The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-03-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

President Dlaz Al the Nauonai Iai-
ace. on the cath. and congratulated
him on his complete restoration TO his
usual health. The president was in
excellent spirits and much gra'ified AT
this manifestation of good will. and
cordially thanked the members of the
embassy.
a japanese squadron. ADMIRAL
Tsushima commanding. left Nagasaki.
on the nd. for Corea. The general
opinion in Yokohama j. that the SIT
uation j. serious. Urgent instructions
have been issued by the minister of
war. Gen katsoura. 10 the command
ers of forts 10 attend 2 conference IN
Toxic to consider questions of home
defense.
The political situation in Russia is
so serious that Emperor Nicholas hello
meeting of the ministers. on the
cath. TO consider the state of pubic
affairs. Threatening letters have
been received by Lieut.-Gen. kouropt-
kline minister OF war: NJ. Nv. Monra-
vieff. minister OF justice, and il.
Sipiagnine. minister of the interior.
Twelve men assaulted in Chicago
each day for no other reason than
that they are Jews. with the average
of ten deaths a year growing out of
these assaults. were figures presented
on the cath. at an Indignation meet
ing in that city of Jewish peddlars
Lorin Blodgett. an eminent statisti-
elan and one of the foremost authori-
ties on the higher economics. died in
Philadelphia, on the cath. aged 20
years. He was born in jamestown. y.
~. and was a graduate of the Geneva.
now Hobart college.
Judge Jos. NJ Bartholomew. for zen
years jus tice of the supreme court Of
North Dakota. dropped dead on the
cath. in Bismarck. He was recog-
nized as an able lawyer and jurist and
was one of the best public speakers in
the state.
Gen. Weyler. Spanish minister of
war. is preparing extensive army re-
forms. number Of which will be car
ried out by royal decree. The food of
the soldiers will be improved and
economics will be realized in the war
budget.
4 dispatch from Manila. on the 24th
said: The attendance at The scrv-
ices OF the Evangelical church in Ma
Mia is not diminished Professionalism
is spreading rapidly in the Province
of Pampanga.
The announcement that the First
National Bank OF Niles. Mich. is short
$4,000 and that stockholders will be
asses ed 100 per cent. on their holi-
ings has greatly agi.ated the people
Of thai town. Men who were wealthy
few weeks ago will be impoverished.
Stock holders are talking Of joining
depositors who have "a movement on
foot TO take legal action against the
board of rank directors.
The city Of Birmingham, Ala. was
visited by a cyclone, on the 2jth.
which destroyed property TO the value
OF hundreds Of thousands of dollars.
killed and fatally injured a score of
persons. mostly negroes, and serious
~ injured much larger number. The
storm occurred about 10 a. m. and
by night the citizens had made ample
provision for temporary relief OF the
sufferers.
II was announced, on the 2jth. that
Prof. II. X. Gaylord. of the University
of Buffalo. who has been conducting
the New York State Pathological lab
oratory for the last two years. with
the object Of discovering the cause Of
cancer. has succeeded in his object.
lie will not make a public statement.
however. until his report has been
sent 10 Albany.
| &. J. Garrolson. poor tailor of
Muncie, Ind. departed for New York.
on the 18th. TO lay claim to the estate
tof sj.O0O.O00 left by the late Million
aire Rice. who. Garrolson says. was
his grandfather. Garrolson's mother,
who. he says. visited her father, Mr..
Rice. in New York year ago, also
died suddenly.
Thomas q. Barker. who shot Rev.
John Keller in Arlington. \. j.. several
weeks ago. wounding him so that the
sight of one eve was destroyed. was
arraigned in court in Jersey City on
the 18th. Barker pleaded no. guilty.
Ills bail was fixed ut $1,000, which was
furnished
The negotiations between the GER
man and British foreign Office. with
reference "a the payment OF damages
10 Germans expelled from the Trans
vsaI. are partly completed. The
claimants will be paid during April
the amounts ranging from 800 marks
!down.
Senator Michael Russell, OF the Thir.
tieth senatorial district Of New York,
was stricken with paralysis in the
senate lobby at Albany on the night
of the 25th. One side was affected.
land his condition was pronounced