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

WV Vi Nai'i oAN teAhi
ing electrocution as the method
passed the Colorado house on tn
third reading. on the sth. by vote o
II to "a.
VI In view Of the many contradiction,
reports regarding Dowager Empires
Frederick. the British embassy in Der
lin announced, on the 9th, that M
change in her condition had been re
ported there.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy con
ferred. on the sth. with Signors villa
Ricotti, Rudini and Biancheri, witt
the view of forming new cabinet I,
succeed the Sarracco ministry, which
resigned on the eth.
John Dickinson, of the firm of JohI
Dickinson & Co.. Chicago commission
merchants. was expelled from his sea-
on the Chicago board of trade, on thu
5th, by the board of directors. Tn,
charge against him was cutting The
standard commission rates set by the
| board.
Mayor Reed of Kansas City, Mo-. or
the 9th, signed an ordinance regulat
ing the rates OF the Missouri & Kansas
Telephone Co. At present the annual
rate for business telephones is 500
and for residents S4s. The ordinance
reduces the rates to SIS and $50 re-
spectively.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, with three fol-
lowers, smashed the Senate" the fin
est saloon in Topeka, Kas.. on the 5th.
She was arrested, after completing her
work, and taken before the police
Judge, who, after receiving a severe
II tture upon his duty as a judge, re
tased her.
I The Berlin Vossische Zeitung ex
presses the opinion that Emperor
Williams visit to England can not be
Invested of political Importance. Not
been concluded, but many matters
must have been discussed. and prob
ably satisfactorily arranged.
Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma, when in.
| formed, on the 9TH, that the Shawnee
\Fair association had offered a purse
$4,000 for the Jeffries- Rubin prize
ght, declared: mo prize fight can
=held in Oklahoma while / am gov
ernor. Prize fighting is prohibited by
Cur laws, and the laws will be en-
forced"
DR.. Homer c. Stunz, of Mount Yer.
non, Ia, has been appointed presid-
ing elder of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the Philippine islands, and
will sail from San Francisco for Ma
Mia to take up his new official duties,
April /. He expects to take a dozen
or more missionaries with him and or
ganize Methodist Episcopal churches
In every section of the Philippines.
In consequence of q series of agra
rian riots in the fruit-producing parish
of st. Mary, Jamaica, the governor,
Sir Augustus Heming, on the eth, is
sued a proclamation warning the peo-
pie against attempting to take forci-
bic possession of any land. The
troubles have slowly been developing
. serious phase, and the authorities
are taking q firm stand in the matter.
The secretary Of the treasury, on
che 5th, wrote to Representative Taw-
uey, chairman of the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition committee, that he
had received satisfactory evidence
chat the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
tion Co. had raised the $4,000, 900 re-
quired as prerequisite to govern
ment aid Of the great st. Louis expo
sition in 1908. Later in the day the
bill was ordered favorably reported.
Representative Tawney, of Mime
sofa, chairman of the special commit
tee on the st. Louis exposition, on the
9Th. filed his report on the bill appro-
priating S5,000.000 in the aid of the
Exposition. The report strongly urges
pvorable action on the measure, both
its merits and in redemption of the
edge OF congress given at the last
Fssion. A minority report, also. while
opposing. gives many reasons why the
II should be passed.
Senator Smith, on the eth, intro
ICED bill in the Kansas senate
aking it a felony to participate in
or to purchase rope or firearms
the use of mob. The bill also
Pvides that an officer who allows
1soner to be taken from his GUS
cody by mob shall be removed from
4ffice unless he can show to the court
4 hat he was unable to keep the pris-
per without actually endangcring his
fe.
The William Kimball public school
West Superior. Wis.,, was DESTROYED
fire on the 5th. There were nine
pmen teachers and about two
inbred and fifty children in the