The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-04-19
NEWS OF The WEEK
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST I'M
pORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
a Carefully Dlgested and Con-
densed Compilation OF Cur
rent News Domestic
and Foreign.

Chairman Tawney OF the house
committee on appropriations. and
Representative Olcott, who have re
Gently returned from a visit TO the
isthmus of Panama. Thursday dis
cussed with the president conditions
as they found them Mr. Tawney is
favorably impressed with the progress
being made in the canal work and told
the president he thought az the pres
ident he thought at the present rate
the waterway should be completed in
FIVE years.
Fred w Troy. a travelling photogra-
pher. 80 years OF age. who shot and
killed his wife. Potosia Troy. and NOR
tally wounded Ralph Guin in Joplin.
Mo. New Years day pleaded guilty
20 second degree murder in circuit
court and was sentenced by Judge
GRAY 10 serve term OF 90 years in
the penitentiary.
Two large public banquets instead
of the dinner originally planned. II
was announced. will conclude the ma
tionaI arbitration and peace congress
which is 10 meet in Carnegie hall next
Sunday
In apparent deadlock. yet without
having intimated TO the court the i'm
possibility OF reaching some final
agreement. the jury which is trying TO
determine the guilt or innocence OF
Harry X. Thaw Friday was again
locked up for the night after having
PASSED thirty hours in continuous de
liberation
Willie sen. pardoned from Kansas
Penitentiary. after serving twenty-one
years. feels lost and asks TO be permit
ted 10 sleep in prison Was convicted
OF killing father. mother. brother and
sister
The principal developments in the
cross-examination Of Binger Hartmann
at Washington were his admissions
that while he was commissioner Of
the general land office he gave posi-
tions 10 six Of his relatives
The long expected opinion of Atty
Gen. Bonaparte concerning the proper
labelling Of whisky under the pure
food law. approved June 80, 1906. was
made public at the White House
Wednesda
day. according to press dispatches re-
garding the reports from London that
his daughters husband, Ephriam
Bevard Cockren. third son Of the for
mer senator from Missouri. was travel
ing in Europe with handsome young
woman whom he introduced as mis-
wife and bad appealed 10 the Ameri-
can embassy in London for financial
aid
The six grand larceny cases against
Dr. G Y. Salmon. senior partner in
the defunct Salmon & Salmon bank.
were continued by the court on &C
count Of the defendants physical con
dition. he being TOO in to come into
court
Advices from the Caucasus say Rus
sia is assembling troops on the Per
sian frontier for a demonstration
which. it is thought soon will be nee
essary.
Two German aeronauts. Dr. Wag-
ener and Adolf Koch. descended in a
balloon at Anderby, near Leicester.
The balloon had covered Sl2 miles
from Berlin in 10 hours.
The jury in the case OF Harry Ken
dali Thaw. who shot Stanford White
TO death in Madison Square roof gar
den en- the night Of June p last. and
who was indicted and tried on
charge OF murder in the first degree.
came into court al 1870 o'clock Friday
afternoon and formally reported TO
Justice Fitzgerald. the presiding Judge
that no agreement was possible.
President Roosevelt made a speech
on patriotism and good citizenship at
the dedication Of the monument erect
ed in the national cemetery a. Airing
ton 10 the members Of the Rough
Riders OF the Spanish-American war
Robert G Hogan formerly Of Web
steT Groves. Mo. now living in Balti-
more issued signed statement Fri
Nicaraguan troops are in control OF
the Honduran coast and war is near an
end unless movement Is made on
Salvador and Guatemala.
Interstate commission will file pro
ceedings in federal court to compel K
II Hartman TO answer questions con
corning the Union Pacific stock trans
actions
Six automobiles being built In New
York for ice and water travel VIII
be used in dash for North Pole.
Mileage bureaus in the west and
southwest may be abolished as the re.
suit OF the 2-cent rate legislation
adopted in several states
Joint conference Is called in the
ves' for the purpose OF adopting uni
form bill Of lading providing for a safe
medium Of exchange.
Because - electrical workers
600 for the purchase OF food for Rus.
machinists and blacksmiths employed
In the Great Falls shelters OF the
Boston Montana Co. who had been
denied raise In pay. walked out
Monday 5000 men were thrown out
OF work in Butte. Mont.