The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-06-28

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The secretary Of the treasury, on
The Goth. bought slls.OoJ four-per-cent
short-;erm bonds at Sli3.3s5s. and So
oo9 short hves at SlOs.03.
The 18th being the anniversary Oh
the beginning OF the siege OF nen
Tsin. China. the foreign ladies' OF thet
city decorated the graves of the sol
diers OF all nationalities.
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The steamship Hawaiian, when ar
rived at San Francisco. on the isth'
from Honolulu. brought the largest
cargo of sugar ever sent out OF 'he
Hawaiian islands. Ii consisted OF %
COO tons, valued at s.50,OOO-
The Bombay correspondent OF Inc
London Daily Express tha'
the monsoon rams have not yet ex
tended beyond the Bombay presiden-
cv. and that unless they become D
general the outlook is very gloomy.
A, The meeting Of the Brown uni
versity corporation in annual session
nj Providence, Il. L.. on the goth, for
mer President T.. Benjamin Andrews
now OF Nebraska state university. was
elected TO fill q vacancy in
Of trustees
The Copenhagen correspondent OF
The London Daily Mail telegraphcdl
on the 2lst, that Mr.. L. ;. Swensor,
the American minister. had stared
for Washington. supposedly in con-
nec,ion with the sale of the Danish
West Indies.
The University Of London is estab
fishing a new department for the
practical study OF modern Chinese
institutions, with a view TO equipping
students for commercial work and OF
:u~rthering Great Britains oriental
trade interests
The first gold shipments OF the sea
son are now on the way srom the
klondike. Sums a~ggregating $780,
600 were started from Dawson. on the
l4th. on the river Canadian
and ~Zealandia, according 10 tele-
graphic advices received in >kaguay.
All the flags in the city of Detroit
Mich. foated at half-mast. on he
18th. out of respect TO the memory OF
ex-Gov. Pingree. who died, on the
18th. in London Az = whole, the city
was more deeply moved by Pingrees
death than by the loss OF any public
man in many decades
The JapanesA consul at Mok-Pho,
Corea. reports that the recent mission
troubles at the Island Of Quelpaert
were caused by native converts. These
persons so eNasperated the other na-
tives that the latter surrounded them
ard killed 500 Of them. The foreigl
cruisers are still al Quclpae-t-
Reports received from the cher
cities of Europe chronicle the return
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serious effect upon crops. Very cold
weather and heavy rains and snow
are reported from Switzerland and
Hungary. and the snow is a foot deep
az Ieplitz, in the latter country.
Emperor William of Germany has
ordered a schconer-yacht TO be It.
signed and built in the United States
1t is 10 Toe laid on similar lines as the
American yacht Yampa, which tte
Emperor now owns. The yacht vii
he designed by a. Cary Smith and
Henry e.. Barboy, naval architects D.
New York.
Civil government will be established
In the Philippine islands on July 4
Judge William III. Taft will be desig
mated as civil governor. He will re
main at the head of the Philippine
commission. which is to be continued
The order creating him civil governor
will be issued by the presiden'
through the secretary Of war.
At a luncheon gwen in his honor. or
the night Of the 18th. by the Chicago
club. NJ. Cambon. French ambassauol
sc America. said: Il do not belize,
the mar who tells me that trade re
lations and business exigcncy WI
prevent future wars among the civil
lied nations. 1t is intellect hat vii
stop them, and intellect alone. Edu
cation makes for rcace more than al
the business IN the world"
Judge Bradley. in the equity court
on the 20th, Ccnicd the application o
Lone Wolf AID other Indians for a
injunction against the secretary o
the interior 10 restrain him fror
opening the kiowa, Comanche an
Apache lands in Oklahoma. TO settle
nent. Without going into the fact
of the case the court held that tn
question was purely a political on