The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-12-05
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
At Ninth district United Mine Work.
ers' headquarters it is stated that H..
600 men and boys out of 81 600 former
mine employees are still idle.
The post office at Clark's Hill, Ind
was entered and the safe dynamited
About $500 worth of stamps were
taken.
Job Williams. colored. was hanged at
Bridgeton, N. j.. for the murder on Oc-
tober % last of John S. Holmes. an
aged farmer, and the latter's house
deeper. Miss Catharine Shut
In livery stable fire at East Boston.
Mass, FIVE firemen were injured. %
horses persisted and large number of
carriages and sleighs were destroyed.
Benjamin Watson and his wife, Eliza
beth, an aged couple. lost their lives
In IRE that entirely destroyed their
small cottage at Newport. X. /.
Clint E. Osborne. assistant postmas-
ter and proprietor Of the general store
in the village Of Warren, Mich. was
shot dead by one of gang Of robbers
that had entered the Warren bank and
blown open the safe.
The annual report of Director Of
the Mint Roberts shows that the
coinage capacity will be greatly in
creased with the completion of the
new mint at Denver.
Chicago national banks reported
$lS.Os3.131 loss in loans from Septem-
Der Is to November IS and s13.o1o,s16
loss in deposits.
John Mitchell and the miners at
torneys accuse the anthracite oper-
ators with repudiating Wayne Mac
Veagh, their attorney, and violating
their own agreement in refusing 10
accept strike settlement.
The Vermont legislature probably
will renounce state prohibition of the
liquor traffic. Democratic support of
license plan is credited with election
victories n many towns. The temper
ance element will resist change.
William Theobald, special customs
agent at New York, was discharged by
Secretary Shaw following a charge
that he advised Mrs. Ida H. Dulles.
Philadelphia, not to declare q sc. 900
necklace she brought from Europe.
In Hancock county, in the mountains
of upper East Tennessee, Richard
Green probably fatally shot his wife
and daughter in an attempt to kill
himself. He then shot and killed him
self, using a shotgun.
Thanksgiving day was generally OBJ
served in the usual manner throughout
the country, and by Americans in many
European capitals.
Chairman Mcpherson has sold his
seat ON the New York stock ex-
change. and will retire. The sale price
is said to have been $50. 900.
Postmaster General Payne's annual
report recommends free mail delivery
in all cities Of 5000 population or 1000
gross receipts. The postal deficit for
the fiscal year is S2.06l.l.0.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson has
ordered q quarantine against cattle.
sheep and swine in New England and
prohibited their expectation or ship
ment elsewhere. The foot and mouth
disease IL epidemic in four states.
The steamer Sylvanus j. Macy. with
is men. sunk in Lake Erie during Sum
day nights gale. The news was
brought to Detroit by the barge Mabel
Wilson. which the Macy was towing.
The steamer Bannockburn is believed
tobe lost in Lake Superior with 20 men.
President Roosevelt answered the
objection 1t white citizens against .
negro az collector Of Charleston Is.
c. port. and declared he would not dis
criminate between whites and blacks
showing equal ability for Office
The st. Louis flyer on the Big Four
road was wrecked near Avon. Ind. by
broken rail. II is believed that many
persons were killed.
american corxets rule this mar.
ket." says United States Consul Ma
hin. reporting to the state depart
mint from Nottingham. England. on
popular American wares in England.
After eluding arrest for several
months, Charles r. Kelly. the former
speaker Of the ST. Louis house ~
delegates. who is wanted IN the west.
ern city in connection with the
bribery csses uneaithed there some
time ago. was arrested. He had lust
returned from Liverpool.