The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-07-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.



sta DIT. distance of IS miles.
George Smith. a Chicago painter
suddenly rendered crazy by the heat
while walking along the lake front. OF
the 4th. with his wife and child. al.
tempted 10 throw them into the water
A spectator felled Smith with club
He was tnen taken into custody.
A storm passed south of Colby, Wis.
on the 4th. blowing down barns, scat
tering lumber and doing other dam
age. Many farmers OF the town of HUI
met with losses. Charles Weller's
cheese factory was unroofed and blown
from its foundations.
The celebration in honor of the
Fourth of July by American residents
Of Munich. was held AT Tutsing. All
the members of the American colony
were present. rs were also Victor \.
Drummonj. the British minister resi-
dent in bavaria: Prof. Hommel, IF the
Munich university. and a number Of
prominent American visitors.
The navy department received dis
patch. on the 5th. from Capt. Wilde,
announcing that the Oregon had been
fioated and that her pumps controlled
the water in her hold. she proceeded
10 the kure dockyards in the Inland
sea.
ALondon news agency dispatch from
Shanghai. Gated the +th. after reiterat-
ing the statement that there had been
l. ~ Tel,
only the arrival of 90 Japanese pre-
vented the capture OF the town.
The National Negro Democratic league.
at its biennial convention in Kansas
City, Mo-, On the 9TH. elected George
f.. Taylor. Of Iowa. president, ana
james a Ross. of Buffalo. ~ a.. gen
eral secretary. \ committee of live was
appointed on an address to the coun-
Try. with Hon. +. l.. MCGEE, of Mime
sofa, as chairman.
a special from Laharpe. Ia. says
that Noble Prentice, editor-in chief OF
the Kansas City Star. was stricken
with paralysis while visiting his sister
nj that place on the eth. His recovery
wIs said to be doubtful.
The Democratic national convention.
at Kansas City. on tie evening If the
.th, unanimously nominated William
Jennings Bryan rs The democratic can
didate for president of the United
States amia intense enthusiasm on the
Iart of delegates and spectators.
The platform adopted by the Dem
ocrntic convention makes anti-inpc-
rialism the paramount; declares for
the free coinage of silver and gold at
the ratio of 16 to 1; denounces trusts
and monopoles; favors a Nicaraguan
canal under United States ownership;
denounces the Hay-Pauncefotc treaty.
and EXPRESSES sympathy with the Boer
republics.
The executive committee Of the
American Anti-Inperialistic league
has sent ont notifications that the
first national convention of that or
ranization will be held at indianapolis.
Ind. August IS and l6. Speeches WI
lie delivered by BouIke Cochran. Of
New York; ex-Gov. Boutwell,. of Mas
sachusetts; Bishop Sraldrg, of Pc
oria: Carl Schurz, and Andrew Car
negie.
In fear of punishment for crime
for which she had been held without
bail TO the grand jury Mrs. Martha
Ilcisig. Chicago midwife. drank car
bclic acid in the presence Of her Lus-
band and children, on the 5th, and died
Immediately.
Lord Roberts reports from Pretoria.
under date Of July 5, that Lent. Run
die, Of the Corbineers. with patrol,
was captured by the Biers near Pre-
toria on July 4. He also says that
trains are running to Greylingstadt.
Natal: that several respectable Beers
have surrendered recently; that sol
d:crs' home has been opened at lIe;-
Gelberg. the inhabitants subscribing
the initial expenses, and that total
of 2,631 stands Of arms have been de-
livcred to Gen. Barton AT klcrksdorp,
krugersdorp and Potchcfstrom, all in
the Transvaal.
The fire in the Standard Oil Co.'S
plant at Constable Hook. Bayonnc. n.
j., which was started early on the
morning of the 5th. by stroke OF
lightning, continued until 80 of the
oil tanks had been destroyed. The
loss is variously placed at sl,O00,0oO 70
s., 5000
After the resignation OF II senator's
the Finnish senate, on the 9Th, promul-
gated al imperial rescript regarding
the Official use OF the Russian lam
guage.
The Paris Aurorc learns from o good
source that a young attache of the
United States embassy disappeared r.
Gently. The police are making an nc.
tive search for the young man, WIN, il
IL feared, has been murdered.
A small cyclone passed over the
northern part Of Hardin county. la.
on the 9th. Trees were uprootcl and
many buildings upset. The loss 70
crops is enormous. No loss Of life has
hssn reported