The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-09-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

, shoe dealers has presented petition
against the increase of duties on
shoes proposed in the new tariff bill.
The hat makers organizations Will
send deputation to Herr Moeiler,
prussian minister of commerce,
against the proposed duty on felt
hats.
, The United States government has
: replied in sympathetic and friend
ly tone says a dispatch 10 the Lon
don Times, from Toxic. dated the
3ist, 10 Japan's remonstrance regard
ing medical inspection of Japanese in
Hawaii, promising that investigation
shall be followed by suitable meas
ures."
BY the explosion Of naphtha
launch on the Hudson river. at THE
Abbey" a mile and half below Al.
hany. y. y, on the Isl. the owner.
Wilbur Alexander and his son Wilbur.
Jr., were horribly burned. and Mrs.
Alexander and her little daughter
were killed.
The Ottoman government is said to
lie sounding Germany with view 10
inducing her TO arbitrate on the
Franco-Turkish cont roversy. 1t is not
considered likely. however. that Ger
many Will accede TO the proposal or
that France would accept arbitration
\ dispatch from Caracas asserts
/ that the memorand am. issued on the
Isl, By the Venezuelan government 10
| foreign powers in explanation OF the
Observation-Disclosures difficulty. ae-
elares that hostilities between the two
states are imminent.
Lord Kitchener reported. on the ist.
20 the British war Office that nine per-
sons were killed and j. others wound
ed n the blowing up and derailing If
the train which the Eocrs destroyed.
on the 3lst. between Waterfall and
HammaD's kraal
N. De Elowitz. advance colonization
agent for Eonmanian immigrants.
states that 1000 Roumanians are now
Ell route for Mexico. Considerable !
doubt exists as 10 the date of Their
arrival in Mexico.
Inc Nicaraguan congress. on the \
lst. approved the Merri-Sanson com. |
mercial treaty with the United States.
aud adjourned. II viii probably re.
assemble in the later part Of .Ianu. /
AIRY next.
The Paris Eclah says il is not un. |
likely that n couple Of Italian war
ships viii 20 10 Dunkirk during the
visit of the car.
A private dispatch from Colon, Co.
lombia. says many laborers are being
discharged from the coal mines and
industrial establishments there, owing
to declining business. The men dis
charged are mostly Italians and Poles.
who are returning home in troops.
The weekly decrease in the miners
wages. owing to cut-downs, amounts
to 100000 marks.
NJ. De Larcssar. French minister Of
PelSin, on the I'd. announcing that the
French had formally handed over the
Palace Of Ancestors ard the Imperial
CITY 70 the Chinese plcnipotentiaries,
and that only one French battalion
remained in the old French quarter.
Wheat that tests CO pounds TO the
bnshel, one pound heavier than the
worlds record, viii be shown by Okla
homa at the St. Louis exposition. The
Oklahoma commissioners met in
Guthrie. on the I'd. and decided 10
erect at the fair large building of
native material.
Andrew Carnegie has given 6 100
each TO Sheldon, Law. Jones and
Dick. the four miners who displayed
conspicuous bravery in the rescue of
their comrades nj the time OF the
recent Donibristle tPerthshire. Eng
land.) collicry disaster.
\ masked cyclist. on the night of
the LIST, held up the White Cliffs-HiI. ,
cania mail coach, in New South Wales. ,
wounded passenger. secured the /,
mails and opals valued at & 400. and !
escaped.
Emperor William and the foreign
military attaches, on the Cd. wit
messed a sham fight of the garde du
corps regiment, near Berlin, in lieu
OF the customary autumn parade.
Banker James NJ. Key. Of Andrews.
Ind, against whom many charges OF
forgery and fraud have been made.
pleaded guilty, on the I'd, in the Hunt
ington circuit court. n
count 'on Huelow. German chancel-
Tor, j. formulating proposals. which :
he viii soon submit TO the German n
states, for the formation of the CO. ?
lonial army. b
INC rrohhitionists OF Massachu-
setts met IN Roston, on the I'd. and :
nominated John u. Lewis. Jr.. OF
Heading, for governor. with a full
state ticket. e
George a. NicScrson. director Of the n
Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe railroad. y
n'ed at his home In Dcdham, Mass. y
On the I'd.