The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-01-04

The estate of the late Roger VOL
colt. of Massachusetts. according ia
the asserors' books of Boston and
Milton. represents about $4,000. The
real value would he considerably in
excess Of that amount.
The brother of Andree. the missing
areonaut. says a dispatch from Copen-
hagen, despairing of his return from
the arctic regions. has finally opened
his will.
In pursuance of its plan TO re-equip
its road. the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Co. has let contracts for new
ears. etc. which. in the aggregate,
amount to over So. 100000.
The independent glass combine, re-
Gently organized. will. on the LIST, adj
vance the price on all window glass
Is per cent.
The Old Town bank, of Baltimore,
Nd. was placed in the hands of re-
of the officers of the institution. Bad
loans, made bv the cashier. without
the approval OF the directors. resulted
in heavy losses and precipitated the
trouble.
John ID. Rockefeller. Jr.. son of the
president of the Standard Oil Co.. has
subscribed Sa5c.00O for the founding
Of an institution of learning for poor
boys and girls. The school is now in
course of erection in New York city
The Russian minister of the in
terror NJ. Sipaguine. asserts that the
ear is now completely restored. be-
ing able to take lorg walks and drives
daily.
a. Ii. Pierce. the Texas cattle king,
better known as shanghai" Pierce,
died at his ranch at Pierce Junction,
in Wharton county, Tex, on the 26th,
of pneumonia, after a few days i'll
ness. He was union veteran of the
civil war.
Chairman of Sanitary Commission
A. j. Burr. AT Wichita. kas.. has is
sued orders to kill all cats and dogs
caught loose on the streets. The rea-
son for this. he claims. is that these
animals are spreading smallpox by
running into injected houses.
a real wolf. savage and hungry, is
roaming about in the vicinity of
North Seventy-second street and
Grand avenue. Chicago. and is soaring
the inhabitants of that par. of the
city.
Mrs. Mary Foreman appeared be-
fore the Dawes commission, at Vini-
ia, !. T., few days ago. and applied
rey, an aged Cherokee Indian. and
when asked why Mr.. Lowrey did not
appear i'm person for enrolment, as
signed the reason that he was III
years old.
United States Minister Conger, saws
. Pekin correspondent of the London
Morning Post, declares that no one
of the ENJOYS will recognize The en-
press dowager officially, although all
are aware that she has long exercised
the supreme power. He believes the
crisis will result in the initiation of
reforms i'm China.
Cadets testified at West Point. on
the goth, that difficult or very objec-
tionable tasks were given fourth
class men, and, when they refused to
obey the orders. were forced to fight
or leave the academy. A cadet from
Arkansas swore the social ostracism
was so unbearable that fourth class
men had TO resign.
Hog cholera has swept Bureau
county, Ill. Spectators are buying
the deceased animals and hauling the
carcasses to Dixon. Within the last
two weeks many farmers in the south
ern section of this county have lost
hogs aggregating several thousand
dollars in value.
ness are said to have just been dis
covered in the Valley Of the Pcnoles.
southwest of Oaxaca, Mexico. The
discovery was made by three Ameri-
can prospectors who recently arrived
in Mexico from Denver. Col, where
they we're ''grub-staked" BY prom
inent mining men.
Capt. Hank Half has been selected
a. sailing master of the Boston boat
to be built to defend the Americas
cup. lie has had great experience in
cup races. lie sailed the Volunteer
and Defender in 1887 and 1895 respect
lively.
The Finnish senate has voted 10000
marks annually Tor five years TO a
steamship company for the purpose IF
keeping open winter communication
between Sweden and Finland.
The American Crystal Palace Thor
oughbred Poultry and Belgian Hare
show opened in Kansas City. Mo-. on
the 27th. with about twelve hundred
specimens on exhibition.