The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-10-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


York on suspicion of having murdered
Count Ernesto Mendes in Buenos
Ayres in June, 1900. was discharged
from custody on the nth. Hattas
convinced the police that he was in
New York al the time the crime was
committed
Some of Richard Croker's horses
were sold at auction at Newmarket,
England, on the 18th. Harrow
brought SO guineas, and Altaloma
was sold for $50 guineas. +. Corrigan
bought Ailyar for 40 guineas. Among
the other horses was Dunlop, which.
us a three-year-old. cost 1900 guineas.
Mr.. Corrigan got him for 25 guineas.
The stewards of the National Hunt
club of London. which bears the same
relation to steeplechasing that the
Jockey club does to flat racing, has
extended the Jockey clubs sentence
passed on Lester Reiff, to all their
meetings.
The British having surprised sew
eral camps, the Beers are now in the
habit of shifting camp by night. Late
~ the British columns. after long
night marches. have arrived at their
detectives only to find the Beers
gone.
The gunboat Gen. Alava has been
placed at the disposal of Gov. Taft in
the Philippines by the navy depart
ment.
Assistant Pure Food Commissioner
Patterson, of Chicago, asserts that
horses and mules, by the thousands,
are slaughtered and sold every year
in that city. their flesh being made in
TO "corned beef" hamburger steak,
sausage and other products for cheap
restaurants and the free lunch trade.
The Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial
Appeal and the Scimitar violently crit
icise President Roosevelt for having
dined with Booker L. Washington.
the negro educator and reforner, Mt
the White House, on the evening OF
the 10th.
Mark Twain temporarily abandoned
humor at the Waldorf-Astoria, New
York. on the night of the 18th, when
he delivered a philippe against Tam
many Hall and Richard Croker, draw
ing parallel between the latter and
Warren Hastings, the tyrant governor
of British India.
President Roosevelt, in his message
to congress, viii confine himself 10
personal comment on administrative
and Legislative problems, and will not
incorporate in it abstracts OF the re-
ports of different heads of depart
ments, as has hitherto been the Gus
tom.
At the regular weekly meeting Of
the Council of Apostles, held in the
temple at Salt Lake City. on the 18th.
Joseph r. Smith was chosen as presi-
dent of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, in succession TO
the late Lorenzo Snow, with John 4.
Winder and Anthony ii. Lund as his
first and second counselors.
Miss Theophile Noonan, the beauti-
full 1s-ycar-old daughter of State
Factory Inspector Noonan, who was
Goddess of Labor. leading big dem
onstration at Nashville, Tenn, has
mysteriously disappeared from her
home, and it is feared she has been
abducted.
The battleship Maine relief fund has
been exhausted. This fund was turned
over to Capt. Sigsbee, chief intelli-
gencc officer of the navy. for disburse-
ment, and he has distributed it to de-
serving applicants.
A gorgeous Chinese fancy ball will
be given by Minister WI Ting-fang at
the Chinese legation to celebrate the
return from China of Nine WI. Three
\ Of the daintiest little maids of China
that the ministers wife could select
will make their American debut at the
ball.
Herr Maurer, editor OF the Neus-
Leben, an anarchist sheet, was
sentenced. in Berlin, on the 18th, TO
four months Imprisonment. owing ia
the publication of an article approx
ing of the assassination of President
Mckinley.
Officers of the German field hospital
in China, just arrived at Wilhelms-
haven, brought with them the mead
Of the Chinaman who murdered Baron
Won Ketteler, the German minister,
and who was executed in Pekin for
the crime.
A committee has been formed in
London to give banquet TO Sir
Thomas Upton on his return from the
United States. Among the members
of the committee are, Lord Mayor
Frank Green. Lord Charles Beresford
Lord Llangattock, Sir John Monck-
ton, Sir james Thompson and T. T.
O'Connor.
The British admiralty has sent in.
struction TO Davenport to prepare for
the construction of battleship larg-
err than any now existing. Her dis
placement will be $1,000 tons, and her
length 425 feet. She will be the first
vessel Of the King Edward class.
w. X. Nelson. proprietor of the Kan.
sas City (Mo-) Star, has purchased
the Kansas City Times, and will con
tinuc its publication, both papers "a