The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-06-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
TIE LATEST NEWS OF The
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH. EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreion Lands. Throughout the Ma
ton. and Particularly from the
Great Southwest

a national convention have oten
chosen and speeches OF a high order
are promised
Birmingham. Ala. viii provide free
entertainment for veterans who attend
the Confederate reunion there next
week. a hotel where every thing Viii
be free having been made ready.
Monetary commission meets and or
ganizes and prepares for us woTS-
senator Aldrieh was elected Chairman.
A bench warrant was issued BY ne
supreme court OF the District Of Col
umbia for Theodore H Price. The mil
licnaire cotton king Moses Haas and
Frederick A Peckham. al of New
York. for their removal 70 Washing
tor 10 answer an Indictment IN con
nectioa with a leak on cotton re-
ports from the department q a=rlcul-
ture.
Prominent English society women,
headed BY The duchess Of MaTlbor-
ough. who vas Miss C~onsuelo Wander
Blk. and Lady Henry Somerset, have
taken up the plan FOR better houses
for The working class which vas
abandoned four years ago by the Ma
tional Housing council. chiefly through
the efforts If the Socialist members
Of the council. WHO were in the ma
jority.
About 10000 employees are benefited
BY the full time schedules that went
into enec- Monday and during the past
week in Massachusetts. Maine. New
HAMPSHIRE and Rhode Island. InclId-
inr al New England thus far manu-
f%acturers employing about $4,000 per
sons have given notice Of the s~'ii-
ton Of the short time schedules The
change IS due largely 70 an increased
demand for textile goods
Photograph Of the retina Of the eve
Of a murdered woman az Alton. H.
shows the picture Of a man and Is eS-
pected 10 aid in finding her SLAYER
Rejected Wisconsin sutton kills the
mother Of the girl al door Of church
and causes panic amo1g congregation
BY menacing K with pistol
American flag blown about his feet
causes the death OF a young a%eronaut
while making a parachute jump az
Passaic. y. J..
Birmingham. Ala reports more big
business in the last two weeks han
IN The six months before. and the new
railroad connection with the north gets
credit for much q the improvement
-Four masked men broke into the
State bank at Cuba. Kas. dynamlted
the safe and escaped with between
5000 and $1,000. after engaging in a
street fight with citizens.
II anyone with ambition TO be made
a fellow OF an exploration society has
a spare $4,000 he may make a good
start BY applying 10 Commander Rob
ert E. Peary. T.. (. y. arctic explorer.
The commander is ready. Capt Rob
ert A. Bartlett of Brighs. y. r. is
ready. the big ice defying steamer
Roosevelt il nearly ready. the date 70
start 10 find the north pole. July T.
has been set. but-there are no funds
available
President Roosevelt pressed The
electric button which started the cele
brati0n al Kingston. y. Y. Of the 250th
anniversary OF the founding OF the
town.
Judge William G Loving. who shot
and killed Theo. Estes. who he al
legged had wronged his daughter. has
left Virginia for Florida 20 become
assistant general counsel for the Sea
board Air Line railroad
The British steamship Queenswoot
and the steamship Loanda. a German
vessel. were 50 badly damaged in col
lisions in the ~foE-covered channel tina
they sank. after having been broush
into Dover harbor. The QueeuswOo'
coIIldel with The Borneo. a Spanisl
vessel II is not known what boa
rammed the Joanda. The crews o
both ships escaped.
Information IS that the Missouri Pa
csfc will discontinue dividends
New rule Of the inters-a ate commits
sion that none but labor union me
shall receive appointment as inspe'
tors under the safety appliance az
anEers railway managers and of
Gals.
John ID Rockefeller will furnis
funds for the erection and mair
tenance Of a large hospital 10 b COZ
Quoted in connection with the Rocl
efeIler institute for medical researcl
II Is planned that the patients treate
there shall be those suffering from o.
scure or chronic disease
Gen. Stephen d. lee. commanferii
chief - the United Confederate We
Grams. and the ranking lieutenant get
eral Of the C~onfederacy 81 dead. Deaf
was due 70 paralysis. which attacke
him a week ago while entertainir
Wisconsin veterans.
Incessant roll calls and The readir
OF lengthy documents Monday fierce
both the house reading clerks. r.
Lampson and Dennis Award. 70 ter
porarily give up their work. Repr
sentative CLANCY Of Indiana volu