The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-10-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

OF the Dranch mouse OF nelson, MoIiiS
g. Co., of Chicago, at Atlantic City. N.
j.. was arrested ut the home OF y
relative at Schenevus, N. ", on the
18th, charged with grand larceny. The
firm allege that there is a shortage
in his accounts of over twenty-four
hundred dollars.
The naval board 70 examine b old
frigate Constitution has reported to
the navy department that it will cost
about four hundred thousand dollars
TO place that vessel in condition such
as contemplated by the Boston Patri-
otic society, which is raising a fund
for for the rehabilitation Of "Old
Ironsides."
The Dowieite deacon. Homer Kess-
Ter, of Chicago, made another unsuc-
cessful attempt to hold services at
Mansfield, o., on the 1ith. He was
taken in charge by the police at the
home of +. ID. Calver, and was sent
out of the city on the west-bound
Pennsylvania passenger train.
While the crew of the White Star
liner Oceanic, Capt. Cameron, We're
IOWtTilE III aliCllOI. ~ ' BoOis VII
the 14th, the chain broke, tearing oft
the left leg of one of the carpenters
and %fracturing the right. He died
soon afterwards. Another man had
his left leg fractured.
The Lorain CO., plant of the Fed
cral Steel Co. was closed, on the 18th.
throwing 1900 men out of employ
-.., Il e cnsl Aha clnfJnxUn will ha
for Only two weeks, but rs orders are
light the men believe the mills will
be idle until after election.
The Mosquito fleet of five small
gunboats belonging to the United
States navy, left Cramps ship yards.
Philadelphia, on the 18th, for Cuba,
with Felix II. Hunicke, chief of the
revenue cutter service, in command.
While digging a sink hole in the
rear of a residence in Omaha. Neb.,
oil the 18th. w gas overcame three
workmen. and two of them were suf-
located before they could be rescued.
Some Chinese soldiers d~esecrated
the cemeteries for foreigners at Nam.
Shih-Tu, near Canton, and the vice
roy ndU Tie OucilutIs uttdDltu EQ aIlu
dismissed their commander.
Lieutenant-Commander William Fl.
Beecher, naval attachc of the United
States embassy in Berlin, is suffering
from pneumonia.
Maj. Fl ancis $. Lodge paymaster of
the Division of Cuba, is down with
yellow fever.
Gov. Mount Of Indiana, on the 18th.
received a deed TO the 16 acres of land
in Spencer county, Indiana, surround
ing the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The
deed conveys the land from the coun-
ty commissioners of Spencer county
to the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial
association, of which the governor is
president. The work on the monu-
inent has begun, and will. it Is be-
li.ved. be completed this fall. when
dedicatory services will be held.
The supreme court Of the United
States. on the 18th. granted the mo.
tion of the government to advance
the Nicely cases, and assigned them
for hearing November IL. The gov
ti iut 10 'tt dhNfotS ioi a ntSA
sion, which will settle the constitu-
tional questions involved.
The annual report Of the Kansas
City, Fort Scott a. Memphis Railroad
Co.. for the fiscal year ended June 30.
issued on the 18th. shows an increase
Of 1851 $50. or 221a per cent, in earn
ings; of $636.493. or II 10 per cent, in
cxnu.o ,pl 80 vp4r pp- ar Or - mar
cent, i'm net earnings.
jeff and Maggie Jones and their
four children were blown to atoms.
on the 18th, by a charge of dynamite
which destroyed their home at Sells,
Ark. four miles from Hot Springs. II
is believed that a dispute Y a home
stead claim prompted the outrage.
The 1900 delegates to the railroad
department Of the Y. NJ. G.. A. confer
cncc, whose sessions in Philadelphia
closed on the 14th, were the guests
Of the Pennsylvania railroad. on the
18th, on an excursion to Atlantic
City.
Col. Mcmillan was sworn in as lieu
tenant governor Of the Province of
Manitoba on the 18Th. Inc ceremony
was performed at the government
house by j.. j. Niece, clerk of the
privy council at Ottawa.
DR.. James Carlyle. nephew Of Thorn
as Carlyle, the great arthur. and him
self one of the ~bcst-known education
lists Of Ontario. died in Toronto, on
the 18th, Of bronchial asthma.
a petition in bankruptcy was filed
in the United States district court Of
New York. on the 18th. by Ellie =.
Hankins, boarding house keeper. Liza.
bilities. S5os,11s; assets. none.
Among the passengers who arrived
Mt New York. on the 18th. on the
' steamer Minnchaha were s. L. Glenn
ems Mark Twain), Mrs. Clemens and
the Misses Clemens.