The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-05-18

quake 10 be without foundation. Tn,
park. he says. is not within the ION,
OF seismic action ana conditions there
are absolutely normal.
Sidi Mohammed. hey OF Tunis. Ii
dead. His cousin. Mohammed III Nasr
succeeds him
san Francisco .. for the present
absolutely q dry town. and Mayos
Schmitz says it will remain so for y
while longer. as ne ascribes the excel
lent order that has been maintained
in the city sinc the disaster 10 the
absence OF i~ntoNicauts,
There is every indication in the
condition OF John 4. Dowie that the
end OF the first apostle" OF the Chris
t.an Catholic church is not far OF.
There is probability OF a trial for
heresy in the Presbyterian fold. with
Rev. Or. Samuel 5. Garter as the de
PENDANT Tie wants the Westminster
Confession revised. declaring that
there never was. there is not now.
and there never Will be such a God rs
the God OF the Westminster Confes
SION
Students Of the Missouri state uni
y%ersity, az Columbia. provoked a
quarrel with the attaches Of a circus
By refusins 10 pay for remaining 10
the after concert. and in the fracas
that followed got decidedly the worst
Of it. Stakes. knives. razors and pis.
tolls figured in the melee. and some OF
the "rubes" got theirs.
ri. Rev James II. Blenk. bishop o.
Porto Rico. has been named as arch.
bishop OF New Orleans. 10 hM the va
cancy created by the death OF Arch
bishop Chapelle.
In the course OF the Standard oil
Co. hearing before the interstate com
merce commission in Chicago. tests
mony was adduced to show that the
Iron Mountain Railroad co. acted as
agent for the Standard oil Co. in small
towns OF southern Missouri. local
agents receiving a commission OF one
cent a gallon on sales.
Nice-President Fairbanks celebrated
his fity-fourth birthday anniversary
oy presiding ove n of the busiest
days OF the senates present session
He received many congratulations.
Gov. J. " c. Beckham OF Kentucky
has issued a proclamation summoniug
all who possess THE priceless heritage
Of having a drop OF Kentucky blood in
their veins TO assemble in Louisville
for Homecoming week. June IS 10
II.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis. widow Of the
president Of the Southern C~onfederacy.
is suffering from a bad attack OF the
grip at her apartments in New York.
A number OF Indians have died ca
the Duck Lake reservation in Sas-
katchewan from drinking Florida wa
ter. presumably adulterated. Fl lieu OF
whisky.
The Russian parliament has been for
mally launched. The emperor's mes
sage. delivered az the Winter palace.
was a brief document. remarkable more
for what IL didn't say than for what II
did. The affair was accomplished with
all the pomp and ceremony usual on
great occasions in Russia.
Stephen Sylvester. apparently insane.
shot and killed his brother. W. II. Syl-
vester. president OF the First national
bank Of Montezuma, Ind. and was later
arrested by the sheriff and taken to
Rockville after he had harr.caded him
self in a shed at his home and declared
he would never be taken alive.
The 100000 in gold. found intact
In the vaults Of the san Francisco city
treasury, has been removed 10 the
United States mint.
The four cardinals who attended the
dinner given by United States Ambas.
sador White, in Rome. in honor of
Archbishop Ireland. have been called
upon by Cardinal Oreglia, dean Of the
sacred college, fo- an explanation.
President Roosevelt has promised to
attend the opening OF the jamestown
(Va) exposition April &c. 1907, and
deliver an address.
Out Of 124 coolies attacked with
cholera On board the steamer Faukla.
en- route from India to Suya. Fiji ISL
ands. 81 died.
DR.. George Scott, former United
States consul at Odessa. Russia. died at
his home in Neigh. Neb.
The readers Of the Christian Herald.
Of New York, have closed their Jap
anese famine relief fund. havirg sent
through the state department at Wash
ington s200.C COO. in addition to $500
cabled direct to the famine center.
The fresh eruption Of Mount vesu-
wins continues, but II Is Of small pro-
portions.
The government Of Panama has been
notified that revolutionary movements
or other troubles in Panama which in
terfere with work in the canal zone
will justify interference Of the United
States in support Of the Panama gov
eminent.
Joseph Dickson. one OF the most
prominent lawyers in St Louis. died
after an extended illness. aged 60 years.
Hon. Carl Schnrz Is seriously III at
his home in New York. and on account
Of his age &c years. his recove is
hardly looked for.