The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-09-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The LATEST EVENTS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands. Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

Kate war between ocean AlANAs A1'A'
grown.
Middle west to benef; by new tariff
treaties. it is reported.
Seventeen Illinois counties soon 10
vote on question Of saloons or no sa-
looms
Alleged slayer Of former Gov. Goebel
OF Kentucky named in woman's afh-
davit
Wierd ceremonies at funeral OF Chi
nese ENJOYS wife caused Amusement
10 Romans.
Plucky woman built home for her
self welding all the tools with her
own hands.
Illinois state fair this year expected
10 break all records; Tom Lawson en-.
tered prize cattle.
French artist scoffed at beauty Of
American girls and praised that
English and French
Western railroads are making effort
10 handle heavy shipments of old corn
and oats to market.
International airship races 10 be
held at St. Louis next month promise
20 be largest ever held.
Abuses OF privileges assaileu by
Governor Folk in address at the
jamestown exposition.
British earl and countess refused
seats in London restaurant because
not in evening dress.
New ocean steamship Lusitania
starts on her return trip and Will make
an effort to establish a new record.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio Italian author
threatened to whip some one unless
gossip concerning him was brought to
end.
Big turbiner Wauretania expected
20 lower Lusitanias record across At
lantic Germans planning still bigger
liner
Night operator az New York station
kidnapped from key by desperadoes;
thought TO have been done by bank
robbers.
Former American circus man and
globe trotter given Job as official
boomer Of British East Africa praised
by khedive.
The navy department and powder
experts are finding intricate problems
in trying to solve cause OF destructive
explosions of smokeless powders on
bat,leships.
Chicago City Railway Co. orders
300 new cars to be delivered Nov. /.
A new plan of fare collection by which
the passenger pays as he enters will
be adopted.
Craftsmen made raid on Vernon,
Ala. blew open the safe in Thomas
Guyton's store ard got over 81 900 in
gold They also robbed the safe Vi
J. A. Cobb. another mercha1' anG
secured $50 in cash and $4,000 worth
OF valuable papers. They then stole
the sherif's horse and escaped.
Uniform increases in the prices o.
meats stir government legal forces.
william F. Havens, IS years old
escapes prosecution for stealing $4,000
from packing company partly because
OF his acumen in investing.
County jai.s throughout the land de
clared moral ulcers and political in
fiuences blamed by Rev II. II. Har
before prison Association of America
Chicago lawyers and juris's reiec
Attorney General Bonaparte's sugge"
tion for capital punishment
John +. Dietz. the outlaw Of Cam
eron Dam. who for years blocked
Wisconsin river, is paid $1,000 by
lumber company to allow its lvss Z
pass
SO numerous are the complaints {
typhoid contracted on lake steamer
stopping az Buffalo that the New Nor
legislature will be asked to pass
bill requiring sterilization Of all waite
used on such vessels.
Records OF the stockholders = III
Standard Oil Co OF New Je' sey dt
closed the fact that John d. Rochefe
Ter owns 247Ge2 shares. or near
five times as much stock as any oth'
individual shareholder, and that |
and his associates who sigpel III
trust agreement in 1882 still contr
a majority OF the Standard oil stoc
Mrs. Letitia Greenhaulgh. GA yea
old 1900 Gabriel avenue, Zion City,
follower OF the new religious sect. N
Parhamites," was tortured TO Lcat
her arms, legs and neck being fra
tured in an effort TO cast out donor
so that she might recover from he
matism.
Thirty shoe cutters out In two ia
tories at St. Louis Members OF
dependent union begin strike for mo-
money and fewer hours.
Captain Judson. OF engineering d
partment Of the army, sees war wi
Japan and Germany in the future
Townspeop'e Of H. II. -.ogers see ]
sign OF illness reported 20 have stric
en- the oil magnate.
Joplin comes to assistance of STRIFE
en- newspaper, Rich mine owners {
fer unlimited funds TO repair New
Herald and find perpetrators OF dyn
hitting