The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-02-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

GRAFTON of the naval appropriation
bill. All the committee amendments
were adopted. but when the measure
was about to be placed on its passage,
a discussion OF the armor plate ques-
ton was precipitated by Mr.. Butler.
and to enable some others To speak
upon the subject. the bill went over.
Eulogies upon the late Representative
Alfred {. Harrner. of Pennsylvania,
concluded the session......ln the house.
consideration of the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill occupied
the session until two o'clock. when it
was laid aside. and the remainder OF
the session was devoted to eulogies of
the late Representatives DAILY, of New
Jersey. and Wise. of Virginia.
A special cablegram from London,
on the 18th said: AT ten o'clock this
morning the gates of Aylesbury pris-
on will swing open and Mrs. Florence
Eliza beth Maybrick. the American
woman whose ease has stirred two
continents for years. will walk out a
free woman. Ii is understood that IN
brick. the king wishes 10 emphasize
the character of his regard for Amer
Ica."
A collection of autograph letters
and documents of William Penn. in
GLIDING his will, written by himself in
1905. were sold at auction in London,
on the 10th. for 355 guineas. The coll
lection was purchased by London
dealer, after b. +. Stevens. the United
States dispatch agent and purchasing
agent for American libraries. had bid
$50 guineas. The documents were the
property of Lady Sudely.
Three thousand male citizens of To-
peka, kas.. in mass meeting. on the
10th. decided that the numerous joints
of the city must close their places.
They issued an ultimatum. giving the
iointists until the 18th. at IL o'clock
noon, to quit business. If this we're
not done. warning was given that a
thousand armed men would move on
the joints and remove them by force.
Representative Albert ID. Shaw, of
WATERFOWL, y. -. formerly COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army Of
the Republic. was found dead on the
morning of the 10th. in his room at
the Riggs house, Washington City. \
summoned Immediately af-
ter the discovery of the body. pro-
nounced death 10 be the result of apo
plexy.
In the senate. on tine 18th. the naval
appropriation bill was passed early
in the session. The shipping bill was
then taken up and kept before the
senate during the remainder of the
Legislative day........In the house, Mr..
Payne, chairman of the ways and
means committee, submitted the reso-
luton of the committee to disagree
with the substitute proposed by the
revenue reduction bill, and asked for
a conference with the senate. This
precipitated lively debate on the
constitutional limitations OF the pow
err of the senate over revenue legisla-
ton initiated by the house, which
consumed most of the days session.
Representative Babcock, of Wiscon-
sin, on the 18th, introduced a bill re-
pealing a considerable part Of ''Sched-
ule Con Metals" of the tariff act Of
July "a, 1897. The proposed repeal APP
plies to bar iron, round iron, beams,
boiler iron, anchors, hoop iron. rail-
way bars, steel ingots, wire of various
kinds. nails and wheels for railway
At the weekly meeting. on the 18th,
the Presbyterian ministers Of PhilA-
delphia adopted petition to the
of the Pan-American
exposition, at Buffalo, n. r., asking
that the exhibition be closed on Sun
days. This action was taken in com
pliance with a request made by the |
American sabbath union.
Senator Foraker, from the commit |
tee on Porto Rico and Pacific islands, |
on the 18th, reported a bill providing
that Hawaiian coins may be received |
at par for all government dues. and
that when so received they shall not
De again put into circulation.
While mob was besicging the jail
1T Crested Butte, Col, on the nth.
ma threatening to lynch George Blu
re, he committed suicide by hanging
himself to a window bar in his cell
With an electric light wire.
The Bcrlincr Tageblatt publishes a
iispatch from a correspondent in ST.
,cria, who cites evidence going to
show that Russia considers that her
'ecent acts have annexed Manchuria
Ind Mongolia.
John W. Power, ex-state senator.
BROTHER Of cx-United States Senator
!. &. Power, died at Fort Benton.
Mont, on the nth. lie had been a
eading business man Of Montana for
3 yeara.