The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

with rousing meetings in the Mechan-
les pavilion. the Alhan,bra theater,
the Metropolitan temple and the First
PRESBYTERIAN church. The day had
been filled with meetings all over the
city characterized by great religious
enthusiasm.
The Yacht Nenetzia, which capsizeJ
and sank, in Long Island sound, on
the 18th. has been raised and the
bodies of the Misses Ada Elizabeth
and Annette Colhurn, who were
drowned. with their father and two
of the crew. found in the cabin. The
other bodies were, at last accounts,
still missing.
| A carriage was struck by the Mon
treal express. on the Roston < Maine
railroad. at Lebanon, y. H.. on the
morning of the 2lst, and James Good
win. of Hinsdale, Mass: William
Thurston. OF Percy \. H.; Thomas
Burns. of Winoski. VT. and Eddie Me-
tCabe. of Lebanon, were instantly
| killed.
Director General Buchanan Of the
| Pan-American exposition at Buffalo
says that under no circumstances will
he consent to become officially con-
nccted with the st. Louis Worlds fair.
Mr.. buchanan is visiting at 81. Louis,
and is enthusiastic over the prospects
for the fair III 1908
1t is freely predicted that when the
drawings COR the 1900 claims in the
| Oklahoma Indian reservations shall
have been accomplished a serious con-
dition will develop among the disap-
pointed ones, who will be largely in
the majority.
Reports from many points in the
central west. on the 2lst. indicated
that record breaking temperatures
prevailed everywhere. varying from
100 to 10 degrees. The intense heat
was productive OF much suffering.
The district cour; at Fort Scott.
Kas.. as the result OF evidence secured
by several ministers ana church mem
bers. has ordered all the saloons in
the town closed, and the order has
been obeyed.
| The Ellis Glenn mystery promises TO
be solved soon. by the production in
court at Parkersburg, W. Va. of the
real Ebert Glenn.
Secretary Root has returned to
Washington from his tour of inspec-
ton OF army posts in the middle
west
tween Adft Gen. Corbin and Gen.
| Chaffee, at Manila. numerous reforms
in military administration. in the line
| of economy. have been agreed upon.
which will be put into operation as
| rapidly as circumstances will admit.
The draying business of San Fran
cisco was brought TO practical
standstll. on the 22d. by the strike
Of nearly thousand teamsters. There
is congestion of freight on the
docks. which Is being continually add
ed TO by incoming steamers.
| Signor Crispi. the Italian statesman.
was reported. on the 22d. as in a
state Of exhaustion. al Naples. The
members of his family and some Of
his more intimate friends were sum
moned. as il was feared the end was
not far off.
a Berlin dispatch of the 22d reports
continued heat, with many violent
thunderstor1ns. Berlin had n cloud
burst. on the ed. with hail and n
whirlvnd. Great damage had been
10 crops in the valley of the Fulda by
hail.
| William Brooks. n negro. shot and
|
~ of Elkins. w. VA. while resisting
arrest on the 22d, and mob took
Brooks from the sherifr's posse and
hanged him TO a tree in the city park.
Application has been made by bust
ness men of Kansas City to have the
headquarters of the department. az
the Missouri removed from Oma ha to
Kansas City. The matter is under adj
visement ~ the war department.
The transport Mcclellan, carrying
the members Of the congressional del
cgation. who are going to examine i'm
to the general administration of af-
fairs in the Philippines. arrived at
Gibraltar on the odd.
The cruiser San Francisco. which
has been undergoing repairs AT the
Norfolk navy yard. will he placed in
commission October /. and will proba-
bly, he assigned to the South Atlantic
: squadron as flagship.
Officials Of the department of JUS
tce were in conference with Secre-
! tary of War Root. on the 22d. in re-
gard TO the preparations for the pros
.,g
lCuban postal frauds.
The treasury employees. at Wash.
ington. who place the seals and num-
bcrs on notes Of tn ,uited States. on
the 22d. reached the numler LOG. 900.
600 on the 81 silver certihc Gates, series
of 1899.