The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-10-17
LATE NEWS iTEEas


broke. Ky. white man named
Young, while intoxicated. killed an
aged colored woman with an AK and
fatally wounded an old colored man
by cutting his throat. He was put in
Jail in time to prevent q lyn,hin by
Infatuated negroes.
Mrs. Ella Riley and her son-in-law
w. w. Cowger, were granted permits
sion, on the 18th. 10 give bonds for
their appearance TO answer at tria
in the Jackson county IllD circuit
court for the murder of the woman'>
husband. for which they are Jointly
| indicted.
| Three masked men held up train
on the Burlington road near Lincoln.
| Neb., on the night of the 18th, and
robbed the express car of sum OF
money said to be 100000. dynamite
was used to blow the safe open.
The strike of the employees of the
New Orleans street railways came TO
an end on the 18th. the strikers being
| granted an advance in wages and
making some concessions to the com
pany on their part.
At Omaha. eb. on the 12th. Arthur
Moran and his three children were
poisoned. two of them f. tally, by eat
| ing cakes in which his wife had placed
arsenic by installing it for baking
powder
In a quarrel about a woman. al
Butte, Mont. on the 18th. J. ". Kelly,
editor of paper. shot and fatally
wounded A. II. Cawley, a prominent
physician of that place.
Two Italians were killed and one
fatally wounded as result of
drunken row at a railroad camp near
Suttons bay. Mich, on the 18th.
Frederick 4. heener, formerly of IL
linois. but recently a prominent citi-
zen of Denver, Col. died at his home
in that city, on the 18th.
Miss Grace Overly committed sui
eide at Wabash. Ind. on the l2th. by
throwing herself under the wne,Is Of
d locomotive.
Two men committed suicide at
Washington. ID. G.. on the 18th. both
being over sixty years of age.
An engineer and brakeman were
killed in railroad accident near
Barre. Pa, on the 18th.
Walter Brown was killed by Deputy
Marshal Sumner in street duel at
Cadiz, Ky. on the 18th.
a hail storm in 81. Louis. on the
night of the 18th, did damage esti-
mated at $4,000.
A conference at Washington, on the
18th, between President Roosevelt and |
j. +. Morgan and associates resulted |
In an agreement to refer the differ
ences between the coal operators and |
miners to commission of five per-
sons. which il was believed would |
lead to an early settlement Of the |
strike.
Mrs. Andrew Doan was shot and
killed in mysterious manner near
Level Green. Pulaski county. Ky. two
bullets being fired into her brain. Her
husband was only short distance
away, but knows nothing of the kill
ing.
The ST. Paul railroad has purchased
$4,000 acres Of coal land in Putnam,
LaSalle. Bureau and IIennepin coun-
ties, Illinois. at cost of 81 900 900
and will furnish fuel for is own sys-
tenn Of roads for all time to come.
NJ. Murnane. Chicago lawyer. died
Of hemorrhage of tire lungs at FL
Paso, Tex. on the 18th. after witness
ing n bull fight in which two horses
were disemboweled and gored 70
death.
Two men were killed, four fatally
and n number OF others seriously in
jured by an explosion in the Victor
coal mine, at Pawnee. H.. on the 18TH
John l.. McLarcn. survivor Of the
famous charge of the Light brigade
1t Balaklaya. died al Salt Lake City,
Utah, on the 18th, aged 50 years.
At Tracey, Mimi. on the 18th. Ed.
Stricken killed his wife and young
son, seriously wounded another per-
son, and then committed suicide.
Gov. Odell Of New York opened the
republican campaign in that state, on
the night Of the 18th, by making a
number of speeches in Brooklyn.
Millard ,. Dcnslow was arrested at
Buffalo, \. T.. on the 18th. charged
with stealing $4,000 from Chicago
firm by which he was employed.
Mrs. Alexander Small. sister Of
United States senator Shelby NJ Gull
lom. of Illinois. died at her home. in
Chicago, on the 18th.
Allen Hyden, county judge Of Ows-
ley county. Ky. was shot and killed
from ambush early on the morning
of the 18th.
Two aeronauts. De Bradski and
NORM. were killed by falling from a
balloon near Paris. france. on the
13th.
Several hundred ciekr makers went
, n q strike at Tams !, Fla, On the