The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-11-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Co.. on the 30th. decided to place or
ders Immediately for $4,000 pressed
steel ears.
Warren &. Willets, n prominent civil
engineer, and candidate on the repub
lican ticket for county surveyor al
the approaching election, died OF
heart disease on the streets of Den
yer. Col, on the both. He was As years
of age.
Gen. Ospina. the Colombian minister
Of war, who was recently arrested or
the charge of conspiring to Gust Act
ing President Marroquin from Office
stubborniy denies that he has had any
connection with a conspiracy against
the government.
In the federal court at Tecumseh
Okla, on the 30th, G. w. Estick plead.
ed guilty TO having shipped 500 quail
from Oklahoma to Chicago. and was
fined a total of 5000.
Ii was rumored in Constantinopie,
on the 3lst, that Madame Tsilka. the
companion of Miss Stone, and her
child (born since her capture by the
brigands) are dead.
The American Sugar Refining Co.,
on the 31st, reduced refined sugar
grades Nos. / to 5. ten points, and
Nos. 6 to 16. inclusive. Is points. Ar
buckle Brothers and Howell & Sons
reduced their prices on refined grades
ten points.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Cortelyou will leave Washington, on
the 4th, to vote at home. The prcsi-
dent will vote at Oyster Bay, L. T..
and Secretary Cortelyou at Hemp
stead, L. I.
Archbishops Ireland of St. Paul and
Riordan of San Francisco paid their
respects to the president at the White
House on the 31st.
1t seems reasonably certain that
Col. Zach Mulhall, of Mulhall, Okla.
will be appointed governor of Oklaho-
ma by President Roosevelt. Col Null
hall is very popular in the territory.
The port of Liverpool. England. has
been declared infected with bubonic
plague. and France and Italy have
declared quarantine against all ves-
sells hailing from that port.
Despite the efforts of American OFF,
Gals and missionaries TO convince the
brigands holding Miss Stone captive
that ii is impossible to raise the ran
som of $4,000, the latter have thus
far declined to reduce their demand
by n single dollar.
Wlan The criminal oo,,rt ~ O,nat.,
Neh., convened, on the 31st, it was dis
covered that ton of silver bullion.
brought into court as an exhibit in 4
junk-stealing case, had mysteriously
disappeared. The janitor said four
men, with a dray, carted it away.
The war department has decided to
send to Manila the Eleventh cavalry,
including the four troops now at JEFF
ferson Barracks, st. Louis, and he
Twcnty-eighth infantry, now in the
states Of Idaho and Washington.
Ellis II. Roberts, treasurer of the
United States. in his report of the
transaction Of his Office during the
last fiscal year, says that the treasury
was never stronger than at the close
Of that period.
Earl Russell and Mollie Somervil.e
we're remarked in London, on the 3ist.
the earl having served his three
months sentence for bigamy and his
first wife having secured an absolute
divorce. thus leaving the way clear.
Gen. Masso has issued manifesto
to the country. saying that the un-
avoidable duties of patriotism oblige
him to present himself as candidate
for the presidency Of the Cslban re-
public.
The federal grand jury h, Jackson,
Tenn, has returned an indictment
against Census Enumeration james l..
Gooch, containing 35s counts. each
count charging the putting of fcti-
tious name on the census returns of
McNairy county.
The jury, at Helena, Ark. in the
case of Frank Cannon and William
Kelly. tried for the murder OF Isaac
Lane and his wife, last summer, re-
turned a verdict OF murder in the
first degree, on the 31st, after being
out just four minutes.
The monthly circulation statement
issued on the LIST, by the comptroller
Of the currency showed that at The
close Of business October 81, 1901. the
total circulation of national bank
notes was s359,911 $50. an Increase for
the year of s2s,21s,27o, and for the
month of $1.0s1,135.
The monthly coinage statement, is.
sued on the LIST, of the coinage cx-
ecutcd at the minis of the United
States. shows that for the month OF
October, 1901, the total coinage was
STRESSES, as follows: Gold, s5,750.000:
silver, s2,791. ass; miner coins. $751;
$50.
IL was announced at the New York
subtreasury, at the close Of business
ON the LIST, that the total bond pur-
chases by the government for the first
day amounted TO si,212. ITO, par value,
and with premiums, si,5s6,ss7 50.