The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-09-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS


sharp engagement between IA COM
pany of the Fourteenth United States
infantry and 1000 Boxers at Mo Tao,
on the road TO pekin The Americans
made a gallant stand, and n detach-
ment of Bengal lancers. near by, hear
ing the firing, came to their rescue,
and charged the Boxers in the rear.
The Chinese were routed, leaving 200
dead. The Americans had no casual-
ties.
The keeper of the l~ife-saving sta
ton al the western extremity of Gal
weston island. got in on the 10th. He
reported that the station is gone and
that a trightful scene of desolation
exists. He says that $50 bodies were
buried there; that the prairie and
marshes are strewn with the carcasses
OF animals and reptiles, and that the
stencil is terrible.
Driven to desperation by the fear
that he would he ~disgraccd 10y hnan-
cial troubles, the result Of over-con-
iiGence in n friend. George s. Forbes,
teller Of the First national bank Of
Chicago. sought seclusion i'm the
South Chicago hotel, on the night of
the 10th. and deliberately shot him
self through the heart.
John i. Randolph, a well-known art
critic of New York city. was killed by
a fall down stairs in his residence on
West One Hundred and Twenty-first
street, on the 10th. Mr.. Randolph, for
several years. had been the purchas-
ing art critic for the Goulds. Hunting
tons, Mills and several other promi-
nont families.
a w~ell-founded rumor has been go
ing the rounds of the large lumber
firms operating on Puget sound, late
", that a representative of the Rus
sian government was investigating the
cost and the probabilities of quick
delivery Of 30,0OO,O00 feet of lumber
at Nladivostok.
a mob, on the 10th. drove Zion Ell
der Ephraim Bassinger, of Bluffton,
Ind, and two converts out of Mans
field. o. They were subjected 10 cruel
l~indignitles as they We're dragged to
the depot, and afterwards placed
"I''' P"'NihS ,NPNSN tiuih shu sVHb
out Of town.
During the last eight months the
emigration from Hamburg and Bre-
men was l3S,41S, as compared with
100 .511 for the corresponding period
of last year.
Gen. Fukishima is arranging winter
quarters at Ten Tsin for the japan
ese troops.
Six lives were lost, at least two per-
sons were fatally injured, and several
others were seriously burned in the
destruction of a Salvation Army
nursery in Cincinnati on the 18th.
The building was used for the care of
infants whose parents were compelled
to earn a living. One of those lost
was a father who arrived at the fire
in time TO attempt the rescue of his
children, and persisted with them.
The steamer Valencia arrived at Se-
attic. Wash, on the 18th. from Nome,
with a large passenger list and $780,
600 in gold consigned by trading com
panies. The Valencia brings news
that a terrible gale ragged at Nome
from September l to ), but that only
three persons are known to have been
lost.
While working in the Hidden For
tune mine, owned by Otto Grant,,
north of Lead, 5. d., Capt. Grant Todd,
OF Lead. was accidentally struck in
the back Of the neck by a mining
hammer. The blow shattered the
nerves in such "A way that total blind
ness ensucd.
\ special from Dawson says: Re-
liable miners who have returned to
Dawson from the Tanana district,
after thoroughly prospecting and
panning on all the different developed
creeks, say that the diggings are no
| good.
\ meeting of iron dealers from vari.
Gus parts of Germany held at Cologne.
on the 10th. appointed a special COM
mittee to confer with the manufac-
turcrs with a view of counteracting
the present pressure for lower prices.
The imports Of wheat into Liver
pool for the week ended on the 18th,
were $4,000 quarters from Allan
tic ports, and 5000 quarters from 9TH
er ports. The imports OF corn from
Atlantic ports were 46,40o quarters.
The comptroller of the currency, on
the 18th, declared y dividend of ten
per cent. in favor of the creditors of
the insolvcnt Union national bank Of
Denver, Col.
At the meeting OF the British privy
council at Balmoral, on the nth. IL
a decided that the dissolution Of
parliament should take place Septem-
Der %.
The police guard which has been
maintained at the Chinese legation
in Washington for several weeks. is to
be withdrawn as no longer necessary.
National headquarters Of the gold
democratic party were established, on
the 18th, ut indianapolis, Ind.