The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

" Is pioh-nt NON II OF ~ graz uEod-A
On the creeks. which viii be the
means of very much reducing the out
Iut of gold As estimated.
Nearly hundred members of the
kentucky Press association arrived al
salt Lake City. Utah. on the eth. on a
Western. intending TO spend three
days in short excursions from that
point.
Emperor William. reciprocating a
recent courtesy of the sultan OF Mo-
rocco. has presented to Abdul FL Aziz,
for the new geological garden At Fez,
. lion. Bengal tiger. leopards. bears.
stays. Indian and japanese cranes and
parrots a.. purchased through a Ger
man dealer.
The second largest claim yet filed
with the Spanish rreaty-elaims com
mission. was presented by Francis
Seigle. an American citizen residen,
in Cuba on the sth. His claim
amounts 10 s>.2.42.-
The continued drought in Russia
has extended the area of the crop
damage. which includes the Baltic
provinces In the west Siberian and
Nolga provinces an almost total crop
failure = expected.
Light showers were general over
the eastern half of Nebraska. on the
sth. followed by drop in tempera-
rurv. The rain Will promote fall
blowing and benefit pastures.
David H. Henderson. speaker of the
United States house Of representa-
tives. left Berlin. on the night o. the
sth. for Dresden and Vienna.
A dispatch from Sterling. in the
Tyrol. announces the death. on the
sth. OF Gen. Baratieri. the former
governor OF Erythrea.
\ special dispatch from Rotterdam
says the mental condition of Mr.. Kru-
ger is arousing serious apprehension.
A specialist in nervous diseases has
been summoned by telegraph from
Berlin.
\ disastrous wind storm passed
over Portsmouth. y. H.. on the sth.
causing the death of two persons on
seavers island. and injuring half a
dozen Others.
Gov. Davis OF Arkansas expressed
his Indignation atihe preversiono of the
Wilson gambling act, which is aimed
az professional gamblers, who almost
invariably 20 scot free. by pardoning
two negroes who were convicted Of
shooting craps. in Little Rock JUS
tice mill. and fined $50 each.
The Snow Birds of Mclean conn
~. Ill. as the old settlers are affec-
tionately termed. met in annual re-
union. on the sth. at Betser park.
near Ellsworth. The attendance was
the largest in years.
Tive hundred J-awfon (OklaD bust
ness men have signed contest papers
against James L. Wood, who. they de-
clare. violated both the spirit and let
ter OF the homestead act in fling on
land running the entire length OF the
town site. thus shutting out Miss Mat
tie Beals-
President Mckinley has approved
the death sentence pronounced against
Private Phineas Foutz, Nineteenth in
fanrry. convicted by general court
martial of the murder of Genevive
Torres. n Filipino girl. BY stabbinr
her TO death with sword cane in her
home at Mandane. Cebu, November
Is. 1900.
Oscar l. Triggs. the University of
Chicago professor who COMPARED
Rockefeller with Shakespeare. and
church HYMNS a. dog
rerel, told his class in English litera-
ture. on the sth. that the poetry Of
Longfellow is trivial and unworthy of
consideration.
Mrs. Theresa Wilcox. wife OF the
Hawaiian delegate to congress. con-
sidcrx herself insulted by the captain
of the steamship Zealandia because
he refused to allow her 10 conduct a
Hula Hula dance on board the vessel
on its last trip from San Francisco TO
Honolulu
Lord Kitchener. in a dispatch from
on the sfh announced that
post OF 3 men. belonging TO Stein
Ack~r's Horse. On the Sabi river. had
been surprised and captured BY the
Beers
Chicago housewives. as a result Of
'Ae organization of the Servant Girls
nscn- arc hiring men servants now
Wherever they Gan. in preference u
laid ser-anis- Men cooks. men pan
rymen- men lauSdrymen and every
hing else except Aen maids are in |
|cmssDd
Nicaragua Is left Cor the present
Fithout single banking institution.
through . ruilng Of the supreme
curt Of that oosntry that the Ion
on Eank Of Central America. ltd,
- no legal statss in Nicaragua.
The statement of tLe treasury bal
nc.s in the general fsnd. exclusive Of |
ie 81 100000 gold reserve in the d.
sion 81 redemption. issasj on The I
b. show,'d: Available cash balance. =
.ssssi2.sii; gold. sics. 39s, 200. II