The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

huiClut, IN the ftN, ny SHbpliuS Iilii-
self. No cause is known, as his ac-
counts are believed to be correct.
by the ditching of Northern Pa
cific train, on the Sd, at Scudder Spur,
Mont, Engineer C.. 5. Owen was killed
and many Of the passengers badly cut
and bruised.
Jockey Burt Metcalf was fatally in
jured by his horse falling on him at
the state fair grounds, St. Paul, Mimi,
on the fth
w. A. Il. Pike. who had been operat-
ing an investment agency AT ST. Jo-
seph, Mo-. was arrested, on the 4th,
on warrant charging him with
swindling.
The body Of Louis Peters, farmer,
was found in a ditch near Washing
ton. Mo-, on the 18th. He had been
bored by bull almost beyond recog-
milton.
A. J. Cummings & Co., large
brokerage house of Pittsburg. Pa.
suspended business on the 4th. The
liabilities are not known.
Rev. :. Brown was gored TO death
by bull, near Walthall, Okla, while
attempting TO drive cattle from one
pasture 10 another.
james i. Taylor and wife commit
ted suicide at Des Moines. Ia, on the
4th. asphyxiating themselves by turn
ing on the gas.
Jesse Walker. a neg accused Of
assault on a white woman, was
hanged by mob at Hampstead, Tex.
on the 4th.
DR.. Herman L. Wiles, pastor OF the
First Lutheran church in Mansfield,
O., died of hear failure, on the 4th.
Euclid Madden, the motorman,
and James Kelly the conductor, who
were in charge of the car which
wrecked the carriage Of the president
at Pittsfield, Mass, killing Secret
Service Agent Craig, have been held
to answer charge of manslaughtcr
The steamships Glencoe and Devon
shire are each .o.ida.iIg, at Swansea,
/ Wales. 1000 tons of anthracite coal
for New York. These are the first car
goes to be shipped from Great Britain
to New York.
Messages of congratulation on his
providential escape from death or
serious injury fairly rained in upon
President Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay
on the 4.h, among the first being one
from Emperor William of Germany.
The patent Office at Washington is
doing a lively business in looking into
inventions for burning oil for fuel
purposes. both for the production OF
heat and power. There have been
granted up TO date 1850 patents for
using oil as fuel.
Dailey Kerekas. a Lowell (Mich.)
veterinary surgeon, was arrested by
officers Of Ionia county, on the Attn.
charged with sending poisoned
headache powder TO George Merritt,
of Saranac.
Col. ]. A. Chalaron, secretary of tLS
Confederate Memorial association at
New Orleans, has expressed himself
as being unalterably opposed to re-
ceiving any Grand Army aid for the
confederate home at Mission Creek,
Ala, as suggested by Gen. Ell Tor
rance.
A Boxer proclamation has been
posted at Canton, China. melting the
slaughter of foreigners. Ii is ascribeo
10 the commencement of work on the
| Capton-Hankow railroad and TO the
collection of funds for the payment
of the foreign indemnity.
The National Association Of Post
Office Clerks, by practically unani.
nous vote, rejected the proposition
TO affiliate with the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Resolutions were
adopted declaring that such an al
lance would prove d trimental.
In anticipation Of third challenge
from Sir Thomas Upton for the
Americas cup. il is said that a syndi-
cate has been formed for the building
Of another d, fender. The llerreshoffs
will be given the order.
President Roosevelt left Washing
ton, on the 9Th. on his southern trip.
The only stops he will make will be
at Wheeling, w. Va, Chattanooga and
Knoxville, Tenn. and Asheville. y. G.
The democratic state convention al
GOcaIellD, lQdnO. On lnt ON. Hoffli
mated Joseph III. Hutchinson for con-
gress and indorsed the Kansas City
platform and VIM. j. Bryan.
Thomas Lewis. a miner, living at
MaSquisvillc, la. was arrested, on the
5th, charged with the murder of Lena
Patterson and her brother, in Des
Moines, Ia. on April 10 last.
An intimate friend Of President
Roosevelt says there is no truth in
the report that the president intends
TO visit Colorado soon on a hunting
trip.
Martin G. Ruiz. California pioneer.
In dead at his home at Santa Monica.
aged l07 years.
In New York, on the 5th. Senator
Plat reiterated his assertion. mad f,
on August 30, that the coal strike
would end by the middle Of Sepiem
Der.