The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-11-21

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steamer Elingamitc were rescued by
the British steamer Penguin after be-
ing on a small raft from Sunday until
Thursday. The only food they had
was two apples, and they suffered
great hardships and were terribly
cmaciated when picked up
| John Sloan was shot and killed by
James Pratt at hotel in Somerset,
Ky, on the 10th. Pratt angered Sloan
by telling him to turn over in bed, and
in quarrel that ensued Pratt drew
knife, but was shot by Sloan before
he could use il.
Armour & Co.'s packing plant at
Sioux City, Ia, covering four acres OF
ground, was destroyed by fire, on the
10th. entailing loss of nearly a mil
] lion dollars. and throwing GOO men
out of work. 1t will be rebuilt at
once.
At Chillicothe. o.. on the 10th. Will
lam Smith pulled the trigger of \
gun, after he had induced Pearl JUS
tice to smell the muzzle. and blew JUS
tees head off. Smith claims he did
not know the gun was loaded.
w. j. Linkenhoger died at hos
pital in st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 10th.
from knife wounds alleged to have
been inflicted in fight with Robert
Craig. by whom he had been en-
ployed.
An Italian anarchist named Genera
Rubino made an attempt to kill King
Leopold, of Belgium, on the 18th, by
shooting at him as he was leaving
church in Brussels, but missed his
aim.
Hugh Curran was killed and dozen
men, women and children more or less
seriously injured in a collision be
tween an electric car and a freight
train, in Chicago. on the 10th.
Harlan Buckles, who was sentenced
at Elizabethtown, KY, on the 18th, to
life Imprisonment for murder, was ta-
ken from the Jail by mob, on the
10th, and hanged to tree
An assassin shot through the rear
of a private car, at Waukegan. Tex,
on the 10th. and killed {. w. Tate,
master mechanic of the Gulf, Colora-
do e. Santa Fe railroad.
James Rose, young negro, shot
and killed his wife, at Youngstown, o..
on the 10th, then went TO his fathers
house and blew out his own brains.
| i. II. Thorp, a fireman, was killed in
a railroad collision at Rife, Col, on
the 10th.
There is a daily average Of 80 cases
of cholera in Manila.
A prospecting party in the noun.
tains of southern Nevada found the
skeletons of a number of people lying
close to spring, the water of which,
when analysed. was found TO be heavi-
ly charged with arsenic. which is be-
lieved to have caused their death.
Officials of the Armour g. Co. pack
ing plant at Sioux City, Ia, destroyed
by fire on the 10th, announce that the
new plant they are about to build viii
be one of the finest in the west.
Two students of college at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, fired six shots at
each Other ia street duel, on the
18th. One of them was thought to be
seriously injured.
The Lake Shore Railroad Co., on the
l
per cent. in wages to all switchmen
employed by the company outside Of
Chicago.
A fresh eruption of the volcano
Stromboli. off the coast Of Sicily. oc-
CURED on the 10th, accompanied by
terrific explosions and great flow
of lava.
The commission house Of Boardman
Bros, at Nevada. Ia, made an assign
ment, on the nth, with liabilities Of
sl5o,000 and assets about the same.
a Chicago firm has secured the con-
tract for the switchboard of a large
telephone system TO be installed at
ST. Petersburg, Russia.
John w. Davenport shot Charles
Olmquist, student who boarded with
him, at Madison, Wis, on the 18th. and
then committed suicide.
The body Of man named Datus lIar-
rington, supposed to have fallen off a
steamer, was found in the river at St.
Louis, on the nth.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, ar
rived at San Francisco, on the 18th, en-
route TO Washington, where she will
spend the winter.
Joseph France and William Norris
were killed by an explosion in pow
der mill, ut Seward Station, Pa, on
the 18th.
William Cooper was killed and hor-
ribiy manglcd by a railroad train, in
st. Joseph, Mo-, on the night of the
nth.
Fire at Niles. Mich, on the nth, de-
stroyed two large mills Of a paper
company's plant, causing loss Of $751;
600.
| Denver, Col, celebrated the forty
fourth anniversary Of its founding as
city. on the night Of the nth.
A heavy snow fell at Nardin, Okla,
on the 10th,