The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-04-05
NEWS In BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Agents of the company engaged IN
constructing the railroad from Quay
aauil TO Quito. Ecuador, are in Porto
Rico recruiting for laborers.
Prior 10 opening Of the Austrian
rcichsrath. on the 21th. TWO army Off
GERS approached deputy named klo-
fac and demanded explanations regard
ing recent remarks made by him con-
sidered insulting 10 the army. klo-
fac referred the officers 10 some OF his
friends. who subsequently declined 10
afford them any satisfaction.
The listing committee of the New
York stock exchange. on the 9th. adj
mitted to the unlisted department,
transactions in the new United States
Steel Corporation stocks which will
be traded in as ''when issued"
In the United States circuit court
at Boston. on the ..th. l.. {. Tyler
was sentenced 10 five years in Jail for
abstracting funds OF the Safety Fund
national bank of Fitchburg, of which
he was the teller.
Mrs. l.. j. Burr. of Anderson, Ind,
president OF the Indiana department
of the Woman's Relief corps. will
shortly announce her candidacy for
national president.
1t was announced. on the 21th. that
the Rogers Locomotive works, situat-
ed at Patersons y. j.. had been sold by
the receivers to New York syndicate
of capitalists.
The Argentine government has &c.
cepted in principle the proposal of
European bankers for the unification
of all the public Indebtedness of Ar
gentina.
An incendiary fire at Attleboro,
Mass, on the eth. destroyed property
of the value OF $4,000 to 100000. Sew
cral factories were among the estab-
lishmcnts burned out.
Tie American Ice Co. on the 2.th,
filed papers at Trenton.N y. j.. reducing
its authorized capital stock from
s60.Oo0.000 10 S4o.00O.000.
The board of governors of the New
York stock exchange wiz suspend
business on Good Friday and on the
Saturday following.
At Kansas City. Mo-. on the 2sth
VIM. DeardrufI. aged 20 years. pleaded
guilty 10 stealing leo worth of iia-
monds frcm his employers. Edwards
a Sloane. wholesale jewelers.. aud was
sentenced 10 two years in the peni
Tertiary. Dcardruff's father. viii
tears streaming down his cheeks
pleaded for his son. The elder Dear
druff is a Kansas City (Kas.) jeweler
and the boy had previously borne :
good reputation.
George w. Thatcher. claim agent
was taken into custody by tho polio,
at Dayton. o.. on the 2sth, on IL,
charge of forgery. u is charged tina
he forged note amounting TO Si2. 1ni
with the name of the late T.. p. Mast
a millionaire ,nanufac :urer OF Spring
field, q.
The physicians of James Hackctt
have decreed that he must retire fror
the stage for a month.
The Pixies Peak cog road opened
on the 2sth. for the season. There wa
great deal of snow on the mountain
but the track was comparativel,
clear. Daily trains are run to tn
summit.
a dispatch from Salonica announce
| that nine men were scalded 10 death
on the 2stn. nv the bursting of {;
steam pipe on the Turkish torpedo
boat Shebab.
Theodore Wallert, who murdered
his wife and four of her children
was hanged at the county jail a
Henderson. Mimi, early on the morn
| ing Of the goth. The murderer dis
played no nervousness. and durin
the last few hours Of his life h
laughed and joked with his relatives
Thomas Nichols. of Danville, Ky
dropped dead of heart disease. Mich
OILS was in Louisville. KY. last white
and attracted considerable attention
as IL was developed. on examination
that his heart was located on hi
right side.
The president assured callers VIII
spoke to him regarding the dispose
of Aguinaldo, that he would be go,
erned largely by the advice OF Judg
Taft, chairman of the Philippine con
mission.
The senatorial deadlock in Nebra'
ka was broken, on the 2sth. by TIL
withdrawal of the republican cand
dates, whereupon the caucus place
in nomination Joseph ii. Willard. G
Omaha, for the short term, and tn
nominations We're promptly rattle
in the joint session of the Legislature
The Kentucky court of appeals, 0
the 2sth, granted new trials TO Gale
Powers and James Howard, unde
sentence as having been connecte
with the Goebel assassination. Til
reversal in the Howard case was b
the whole court. In the Powers cas-
Judges Hobson. Paynter and Whit,
democrats, dissented.
A patrol of the colonial defens
force has been captured in the Mic
land district of Cape Colony. by tn
trcacherous use Of the white fla,
The British mistook the Beers for
portion of their own column. Tn