The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-05-03

APT. Wilson Chase. With a dcta-h.


ment of the Tweniy-first infantry. on
The Goth. surprised and captured tine
camp of the insurGcnt Gen. Cables. At
Dagot, nine miles northeast Of Ca
,inti. in the Province of I.aguna.
Cables was at his camp at the time %
the American attacN. but managed TO
escape. Capt. Chase's force captured
his adJutant general. five others of his
stan officers. II men. 20 rifles. a large
amount of ammunition and stores and
all the papers and personal effects cf
the Filipino genera.
In the case OF James Callahan. on
trial AT Omaha, Neb., on a charge o.
Kidnapping young Eddie Cuhady. the
Jury brought in a verdict. on
the 2eth. finding the prisoner not
guilty. In place OF the usual thanks
and compliments, the judge scored
The jury in u-Dmeasured terms. ending
as follows: II do not know what mo
live aotrafed you in reaching this de-
cision. but l hope none of you will
ever appear again in this jury box"
In a fire at Houston. Tex. which de-
stroyed a livery stable and three res
licences, on the 2sth. five persons were
burned TO death and several others
were injured. The dead are Job Cop
ping. a florist. his wife and three chill
dren. a negro has been arrested on
the charge of having started the fire
to get reyeng on his employer for
having discharged him.
The London Daily Chronicle saws il
learns that DIR. Ludwig Mond has dis
covered u method Of producing illumi-
mating gas at two pence per 1000 feet.
which will effect a revolution by
~cheapcning electric power and also as
bearing upon the production of open
hearth steel
Carefully compiled statistics by the
Colorado Springs Coli Gazette show
that the gold production of the Grip
pie Greek district UP TO the close or
the April, makes 4 total of over one
hundred million dollars. Guild dust
was first discovered n that camp IN
lss9.
The department Of agriculture has
received NO information bearing on
the reports that lave been circulated
in England. charging Boer emissarics
with inoculating horses shipped from
this country TO South Africa with
CHAMBERS and other maladies.
1t is reported from Belgrade that
.he AlLanians in old Servia are com
hitting wholesale atrocities.
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
ferkes has held that express receipts
for goods and merchandise TO be
transported from the United states to
from tax under decisions of the Unit
ed States supreme court in the mat
tei Of export bills % lading.
Al a meeting of the board of over
seers of Harvard university. held in
Boston. on the 29th. the question of
granting the degree OF doctor of laws
TO President Mckinley was taken up
informally, and the sentiment ex-
pressed was unanimously in favor Of
the ster.
The American ship II. ID. Rice. OF
San Francisco. Capt VIM. which ar
river at Hioga. Japan. April IL. from
Philadelphia. was burned. on the cath.
and is a total loss. The Rice sailed
from Philadelphia on November 20.
1900. making the voyage TO Hioga in
~ days.
James Lcafherman. deputy game
warden for Wyoming. has found a wa
terfall 300 feet high in Yellowstone
National park. which he named Lost
Falls" The falls are in Box CANYON.
" and a half miles northwest OF
Helrs Half Acre.
After announcing various opinions
and hearing a number Of motions. on
the goth. the United States supreme
court took IN adjournment till the
18th. The meeting then will be only
for the announcement of opinions.
The notorious Jack the Ripper !
who has assaulted and mutilafed IL
women. has been caught at Ludwigs- |
hafen. Baden. red-banded. by two de-
tsctises aftired as womcn
Inc st'aiHer vpnlr. bearing the |
duke and duchess of Cornwall and
York. was sighted. on the Goth. of
Lecuwin. the most southwestern |
point of Australia.
The board of directors Of the Pan
exposition at Buffalo. y. ".
have re~considercd their action In re-
duoing the price OF admission to ?,
on Sundays.
state Senator Lemuel r. BoIfcr.
politician. died at his home
Logan. Ia, on the Goth, after
brief illness.
The British have enlisted a number
Df hines at Ticn Tsin for the Wei
Hai-Wci regiment.
Up to March 81. 1901. the war reve-
act Of June -. 1895, had produced
'2s?, 5Os,t4s