The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-11-08


She was accompanied by her daugh-
ter, Miss WI Su Ching.
The hat and umbrella factory al
Manila. employing 900 hands, which
recently found it necessary to close,
thus constituting the first labor prob
lem growing out of the new tariff, has
decided to remove to Hong Kong.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt, issued on the LIST, showed
that at the close of business October
81, 1901, the debt, less cash in the
treasury, amounted to si,022 ,032, 957,
q decrease from last month of $685.
l0s.
Referring to the plans of the duke
Of the Abruxzi TO visit American wa
ters, the Rome Italie says he will as
sumo command of one of the fastest
italian cruisers next January for a
voyage of IA months along the coast
u America.
A dispatch from Consta ntinople
says that 30 officers of the Turkish
navy recently mutinied OIL account of
arrears of pay, and proceeded to the
palace to make demonstration. The
sultan sent an aide-de-camp with an
lnstalment of the money due them
and the officers thereupon desisted.
washburn college at Topeka. Kas-,
has received gift of $4,000 from q
Boston man On condition that ms
name be absolutely withheld. He
specifies that the money shall be used
for building an astronomical observa-
tory. The trustees of the college
have accepted the gift and its con-
ditions.
Cable advices from Colombia, re
eived in New York city, on the Goth,
announced the discovery of a con-
spiracy against the government in
which the minister Of war. Gen. PEN
dro Mel Ospino, was implicated. Gen.
Ospino has been deposed. and inn
prisoned in the Panoptico military
Jail at Bogota-
Gen. Hughes reported. on the 3lst,
the complete surrender Of the insur-
gents i'm the island of Cebu, consist
ing of $50 men and GO officers. with
$50 rifles and eight field pieces. The
pouring OF troops into the island of
SaDar is believed TO have had a good
effect on the Cebu insurgents. who
had been wayering for some time.
The T. p. A. Worlds Fair hotel,
projected as the largest hostelry in
the world, will. if promises are kept.
soon be in course of erection on one
Of the eminences just south of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition site.
so close to the fair as to overlook the
buildings within and to look at dis
tarce like a special feature Of the ex
position.
The estimates of the expenditures
Ok the interior department during the
fiscal year beginning next July aggre-
gate Sl70.00O,00O, Of which S14e.f61,-
zoo is asked for pensions and the all
ministrative work of the pension Lu-
reau. sl.y14.270 being salaries Of the
bureau personnel and S350.l0o for the
investigations by special examiners OF
pension cases.
Mrs. Elizabeth Handbury. who was
born June ., 1893, died in London on
Thomas Sanderson, permanent under
secretary of state for foreign affairs,
and Sir Perry Sanderson, British con-
sui general at New York. Mrs. Hand
bury became notable, half century
ago. in prison reform and other phi
lanthropic matters.
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The monthly statement of govern
ment receipts and expenditures, is
sncd on the list. shows that for the
month Of October, 1901, the total re-
ceipts were A9.s3i,s52, and the ex-
penditures s4o.645,s3s. which leaves .
surplus for the month OF s9,1s6,117.
Receipts were nearly $2,OOO,000 less
than for October, 1900, and the ex-
penditurcs nearly $1,000. 900 less.
A dspa Itch from Constantinople, on.
the 30th, said: ''The negotiations for
the ransom Of Miss Ellen NJ. Stone,
the ebducted American missionary,
are progressing satisfactorily, IL is un-
ders'ood: but beyond this, those hav-
ing them in hand maintain absolute
secrecy, as they are convinced that
publicity would be detrimental to
Miss stones interests and safety"
The municipal council Of Havana
mas rejected all bids for the sewer
Ing and paving contracts, taking the
position that IL had previously ex-
pressed disapproval of the spccfca-
Cons and conditions of the bidding;
that the present bids involved grave
errors; that the municipal council
does not have at Its disposal the nee
essary funds, despite it's great efforts
TO obtain them. and that the city
can not make contracts In the prem
- until the money il provided.
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