The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-01-10
LAVE NEWS ITEMS.

The total TeuuctloH ol pie"'
Britain's military forces in south
Africa from the beginning of the war
to December, including deaths from
disease, men reported missing, etc.
amounted to 24,299 men. OF tn S
number 1890 were actually killed or
died. A total of Ga, $3.50 men were in
vaided home. the majority of whom
recovered and rejoined their COM
mands.
DR.. +. +. Downey, president of the
Illinois Medical Association of H"'
meopathy, died, on the 5th, at Hahne'
mann hospital, in Chicago. DIR.
Downey's home had been for many
years in Clinton, ILL.,, whittier his re-
mains were sent for interment. The
deceased had been sufferer from
liver trouble for several years.
A Swedish captain named Rossan-
der had been missing at Antwerp
since new years eve, when he left q
dinner party in cab to return To h
ship. The retreatng tide, on the 5tb
revealed the cab in the river with the
horse dead and the drowned body o.
Capt. Rossander inside the vehicle.
Statistics just issued showing that
of the local trade with her colonies
Great Britain only Possesses ~ per
cent, while the United States has u
per cent, and that the latter is rap
idly increasing her trade not only
with Canada. bur with Australia,
caused some disquiet in London.
The police have discovered traces
of anarchist plots in tne town OF
Jerez de Ia Frantera, in the province
of Cadiz. Spain. Forty-nine arrests
were made and the prisoners have
been conveyed to Barcelona. wher,
they will be tried by the military
courts.
A special from Montgomery, Ala
says that Capt. Richmond T.. Iobson
will soon resign from the navy AMI
enter politics. II is said he will op.
pose Hon. John III. Banhead as con
gresham from the SIXTH Alabama
district.
| Anton Chauves, his wife and two
year-old boy, Joseph, and Miss Mar,
Devida. aged IS. were asphyxated. on
f, the 9TH, at their home in Hartford.
Conn. The gas had been escaping
from defective meter.
Robert Samuel Houston. the Oldest
cheesemalSer in Wisconsin and a third
cousin of Gen. Sam Houston. of Tex
as fame, died of dropsy at his home
| in Milwaukee on the 5th. He was s.,
years Of age
| In the senate, on the 9Th, Chaplain
Milburn. in the opening prayer, made
| q touching reference to the death
of the late Senator Sewell, of New
Jersey Mr.. Keen On. J.) formally
announced the death of his colleague.
Senator Sewell. and offered the GUS
tomary resolutions, which were unan-
] imously adopted, and as a mark ~
respect to the late senator the senate
adjourned. In the house no bus:-
ness was transacted, that body TAX
| ing recess Immediately upon the ar
| nouncement of the death of Senator
Sewell and the adoption of the cls,-
| tomary resolutions.
Another Schley resolution was i'm
| troduced in the house, on the 9th, Ivy
| Representative Schirm, of Maryland
il provides an appropriation Of ST.
600 for bronze tablets commemora-
| ting six great naval victories, begin
ming with that of John Paul Jones
in 1897, and closing with the battle Of
| Santiago Bay, Commodore Winfield
Scott Schley, commanding" in 1898.
Att'y.-Gen. Knox and Secretary
| Gage, on the 9th, had a conferences
with the president in regard To he
Japanese silk differentiation cases
in New York city. IL is understood
that the department of justice vii,
take the matter in hand and institute
criminal proceedings against certain,
parties thought TO be implicated in
case the facts warrant them.
The creation of another assistant
postmaster general, to have charge
of the free city and rural delivery
service. is contemplated i'm a bill
shortly to bc introduced in the house
by Representative Watson, Of In
/ iht itW obttIs IL inc Dtit
should pass, will be the fifth assstan.
postmaster general.
Representative Grosvcnor, OF Ohio
on the 9th, introduced an anti-ar-
archist bill. II is similar to other
measures on this subject except thar
the death penalty is provided for
] criminal assaults on an officer of the
government, without specifically dcs-
ignating the president as the one az.
saulted.
Silas Boardman. one Of the oldest
lumbermcn Of Lacrosse, Wis, died
on the 9th. aged ca. lie was one al
the first to engage in the logging
business on the Mississippi.
King Edward. on the 9th. conferred
the order Of Knight. Grand Cross 81
the Bath, upon Marquis Ito, the Jap
anese statesman.