The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-10-31
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Four sisters of the loungers attend
ed the funeral, and several former
members of Quantrel's band acted as
pail bearers.
The schooner Courtney Ford and
the ship Louis Walsh, both OF San
Francisco. have been lost in Alaskan
waters. Four men were drowned.
Hennessey lie Roylc, well-known
actor. died at Vacaville. Cal, on the
ED. from erysipelas. He was . ma
tive of Australia.
1t is said that, within the next few
weeks the Southern Pacific will be
called upon to increase the wages 81
its more than 10000 employees. who
are organized into strong unions.
The convention of the Disciples of
Christ, which closed at Omaha, Neb.,
on the esd, was the largest in the
history Of the denomination. Over
1000 delegates were registered.
In the Molineux trial, in New York.
on the esd. the defense scored a point
when Judge Lambert ruled that the
Barnet letters, as evidence, must be
excluded as improper.
At the close Of a speech in In
dianapolis, on the night of the esd.
Senator Hanna almost collapsed from
physical exhaustion, and had to be
assisted to seat.
Pension Commissioner Ware ar
rived at Fort Scott, Kas., on the esd.
with the remains of his father, who
died in Washington. The funeral was
held the same day.
The directors OF the Masonic Tenn
pie, Chicago, have decided to pay the
taxes on the property of the assooia-
ton. amounting to S26,670 and pro-
coed against Capt. Williams 10 re-
cover the $4,000 received by him 10
pay the taxes.
Ernst Augustus Renner. former
principal of the Cincinnati public
schools, died at his home in his eigh-
ty-first year from heart failure. lie
was one Of the IL men who carried
Napoleon Bonaparte's coffin on its re
moval from st. Helena to Paris.
Twenty children were born in II
years to Joseph Metayer, a painter
As years old, who died at Springfield
Mass, on the Esd. from the results OF
injuries received in all.
Albert SELF, the 1s-year-old youth
who threw brick. causing the death
Of aged John Moehsler, in st. Louis
on April %, was convicted OF murder
in the second degree and sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary by 9
jury on the Esd.
Judge John Henry Tlournoy. of the
superior court bench Of Virginia,
and formerly secretary of state OF
Virginia. dropped dead in the corridor
of the Latham hotel, Houston, Tex.
on the esd. He was president OF the
Pacific e. Atlantic Oil Co.
Uncle Sam has opened his chrys
anthemum show in Washington. He
has 900 of the plants on exhibition
and these represent 122 varieties. The
largest bloom of the big bunch
known as the "Black Hawk" meas
ures ~ inches in diameter.
According to the estimates OF the
mineral inspectors of the eight dis
tricts Of Pennsylvania, upwards OF
200, 900 tons Of anthracite coal should
be mined during the week beginning
on the 21th. The normal weekly out
put is 100000 tons.
In the presence Of large follow
ing of confederate veterans and theiI
families and friends, the Confederate
Veterans home was dedicated al
Pewee Valley. KY, on the 23d.
In Old Bailey court in London, or
the 23d. Lawrence Gerig, the c!erl
Of the Cranegie Steel Co. was found
guilty Of defrauding tho company Of
f25.oOo by fol gerry, and was sen
fenced to five years Imprisonment.
Mabel Ellison. an ex-telephone girl
has been arrested in San Francisco
for masquerading in male attire. Sh'
acted as bellboy for six weeks in ;
leading hotel. because, she said, sh'
could earn more while acting as
boy.
A Northern Pacific train was hell
up by lone bandit east of Bea
Mouth, Mont. early on the morning
Of the cath. Engineer O'Neil was sho
and killed and the mail and expires
cars were looted Of valuable contents
AZ last accounts bloodhounds were OF
the trail.
In collision between double
, header freights on the Cincinnati
| Southern, at Oneida, Tenn, on tn
cath, a fireman was killed. Both loco
motives, IS cars, two residences, tw'
, store buildings and Toulouse wer
, destroyed by fire caused by the wreck
Andrew Carnegie attended the lay
ing Of the foundation stone of on
Of the branch libraries in Dundee
! Scotland. on the oath, to which h
, had contributed sls5,ooo, and was pre-
scented with the freedom of the city.
: Secretary Of the Navy Moody vii
issue orders for the reassembling o
{ all the torpedo craft at Newport, i
l.. next summer for drill in torped
tactics.
) A number Of additional mines wer
PIT in operation in the anthracit
coal region, on the cath, and the out
put OF coal was measurnbly increased