The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-05
LATE NEWS ITEMS

Three men are dead, -FOUR fatAliy III
;ured and "a Others seriously injured
as result Of tornado striking
train on the Chicago x Northwestern
railroad, near Owatonna, WIS. on Nu-
gust 81, and blowing all the ears Gown
an embankment.
DIR. A. o. Miller of Carrollton ILL.,.
who had been drinking heavily or
late. shot and killed his wife. on the
3lst. slightly wounded his little daugh-
ter. and then swallowed suihcicnt
laudanum to kill himself, dying III
the jail
Three men left Denver. Col, on Au-
gust 81. in Big Glory" one OF the
largest balloons ever constructed, on
a trip in which they will try TO beat
the worlds long distance record, ana
ultimately endea,or to reach New
York
The entire hosting plant. pumping
station and station and shafthouse OK
the Alice Consolidated Gold and Sill
yer Mining Co.. at Butte. Mont, was
destroyed 10y fire on August 81. Inc
loss is estimated at 100000.
Cbas. A. Starlwealer. a veteran oi
the civil war, 65 years old, was found
dead in barn at Valley Park, u
Louis County. Mo. on August u. Inc
coroner's verdict was that death was
due to alcoholisIs.
A detachment from the seventeen
Virginia regiment was sent from
Richmond. on August 81. to queii
street riot at Ashland, Va, between
; blacks and whites, in which one negro
was killed.
one hundred and fifty tons of hay
and several fields of growing crops
were destroyed by a prairie ire when
ragged for II hours near NARROW, /. A.,
, and which originated from cigarette
stub.
Carlisle ID. Graham. on August IL,
swan from the whirlpool below NJ
! arara Falls through the lower rapids
y to lewiston and appeared none the
: worse for his pcrilous trip.
A buggy containing Gus Thiele and
u George Shulver was run down oy q
: trolley car in Kansas City. on the
night Of August 81. and both men
were killed.
John Brown, a negro. who attempt
I ed 70 criminally assault young
u white girl near Monticello. Ga, Satur'
y day. was lynchcd on August 81.
, Cholera is increasing in the Philip
pines. the totals reported up to Au'
y gust 80 being 27,o2o cases and lS,ois
(. deaths.
y The balloon in which three men
left Denver. Col. on August ~. WIN
~ the intention of going TO New YORK
- was wrecked near Florence. Col. OF
the lst The aeronauts had a terrip''
experience, the balloon having peel
" three times carried over Pixies peak
- but aside from being severely bruised
re and frostbitten the occupants wer'
not seriously hurt.
Corporal Lloyd. the British ~"id'e
~ who confessed that he murdered
ne man in Kansas City. Mo. had an es
- aiming trial AT Colchester. England
~ on the 1st. He claims 10 be an Amer
'e lean citizen and "A deserter from IN
United States army, and says
~ killed the man for the purpose OF ro'
berry.
"A
- went down an cmbankment near ia
nv. Ala, on the lst. causing the dea'
:" of 30 persons and the wounding
many more As il was "A coloreu e
me cursion train. all the dead are u
I'VE proes. and but two white men we
&C. among the injured.
Labor day was generally ceiebrat'
ihs throughout the country. on 'he y
IN" and everywhere good order preNahe
A feature Of the day in some plac
IRE, wns the taking Of collections aio'
TO the line Of march for the benefit
4" the striking anthracite miners
: III William Troutman. OF Syndervil
Utah. who recently was discharg
at from the insane asylum. Drained
,art two daughters on the lst. rata
be wounded his wife. attempted TO m
,ota der the remainder of his family a
then killed himself.
ives Two stands at the horse show
Co., Denver. Col, suddenly collapsed
the the ist, precipitating the occupants
;, at the ground. A few were seriously
de- n number slightly injured. but tn
De- were no casualties.
Returns from the Arkansas eject
Joe M TO midnight of the lst inuic
the that the victory of the democra
ring state ticket Is complete ~ 80
(. At " light vote was pollcd through
the state.
'tary Sylvester Murphy i',"'e'' ~
nual at Litchfield, III was ~ ""u
r as- stantly killed by an assassin. on
the night Of the LIST. the shot being y
through window 81 his house.
was Nanny Price and Bob shrugg'
ional negroes. were hanged by mon
CON. Ncwberry, Fla. on the Isl.
, the statue of the late cx-Gov. Kos
Flower was unveiled at Watertt
N. ", on the LIST.