The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-09-28

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

stricken on the 18th. Mr.. Springer
was secretary OF the American South
down breeders association.
Capt. Edmund Zalinishi. l.. :. A.. 70.
tired of dynamite gun fame, is N
Pe~lin.
The Philadelphia q Reading Coal
and Iron Co. announced. on the 18th,
that on and after that date all grades
of coal were advanced 80 cents a ton.
The Galveston relief fund of Kan
sas City. Mo. amounted, on the 18th.
TO $1,000. Contributions continued to
come in though the committees had
ceased soliciting.
Olga Nethersole. the actress. was
fined sc, in London. on the 9th. for
allowing TWO dogs 10 be imported
from the United States without muz-
zles-
Belle Mingle Archer, the actress.
died at the Emergency hospital in
Warren. Pa. on the 18th.
At Cartwright, Ky on the night o.:
the Goth. the i2-year-old daughter of
Misty Jones was shot through the
heart and instantly killed by unknown
persons while sitting in the door at
her home. There is no clue.
Judge i. NJ. Bonner. capitalist
and banker of New Orleans, died of
heart disease at the California club.
in Los Angeles. Cal. on the Goth, while
conversing with friends.
The Galveston fund being raised in
Paris had. on the Goth, reached 100000
francs.
Two additional cases of bubonic
plague have been reported in Glas-
Cow
An explosion occurred in the Friach
Chuck mine. at DuS. Bohemia. on the
10Th. Thirty-fve persons were killed
and Is injured. Five others are miss
ing.
The Netherlands budget for 1901
shows a deficit of 5,250.000 forms.
At Shenandoah. Pa. on the 2lst
posse gathered by Sheriff Toole. OF
Schuylkill county. to meet the emer-
gencv fired on crowd of miners that
was assaulting workmen on their way
home under escort. a man and a liz
tie girl were instantly killed. and
ctNfil OAlltfN XII. IlOtt VI lt-S Stil-
ously wounded.
Three regiments of infantry. a bat
terry of artillery and a troop of cav
airy were ordered out. at midnight of
the 2lst. by Gov. Stone of Pennsyl-
vania. TO assist Sheriff Toole in main
tanning order in the Schuylkill county
anthracite coal fields.
Axts.1IaI - 30 o, -,
falls Texas has ever experienced.
Trinity river rose 20 feet. on the 2lst.
drove 400 or 500 people from its bot
toms, washed away bridges. resi-
dences and household goods, and
caused other heavy damage in Fort
Worth. The rainfall during ten hours
was 100 inches.
The French warship Avalanche.
which has been investigating the kill
ing of Christians in the Samnoi dis
trict of China, near Canton. reports
that the crews of eight pirate junks.
by the connivance of influential per-
soss ashore, have sought TO DESTROY
all the Christian villages on the Can
ton delta.
Gen. James III. Wilson, Gen. Chat
fees chief of staff. took Pei-Ta-Chu
on the 18th. No details of the affair
have been learned. but the British of
.icials at Pekin have received dis
patch announcing that "fhc temples |
were taken according TO arrange
ment.-
In the attack by 5000 Germans ana !
Russians on the Pei Tang forts. on
the 10Th. 800 OF the attacking force |
were killed or wounded, for the most
part by the explosion of mines in the
ground over which they advanced.
President Mitchell of the United /
Mine Workers issued statement. on
the 2ls;. in which he LAYS the blame
for the conditions causing the strike
on the coal carrying railroads. He
says that they produce approximately
~ per cent of the coal. and place a
carrying charge against il three times
as great as is charged for the same
weight of bituminous coal. in order
to show small profit on their mining
operations.
Nilbcrt y. Hershberger, employed
by the Wabash Railroad Co. as an
hostler. at Decatur, ILL.,. has sued for
NOC for overtime. He SAYS the com
pany required him TO work u and ID
hours day. and paid him for only
ten hours. and he wants pay for the
overtime of several years past.
Miss Larissa Smaller celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary
in Tylerville. Conn. on the 2lst. She
is yet healthy and strong and looks
10 be not over 10. She is a descendant
of James Wells. one Of the original Is
Of the town of Haddam.
The census bureau announces that
the population of Dubuque. la. is &c.
200. as against 3O.3ll in 1890. This is
an increase Of 5,l96, or 1875 per cent.
The veteran steamboat owner and
captain. John X. Booth. died. on the
2lst. from the effects Of fan in the
cellar az his home in Wheeling. w. Va.
The body OF Frank Keynes. who
died az \Nn4rxvnsno. w.. 4