The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-05-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Manila & Dagupan Railroad GO
has presented a claim TO the United
States authorities at Manila for -
800. 0co for damages sustained during
the in~surrection
The Pretoria correspondent OF the
London Daily Mail says that Gen
Louis Botha has asked Gen. DeWct
TO meet him to discuss the situation.
A Washington dispatch says that
Aguilaldo is likely TO come 10 the
United States next fall and spend the
winter at the national capital.
Ernest DuIton, colored, who plead
ed guilty &c administering poison 10
VIM. Elgood. his father-in-law. with
murdcrous intent, was sentenced, at
Wilmington, Del. on the 25th, TO re-
ceive GO lashes. TO stand one hour in
the pillory. be imprisoned four years
and pay a fire of 1000.
Switzerland has awarded n con-
tract to Herr Krupp for the equip
! ping of the entire Swiss field artillery
with krupp guns.
The anniversary of the birth OF
Queen Victoria was observed at
Kingston. Jamaica, on the 2ith. as
a public holiday. Special Victorian
services were attended by large
crowds.
\ statement by the internal rev.
enue bureau shows that the total re-
ceipts under the war venue act up
10 April 80. 1901. were $500. 13-,ss4. of
which sos. 702. 142 came from docu-
mentary stamps; S9l,36i.1 IFS from
beer. and s+5, 26i.7 ia from tobacco.
Moses +. Hale. for eight years city
treasurer of Colorado Springs, Col,
and Charles r. Smith, formerly city
clerk. are under arrest, as principal
and accessory. for the alleged cmbez-
element of $4,000.
The published report that the lope
intended to abolish the apostolic del
cgation in Canda and annex it to that
in the United States is denied in a dis
patch from Rome.
The Mark Lane Express Expresses
the belief that the British wheat har-
vest can not begin until August, ow-
ing TO the backward weather.
Lewis w. Stone, a wealthy Chicago
real estate owner. was beaten and
checked into insensibility, in his barn,
on the evening of the oath, and robbed
Of ST.. The robbers evidently expect
ed 70 secure his days rent collections,
estimated at $1,000, bat he had banked
them
Five persons were killed outright
and 40 others were seriously injured,
on the 2bth. in a collision between
trolley cars moving at 40 miles per
hour. two miles from Grcenbush. y.
y. Both motorincn were among the
victims. The scene presented after
the wreck was awful TO behold. The
kinglingwcod TO which the two cars
were reduced was mixed with Dlool
and mar glcd bodies.
A great strike Of oil was made at
| Sour Lake. 90 miles northwest o.
Beaumont. Tex. on the Goth. a well
was struck in the rear of the Sour
Lake hotel. and az once became 4
gusher. flowing 1900 barrels a day.
This rev strike so far from the Beau
mont field has caused renewed excite
mcnt all Over Texas, and a rush 10
the new district commenced immedi.
atcly.
4 commission from the state OF
Wisconsin arrived at San Francisco,
on the Goth, with a $4,000 silver ban.
quct service to be presented 10 the
battleship Wisconsin by the state
whose name she bears. In addition
TO the silver service there was also 4
bronzc badger four feet high cast
from a Spanish cannon captured dur
ing the eccnt war.
Up no the Goth 30 bodies. some II
them terribly mutilated. had been re-
covered frcm the Universal colliery in
Senrhcnydd. in the Rhonda valley. in
Wales, where the recent explosion oc-
Cured. The grucsomc worked pro.
ceeded very slowly. and many painful
scenes we're witnessed at the pits
mouth.
A Sunday-school class OF over five
thousand people VAS a spectacle pre-
"a ff'fiA&ih tAo WIZ
ference ia Lincoln. Neb., on the 2Gth.
The meeting was an inspiring one.
The international Sunday-school les
son of the Dunkard quartcrlies was
used.
Chief Examiner a. X. Scrvon. OF the
civil service commission, left Wash
ington, on the 2Gth, via New York, for
Honolulu. where he and Civil Service
Commissioners Rodcnbcrg. who win
join him en- route to Kansas City. will
look into the civil service i'm Hawaii.
Thomas Morris Avery. founder Of
Elgin National Watch Co.. died in Chi
cago. on the Goth. from a stroke Of
paralysis. Mr.. Avery. who had been
i'll for the last two years. was born
70 years ago in Madison county, New
York.