The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-08-30
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.


Four lines between grain fields and
great lakes are allied.
Wellman ready for journey 10 pole.
Dispatch from Spitzbergen says trial
trip was successful.
Colorado & Southern going to
Yoakum Will soon become part o..
Rock Island system.
Prince Wilhelm Of Sweden deserted
Newport society function to dance
with Swedish girls.
ST. Louis becoming q factor IN for
eIgn and western trade. Progress in
far west opens new field.
Alabama officials abandoned fight
70 force Louisville & Nashville rail
road to obey new state law.
North Germon Lloyd steamer cut
fare for first-class eastward passage
70 ss5; others viii meet rate.
Story that Gambetta and Bismarck
had secret interview after Franco
Prussian war not verified.
Butte, Mont, like a graveyard due
TO strikes Of all classes Of laboring
men.
Prince Wilhelm Of Sweden arrives
at Newport, and the series OF enter
tainments in his honor at once begins,
the first affair being a dinner by NJ.
and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish at Cross
ways.
Walter Wellman, writing from Spitz-
bergen on July 10, tells of the success
full fight Of the explorers party TO save
hn ha1
by high Arctic winds.
Tex Of the American proposal for
a permanent peace court is completed
at The Hague in agreement with Ger
many and Great Britain.
Wall street is cheered by the report
that Secretary Cortelyou will come to
the relief Of the situation by deposit
ing s25,OO0.OOO in national deposito
ries.
Chicago bankers expect further re-
cession 10 general business, but 10 not
Il tss---,----ssSs-tifa Pessimistic view OF the
situation as Is held Do The east.
Plans are being drawn in Chicago
for a $4,000 building for the teach
ing of domestic science at the state
school at Normal, H.
Preacher rescued from anger OF
mob by riot call Trouble melted by
denunciation OF Catholic faith.
Plans for international theater
trust completed by Levi Mayer
A Chicago girl iabs an Indiana
tramp with her hatpin bumps his
head on a rail and then escapes.
Member OF parliament warned Can
ada OF yellow peril as result OF influx
Of japanese into British Columbia,
where they are taking the place of
white labor
Man who rocks boat to scare a girl
causes the craft 10 capsize. and dies Of
heart failure while struggling in the
water.
President Small. OF the telegraphers
union, declares that secret spies in the
union are trying to cause dissension
and break the strike.
Serious disagreement between II. H.
Rogers and William Rockefeller is re-
ported over the question OF passing
the regular quarterly dividend on
Standard Oil as a result Of Judge Ian
dis big fine
Officers OF the New York Electrical
Workers union are charged with
Erongfully appropriating money.
Secretary of War Taft opens state
campaign in Kentucky and appeals 10
southern voters TO Join with the re
publican party to secure the influence
20 which they are entitled in the coun
ellis Of the nation.
Government Attorneys Sims and
Wilkerson. back from Washington. re
fuse to discuss Alton case. bat i'm
preston Is that fight will be dropped.
Government bureau issues a warn
Ing against carelessness In the use OF
concrete in construction Of buildings
recour ting the dangers.
Photographers are engaged TO take
snap shots Of men OF the New York
navy yard absent from their tasks but
supposed 70 be at work.
Judge advocate general Of the army,
in his report, says the passage Of the
anti-canteen act has been destructive
Of discipline by causing the establish.
ment Of saloons near military posts.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, former secretary OF
the treasury, says that with the i'm
mense sources OF national wealth un.
impaired there is no reason for de
preston.
James Oliver. South Bend manufact.
urer and philanthropist is near death
from heart disclose and old age.
Victim OF Pleasant Prairie. Wis.
powder mill explosion on his deathbed
makes a will leaving property to
sweetheart
New York dealers in pearls will ask
the government for protection OF the
mussels ID western rivers in which
the gems ere found
Accommodating evidence Of frost dam
age to the wheat crop OF the far north
west starts q scare which overshadows
oil else in the grain market.