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

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JASPER, : INDIANA.
Mayor Moores of Omaha, Neb., or
the 10th. issued an order revoking his
previous Sunday Observance order, but
continuing in force the order enjona'
ing midnight closing.
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The Hawaiian territorial Legislature
has passed a resolution containing a
memorial to President Mckinley ask
ing him 10 remove Gov. Dole. lie j.
charged with o~bstructing legislation.
The ella river. on the Sacaton reser-
walton, in Arizona. has gone dry, and
no grain will bc harvested by the In
dians. Great restitution Will cnsuc,
and government aid will be required
TO relieve the situation.
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Former Judge John j. Hayden. of
Indiana, died in Washington, on the
9th, aged 81 years. Judge Hayden
was active in early republican poll
tics. but had been in the government
service AZ Washington for some years
lie was said TO be the Oldest living
graduate OF Harvard.
Gen. Ffizhugh Lee and his family,
including his son. Lieut.. George r.
Lee, left Omaha. Neb.. on the 9th, 10
return TO their old Virginia home.
where They have scarcely lived for -
wears. il being that long ago that
Gen. Lee became governor of Virginia
and moved to Richmond.
Jerome Fedeli. Italian consul in
Kansas City. Mo-. is quoted as saying
that the labor troubles in lola, kas.,
that resulted, on the night Of the sth,
in several Italians being driven from
that ~ after having been assault
ed by American workmen, will be
made an international affair.
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Miss Mary LORNA Cort. who spent
Il years iii Siam as n teacher and
missionary. died at the home of her
father. Simon Cort. in Denver, Col, on
the Sth, aged 81 years. She was the
author Of several publications on
Siam. the most important of which
was The Heart of Farther India
Thomas j. Shelton, OF Denver. Col.
publisher Of The Christian, who claims
close kirsbip to Jacob and Moses, and
the power to cure disease by sending
Vibrations to any distance. on the
eth. pleaded ruilty to the improper
nse OF the mails and was fined S25 by
Judge Ilallett III the United States
court.
Orders have been received at the ~
to Is factories of the National Starch
Go. to get ready 70 close down until
the corn market becomes settled
again. III price Of starch. it is said.
has not kept PAGES with the price of
corn. and there is no profit ia buying
corn at the present price to make into
starch.
According TO the returns of this
years census, the total population of
England and Wales is 32.525.Tl6. This
is IN increase over the population OF
1891 of 3.523, 19i, or, in other words,
an incres Sc of 1915 per cent. in the
last ten years. The increase for the
decade between ISL and 1891 was
ll.Gj per cent.
a dispatch from Madrid says disor-
ders were renewed at Barcelona, on
the sth, and were vigorously reprcssei
by troops and genlarmes. The SpaE.
ish government attributes the troub-
le 70 foreign and Spanish anarchists
who have returned from exile and
who are cooperating with the ex-
IRENE socialists.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, of Boston,
made an argument before the Indus
trial commission, in Washington, on
the 10th. tor what he called "Freer
trade" lie said that not more than
Give per cent. of the people Of the
country were benefited by a protect
i've tariff. while the other 95 per cent.
OF them pay the BILL"
All the lumber camps in the north
ern part OF the state of Wisconsin will
probably be burned down this summer
by order OF the state board Of health.
During the past W winters many
camps have been the breeding places
of small OK, and il is feared that the
disease will develop in more deadly
form next winter unless heroic meas
ures are taken for it's suppression.
A director of the American Walthan
Watch Co. said on the 9th: "The of
ficers Of the American Waltham Watch
20. have informed the promoters oi
the proposed watch trust that that
company will not become n party &c
any consolidation ofwatch companies
Other companies have declined 10 &c
into any trust movement, so the SIS,
100000 combination has been aban
doned."
Sir Alfred Miner, the British com
missioner. addressing o mass-meetinl
at Cape Tow n. on the 9TH. said thcr,
was absolutely no reason for the anx
iety felt in some quarters lest an,
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