The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


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The ship Commodore 4. IA. Allen.
outward bound. with 10000 eases OF
oil for Hong Kong. tool, fire just out
side Sandy Hook, y. j.. on the 18th,
and will probably prove total loss.
The crew and their belongings were
saved.
Generous rains fell, on the 18th,
over the greater portion OF the corn
belt of the southwest, thus averting
a total failure of the corn crop and
putting new life into the pastures.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
Left Washington. on the night of the
18th. en- route 10 New brunswick for
a season of salmon fishing. lie eN-
poets 10 return about the middle OF
August.
Secretary uay left Washington, on
the 18th. for his summer home at
Newbury. \. H.. where he will re-
main until autumn unless pressing
business should require his retui I
earlier.
Adjt.-Gen. Scott reports from lla
vana that Govt Wood continues
TO improve. His temperature wac
normal on the 18th.
The total registration of homeseek-
ers at FL Reno. Fort sill and Law
ton. Okla. up TO the morning of the
18th. was 6.,3i4.
Naval Constructor Gilmore Will visit
Havana. shortly. TO make careful
dock, which has been acquired by
the government by purchase from
Spain.
a syndicate Of 81. Louis capitalists
is said TO have been formed to deyel-
op the iron ore fields OF Kentucky.
Sixty thousand acres of land in Trigg
county have already been acquired.
The trial Of Robert ;. Fosburgh, for
the alleged killing of his sister May
l.. Fosburgh. on August 20, 1900. was
fairly gotten under way at Pittsfcld,
Mass. on the 18th.
Paris. on the 18th. recorded tenn
pcrature of s.: Brussels. %; Amster-
dam. ~; Lisbon. 81. Frosty weather
prevailed in the Austrian Alps.
Mongolia is now Russia" says n
dispatch to the London Daily Express
from st. Petersburg. Urga, a Chinese
frontier station on the road to pekin.
about two hundred miles south of
kikhta. has been fortified and gar
risoned by Russian infantry and Cos
sacks.
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from sydney. y. ). w. for London,
which left Colombo. Ceylon, June -,
arrived off Gibraltar. on the 18th. with
.wo cases of bubonic plague on board.
In the course of an inquiry. con-
Quoted under oath, at johannesburg.
various non-commissioned officers and
men Of the British army confirmed
the statement that the Beers shot the
British wounded at Vlakfontein.
Francis Truth. the divine healer"
was again arrested at Denver. Col.
on the 18th, on a warrant charginghm
with assault and battery. The com
plainant is Miss Lenore Elma Ladd, a
former patient.
a Shanghai dispatch TO the London
Globe. dated July IL, confirms pre-
vious reports of the rising of the
Yang Use river. and says millions Of
acres of land are under water. and
that the city of IIankow is threat
ened.
The supreme tent Knights of the
Maccabees has decided that all old
members must be rerated on the same
plan as new members at the age at
which they joined the order.
A bulletin issued by the census Of
flee shows that there has been de-
crease of the Chinses population in
the United States since 1890 of 1865,
the number now here being $4,000.
Francis Schlatter. known as "di-
vine healer was arrested on COM
plant of the Central Union mission
authorities, at Washington. on the
18th. for creating a disturbance in the
rooms OF the mission. lie was charged
with vagrancv.
Gov. Hill Of Maine has designated
Miss Mary Preblc Anderson. Of Port
land. TO christen the new United
State battleship Maine. which is being
built by the Cramps at Philadelphia.
The heat in London, on the 18th,
exceeded all previous records Of the
season, the official record being Il.
degrees. The entire absence of any
breeze added TO the discomfort Of the
heat.
Arthur Orr, builder of the coming
presses used for many ycars in thu.
United States minis in Philadelphia.
Carson City. San Francisco and New
Orleans, died ut his summer home at
Morristown, ". u, on the 18th. aged
-.
The feature of the Epworth League
meetings at San Francisco, on the
10Th. was missionary work, the day
winding up with a great missionary
mass meeting at Mechanics pavilion,
At which addresses were made by sew
eral prominent ministers of the Unit
ed States and Canada.
w. Clayton rickersgill, British con.
sui general for the Pacific coast states
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