The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-05-13

Weekly Courier.
C. DoANE. Publisher.
JASPER ! INDIANA
The funeral Of Mauraus Jokai. the
Hungarian novelist. who died OF in
fammation OF the lungs at Buda Pest.
on the 9Th. will be made state affair.
The bubonic plague has reappeared
in the heart OF johannesburg. South
Africa Two cases have been detected
In the market, which has been ordered
closed.
The trial of Charles Kraft. Of St
Louis, charged with boodhng. was
called at Butler. Mo. on the So. but
was postponed by agreement OF both
sides until August l before Judge
Graves
Allen Mooney. the condemned muir.
derer who shot and killed two women
al Saranac Lake. y Y, on November
4. 1902. was put 10 death in the cleo
trio chair at Clinton prison. Dame
mora. on the 3d.
Or. William W Barton Hopkins. well
known in medical circles. died at Phil
adelphia. on the 4th. OF cholera morbus
DR.. Hopkins was the author OF many
valuable medical articles, and his book
on fractures is widely known
The time limit OF S.. Louis Worlds
fair tickets has been extended by near
ly all Of the western roads from ten
days 10 10 days They are the Bur-
lington. Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul,
Rock Island. Frisco. Illinois Central
Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific
The war department has determined
to ignore the charges made by Capt ].
7. Walker. United States army. retired.
against Col. Mills. superintendent OF
the West Point military academy. and
a recommendation that no further ac-
ton be taken was submitted TO Secre-
tary Taft.
Hajime Hoshi IS installing his JAP
anese printing office in the Liberal
Arts building at the Worlds fir at
st. Louis, and it will be in operation
in a few days The types are metal.
OF the same height as American type,
and are well cast with the japanese
characters
Prof. F. Lamson Scribner, chief Of
the bureau OF agriculture OF the Philip
pine government, has resigned. and has
been placed in charge Of the bureau Of
plant industry at the St Louis expo
sition. Mr. Scribner formerly was the
chief agrostologist of the department
OF agriculture.
The Liberty bell will be taken 10 ST.
Louis This was decided upon. on the
9th. when both branches Of the city
council Of Philadelphia passed a reso- I
luton appointing a special joint com
mittee Of "a 10 escort the revolutionary
relic. and appropriating $4,000 to de- /.
fray the expenses
Robert A. Smith. democrat was re-
elected mayor OF ST Paul MINI. on
the Sd. by large plurality over Col. 7
f. p. Wright republican Mayor
Smiths plurality according to early
returns. may run as high as 5000 The
democrats probably will have major
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Minister Conger has cabled the state
department from Pekin that some fine
portraits Of the empress dowager o.
China, which were dispatched TO the
ST Louis expedition on the steamer 81
IBERIA. viii be donated by the empress
dowager TO the United States govern
ment after they have been on exhibi.
ton at the fair.
A c. Twining, former president. and
u G. Cornell. former treasurer OF the
defunct Monmouth Trust Co. OF Asbury
Park. y. j.. were. on the Sd. sentenced
respectively 10 six and four years 10
state prison. Counsel for the prisoners
announced that an appeal would be
taken. and the two men were released
under $1,000 bail each.
Kuhn. Loeb & Co announced that
the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking
corporation and PARIS bank. limited,
OF London. has purchased from the
japanese government 10000 600, sew
en- year six per cent treasury notes
redeemable after three years at the
option Of the government. and secured
by an exclusive first lien on the Gus
toms
The case Of Charles Cunningham. the (
eastern Oregon sheep king Glen II
V Sailing, Shelly Jones and Dallas
O'Hara. charged with conspiracy TO de-
fraud The United States government OF
public lands. was brought 20 an ab.
rupt and unexpected conclusion on the Z
9Th. Dry pleas of guilty being made
when these defendants were arraigned &
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