The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-04-26
NEWS in BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

WI the lfID. MIX NAiVA
signed the royal DEGREES placing Baroa
Fava, late Italian ambassador TO the
United States. on the retired list and
amounting Marquis Carbonara ia
M~alaspina his successor at Washing
ton.
News has been received at the navy
department of the death. from heart
failure, on the 18th, of Commander
Charles o. Allibone. commanding the
gunboat Wilmington, AT Cavite. lie
entered the service in July. 1868.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Pierre. $. d.. for the Universal
Wireless Telegraph CO.. with a capital
OF S2o,ooo,o 900. The incorporators arc
James y. Huston, Thomas u. Bishop
and J.. G. Smith.
Gov. Wood, in accordance with pub
lie sentiment, has committed the SEN
fences of two Cubans, Dunbar ana
Sosa. of Matanzas, from death by the
rarrote to Imprisonment for life.
A. +. {. Waddeli, for the past 20
years manager at Youngstown, D., OF
the Standard Oil CO., and who had
been in i'll health for a year., died, on
the 18th. aged g..
NJ. Emile Faquct, dramatic critic,
was installed rs a member OF the
French academy on the 18th. NJ.
Emile Oliver made the welcoming ora
ton.
Gen. John c. Gilmore. colonel in the
adiutant generals department. was
placed on the retired list, on the 18th.
by operation of law on account OF
z
Michael j. Dady, the Brooklyn con-
tractor. has been awarded a contract,
amounting to $550.oo0. to dredge Car
denas harbor in Cuba.
An investigation of the mortgage
records in Shelby county. Ill, by a
committee appointed from the board
Of supervisors has revealed the fact
that. between 1894 and 1900, mort
| cages TO the amount of 100000 have
been discovered upon which no tax
| has been paid. Settlements are being
effected.
Senator w. d. Eldredge. OF Mem
| phis. in open session of the
| senate. on the 18th. accused ex-Comn-
| troller James 4. Harris of an attempt
| 10 bride and precipitated one OF the
| most sensational scenes ever enacteh
m the halls Of q Tennessee legisid-
turv.
\ice-President Theodore Roosevelt
acted as q waiter at a dinner given TO
the newsboys at the West Side News
bows home. in New York. on the lsta'
and then made n of his character
istic speeches TO tn. boys
The sixth great oil gusher in the
beaumont (Tex.) field was Developed
on the 18th. Ii Is n fine well u fuiis
as great a producer as any ~ th'
others. II is owned by the Haywood
Oil Co, a Chicago concern.
The administration is informed
through official channels. that I
strong movement is setting in amont
Cubans TO make Tomas Estrada Pal
ma the first president OF the Cubai
republic. The suggestion is eminent
IL satisfactory to the United state,
government
DIR. Alexander Dowie, of Chicago
has retained counsel to contest in tn
higher courts Of Indiana the Woo
medical law. enacted by the last legis
lature. The Wood law strikes vigor
ously at faith ~curists and makes u
practice of Dowieism an ~infraction o
the law.
A crowded house of commons. o.
the 18th. heard Sir Michael HEX
Beach. chancellor of the exchequel
till the cost Of the war in South Afr
ca. 1t was stunning in its effect. III
anti-war members declare that ever
Boer killed las cost Great Britai
G1 900.
Lucy LITER. 100 years old, died. 0
the 18th. at Hicks store, in Harla
county, XIV. fro n stroke OF paral,
sis. Her first marriage was contrac
cd when she was 40. her third at y
and at 100 she took a leading part
one Of the Harlan county feuds.
The engagement of Miss Viyian Sa
Z toris, granddaughter Of Gen. Ulyss'
: s. Grant. to Archibald Balfour. a ba
, rister Of London. was announced
Z. Washington on the 18th. Miss Sa
ioris, who made her debut in Was
ington, three .~ears ago. Is now
LONDON.
a OF the inaugural ba
and a proposal of marriage made {
board the Congressional limited G
press eliminated, on the 18th in Il
a marriage of Miss Matilda Agan,
. New York city, to former Senator
Frank Aldrich. Of Chicago.
e Jockey Head had a narrow escaI
from being killed at Newport, Ky,
= the 10Th. He was riding C~lipsetta,
v the second race, and the horse we
down as the field made the first tur
Clipsetta was in front and the b,
: fell right in the path Of the fast flyir
n field. Six horses passed over b
&c form without leaving a mark on hin
y The officials OF the French foreil
= Office say that the French clai
against China for indemnity amour
!, 10 200. 0OJ, 900 francs.