The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-01-16


Cornell university. will address the
students OF the University of Nilsson
ii. at Columbia. January Il.
Senator Mc1aurin. of Mississippi.
called on Postmaster-General Payne.
on the sth. and urged him to reopen
the post Office Al lndianola. Miss
Andrew NcWilliams, one OF the
Junior partners Of Andrew Carnegie.
was struck and killed by railroad
engine at Pittsburg. Pa. on the 9th.
A bill was introduced in congress,
on the 5th. 20 restore the sale OF malt
beverages and wines 10 soldiers on
army transports and post exchanges
In his message TO the legislature,
on the 9th. Gov. Stone of Pennsyl-
vania said the coal strike had cost the
people of that state more than $780,
600.
Admiral Dewey left San Juan. r. r..
on the 9th. for cruise along the
coast of San Domingo. Hayti and
Cuba. and viii return 10 Washington
on the 18th
Six hundred people sat down 10
banquet in Berlin, on the night of the
9Th. at which the dishes consisted en-
tirely of horse meat prepared in
various forms
Representative Thomas Crow and
i f,.air
suffocated by escaping gas in their
room at jefferson City, Mo-. on the
night of the 5th-
The Pioneer Reserve association of
Bloomington and the Loyal Ameri-
cans of Springfield. fraternal insur-
ance associations, consolidated their
organizations. on the 9th.
Cole Younger made application 10
the Minnesota state board of partons.
on the 9th. for a full pardon. the pur-
pose being TO enable him TO return
TO his old home in Missouri.
At a cabinet meeting at Washing
ton. on the 9th, il was decided that
the resignation of Mrs Minnie Cox.
the colored postmaster al Indianola-
Miss, would not be accepted
G. W. Putnam. aged 81. appointed .
postal clerk during the administra-
ton of President Lincoln. which Of
Zee he held continuously since. died
II Westfield. y. u, on the 9th.
X. c. Kerens received the caucus
nomination Of the republican MEM
bers of the Missouri legislature. on
the eth. for United States senator, by
= vote of IS to 80 for Charles Maggie.
Col. Henry c. Forbes. librarian of
the Illinois state laboratory of nat
ural history. died at his home in Ur-
lana. on the 5th. He commanded the
Seventh Illinois cavalry in the civil
war.
Clarence Rein. of New Orleans. was
arrested at San Francisco. on the
9th. on a charge of aiding in swindling
the Western Union Telegraph Co. out
of about $4,000. TO which he con.
Il fessed.
BY a decision of the supreme court
Of Nebraska. on the eth. the bonds
men of former State Treasurer Bart
lev, who embezzled nearly s.50.00t
from the state, were released from al
liability.
The driver of mail wagon wal
arrested in New York. on the sth. hav
ing in his possession checks 10 th'
4 value of more than a thousand dol
lars, which it is charged he stole from
mail bags
Gov. Nash. Of Ohio. issued a proc
lamation. on the 9th, calling on tn
people of Ohio to observe January g
the sixtieth anniversary of the lat
President Mckinley's birth. with suit
able exercises.
The caucus OF democratic member
Of the Missouri legislature. at Jeffer
son City. on the sth. nominated VIII
lam ]. Stone by reclamation for Unit
"a States senator to succeed Hor
George q. Vest.
Zen. a. II. Leeper. puDllSntr OF
Lunatic Herald" at Pana. ILL.,. was az
Judged insane. on the sth. and take
20 the asylum at Jacksonville. wher
he had been confined on the sam
charge eight times previously.
The effects Of the blizzard this
ragged in the northwest on the 6t
we're felt in Kentucky. Tennessee, Al
kansas. Louisiana and Texas. on II
eth, high winds and cold weather pr
vailing throughout those states
DR.. J. +. Mcfarland. pastor Of
church at Topeka, kas-. severe
scored judge in court, on the 81
for fine that had been imposed c
Mrs Carrie Nation. and the JUDI
fined the pastor 500 for contempt
court.
Prof. Robert Koch. the bacteriol
gist, sailed from Hamburg. German
m the -th for Rhode4ia IA sfsflv MI