The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-08-15
CURRENT TOPICS.
I'll NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONA. AND GENERAL

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Keefe. at Murphysbcro, Ill, on the
night of the 4th. and bit MRS. heeie.
IL was killed with poker
An aged man. supposed TO be John
Gowan. wa killed by a street a IN
park. st. Louis. on the ga
Fire at Kalamazoo. Mich. on the
sth. caused a loss of property
to nearly 10000
The republicans of the Twenty
first Illinois congressional district
met at Springfield. on the 5th, n
nominated Leroy Anderson, OF lay
lorville, for congress
Large forest fires are raging near
Lander. Wyo., and in the southern
part of the state near Medicine o
forest reserve.
Secretary Shaw opened the repub-
lican campaign in Vermont by n
speech at Manchester on the night
of the 5th.
The drought which has prevailed
in Colorado for several weeks was
broken by heavy showers which fell
on the 9Th.
VIM Foraker. aged 70 years. a
cousin of Senator Foraker, Of Ohio.
died sudderl y at his home at Cen
tralia. Mo. on the 5th.
W.. d. Ragsdale. a merchant Of West
Vienna, H.. was shot and killed by
his son during a quarrel. on the eth
The Federal Salt Co. Of Portland.
Ore. on the 9th. advanced the price
Of salt five dollars per ton.
Joseph Stockhammer shot and
killed his brother-in-law. Frank :
Aegers. in the police u at Ho-
quaim. Wash. on the 6th-
John Forest died at Lebanon. Mo-,
on the 9th. as the result of being
struck on the head by a stone thrown
AZ him a few days before.
On the afternoon of the 9Th a work
train and a freight train collided on
the Omaha division Of the Milwaukee
4 ST. Paul railroad. two miles west
Of Rhodes. Marshall county. la. XIII
ing both engineers and several labor
ers.
Col. n. A. Wade, editor Of the Bate'
County Democrat. died of paralysis a
Butler. Mo-. on the 9th.
Rev. John w. Boyle. aged so years
was killed in a runaway at Guthrie
Okla. on the 9th.
Senator VI. 4. Hanna made an ad
dress at the Urbana tO) Chau'auqua
on the 9th.
The thirty-second annual CONVEX
ton Of the Catholic Total Abstinenc
Union of America began at Dubuque
Ia. on the 9th.
A rolling mill for the manufactur
Of railroad appliances. and employing
from 80 to 200 men at the start. !
TO be erected in or near Kansas City
Mo-, and to be in operation by JAM
airy next.
The democrats Of Wy 1ing met
convention at Eawlins. on the III
and nominated n state ticket. heade
by George II. Beck, Of Big Horn cour
ty, for governor.
The Oceanic hotel at Carolin
beach. Hanover county. n. C., W.
u.own down by n wind storm on II
eth. and IA of the guess were il
: jured-
. A wagonlpad of ten picnickers y;
struck by a freight train Mt a stree
crossing in Paducah, Ky. on the II
I and five Of them wer einjured-tv
fatally.
jim Highpeach and Brooks Cart
were killed and two Diners wounds
I In a fight in Jackson county. TEN
q on the 7th. the result Of an OIL feud
r A viking ship. 40 feet long. has be-
unearthed on the island Of Aarms
e Norway.
Henry Lancaster. who killed Chs
of-Police Wilmarth. at Womelsdor
W. Va. in July. and escaped, W
4 captured. on the eth. near Montro'
= W.. Va.
= The s4.fo0 reward offered by (
. state Of Oregon for Tracv's body "
= not be paid for some time, owing
the NUMBER Of claimant.
The University Of Chicago will C
- fer the honorary degree 81 LID.
20 President Roosevelt when he Wis
= that city on October 3.
=, Three hundred employees OF
10 Capps a. Sons clothing factory.
Jacksonville. Ill, went on a strike
I, the 9TH.
Two children were burned to dcs
At Klamath. Ore. n the 9th. WI
an playing with mntcne near a can
Kerosene.
IL s. 4. Davis. Of Otoe county. v
II, Nominated by the prohibitioniets
II. governor of Nebraska. on the 7th.
II By an explosion in n coal mine
~ Trinidad, Col. on the 9TH. IS II
are aid TO have been killed.
s. A. Si6roe. of Springfield. Mo.
!. locomotive engineer on the trisco.
looking for his runaway wife. who.
- claims, deserted him and took So
w OF her " money and 500 q. his.
NJ The body FOUND in the ditch
~ Mayfair. near Chicago, was iientif
as that Of Amelia Miller. n snffci
from Bright's discas". and death Is
ueycd TO have been ~ suicide