The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-07-05
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.



Mood.
The governors of the New lorl
stock exchange voted. ON the Goth. no
to close the exchange on July 5 and 6
At a meeting of the Harvard Alum
oi association at Cambridge. Mass.
IN the Goth. Hon. John ID. Long wa.
elected president.
4 portrait of Louisa, LADY Manners
Afterwards countess of Dysart. by
Soppner. was sold a. auction. in Lon.
don. on the 18th. for 1850 ~gnineas.
Max ker>haw. formerly of Denver,
md who at n time was one OF Nale's
oest-known athletes. died in San Fran
, cisco. on the 9Th. aged % years.
The secretary OF the treasury. on
the 27th. purchased 100000 short
term four-per-cent. bonds at il3.gl3S-
Boer invaders. under Malan and
Smit. about three thousand stroac.
attacked Richmond. Cape Colony.
early on the morning of the 25rh. The
town was defended by a detachment
of the North Stafordshire militia
under Capt. IIawkshaw and the own
guard After a fight lasting l. hours
tie Boers Withdrew.
The Seycnth national bank Of Nev.
York city vas placed in the hands or
a temporary receiver by the como
troller of tho currency. on The 9th.
because OF tine indie biednesS Of a Dor
rover. approxinating Sl.6o0.oO0. "a
cured by doubtful collateral.
La Lucha lia,anaj. referring edi-
torially 10 the annexation movement.
warns its agitators 10 proceed slowly.
SAYING prematur. action will prove
efforts should he saved for hat time
in the future when the problem Ok
annexation comes up.
The jury at Eldorado. KaS.. after
wraneling for 80 hours. found Miss
Jessie Morrison guilty Of manslaugh-
ter in the second degree for the kill
ing Of Mrs. Olin ID. Castle. The penal
" is not more than five years nor
less than three years imprisonment.
The jury ~ Springfield. o.. in the
case Of George W. Thatcher. charged
with forging the name of The late
millionaire. T.. l.. Mast. TO notes ag-
g~regating >as6.000. returned a verdict
of acquitial.
While Alfred Norlin. the county
treasurer. was working in his Office in
the courthouse. at Minden. Neb.. on
the night Of the eth. some one en-
tered and knocked him senseless. and.
after rifing his pockets and the
money drawer. set fire to the build
ing.
The grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
mother Of Abraham Lincoln. in Spen-
a creditable monument. 1t has just
been completed and j. now ready TO
turn over 10 the commission created
by the last general assembly.
Thomas e.. Barker, who shot Rev.
John Keller. and who was found gui.
~ by a jury at Jersey City. y. j.. was
sentenced. on the eth. TO FIVE years
imprisonment and TO pay the costs Of
the trial.
Us a result of the breaking Of a
temporary platform built on a scat
folding inside and bridging the toy OF
a monstrous tank in the Eastern ele-
vator at Buffalo. \. ". six men fell
"A distarce OF 30 feet. -Four were
killed. one instantly. and the others
not expected 10 live.
There arrived AT Ashcroft. II. c. IN
he 9Th. a gold brick weighing 1000
pounds. representing the greater por-
tion of the years clean up Of the
Carihoo Mining Go.
All the flint glass factories OF the
country operated under the scales Of
me American Flint Glass Workers
union. closed down, on the Goth. for
periods ranging from four weeks to
two months. Fully forty thousand
men and boys will enjoy the CUSTOM
AIRY summer vacation.
At Chrisiies' auction rooms in Lon
don. on the 2s;h. a pair OF small
Louis Nv. cabinets. with brass mounts.
and executed by Cafiieri. which were
formerly the property Of the duke Of
Leeds. were sold at auction for EI5.-
GOO.
Miss Minnie A. Sfoner, dean Of the
department and professor Of
domestic science in the Kansas State
Agricultural college. has been elected
professor of domestic science in the
Ohio state university.
On the 2sth Il. 6. Dun 4 Co. report
ed: Failures for the week num-
bersd 2oI in the United States. against
2o7 for the corresponding week last
wear. and 3 in Canada, against 81 last
year.
The secretary of the treasury. on
the 2sth. bought $4,000 .hort-term
five-per-cent. bonds NJ 100. D se7.340I
threes at i09.9c0I, and $1,000 fourx at
i17.slsT.
During a storm, on the csth. light
ming killed four men. sfl OF whom
large families. who we're nj
work harvesting In a wheat field on
he J. c. Halbcrt farm. near Lodi. Ind.