The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-01-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

adopted a resolution requesting of the
secretary OF the navy Information as
to the number of horses. carriages and
automobiles maintained at the ex
pense of the government for officials
of the navy department The urgency
deficiency bill was reported and no
tice given ,uat the bill would be called
up for consideration Immediately after
the army bill had been disposed of.
The house then went into committee
OF the whole. and resumed considera-
ton of the army appropriation bill. An
amendment by Mr.. Slayden (Texas),
limiting the appropriation for books
to the purchase of technical works per-
tanning To the work OF the war depart
ment, was agreed TO. The paragraph
providing s321.5SO for a submarine ca
Bile from Sitka TO Fort Liscum. Alaska,
went cut on a point Of order.
United States Senator Joseph Ralph
Burton. of Kansas. was indicted. on
the cath. at st. Louis. by the federal
grand jury, on a charge hat he re-
ceived $500 from the Rialto Grain
and Securities Co. Of 81. Louis. for
services rendered at a%shington. ID.
c.. in an attempt 10 prevent the post
office department from issuing a fraud
order against that concern.
Mrs. Catherine Bechtel, the aged
mother Of Mabel Bechtel. who was
found murdered. last October, at Allen
town. Pa. was acquitted, on the 23d.
OF the charge of being an accessory
TO the murder after the fact. Her trial
occupied nine days, and the jury DELHI
Grated on hour before rendering the
verdict of not guilty.
l. \. Walker. conductor of the Iowa
Central wrecking train which collided
with a switching train neal Peoria,
H., Jan. rs. killing three men, was
arrested. on the 23d, on a ~coroner's
warrant charging him with man
slaughter. He was released on s. 5000
bonds. on the oath.
Maddened by the intense coli which
had frozen its ears and trunk. an ele-
pnant belonging to an animal show
which had been exhibiting at a st.
Paul (Minn) theater, on the gath. al
most killed its keeper. Conrad Castens.
and partially wrecked the Milwaukee
house.
Two masked men entered the Office
IF the Anheuser.Busc distributing
plant at st. Joseph. Mo. on the 23d,
and. at the point of reviewers. com
the manager to give them $3.50,
All the funds on hand.
Senate-The senate, on the 18th,
leard further discussion on the ques-
ion Of appointments 10 Office made
congressional recesses. listened
0 a speech on the isthmian canal ques-
by Mr.. Morgan, and passed a num-
Ier OF bills Of a semi-public character.
among the bills passed was one autho-
izing the erecting Of a TO
he memory of John Paul Jones. The
enate. at SOP. went into executive
ession. and at EOS 2. m. adjourned
..... House-The house passed the
rmy appropriation bill. carrying APP
roximately s75. 000. 900. after adopting
number Of amendments. The pro
for the consolidation of the
djutant-general's department and the
ecord and pension Offices Of the war
apartment into one bureau. TO be
novn as the military secretary's Of
&c. was stricken from the bill on a
ONT Of order raised by Mr.. Grosvenor,
I Ohio. Al 4:05 p. m. the house adj
The north and central wings Of the
ate school for INDECENT children. at :
watonna. MINI. was Quilted by fire,
4 the 25th All the inmates were
from the building uninjured.
ineteen babies domiciled in the south
ing were safely taken out. The loss T
as not stated. but there was insur-
ice on the building of $4,000. c
Aldermen A. L. Gray and George
City Attorney Fontaine and i
ty Assessor Parmentier. of Green I
ny, Wis, were arrested. on the 25th. [
warrants based on indictments re-
by the grand jury charging
with bribery. All we're admitted
bail. /
In every one OF % churches in Bel s.
Wash, resolutions we're a
-ssed, on the oath, calling upon SEN {
Ankeny and Foster. OF the state V
Washington. to cast their ballots in a
g senate against the seating of SEN '
or Reed Smoot. OF Utah.
On recommendation Of Senator Hey
IN, Of Idaho. the president. on the Z,
IN, appointed II Smith Wooley. a n
rmer bishop Of the Mormon church, :,
be assaycr Of the mint at Boise City, n
aho. :,
The chief justice OF the supreme {.
Of the United states. on the 25th r.
trd1 on f'a1riafy' the =
would take a recess for three
'eks.
David f.. Thompson. United States
mister to Brazil. arrived NJ New er
'rk. on the 25th. on the steamer Ten al
son, from Rio Janeiro. h,