The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-08-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Complying With the request o. tho
state department. Admiral Slgshee AT
San Juan. has been directed 20 dis
patch a war vessel 70 Monte Christi,
san Domingo. This was done at the
suggestion Of Mr.. Dawson. the Amer
lean minister to san Domingo. and the
inference is that trouble is impending
IN that country.
A bomb thrown into 4 crowd OF
Italians in East one HUNDRED and Eff
ty-firat street. New York. injured a
score or more persons, and led 20 The
arrest OF Ninceuso Donetto who for
some time has terrorized residents OF
the Italian districts and eXtorted
money from them BY threats and acts
of violence
All the labor unions IN Chicago have
Endorsed the stock yards strike. The
Chicago Federation OF Labor, which
is composed Of every labor organiza-
ton in Chicago. and has a membership
of nearly 100000. adopted resolutions.
on the 7th, pledging the moral and
financial support OF the federal body.
The London Times correspondent at
Toxic. under date OF August Z. says
that the japanese have captured COM
manding positions north and north
east Of Port Arthur at a distance OF
$3.50 yards from the main line Of Rus
sian defense
Al official report received AZ ST. Pc
te-sburg from Lieut. Gen. T Stoessel.
commanding the military forces at
Port Arthur. say thar The japanese
we're repulsed with tremendous loss
in three days' light from July % 10
July IS
The British expedition TO Thibet q
encamped a mile from the sacred
mountain Of Potala. on which is sitn-
ated the Dalai Lama's palace and in
the immediate vicinity OF the Dalai
Lama'= private gardens
During q riot near Swift's packing
plant. in Kansas City. No on the
9Th. John J willis. a non-union ne
60 employed AZ swifts fired five shots
into a crowd. wouldlns three men, one
seriously.
The freigh.ar City ~ Berlin with
about 5000 tons 81 iron on board coll
lieed with an unknown boat in the De-
t-oit river. north Of Belle Isle, on he
9TH. and sank The crew was taken
ashore
Fire. en- the 9Th destroyed The City
hotel ard FIVE business houses AZ Gid
den. Ia. A W Hobbs and his brother,
who were sleeping at the hotel, lost
their lives.
President Roosevelt has declined 70
Interfere in the case Of John W Bur
ley, a negro. confined in the jail OF
the District Of Columbia under SEN
tence Of death for the crime Of Grim
inal assault. the victim having been
little girl AZ years old
4 clerk in the Chicago. Burlington
4 Quincy railroad Office at St. Louis
while checking freight cars in the
yards. on the eth. found in a car the
body OF a man. apparently % years Of
age. who had been dead for at least a
week.
The advisory board Of the Amalza
mated Meat Cutters and Butchers Tn
lon Of North America. at a meeting on
the sth. decided 10 order strike in
New York and vicinity Between 3,
600 and 1000 men will be called out.
Fire in the five story building at
Nos. 25l-257 Main street Buffalo. y.
Y. on the Sth. caused a loss estimated
AZ 100000. and for a tine threatened
the Academy Of Music next door.
where a play was being produced
The mayor Of Milwaukee has been
invited 10 select a young lady 10
christen the protected cruiser 70 be
named after that city. and which viii
be launched September no at the Union
iron works. San Francisco.
Gen Wade, commanding the Phil
ippine division has cab,ed the war de-
partment that the newspaper reports
that 50 Filipinos were mas sacred at
Maiabang about May u. were entirely
without foundation
sam 5 Wright, Of Upton. Ia. who
boited his Instructions az ST. Louis in
order TO second the nomination OF
Judge Parker for president. has been
bounced from the notification commit
tee.
East-bound Nandalia passenger No.
n struck a broken rail az Plainfeld,
H.. on the sth. and FIVE cars left the
track and were burned Several pas
sengers were injured but none killec.
A cloudburst in Fisher canyon. three
miles north Of Trinidad Col on the
18th. caused the loss OF two lives and
flooded mines and other property in
and adjacent 70 the canyon
An attempt was made on the sth.
70 wreck the Atlantic express on the
Union Pacific railroad at Ahsay sta.
ton. between Roc Springs and Green
River. Wyo
The heaviest "a. 'hquake which New
Zealand has experienced in many
years, occurred. on the 7th. at 1D.z2
o'clock