The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-11-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


dicateG the mental. M well as physical
strain under which the patient was
suffering. being one of the stages OF
the kidney trouble. with which the
senator is contending.
James Lynch and Robert /. King
convicted Of murder of Godfrey
Prowse, at the Sheep Ranch gambling
house in salt Lake City, Utah. on the
night of September "a last, were
sentenced by Judge Booth. on the
18th. to suffer the death penalty. on
January IL, 1901. The condemned men
elected TO be shot.
The Southern express between ST.
Georges and Saubusse, France, was
derailed, on the 18th. near OAK. about
thirty miles northeast of Bayonne,
The restaurant car was precipitated
over an emhankment. Thirteen per-
sons were killed and 81 others injured
seven of them seriously. Five passen-
gers are missing.
The steamer Ruby A. Cousins, which
sailed from Seattle, Wash. several
weeks ago, loaded with n general car
go of government supplies for the sol
diers at Port Valdez, Alaska. was
wrecked in the narrows at the EN-.
trance 10 Prince William sound.
The Saengerfest building. adjoining
the Geological gardens ia Cincinnati,
erected at cost of 100000 for the
International saengerfest, last year,
was sold TO wrecking company, on
the 18th. at public auction, for 5000.
lu kcng, the Chinese minister TO
France, asserts that Ii Hung Chang
and his colleagues ''can do nothing
but intrigue and lie and attempt TO
save their heads. If they sign the
treaty il will he a mere formality and
viii not afford solution of the
trouble" and that no princes would
be put to death except by telegraph"
A correspondent of the Cape Times
reports that $50 Beers are besieging
British garrison OF $50 at Schweizer-
hencke. in western Transvaal. and
that Lord Methuen and Col. Settle are
believed 70 be going to the garrison's
RELIEF
ii. c. Chubb. Red Cross man who
recently went to Luzon on tour of
investigation. is authority for the
statement that Red Cross supplies, in
stead Of being given to the soldiers
are sold TO the storekeepers, and that
the cots sent by Miss Helen Gould are
being sold for $3.50 each.
A rumor is current in Rome that the
illness cf the ear Of Russia is due TO
poisoning. and il is asserted that
cipher kilograms have been received
at the vatican saying that an attempt
was made TO poison both the emperor
and empress. but that the latter was
not affected.
Miss Louise +. picrpont Morgan,
daughter Of j. Picrpont Morgan, and
Herbert Livingston Saterlee were mar
married. on the 18th. at ST. Georges
church. in Stuyvesant square, New
YORK city.
The preliminary estimate Of the av-
crage yield per acre Of corn in 1900, as
published in the forthcoming month
~ report Of the statistician Of the de-
partment Of agriculture. is 25.3 bush
els, as compared with an average yield
Of 25.3i bushels in 1899; Of 24.76 bush
els in ls9s. and a ten-year average of
24.l bushels.
A report comes from Kalamazoo,
Mich. that at least nine bodies have
been disinterred BY bodv-snatchers in
Springbrook cemetery, Newaygo coun-
IS. One body, that was too far de-
composed 70 be Of use, was left in q
fence corner a quarter Of a mile from
the cemetery.
George X. Crosthwate. a physician
of Hamilton. Ont, blew out his brains.
on the 18th, in the Railroad Mems
Christian Association hotel, Chicago.
Dependency. due to being stranded
in strange city, IS thought TO have
been the cause.
If the city OF Pittsburgh, Pa, will
furnish a site. Andrew Carnegie offers
TO build technical school, in connec-
ton with the Carnegie institute. and
cndow it with Sl,o00,0O0 in five per
cent. gold bonds.
"Mogy" bernstein, king of the
..nwsbovs" Of Omaha. was married. on
the 18th. in the parlors Of the Coates
house. Kansas City. by Rabbi Mayer.
Mogy's bride is Miss Blanche Sunfeld,
of Perry, Okla.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
of city watcrworks bonds, bearing
five per cent. interest, were sold at a
special session of the Muscatinc Ua.)
city councillor the 16th,to Cleveland
firm. After January the city will
own and operate the waterworks.
A woman, believed TO be insane,
hurled Ratchet at Emperor William,
on the 10th. as he was driving in an
open carriage, in Breslau, with the
hereditary prince Of Saxe-Meiningen.
The weapon missed the intended vic
tim, but struck the rapidly moving
carriage. The woman was rescued
from the indignant populace and ar
rested by the police.
Preston Porter, Jr., colored, who
assaulted and murdered little Louise
Frost. on her lonely ride home from