The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-12-20


In the senate. ON the i2th. Mr.. Clapl
-(Ninn.) offercua resolution providing
for tho consideration OF the Hay
pamcefote treaty in open session
1t went over until the next legislative
day.
Hon. Arthur RailScs, at present sec-
retary Of the British legation at Brus-
sels, has been appointed first secre-
rary of the British embassy AT Wash
5nrton. TO succeed Mr.. Gerard Lowth.
er, the new British minister to Chlls.
The post office department was no.
tined. ON the 10th, of the arrest al
Sallisaw. L. r.. of John Mankind. ST.,
John Mankind. Jr., and Lee ana
Joshua Mankind, charged with the
robbery of the post Office at Paw
Paw, i. I.
Enrineer-in Chief Melville has in
vestigated the published reports that
the machinery of the battleship IL
Iinois. now in dock at New Orleans,
has been found defective. and as a
result il is declared that the Illinois
machinery is all right.
The twenty-first annual meeting OF
the National Civil Service Reform
league began its sessions in Boston
on the 18TH The annual report of .he
council said the pas year had peen
one OF encouragement for the friends
of civil service reform.
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The arrest of eight prominent cat.
flemen has been made by order of the
Oklahoma Live Stock Sanitary com.
mittee. on the charge that they az
tempted to drive diseased cattla
across the territorial and federal
quarantine lines
The democratic leaders of the sen
ate have notified the republicans that
the minority does not feel called upon
10 provide committee places for Sen
ators McLaurin and Wellington 1t
is understood that the republican
members If the committee will assign
those members to committee places.
Gov. Thomas Ferguson OF Oklaho-
ma, on the 10th. announced that he
will be out of politics SO long as he
IS governor and that he will not par
ticipate in the division of the terri
torial patronage. He prefers. he says
to give all his time TO the admins
tration of his Office.
Mrs. Lola Ida Henri Bonine
charged with the murder of Census
Clerk James Seymour Ayres, Jr.. III
the Kenmore hotel, Washington, Oh
the night Of May 10 last. was de-
clared not guilty by the jury, on the
18th. after a trial. in Washington
lasting nearly four weeks
Gertrude Simpson. - years OF age,
who shot and killed her her. DIR. \.
v. Simpson. coroner Of Mineral couD.
Hty. Colorado, on November Is was ac-
quilted. on the 18th. after her trial
on the charge Of murder. The girls
defense was that her father had
abused her and threatened to kill
her.
The nineteenth annual convention
Of the American Forestry association
began in Washington on the 10Th.
Secretary Wilson male the opening
address, referring to the increase in
the movement for forestry prcserva-
ton. Dr. Il. +. Fernow. of the New
York Stute College of Forestry, pre-
sided
Dr. Fernando SANCHEZ. Nicaraguan
minister Of foreign affairs. and VIM.
l.. Merry. United States minister TO
Nicara qua. signed a treaty. on the 9th,
by which Nicaragua agrees TO lease
n section of Nicaraguan territory six
miles wide. which includes the route
of the Nicaraguan canal. to the Unit
ed States pcrpetually.
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A conference Of the senators ana
representative interested in legisla-
ton for the irrigation Of aria lands.
has determined TO make the Hans
brough Newlands hill the basis OF
action, and this measure is now per.
fccted for united support. 1t pro-
vides that the proceeds Of the sales
Of public lands shall be set aside as
fund for arid lands reclamation and
Irrigation.
The preliminary census report on
the manufacturing industries of San
Francisco show total capital in.
vested in the industry Of $s01O3 ,361