The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-05-24
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


MI kllt AAllRt tAt itlA0A ~
Wash, 20 in number. struck. on the
l4th. for eight hours instead of ten,
with . l2A-per-cent. increase la
wages.
At Upper Sandusky, o.. on the 18TH
Charles Foster was sentenced to serve
ten years ia the penitentiary at hard
labor and TO pay the costs of the
trial for the murder of a farmer
named johnson. The case attracted
widespread attention as the result Of
an order issued by Judge Young pro-
hibiting the publication of testimony
Itx-Congressman ii. r. Bartine. OF
Nevada, who was associate editor OF
the Anaconda (Mont.) Standard fo,
two years. has gone to Washington 70
take editorial charge of the Washing
ton Times.
There has been n slight falling Of
in the enlistments for the regular
army since the withdrawal of that
portion OF the advertisement saying
that recruits and new regiments were
being enlisted for the Philippines.
John w. Gates and Mrs. Gates SAIL d
from New York. on the 18th. OIL the
steamship st. Louis. Before sailing
Mr.. Gate; took occasion to deny again
that he Lad been short of Northern
Pacific.
In Difference 10 the mandate of GOV.
La Toilette. the boxing contest sched-
uled TO take place at Oshkosh, Wis.
on the Light Of the 10th. between
Jack Root. OF Chicago, and kid" Car
ter. of Brooklyn. was declared off oy
Manager Moore of the Oshkosh Ath-
letic club.
pany's employees at Albany, n. u. re-
suited. on the 10th. in the fatal
wounding of three persons while many
others received minor injuries from
contact with the national guard in
the efforts of the latter to dispense
mobS.
The Cleve & Cliffs Mining Co.. of
Ashland. Wis. has purchased the Ash
land mine from the Haynes Bros, the
consideration being 81, 500, 900.
Strike riots have occurred in the
cotton mills on the Niboy side of the
Neva in Russia. Ii is reported that
many have been killed.
Louis Gallott. a United States pris-
oner in the Ohio penitentiary. was re-
leased, by pardon from President Nc
Kinley, on the 10th. Gallott was sent
up from New Orleans for embezzle-
ment.
After q day of intense anxiety. on
the 10th. during which, at one time. it
was reported that Mrs. Mckinley was
dead. a private dispatch was sent out
stating that the patients condition
was uncbanged: that while critically
i'll, she was not suffering, but was
very weak.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has been ten
dered the position of volunteer in
spector of streets and alleys in her
precinct o. the Twenty-first ward Of
Chicago, and Alderman Honore Pal
mer says Re thinks his mother will
accept.
The London Telegraph of the nth.
commenting on the serious illness of
Mr.. Mckinley, says that "the most
sincere INC most heartfelt sympathy
of the Anglo-SaNon world is with
President Mckinley. who. by the most
tragic irony of fate. is Swallowed by
the approach Of the saddest bereave-
ment 10 which life is exposed at the
very moment when he has reached
something like the apotheosis of his
career"
In the police court at Wichita. Kas.,
Miss JASMINE Without. Anna PEBBLES
and Wlnona K%ilgrove, who. in imita-
ton Of their elders, smashed the sa-
loon of Fred Wolf, were found guilt '
of the charges and fined 500 each,
the full extent of the law.
Gen. Ftzjohn Porter. who for three
years has been suffering from chronic
Diabetes. is very i'll at Morristown. n.
j.. his disease having taken such a
serious turn that il is feared he NAV
die at any time. The general is so
years Of age
Hardin W. Johnson, a farmer. neal
Mansfield, Ill, committed suicide, on
the 10th, by cutting his throat, pc
cause Of his inability to plant crops
as early as he desired.
1t is estimated that at least 10000
men from outside the state will b.
needed in Kansas 10 secure the enor
nous wheat crop. Wages will range
from $3.50 TO $3.50 n day and found
Harvest will begin about June 10.
Three men fatally wounded. hun.
dreds Of Others with broken head
and cut faces, cars running merely as
arsenals. with no patrons. and the
city under martial rule. was the sta
alton at Albany, y. ". at the close 81
the day on he 10th, with no settle
ment in sight.
Gov. Nash of Ohio was poisoned by
poison oak while participating in til,
dedication Of a big tree named IN his
honor at Santa Cruz, Cal. He was
partially blinded and is under til,
constant n Of n physician.
In the superior court at Chicago
on the 10th. Judge Baker. decide,
that il is legal for employers ~
maintain a blacklist. The ruling wa.
in the case Of Annie Condor again.;
Libby, Mcneil & Libby. Armour &
Co, and other stock yards packing
firms.