The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-03-22
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST IN
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Disested and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISC ELAN EouS.

The White Star line steamer SueviC
struck on the rocks and went ashore
near the Lizard in thick fog al IL. 30
o'clock Sunday night Two lifeboats
have been launched and others HAYS
been summoned 10 % 10 the assist
ance of the vessel.
Negro testifes that soldiers shot IN
Brownsville. Tex, because a white
man struck a trooper.
Illinois anti-saloon league builds po-
litical fire under Legislators who op
posed local option measure
John ID Rockefeller may give $3.50
100000 for charity and education.
Confers with son on terms of will
Schoolmate OF Harry b. Thaw de.
nounces tales OF prisoners criminal
pranks as unjust and untrue.
Reports OF damage 10 grain helps
the bull side OF the market other
conditions generally favorable
Shipments from Joplin district for
past week are greater in value than
any similar period in districts history
Primary object Of Western lines
meetings this week Is discussion o.
means 70 prevent freight congestion.
Theft of mule is the chief cause OF
the war between Honduras and Mica
ragua. according TO dispatches.
Roosevelt is criticised for grooming
Taft as candidate for presidential nom
nation Accused Of violating prece-
dent
Saloon issue causes big stir at Kirk
wood. Mo, three independent parties
being interested in the fight
Governor Folk will issue call Wed
nesday for special session Of Missouri
legislature, TO convene April ?.
Torpedo fotilla OF four small war
ships and one destroyer may come 10
St Louis seeking recruits.
Three hundred lrish-Americans OF
St Louis attend banquet in honor of
St Patrick's birthday.
So great has been the influx OF Jap
anese into Texas that hundreds have
STOPPED in FL Paso. readily securing
employment as house servants. dis
placing Mexican help.
Jul EAdAAo AAEAd4itu " dc-ArA IlllrOI
Biggy in guarding Abraham Reuf have
been given quarters in the room ad
joining that which the prisoner occu-
pies.
With the rapid receding of the
waters in the Monongahela. Allegheny
and Ohio rivers. conditions are resum-
Ing normal proportions Pittsburg
suffered severely. losses nearing the
ten million mark Fire followed the
food and did great damage al Wheel
ing. W. Va. Springfield. Dayton and
Hamilton, o., are other towns among
the heavy sufferers.
Messrs McCrea, Mellen. Hughitt
and Nedman, the four railroad presi-
dents for whose visit 10 the White
House j. Pierpont Morgan arranged
before his departure for Europe. held
conference in New York Friday.
The whole situation was canvassed
with great care. and it was finally de-
cided not TO go 10 Washington.
With Attorney Delmas fighting him
every inch Of the way, District Attor-
ney Jerome has secured from Abra-
ham Hummel his complete story as
20 the affidavit which. It is alleged
EVELYN Nesbit Thaw made in the law
yer's office in 1903. charging Harry X.
Thaw with beating her when she had
told him her former statement about
Stanford White was not true
r. G. Dun & Co. report generally
satisfactory trade conditions. Spring
trading especially IS making most
satisfactory showing in comparison
with the volume at this time last year
An important conference. which is
likely 70 have far-reaching results. was
held between members Of the inter
state comerce commission and repre-
sentatives OF the coal operators and
OF the coal miners organization in
southern Indiana and southern iii
nois. II is probable that the attorney
general viii be urged to proceed
against Officials Of the coal carrying
railroads Of Indiana and Illinois for
alleged violation Of the Sherman anti
trust act
The contentious of the attorneys for
the Standard Oil Co. that the govern
ment. now prosecuting the company on
indictments charking II with accept
ing rebates, were swept away by Judge
Lands IN the United States district
court Friday
The legislature OF Idaho has appro
priated $4,000 for the purpose OF
carrying on the prosecution OF the al
legged Steunenbe-g murder case.
The pogtoffice department does not
intend to draw the color line in the
matter Of white and negro railway
mail clerks working together on the
same runs.
Replying TO a question IN the Brit
ish house Of commons. Foreign Score.
tary Sir Edward Gray said II would
be unreasonable 10 expect the powers
at he Hague peace conference next
summer 70 consider the propriety of
disseminating the use OF submarine
vessels.