The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-11-30

sour, as unnOunctu on ting -AS' =
Dockery, democrat, n plurality over
Flory, republican. of 3a,i47. The total
vote was, Dockery. 550,0i9. Flory 3ls''
o02.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee arrived at New
York. on the Goth. from Cuba. After
reporting at Washington, he will go
TO Omaha and take command of the
department of the Missouri, 10 which
he has been assigned.
The official count for Nebraska,
made public on the 2lst, shows that
Mckinley's plurality in the state is
7.s22. The total vote of the state was
25l,e9s. OF these Mckinley received
lei, s35, Bryan ll4,ol3.
Commencing July next. il is Pro-
posed to include the cost of the postal
service of Porto Rico and Hawaii IN
the regular post Office appropriations,
instead of paying the same out of the
military appropriation. as at present
At the Old Bailey. London, on the
22d, +. +. Hodglinson. former Brit.
ish vice-consul at Bremerhaven, was
sentenced 10 is months penal servi-
tude for trying TO sell foreign Office
code book To an agent of foreign
power.
The gold deposits at the Seattle as
say Office from July to November Is,
this wear. amounted TO $40. So. 900. For
the entire fiscal year ended June 30
last the deposits at that office were
Sl3.630.3 26, and for the previous fiscal
year S6,504.905.
The United States cableship Burn.
side, carrying the full equipment OF
apparatus designed 10 establish tele.
graphic communication between Ma
Mia and all the Philippine archipela-
go, arrived. on the 10th, EN- route, at
Colombo, Ceylon.
The population of Missouri, as OFF,
cially announced. on the 22d. is 3.106.-
Cos. against 2.679ls4 in 1890. This is
an increase. since 1890, of 421,isl, or
1919 per cent. The population in 1850
was 2.16s,3sO. showing an increase of
3d. sol, or 23.2 per cent. from 1850 to
1890.
The Pan-German association has
taken up the cause of several hundred
Germans who were expelled from the
Transvaal by the British. 1t an
nounces that it twill force the gov
eminent to make an energetic demand
upon Great Britain for adequate dam
ages"
The population of the state of Penn.
sylvania. as officially announced by
the census bureau. is 6.302 lis. against
5,.5s,014 in 1890. This is an increase
of 1,044,101, or 19.s per cent. The
population in 1850 was 4.2s2, s91, an in
crease of s75.123. or 22.7 per cent,
from 1850 to 1890.
Mrs. Thomas Flournoy died at her
nome in Philadelphia. on the night OF
the 22d. in her one hundred and first
year. She was the wife of Gen. Flour.
noy, an officer in the war of 1912. and
her father was Maj. Roding Howell
of Philadelphia, n distinguished sol
der of the revolution.
The official vote of Ohio for secre.
tary of state is as follows: Laylin,
republican. 1880: McFadden. demo-
crat, 4ss,os0; Laylin's plurality. co.
sos. Black burn. republican. for dairy
and food commissioner, received the
lowest plurality Of the candidates on
the state ticket, 63.077.
Later reports from the cyclone
which struck northern Mississippi and
middle and western Tennessee. on the
Goth, show a long and constantly
growing list of dead and injured
one statement being GA dead and 10t
injured-with great loss in buildings
timber and other property.
United States Ambassador Choats
made representations to the Britisl
foreign Office, on the 2lst. on the sub
feet Of the Filipino junta at Hong
Kong. The foreign office said it would
Investigate the matter, and reply soor
rs the reports of the authorities a,
Hong Kong were received.
Commander Lucien Young. captain
Of the port of Havana, on the Goth
called for proposals for removing tn,
wreck OF the Maine from the bottom
Of Havana harbor. The bids will b,
opened December IS next. The con
tractor will be allowed until April
20 remove the material, and must en-
gage to use no explosives.
The Official returns from Kansas, b,
counties, made public on the Goth
show that the total vote OF the stat,
was 34o,s17. For president. McKinle,
received 1s7, ISL, and Bryan l62,077
For governor, Stanley (rep.) 119,407
Breidenthal (fusion) 16s,s30. The re
publicans will have majority Of z
on joint ballot in the next legisln
ture.
Among the callers on the president
on the 10Th, was Prof. Albert Bush