The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-05-17

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

adclphia Times. His brother, Mr..
George w. Ochs. will take the man
accmen. OF the paper.
Hon. Charles Foster. of Fostoria, o.,
ex-secretary of the treasury, has
made application in the United states
court at Toledo as a voluntary bank
rupt. His debts are set down at s.is,-
00> "a. and there are no assets.
Hawaiian emigrant agents are again
working IL. san Juan de Porto Rico.
and an expedition is probable 10y the
Goth.
Col. A. Stilla. the insurgent gov
ernor Of lnfanta province. Il. l., sur
rendered. on the sih. with ten officers.
$50 men. III rifles and ten Il
The Thirty-second infantry. T.. ;.
v. was formally mustered out of the
service at the Preside, in San Fran
cisco, on the Sth.
Italian laborers who went to lola,
Kas.. TO take the places Of striking
/ cement workers were assaulted, on
the night of the sth, by strikers and
sympathizers. and driven TO the rail
read station for deportation. Work
men from the shelters joined with
workmen from the cemen plant 10
run the Italians OUT OF town.
j. Pierpont Morgan left AiN-Les-
Bains. France. for Paris on the 9th.
The feature Of the Iowa State Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor convention at Sioux
C;.,. ~ -. o.l noe , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Of the methods Of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor by Delegate Holder.
of Des Moines, deputy state labor
commissioners. lie arraigned the or
g%anization severely for its machine"
methods.
At ST. Paul. MINI. on the 9th. the
Great Northern Railroad Co. filed
with the secretary Of state a c%ertifi-
cate Of increase Of 25.000.0o0 in us
capital. The fee paid TO the state
was sla.ac0.
Seven counts charging James Gala
han, alleged to be one of the alb
ductors Of Young Cudahy. with per-
jury on his late trial at Omaha. Neb..
were filed on the 9th.
At Dubuque. Ia. the jury in the
case II Jackson and Stovall. the al
legged Manila fIa.) express robbers.
found them not guilty. The men were
released n ON Jail.
The Indian bureau has received
word that the official u of the
vote OF the Cherokee Nation on the
I Fl.--1-- x.e4I 81. IlauaAa
commission shows a majority of 1923
votes for rejection, instead of 1885,
As at first announced.
Gov. Yates Of Illinois, on the 9th.
signed the Louisiana Purchase
Worlds fair appropriation bill, which
Rppropriates S250,00O for an Illinois
exhibit at the exposition in 1903.
There was another wild time among
the stock spectators, in New York,
on the 9th. and many who considered
themselves rich in the morning saw
their fortunes vanish before the sun
went down. Thousands of small in
~vestors, who took a flyer for luck
dropped all they put in.
Most of the Chicago brokers and
traders were caught short on North.
ern Pacific in the recent whirl, and
will have TO stand heavy losses. One
young Chicago trader. however
bought $500 shares Of Northern Pa
cific at 100 and sold il out at 700. His
profit was in the neighborhood OF
81, 400 900.
The Australian federal parliament
was opened with great ceremony. al
Melbourne, on the 9th. by the duke o.
Cornwall and York. representing
King Edward, in the presence Of al
immense and brilliant assemblage.
A decision has been rendered by III,
commissioner OF internal revenue
Mr.. Yerkes, holding that estates which
passed to heirs prior to the adoption
of the war revenue act, June Is, lsyS
were not subject TO the legacy tax.
The two Shamrocks left SouthamD
ton, on the 9th for a 60-mile spin. OF
The Needles they were caught in 4
ierce squat. Shamrock III. lost he
gaff and eaf-topsail yard. Sir Thoa
Upton had a narrow escape from ne
ng hurt by a falling block. The sail
,f the yacht Were wrecked.
President Mckinley viewed tn,
horal parade Of the Los Angeles (Cal.'
carnival on the 9th. The city was
packed to the doors. there bein,
probably 100000 people in the streets
Pasadena. Santa Monica and Other
neighboring towns in southern Cali
%.ornia were literally dcpopulated.
Count honi de Castellane is con
ined to his room. in Paris, by sick.
ness. Appendicitis is feared. and hi.
physicians are considering whether
IN operation Is necessary.
Gov. La Toilette. on the 10th. sent .
ong message to the Wisconsin scna-,
~Fctoing the Iiagemeister primary elcc
lion bill.
The cooperative store At American
Fork. Utah. was entirely destroyed
3y fire on the 10th; loss. $4,000.