The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-12-25
EVENTS Of THIS MEEK
WORLD sLAckENs DOWN WITH
ADVENT OF CHRISTMAS.
CONGRESS CUT; FLEET EN- ROUTE
Murder Trials, Sensational Contests,
Carnegie, Taft and Bryan Figure
In Weeks Dispatches.

Washington, Special: Congress has
adjourned until January 4, and tho
lively developments which have been
so numerous during the past fortnight
1r more, at the national capital, seem
likely to suffer a pause during the
asst days of 1908.
The battle ship feet is in the Indian
ocean on its way from Ceylon, where
4 has for several days been resting In
he harbor OF Colombo; its next mark
Of homeward progress will be register
ed at the entrance of the Suez canal
Meanwhile the Pacific cruiser squad
ron continues on it's southerly cruise
On the way from Magdalena Bay via
Panama to Chile The two fleets are
Tue to arrive again in American waters
On the same day February 22) at OPP
posite sides of the continent. the bat
lie ships at Hampton Roads, where
they will be reviewed by President
Roosevelt, the cruiser squadron at
Panama on the return trip from the
South Pacific.
The new Turkish Parliament, mark
ing an epoch In the departure from
the centuries OF despotism In that
country, continues its session full OF
unknown possibilities; the Russian
Duma likewise: the Japanese National
Legislature opened at Tokyo on Tues
| day.
At Santiago de Chile, the day be
| fore Christmas, Will be held the pre-
liminary session OF the Pan-American
Scientific Congress. Venezuela con
tinues in the curious posture OF being
al the point of war with Holland.
while her absentee President. Castro,
Is a center of wondering interest as
the stories alternately picture him
first as an anxious seeker after med
ical attention and again as elaborate.
" dining and winning as an honored
guest abroad.
The trial of Thornton jenkins Hams
was resumed Monday AT Flushing, L.
The boy Hazel at Toledo is near
ing the end Of his trial for the muir
der Of his mother. In Nhan Chang
the Korean. is in like position in san
Francisco. charged with the killing OF
Durham White Stevens. and the group
n alleged murderous night riders are
before Judge and jury for the lynch
ing Of Captain Quentin Rankin, al
Reelfoot Lake. Tennessee, last DC
tober. Sentence is expected 10 be
PASSED on Thursday upon Abraham
Reuf. recently convicted of bribery IN
San Francisco. On Tuesday, al Nash
Vile motion was made to admit e
bail Colonel d. B. Cooper, Roblr
Cooper and former sheriff John ID
Shrap. indicted as principals and &C
cessories in the killing Of formel
J United States Senator Edward Car
mack.
John Mantasanna is sentenced e
die by electricity this week at IN.
Trenton. n. j., prison for murder
This Is the case in which II was said
TO be proposed TO attempt 10 revive
the man after the physicians pro
nounced him dead. The prison author
tiles announced later, however, ina
no such experiment would be permit
ted
Andrew Carnegie was subpoenaeC
to appear Monday before the ways
and Means Committee of the House o.
Representatives TO testify in regarC
TO his published arguments In favol
of the abolition of the tariff on stee
and iron products.
Several senatorial contests, more
particularly those in Ohio and Penn
svlyania. for the seats which VIII Do
vacated by the expiration of the terms
Of office of Senator Joseph Benson
Foraker and the elevation of Senator
Philander c. Knox to the Secretary
ship of State in the Taft Cabinet, VII
become increasingly acute from nov
on in preparation for the caucus II
the several States which will be hell
in January. ~,
Taft and Bryan both figure TN
week in the dispatches; the Presl
dent-elect in his vacation at Augusta
Ga. where he must continue his prep
arations for his inauguration j
| March: Mr. Bryan in series OF az
dresses in Pennsylvania, the most u
teresting perhaps being that mad
! Monday night at dollar dinner a
Uniontown.