The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-10-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPlTOME or THE MOST IN.
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Compilation OF Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MIscElLAN EOUS.

United States producell l34.7l7. $50
barrels OF petroleum. as against H.
oso,seO In 1904. according 10 report
issued by the United States geological
survey. This was greater by 1886
GO barrels than the production in any
previous year. although the value was
slI0lS,560 less than that OF 1901
A dispatch received in London from
Vlsdivostok by Lloyds agency says tn
Russian wooden coasting steamer
Warjagin struck a floating mine and
foundered. Some Of her passengers am
crew were saved, bat 200 persons We're
drowned.
Col. ID. p. Dyer. United States Is
trict attorney. for the eastern district
OF Missouri, has notified ATTY. Gen.
Moody that he will resign. II necessary
10 defend his son. u. P. Dyer. Jr. who
mas been suspended in connection with
an alleged shortage in the United
States sub-treasury in 81 Louis. Col
Dyer expressed his firm belief in n
innocence OF his son.
Gov. Magoon has visited the ma
tional insane asylum of Cuba and dis
covered a deplorable stae OF affairs
there. One thousand six hundred and
sixty persons OF both sexes are crowd
ed into filthy and dilapidafed build
ings with a capacity for 400 perEons
only
Late dispatches tell OF great dam
age in Colorado from blizzard wnich
ragged there two days and nights Snow
IS from two 70 five feet deep Orchards
we're broken down, roofs cavod in. 1--we
stock persisted. and traffic is stilled
Wyoming reports wind, snow and rail
way blockades.
The Jap. schooner Sua'n Maru IS
held at Victoria. r. c. for attempting
10 run a number OF japanese into
Canada.
The body OF George Raschild. the
Syrian leper, was crem2ted in shock
ing manner at Picklns Va The
shanty in which ne had Deen staying
was set on fire, and his bod was con
sumed with IL. 1t is now declared that
his death was the result OF foul play.
Statistics prepared BY the geological
survey Of the natural gas industry
shows that in the calendar year 1926
the value of natural gas produced and
sold exceeded that OF any previous
year by s2.OC6. Oss
The biggest confederation in the
history OF this city occurred early IN the
morning says correspondent yelling
N T.
Action Of Bank Of England in adyan.
cling minimum Of per Il, sh cks
the financial marts
Bankers convention at St Louis
places currency plan in hanos OF com
mittee to be submitted 70 congress
Colin ". Selph has walkover in the
Twelfth Missouri democratic district
direct primary for congress. combined
opposition receiving less tnan SOC
votes
Delegates 10 mining convention at
Denver. Colo, vote overwhelmingly for
Joplin, Mo, for the next convention.
Missouri Pythians break camp and
start for home. after selecting Boston
as the site for the next meet
The typhoid fever germ. the agr-
cultural department says. may attach
themselves to the hens feet or feath-
ers aud may then penetrate the egg
before IL is Matched The egg OF
worms az well as grains and seeds,
gre found in eggs. having made their
way there while the white and the
shell were being added 70 the yolk
IN the egg land OF the fowl.
The Bank OF England increased its
discount rate from 10 L per cent.
causing a sensation in the money
market OF the world The hank l.
endeavoring 10 protect rs gold revenu.
which has grown rather below the re.
quirements.
Havana was visited by a severe
cyclone. which caused damage 10 pro
perty to the amount OF 100000 and
the loss OF 20 lives The storm went
eastward and a great tidal wave
engulfed Elliott, Ky. an island off the
coast of Florida, about 20 miles from
Miami. A sea cap ain says that
every one OF its inhabitants, $50. were
lost. A barge on which 100 people hal
taken refuge was found near the
Bahama island. and 90 had been wash
cd away and lost The st-rm con
;iaued northeastward. causing high
tides at New York and otter Atlantic
p1rts.
Pythians select Boston as site for
next meet
The dry goods jlbhing trade at
New York reror.s TIE largest recorders
FROM all parts OF ths country ever
known at this season Of tie year.
Many cotton goods agents are unable
10 do business owing 70 the Inability
OF mills to name prices under present
market conditions
The Investigation OF the alleged
shortage of SCI 200 in the st. Lsu's
rU5treasury has prcce, ded 10 a point
where the Washington experts, who
are to count the s4O.0O)Q0O in the
treasury vaults. are led 70 lie opinion
that the shortage may have been OF
loug Standing