The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-06-28
AN EPiToME OF The mosT I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT AoME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
4 Carefully DIgested and Con-
dcnsed Compilation OF Cur
rent News Domestic
and Foreign.

10 an end at Denver Col, with IN
adoption OF series OF resolution
which were not so radical as expecte,
A letter from President Roosevelt wa
feature OF the last session.
Judge Reuben r. Gaines. chief jus
tce OF the Texas supreme court. sui
fered a sympathetic stroke OF paraly
sis while reading a newspaper in IN,
office Of the clerk OF the court AT Aus
tin. His left side was affected.
most appalling automobile acct
dent occurred AT Caianello. about 100
miles distant from Naples. five men
being killed. The motor car. which
was going at high speed ran into a
rock and was demolished.
A test case 70 determine whether the
railroads have the right 10 grant in
terstate newspaper transportation in
payment fer advertising was begun at
Chicago by the government.
BY an overwhelming majority the
citizens OF Des Moines. Ia adopted
what is known as the Des Moines plan
Of government. modification of the
commission form Of government adopt
ed some years ago in Galveston. Tex.
4 bronze West Indian" medal was
awarded by the navy department 20
Rear Admiral Benjamin II. McCalla,
L 5 y, retired, nov living in Santa
Barbara. Cal. for specially meritorieus
conduct other than in battle
AT the master car builders conven-
tlon. r. W. Sargent reported that ap-
proximately 50 900 locomotives. Sc. 600 /
n 30.
freight cars are in use in the United /
States and Canada.
Abraham Hummel. convicted of sub
ornation Of perjury in the Dodge
Morse divorce scandal, and serving
a sentence OF one year in the Black.
wells Island penitentiary, is tc 20
free.
District Attorney Jerome Of New
York announced that the government
investigation Of Insurance companies
has been concluded. His office he
said. Will now prepare cases against
indicted officials
Three hundred and forty-fave marks
men took part in the opening days
shoot Of the grand American handicap
tournament at the grounds OF the Chi
cago Gun club.
Rudolph F. Garner. a Southern Pa
cifc railroad clerk. was held in $40
600 bond on the charge of embezzIing ,
$4,000 from the railroad by forgery I
and obtaining money by false pre- i
lenses
The United States immigration com
mission. OF which Senator Dillingham;
is chairman, is about to dispense. the
members going TO Germany. Austria.
Russia and other countries.
Mayor Schmitz attorneys apnlled
to the district court OF appeals for
the release Of the mayor on writ Of
habeas corpus.
Strike-ridden san Francisco han
another strike added to the list Friday
afternoon when the telegraph operaf-
ors em.-oyed by the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies lef.
their keys and walked out. {
a resolution nenouncing Dr.. VIII
lam Osler as a rsedical nihlist." ard
refuting his theories regarding ftc
age limit, was introduced in the con- G
vention OF the National Electric Med u
zeal association by Drs. c. g. Winter .
of Minneapolis. and r. G.. Sharp. of a
Guthrie, Okla
\ feeling Of apprehension exists y
among the foreign residents Of shang- Il
hal that serious disturbances may FOL. Q
low the opening OF the new electric
street railway system. which will be a.
inaugurated in July 3
Thirteen persons were killed in =
balloon accident near bebreczin. Hun.
gary Three aeronauts two French 4
Officers and ono Austrian officer farl y
from the balloon and We're killed =
Peasants in trying to capture the bal =
loon approached It with light and =,
The balloon exploded. killing ten Of !,
them = =
lion tries 20 break away al exhibit II.
ton IN Paris -theater and causes panic
among spectators, but does no harm. II
GoVernments pan 10 people the IN
vast areas q the west By divorting u
The stream % immigration from the M
cities is made known at Denver.
Iowa railroad commission plans final r.,
nearing on matter OF schedule OF joint po
Ireight rates as TO which railroads and I'M
business interests are not agreed. 70
Two miles in the interior Of big
swamp. near New Orleans, the head. TO
less body Of Walter Lamana. an Ital- m
an child between and years old. NJ,
Who was Kidnapped and held for $4,000 in,
-ansom two weeks ago. was fo.nd by WI
he police and mglantes.
The control Of the Northern Illinois IN,
formal and Dixon Business college
PASSED to the hands or Frederick u -.
.Hden' proprietor and head OF the IN
'hieago Business college. as result NJ
4 contract made with the represen. n,
ahFes Of the estate OF the late pres wa
dent John G. Flint. VIII