The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-09-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
An EPlTONE or TIE MOST I'M.
PoRTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
a Carefully oisested and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

r. alu hosfNaier. proprietor and
editor of the Omaha NebJ Bee. was
found dead IN court room in the Bee
building, having passed away. IL is
presumed. from heart disease. Mr..
hose"sier had been prominently iden-
tined with the political financial and
business Affairs OF Omaha and Ne
brsska for forty years re was born
In Bohemia. in ls4l. came to America
inlt54. and during the civil war was
trusted telegrapher under Cen
Grant
The Constancia sugar Plantation
Co. IN Cuba has asked for American
government protection for their prom
erty against raiding parties Of insur
gents
Kentucky democrats have started a
movement 10 secure the national dem
ooratic convention Of 1905 in Louis
vile
The interior department promises
TO establish agents with data about
the lands in Oklahoma at various cen
tiers the sealed bid plan is IN
changed
Oklahoma may De able 10 formally
enter the union Of the United States
by July :. 1907. but it has many de-
tails 10 work out before entering.
Texas Cattle Raisers association
and Others seek TO reopen the cases OF
rate complaints before the interstate
commerce commission.
The last day Of August broke an
heat records in England. The official
instruments al p. m registered 81
degrees In the shade and l2s in the
sun. q degree OF heat the average
knglishman is not used TO
James Van Peyma aged SO we'll
known politician Of Kansas CITY. Kas
and formerly president OF a large
hardware company that failed recent
ly, committed suicide al his home bv
shooting He had been despondenr
over financial losses.
The wedding ceremony Of Thomas
r. Mcclure and Miss Pearl Nuiean
had Just been completed at the home
OF the brides parents. Mt and Mrs
:. c Miligan. a few miles north OF
hngman. kas and the wedding partv
had seated themselves 10 uartake Of
refreshments. when a terrible bolt Of
lightning struck the house badly
wrecking he building Rev. Davis {.
Mcclure and Ernest Johnson and sew
eral Others were badly stunned
Word has reached Washington that
many members Of the two houses and
particularly the senate. do not take
kindly to the Roosevelt method OF
spelling. These public men have init
mated that as long as the control OF
The government printing office re-
mains with congress. as IL undoubted
Y does now. they will oppose radical
spelling departures
The express companies have notified ,
the officials Of the various railroads
mat the express company and the car q
Fing road expose themselves equally
To the penalties az the Hepburn act q
tthe rate Did By carrying the prop j
erty OF one road over the lines or Z
another. and as a consequence this I
practice will be discontinued an once a
The closing Of the two weeks grand s
circuit meeting al the New England
breeders track in Readvile Mass
saw TWO worlds records established bv ?
hcstatic. who paced the second heat a
o. the final free-for-all in 2.0fa. aud z
the third in 2.022, The first is the S
fastest by second ever made bv q e
pacing mare in race. while the com
bined time Of the two heats average a
faster than any previous time by a d
pacing mare in competition. q
VIM. Jennings Bryan received an q
ovation al Madison Square garden.
FULLY twenty thousand people being 5,
present Mr. Bryan declared the trusts y
would be the important question in A,
he next presidential campaign. He OF
favored an income tax. arbitration be N
wen capital and labor. government
ownership Of railway trunk lines. and r,
Independence for the Philippines. m
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson in IA
lists on plain labels. stating that pack. Y,
IT'S must place tags on packages stat
ne ingredients.
Turkey and Bulgaria believed to be ba
N the verge Of actual hostilltfes ~
The public will reap no benefit in an
cypress rates under the new rate Law. IA.
ne rates Of every company will be we
IDENTICAL with those Of every other. 90,
&c JaDahcse nave opened Dalny as sta
free port -,
The son Of Crown Prince Frederick
william OF Germany was bapt zed at dun
After the ceremony PIN
ess sophie, the mother held levce. We
eated beside The cradle A dinner Vie
oiowed. at which emperor william m
pasted his first grandson. who some ne
az may De- kaiser. ~
chicago federal grand jury has r.. 20,
lrned ten indictments. containing cba
= counts. a-aiust the Standard OH I'M,
o. on the charge Of rebatinr
The collfc sons CO internal revenue 80
~ ne Eolh q July wee $685. Irel
ss'so'' an increase Of s2.C09420 over wlr
ne corresponding i1on;h Of last var. uc