The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-11-29

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Va IA -'*N7~t''s N<%N""~tf $3.50 49, $500
other towns.
w. ID. Stearns, leader of TIE Caney
III. IT, train robbers. pleaded guilty
at Antlers. !. T.. on the goth. and was
sentenced TO life Imprisonment in the
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth
HAS.
Lieut.-Col. Henry III. Whitney. aide
de-camp 10 Gen. Miles. on the Goth
inspected Fort Russell. at Cheyenne
Wyo.. as TO its suitability for perma-
nent garrisoning for field artillery II
IS understood Col. Whitney will rec
ommend Fort Russell as an artillery
post.
The administrative council o!
the court OF arbitration AT The
Hague decided. on the Goth. that il
was incompentent TO consider the
Boer appea, for Intervention in the
war in south Africa.
The National Grange. in session al
Lewiston. Me-. on the Goth, elected
Aaron Jones. of Indiana. as national
worthy master.
There was a terrible explosion OF
artillery in the barracks at Corunna,
Spain. on the Goth, while the soldiers
were emptying cartridges. The bar
racks were burned. Three soldiers
were killed and II others seriously
injured.
\ fatal wreck occurred on the San
Ia Fe railroad one mile west of Fran
COMA. Ariz-. on the GOTH Seven train
men were killed and three passengers
and fourteen rrainmen injured.
The military government established
over the native city of Tien Tsin con-
tinues in effect. the military comman-
ders refusing to yield the collection
of taxes TO the Chinese. They also
decline to submit the question OF
their control of the native city to the
ministers of the foreign powers in
Pekin. holding that continuance of
the military government there is vital
TO the maintenance of communication
between Pekin Pekin and Taku-
The navy department. on the 2lst.
received a telegram announcing the
arrival OF the cruiser Buffalo at San
Juan. r. Il. Considerable anxiety had
been felt over the safety of this YES
sci. owing TO report that she had
been wrecked.
The Berlin Roersen Courier. on the
21st. said: M. Van Rooy. the singer
is very i'll. and has consequently can
celled all future engagements"
Germany and Russia are together
preparing a common circular note
proposing an anti-anarchist confer.
ence-
Manitoba Will have fully $4,000. 00C
bushels OF wheat for export this year
King Edward has checkmated the
thrifty British mobiles who proposed
TO line their pockets with American
and continental gold by the sale OF
their seats in Westminster abbey for
the coronation. by decreeing that, ex
cept in official capacity. none but
British subjects are to be present.
In the recent disastrous wreck o.
the Santa Fe near Needles, Ariz.. the
entire mail carried by both trains
was burned. At least 10000 letter.
mailed in Los Angeles, Cal, for the
east, were destroyed
Advices from Pagosa Springs, Col.
where a company has been drilling fol
oil for some time. announce that a
gusher has been struck at 300 feet
Ii is not known yet what the extent
of the flow is.
Harvey 5. Dale, of Chicago. will as
sist the authorities of New Jersey in
every possible way to punish his wife
Mrs. Elizabeth Dale, now under arrest
in Hoboken. charged with the murder
Of their five-year-old daughter Enne
line.
A member Of the Canadian immi
grafton department, says there vii
be a movement from the United
States Of not far short of 100. 900 per
sons to the Dominion next year. The
Dominion has gained this year IT,,
600 settlers from across the border.
The election, on the 2lst, in thu
parliamentary contest in Galway
Ireland, between Col. Arthur Lynch
who fought as a colonel in the Boel
III Anu
resulted in a victory for the former
by 1.247 TO 473-
The winter quarters of Wallace
show, at Peru. Ind. were burned
on the 21st. The fire started in The
elephant house. and spread rapidly
The animals became panic stricken
and their cries of terror mingled
with the shouts Of trainers and EN-
ployes trying to drive them out Of
danger. The animals were all safely
removed
High diplomatic opinion in Lon
don is substantially a unit on the
proposition that recent Developments
have placed the Monroe doctrine oI
the United States beyond the domain
of practical dispute.
The famous Declaration of Inde
pendence of the United States. which
ID preserved in a cabinet. in the state
department at Washington, is now
practically nothing more than a
blank sheet of parchment. the tex,
and signatures. with the exception
Of here and there . stroke, having