The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-05-31
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.


voyage 10 the orient He is reported
10 have landed at Chinese port ana
thence disappeared.
The social democrats OF Great Brit
ain welcomed their Russian comrades
who have come 10 London for the
purpose Of holding a congress free
from Official interference at the Hol'
born town hall.
Lieut. Col. Thomas Nallee. Mai
Severe lorenzo and Lieut. Manuel
Portala OF the Argentina army arrived
M Fort Leavenworth on an onicial
visit Of inspection
4 man 80 years old, supposed from
letters found in his pockets 70 be
Henry Dalka Of Hutchinson. has.,
died on an Atchison. Topeka 4 santa
Fe train on the way to Chicago.
Rank Commissioner Smock was no
,ihed OF the failure OF the State Bank
Of Manitou. Okla. which collapsed for
$40 coo 4 request is made Tor a
bank examiner 10 take charge.
Lewis Lamkin. editor OF the Lees
Summit. MOI Journal, died. aged p
years. lie had been in the newspaper
business in Missouri continuously for
81 years.
Brig. Gen. Constant Williams, re-
Gently stationed at Denver. Col, in
command of the department Of Colo
Jado. will be placed on the retired
list of the army by operation OF the
law on account of age
The Russian steamship Korea was
towed into port two tugs. with l2oo
passengers kneeling on her decks in
a prayer of thanks for delyerance
from perils Of the sea that had beset
them for almost a month.
George W. Harper who for nearly
ten years has been treasurer OF the
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co.,
was elected vice president of that
company.
Brig. Gen. H. S. Turrill. U. 5. A.
retired. OF New Milford, Conn, died
suddenly OF heart disease.
The watch at the bedside OF Mrs.
Mckinley, widow OF the martyr presi-
dent has resolved itself into sor-
rowful waiting for the end, which all
hence. or even few weeks away.
The president has received from a
little girl named Mary Wagner let
ter pleading for the pardon OF her
stepfather. John Allison, who was con
victed in Michigan a number OF years
ago Of bank robbery, and had served
six years of a long sentence in the
penltentary when he escaped. Since
then he is said TO have been living
an exemplary life.
The body OF f. T. Dunning,a prom
inent attorney, was found in the wa
ter at Port Los Angeles, Cal. lie
left his home in Los Angeles a few
days ago and wrote a letter TO his
wife telling her that he intended e
drown himself.
Secretary Shepard has announced
that the Los Angeles committee hav
ing charge OF the preparations for th'
convention Of the National Education
al association July SIP proposes Z
make the musical features especial.
prominent.
According to the vorslsche Zeitung
the Prussian government intends il
1908 TO begin the electrification OF sey
eral Of the state railroads OF western
Germany, where the freight traffic i
heavy
The president, il IS said at tn
White House, will not make NOR
than one stop in any one state on hi
way down the Mississippi river afte
he leaves Canton on the Both OF Ser
TENDER.
nitroglycerin factory locate
three miles southwest Of Martinsvill'
III. which supplied the explosive {
the Clark county oil fields, took fir
and exploded
The United States Inland Water
way Commission completed its tri
by boat from St. Louis to New Orlean
An immense amount Of data, some {
St bearing on the lakes-to-the-gulf dee
waterway project was gathered e
route
Mckinley Traction System plan
through electric line from ST. Lou
&c indianapolis. Many interurban lin,
building.
Myer Cohn, whose letters show tht
ne came from Harrisburg Pa. cor
mitted suicide in Vancouver, b. G.
After first searching their lodging
The police OF Berlin took into custot
ten Russian students The scare
revealed discriminating anarchist
pamphlets.
William H. Mills, head OF the lal
department Of the Southern Pacih
died Friday.
w. G. Frick denied the publish
report that he was TO erect at Pit
burg al cost OF s5a. 1000 a building
be known as the Pittsburg academy
fine arts.