The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-10-11
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ON the 9th. She was born in 1892.
Lieut.-Col. John Il. McGinnes, ord
nance department, has been ordere'
to San Francisco for duty as chic
ordnance officer of the department
Of California.
The race between Shamrock III. ant
Columbia, on the LIST. was not finished
having been called off owing to inabil
ity To sail the course within the TIM
limit. Shamrock was leading.
RearAdmiral Evans and Capt. Sigs
oee were the principal witnesses be
fore the Schley court OF inquiry. OF
the 1st. the former insisting thai
Commodore Schley furnished no plar
IF battle to his officers.
The Russian prince. yakachidze
who. with his wife. was arrested IL
Rome as an anarchist, having entered
Italy in defiance of the anti-anarch;sl
regula tions. was sentenced. on the
LIST, to 20 days Imprisonment. The
prince protested that he was not an
anarchist, though he was national.
list; adding that he was legitimate
pretender to the Russian crown.
The Greater New York democracy
Of which John c. Sheehan is the lead
er, held it's city convention, on the
LIST, and nominated the fusion tickle;
headed by Seth Low for mayor.
The secretary of agriculture has ap-
pointed DIR. +. II. King. now professor
of agricultural physiology in the Uni.
versity of Wisconsin, to be chief OF
division in the bureau of soils, de-
partment of agriculture.
Herr Krupp. the gunmaker, has pur.
chased q paIatial residence in Berlin.
The Cuban constitutional conven-
ton, on the LIST, addressed letter TO
Gov.-Gen. Wood. informing him that
the changes which he suggested
should be made in the election law
had been made. and that the conven-
ton. deeming its work completed, was
ready to dissolve.
The resignation of J. NJ. Herbert.
general manager of the Southern Pa
cific railroad, was announced on the
I'd. 1t is stated that Mr.. Herbert
will go east as manager of one of the
Gould lines.
The triennial convention of the
Episcopal Church of America was
formally organized at San Francisco,
on the I'd, by the election Of Bishop
Fowler, of Kentucky, as president, and
Rev. ;. Hart, of Kansas City, secre-
tary of the house of bishops. and Dr.
John 5. Lindsay, of Massachusetts,
chairman, and Rev. Charles Hutchins.
secretary of the house of deputies.
The commercial treaty between
Guatemala and Germany has been de-
nounced by Guatemala, and will cease
to be in effect June %, 1908.
Prince Henry Of Prussia started for
Russia, on the I'd, to visit Emperor
Nicholas, having received leave of alb
sence for As days.
Mr.. George u. Cortelyou, secretary
to the president, returned to Wash
ington, on the I'd. from Canton. O.,
and resumed his duties at the White
House.
The steamer Cottage City arrived
at Seattle, Wash, on the Sd, from
Lynn Canal with over two hundred
On the trip downward
Purser Bree was custodian of over
five hundred thousand dollars worth
Of gold dust belonging to passengers
on board.
Gen. George w. Getty, one of the
heroes of the Mexican war and of the
war Of the rebellion. died, on the Sd,
at the family residence Mt Forest
Glen, Md. He was buried with full
honors at Arlington, Va, on
The 9Th.
John Campbell, chief justice OF Col
orado, passed through Berlin, on the
Sd, from Gastcin, Austria, on his way
10 London.
1T is estimated" says the London
Daily Mails correspondent, that "a
we're killed and hundreds injured dur
ng the Hungarian election riots. In
Tarious places voters were coerced oy
threats of death or torture. At Udur-
lssa, prominent politician, together
With his wife and three sons, was
by his fanatical opponcnts."
After an existence OF two years in
&c foes of the Arctic regions, DR..
tobert Stein, Of the United States
BIOLOGICAL survey, and Samuel Warm
birth. OF Boston, have arrived at sgd
'ey, Move Scotia, on tho Winds !, !,
r route home,
Rear-Admiral Mo. timer I. johnson
ook command Of Charlestown navy
ard, on TIE I'd. in place of Admiral
I'm y. Sampson, relieved on account
y ni-hcalth.
passenger train on the Montans
'entrai was wrecked about thirty
niles west of Great Falls, Mont, on
he 9TH. The engine, baggage ear aud
day coach left the track. Engineer
smith and Bnggageman Morris ws..c
probably fatally injured. i