The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-11-14
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

- A. 4'eAASAt, SAahlAoA wing ~AN-
of the west. died ut Creole. Col. ON
the 9Th. of typhoid pneumonia.
Rev. W. c. Rabe, 81 years old. pas
tor Of German Baptist church al
Omaha. Neb.. and Miss Augusta
Busch, aged 81. missionary and as
sis'ant 10 the pastor. were found dead
In the study in the rear of the church,
on the morning or the 5th, locked ir
each others arms 1t is believed that
death was accidental. the theory be-
ing that the pair had fallen asleep.
and that the stove flame blew out,
the escaping gas suffocating them.
At conference held in the gov
ernor's sick room at Springfield. ILL.,.
on the 5th, between Private Secretary
Oglesby. DIR. Taylor and Gov. Yates.
il was decided that present conditions
would not justify the calling of Lieut.
Gov. Northcott to the governors
chair.
H. H Stats, Wabash freight con
ductor. slipped and fell under the
wheels of his train at ST. Charles.
No. on the 9Th. and before it could
be stopped he was literally ground to
pieces
At Saranac Lake. \. ", on the 9Th.
John Mooney. While drunk, shot and
killed one woman. fatally wounded
his sister. and shot a man through
the lungs.
In street fight at Orange, Tex.
on the sth. JEFF Chenault was shot and
killed by VIII Harris, City Marshal
Jordan was killed by an unknown
party, and Tony Jones was killed by
officers as he was trying TO escape
after handing one of the combatants
a gun
Leon l.. Strause. a tobacco dealer OF
Richmond, Va, filed a petition in
bankruptcy. on the 5th. his liabilities
being S3oo.599 and assets s455,543.
Robbers dynamited bank at Rich
ards, No, on the night of the 5th, and
stole $1,000. The same bank was
robbed six years ago.
Three men and boy were drowned
by the capsizing Of naphfha launch
in Long Island sound, on the 5th.
Francis NJ Cockrell. Jr.. son OF the
United States senator. and Miss Mil
Ter Pope were married at Jefferson
City. No, on the 9Th.
Fred. Pennington. pioneer Mime
sofa lumberman. died Of typhoid
fever ut North Yakima, Wash, on the
5th.
Charles o. Zeigenfuss. well-known
newspaper man, was found dead in y
San Francisco hotel. on the 9th. An
open gas jet. supposed 10 have been
left open Intentionally. leads to the
belief that 1t was a case of suicide
Joseph Farrow and Marion Gunn ha d
difference over election matters al
Grandin, NO., on the 9th, and fought
on the street with pistols, with the
result that both men were killed.
Parson Green. of Eldorado, ILL.,. the
colored preacher who has been guard
ed by militia for some months. left
that place. on the 9Th, TO take up his
residence at Carmi, Ill.
In a fire which destroyed mill and
elevator at Nashville. Tenn. on the
Sth, $1,000 bushels of wheat and IL ,0Ot
barrels of -four were burned. the tota
loss being $4,000.
Brooding over business troubles
caused the suicide Of Thos. II. Mann
son Of the late Robert Mann. the a,
manufacturer, at Lock Haven. Pa.
on the 9th.
Extensive preparations are being
made at Quincy, ILL.,. for the water
I =.
city on November IL and 10.
James Bell was arrested ct Lincoln
ILL.,. on the 9th. on a charge Of fatal,
s.abbing Robert Woodward in a quar-
rel over n woman.
Robbers blew open the safe of {
bank at Herington, Kas-, on the 9th
secured $500 in currency, and escaped
on q hand car.
Mrs Joseph Sharpe was killed, OF
the 9th, while crossing a railroad
track at Hudson. Mclean county, Ill.
The next conve alton of the Baptis
Young Peoples Union Of America vii
be held at Atlanta. Ga, In July, 1903.
Eight men were crowned and mucl
shipping destroyed by a storm a
Nome, Alaska. October IA.
William Golliday was killed by a Bis
-Four train near Charleston, Ill, Oh
the night Of the 5th.
There was an advance Of two cent
in the price Of crude oil as Lima, y.
on the 9th.
A union station. costing half n nail
lion dollars, is to be built at I'll Paso
Tex.
a. f. Pfcgcr. fireman on the Indi
annapolis a. Vinccnnes road, myst. ri
ously disappeared from his engine. OF
the 9th. and next day his dead bod,
was found near Martirsvillc, Ind. L
Is believed he was jolted from his en-
} CINE.
Election bets amounting to nearl,
$4,000 were paid in New York, OF
The 7th.