The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

FOR the rritlnial cCnclaye OF the
Knights Templar at Louisville. Ky,
august 1880. the Central Trunk line.
New England. Southeastern. Western
northwestern and Trans-Continental
Passenger associations and the AS
sociated Railways of the Virginias and
Carolinas have made reduced rate,
two associations granting one fare
plus two dollars. the others one fare.
The excursion steamer Queen AZ
rived AT Port Townsend. Wash. on the
It'll. from the north. Her officers re-
ported Glacier bay one mass of ice.
and that no nearer than IL miles Of
Muir glacier could be reached. an ice
lam from thirty to forty feet high
leNtending clear across the bay. The
ice foes in the channel were greater
than ever known before.
The Kansas state supreme court. on
the eth, handed down a decision de-
claring the Kansas irrigation law 10
be constitutional and that tie con-
domination of land by the Pawnce
Lake and City Irrigation CO. is valid.
This will make il possible TO carry
scheme ever attempted in kansas.
There was q shortage Of cars 10
move the Kansas wheat crop before
The marketing IF that cereal had bare
/ ly gotten under way. The wheat
movement started much earlier thaa
usual this year owing 10 the fine
harvest weather. and the railways. II
i reported. are unable TO care for il.
\ number ~ japanese war ships
viii be present. in addition to the fou-
American war ships under Rcar-Ad-
:niral Rodgers. at the unyeiling. on
The 18th, at knrihama. Japan. of the
monument 10 commemorate the land
ing there of Commodore Perry, July
IA, 1853.
At Louisiana. Mo-. on the eth. Dom
I'D Nichols and Samuel TAYLOR. each
about five years old. were burned 10
death locked il an building. They
had been playing and probably set
tre 10 a can of oil. The door was
fastened and they were unable 10 es-
rape.
On the eth silveton Green. of Me-
Dowell county. West Virginia. fatally
stabbed his wife and beat out the
brains of his child with rock be-
cause the wife refused him money
with which To gamble. Green es-
capped to Kentucky.
Gov.-Gen. Wood OF Cuba who had
been suffering from a mild case Of ty-
lhoid fever. was reported. on the eth,
a. much improved
The official reports 70 the New York
bureau of vital statistics of deaths
from heat for the week ending July
show that the actual number in the
five boroughs of Greater New York
was $50. For the boroughs Of Man
haitian and the Bronx the number was
os9; for Richmond. II: for Queens. "a;
for brooklyn. 264. The records cover |
the days when the heat was most in |
tense
The United States Philippine com
mission has ordered III. Phelps Whit |
marsh. governor of Beng1let province.
70 Manila TO sumbir To an inveStira- /
fion- on account of the allegation that \
he has been using his position to his |
personal advantage in acquiring land |
and mining rights from the natives.
lie = at present charged with indis-
cretion and violation OF his instruc-
tons.
Mrs. Philip ID. Armour. Of Chicago.
through her attorney. on the 9Th. de-
clined 10 take one-half OF the estate Of
her brother. Frank Ogden. who died
recently in Cincinnati. Mr. Ogden left
an estate which. by his will. was 10 be
equally divided between his wife and
his sister, Mrs. Armour. By the lat
fers action the whole estate will 20
TO the widow.
The financial secretary of the Brit
ish war Office. Lord STANLEY. in the
house Of commons. on the Sth. in an
s"er TO question. gave the total
of Beers killed. wounded or
made prisoners, from among the ac-
i've commands, recently. as follows:
March ;. 4s2: April .. 4s4; MAY ?. $40:
June. incomplete. 1.53s
I'm the suit at Santa Re. y. NJ. 81 the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. apainst
The United Mine Workers. growing,
out Of the coal miners strike m Gal
lnp. Judge Nellie made permanent in
junction restraining the strikers from ,
with the working or the
mine by non-unon men.
Three explosions at the powder
works ~ santa Cruz. Cal. on the Ar.
wrecked the corning mill and resulted
y he killing OF w. II. Darling and
serious injury Of Joseph Maynard. en-
'ioNeS. The corning mill was COM
'leteiy demolished. Cause Of the ex-
blossoms unknown.
Howard y. Rodgers. a nephew of'the {
ate Jacob ). Rogers. OF Paterson \
~ been served with notice from the I
elatiNes 81 the deceased millionair. I
ha' The lat'er's will. bequeathing the N
'u'k OF his estate TO the Metropolitan e
museum OF arts. viii be contested. p