he claims, was
the result Of a conspiracy entered into
by Lient.-Gov. Sprigys and Clark's
| friends.
Nine hundred fresh, rosy-chceked
Irish girls took Battery Park, New
York, by storm on the 18th. Ii was a
regular Irish .iay ut the barge Office.
The Tentonic brought this big grist OF
Irish girls and women. Eleven hnn-
dred more are expected on the 2vtk