The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-10-12
NEWS In BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

foreign countries into Venezuela nave
been abrogated.
Maxwell ID. Long. of the New York
Athletic club. on the ith, at the Gut
tenberg race track. broke the worlds
440-yard running record, going the
distance in AZ seconds.
Gen. Macarthur reported to the war
department. on the 4th. that five sol
ders died in the mountains of La
guna province after having made their
escape from the insurgents by whom
they had been captured.
BY another peculiar shift in the cur
rent of the Mississippi river within
the last few days, every remaining
trace of the village of old kaskaskil
has been swept into the waters. which
now flow directly over the spot where
was once located the first white set
tlement west of the Allegheny noun
trins and the first capital of the staff
OF Illinois.
Gov. McMllin of Tennessee has de-
MED petition for pardon filed by L.
ID. and Frank Thompson, of Memphis,
cadaver dealers and former leading
undertakers. They were for year.
county undertalSers and sold bodies
in st. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago and
other points.
Senator NJ. a. Hanna was the tar
the Thirty-frst ward republicans
meeting, in Chicago, on the night Of
the 4th. The missile was dropped
through an aperture in the tent di-
rectly over the speakers stand. 1t did
not miss Hanna's head over two
inches. and had il struck him would
have probably fractured his skull.
4 Shanghai dispatch 10 the London
Times says it is reported on good au-
thcrity that Sc missionaries in north
Shansi, who have hitherto been report
ed as missing, have all been massa-
cred.
Albert +. Patrick and Charles r.
Jones were arrested in New York. on
the 4th. on charges of having forged
the name of William Marsh Rice TO
checks aggregating s27o,0oo. Patrick
was arrested in the vaults Of the New
York Safe Deposit Co. Jones was ar
rested at No. 500 Madison avenue
An indictment has been returned.
at Lincoln, H.. against four men.
contract for plumbing on the new
building at the Illinois asylum fo-
predetermined children.
The finding of corpses in Galveston
seems never-ending, 25 day being re-
covered. 1T is certain now that the
dead in the city viii exceed 5000, out
side the city limits on the island 1900
and on the mainland over 1000.
A Wausau (Wis.) dispatch of the
4th said: The Wisconsin river is rag
ing as the result of heavy rains and
has exceeded the flood mark of last
spring. The damage so far will reach
thousands of dollars and little
greater rise, which is expected before
morning, will result in immense loss"
Anton March,, aged 72 years,
dropped dead at the Broadway hotel,
Centralia, ILL.,, on the 4th. while eat
ing dinner, owing to apoplexy. Mr..
March, was n native of Switzerland.
md had no relatives in this country.
He was a soldier in the Second ILL
nois artillery.
John i. Glover, of New Richmond,
Wis. and John A. Humbird, OF st.
Paul. Mimi, have purchased of Fred
| X. Weyerhauser. 900 acres of stump
age. located along the headwaters of
the Clearwater. The tract contains
400, 100000 feet Of high grade white
pine, and over 1.0oo.ooo,00o feet Of
white and red cedar, fir, etc.
Herr Brinkmann. who was inaugu-
rated as second burgomaster of the
city Of Berlin. on the 9Th, came out
strongly in his inaugural address in
favor Of municipal ownership OF trans
portation facilities, better dwellings
for the poor and various social re-
forms.
! AT the Mincra Fair, Is miles east OF
Canton. o., on the 9Th. Sid Scott and
Nicol. owned by c. A. Mcmahon. OF
Garfield, broke the worlds record for
a pacing team on half-mic track,
doing il in 2:13. The former record
was 2:13a.
From its correspondent at Shang-
hal, the Berlin Loka! Anzeigcr re-
ceived dispatch, on the 9Th, saying
that Count Won Waldcrsec had begun
Systematically TO clear the country
between Tien Tsn and Pekn Of Box
ers.
An accredited representative of an
English syndicate. on the 9Th. con-
tracted for 100000 tons OF Alabama
coal to be delivered at some point on
the gulf of Mexico, the deliveries to
extend over a period Of two years.
The carnival parade, esteemed by
many to be the most interesting event
Of Kansas City's week OF festivity.
was reviewed, on the Attn. by proba bly
the largest crowd that ever visited
that city on a similar occasion.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
says: "The Russian government as
sents to the proposals in Count Won
Buclow's note of October /. M. Do
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