The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-04-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


; Prentice Tiller and j. II. Grant,
alias a. Ii. Chase, alias A. +. Martin,
who were recently arrested In Ne
braska, and who were wanted by the
federal authorities in Cincinnati ana
other cities for robbing the United
States mails. made a sensational dash
for liberty in the Union station Mt |
Chicago on the eth. Grant made his
escape, but Tiller was recaptured.
In the volunteer cyclists maneuvers
ordered by the British war Office, the
attack on London, on the 18th. proved
that the military value of wheelmen
is largely dependent on the weather.
The attacking force outgeneralcd the
defenders. put lost so many men III
the rain and owing to the bad roads
that il was unable to attack in force
at the proper time.
Fifteen hundred ponds OF dyna-
mite were used by the authorities OF
the port. on The goth. in blowing up
the forward superstructure of the
sunken United States collier Merri-
mac. which has long impedcd entrance
TO the harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
The explosion was plainly heard in
the city, five miles away.
Mrs. Isabel Thompson, aged 60
wears. was fatally wounded in Kansas
City. Mo-. on the night of the eth, by
a footpad, who, in attempting TO rob
the woman, crushed her skull with
coupling pin. She was returning home
from church when assaulted. ut Seven
teenth and Holmes streets, an unfre-
quented part OF the city.
Probably ten thousand persons par
| ticipated, on the eth, in the dedica-
ton of the Second Church of Christ,
Scientist, at Wrightwood and Pine
Grove avenues. Chicago. So great was
the asscmblage that quadruple
service was held. the church being as
often filed with new and different
congregations.
At the services. on the eth. OF the
Syrinn Greek Orthodox church. in
New York city. it was announced that
| Gar Nicholas III. of Russia had given
| 1000 roubles. or about one thousand
dollars, toward the building fund az
the church which is soon 10 be erect
ed in Brooklyn.
According to the ST. Petersburg cor
respondent Of the London Daily Mail.
import duties for Nladivostock have
been raised on all American iron,
steel and machinery.
The ST. John schooner Wcndall Bur-
nee went ashore on the cape near
Portland. Me-, about noon on the
nth. and the mate only WAS saved.
Mrs. Prudence Smith ard Mrs. Jane
McNutt, and her daughter, were
arraigned in Judge Manning's court,
in Kansas City. Kas.. on the 18th. on
the charge of destroying property in
an Armourdale Joint. March IL. and
the county attorney dismissed the
, ease. The women refused 10 say
! whether they intended TO continue
F, their crusade against the joints.
Mrs Carrie Nation says she will sue
the city of Topeka. Kas.. for some OF
her hatchets which are now in the
possession of the police department.
: The hatchets were .aken from her on
the occasions OF several arrests dur
~ Ing SilOOi way frt' - e'N'~'
demand on the chief of ,,olicc Tor
the hatchets, on the eth, but was re-
!, fused.
Congressman II. b. Gordon. Of the
! Fourth Ohio district. and other mem
bcrs of congress, will visit the Phil
l ippines this summer. They VIII leave
the first of the month. Congressman
d Gordon says ii is his desire 10 make
d a study of the actual conditions. and
{ thus be better able TO handle Philip
J. pine matters in tho next congress.
4 Thelma Taylor. the four-yerr-olt
! daughter of Chas. Taylor. For
Wayne (Ind) railway conductor. re
- siding i'm Chicago, died at laporte
y Ind, on the 7th, as the result OF ar
l. scnical poisoning caused by eatin'
&c paint samples off an advertising fold
" err.
4 According to expert opinion Chin
~ would lie able tn pay from twenty Z
thirty million pounds sterling inden
D. nifty without gripping her fnancia
IN resources. while the amounts whic
n the powers ut present demand aggr,
rs gate from Is0,Oo0,00O TO l00.0o0.0o'
=, Ten new cases Of smallpox were r.
~ ported in Kansas City, Mo-. on tn
9TH. There we're nearly one hundre
=" smallpox patients in the pesthous
~ OF the 9f5 sufferers since the on
az break Of the epidemic, only four ha
a. died up 10 the 18th.
70 The naval ship Supply Is to be owe
- hauled and refitted as a station sh
for the Island of Guam. She will tai
D. the place Of the collier Brutus. whie
We IL now on her way 10 the United Stat
di. to he laid up for repairs.
40 Large and excited Gnti-clcric
&c, meetings Mt Malaga. Corunna and els
- where have passed resolutions d
manding that the government exp
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