The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-07-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

looking and well-dressed. committed
suicide at Niagara Falls. on the 18th,
by jumping into the rapids on the
American side of the river from Goat
Island bridge. Her body was swept
over the falls.
Cholera is still spreading in the
Philippine provinces. The provincial
totals are i4.567 cases and lo.937
deaths. Manila averages 40 cases
daily.
The fire which broke out in the oil
storage tanks at jennings, La, on the
18th, has not yet been subdued, but
was burning fiercely up to the night
Of the 10th.
Five thousand stamps, believed to
have been part Of those stolen In
the post Office robbery in Chicago
last fall, when $4,000 in stamps were
taken, were found in a bureau drawer
on North Clark street, in that city,
on the 10th. 1t is thought this viii
furnish a clew to the robbers.
Scarcity OF water in the Platte river
and the extravagant use OF the di-
minished supply have brought Den
YER, Col, TO the verge Of water
famine. The city contemplates the
cutting off of the water used Ton
manufacturing purposes.
At cambridge, Col, on the 10th. l..
A. Scott, alias Pug" Ryan. notori-
Gus desperate of Colorado and the
northwest, was found guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree for killing
Ernest Conrad. an officer. about
three years ago.
The convention of United Mine
Workers met at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the nth. President Mitchell strong
" opposed TIE ordering Ut q sympa-
thetic strike, and advocated in its
place the levying Of an assessment
upon members of the order who are
at work. as the best means OF afford
ing aid and support TO the striking
anthracite men in the east.
Willie Cannon. young negro
tramp, confessed at Birmingham,
Ala, on the 18th, that he had recent
ly killed four babies-one white and
three colored. The body Of one has
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tigating his tale as TO the others.
A passenger train on the Texas 4
Pacific railroad went through a
bridge over the Sabine river, near
Mineola, Tex. on the 18th. Several
cars were wrecked and the baggage
master, II. NJ Peck. was killed and
about thirty passengers injured.
A 1o-foot whaleboat containing 1d
walters and mattresses employed at
the Oceanic house, Isle of Shoals, n
H., who had gone out in the bay on
pleasure trip, on the nth, capsized
during n sudden squall and IA Of the
occupants we're drowned.
A man named Henry F. King en-.
tered the New York Founding asy-
lum. on the 18th, and shot two sisters
of charity. neither Of them fatally
He then shot himself slightly. King
is believed TO have been demented.
Since his removal TO Cowes the
progress of the king has been so rap
id that his physicians have ordered
for him more liberal diet.
The official inquiry into the cir
cumstances surrounding the death OF
Albert c. Latimer. who is supposed
to nave be,L shot by a burglar early
or the morning of July 2, was be
gun in Brooklyn on the 18th.
The Mississippi river continues to
rise at Hannibal, and on the 17tt
the gauge showed a rise Of five inches
in "a hours. Around Alton the sifua
! ton is serious as the water in en-
. croaching on the fields.
DR.. ]. NJ. Cary and Lee Eagle were
mysteriously shot TO death early or
the morning of the 18th, while stand
, ing in front of hotel at Groveton
Tex. Each of them received bullei
, In the stomach.
: Two masked men attempted to holt
! up Rock Island train near For
: Worth, Tex, on the night of the 18th
The engineer and firemen opened fir
on the robbers and they fled tc TIL
I brush.
/ The Jennings oil well blaze Is no
D vet under control. Three thousan,
/ dollars was offered on the nth Z
e anyone who could extinguish tn
0 fire.
Two brothers named Jaubert wen
to the home of one of them, nea
: Oraville. ILL.,. early on the morning o
!, the 18th, in an intoxicated condition
q and began abusing his wife and a
$ last attacked her. The woman file
;, to another room, the door Of whic
II the men kicked in, when Mrs. Joubei
fired three shots into her husband
body, killing him instantly. nj
! brother attempted to strike her, whe
9 she shot him. and he died soon afte
. The coroner's jury exonerated Mr.
r Joubert.
y Heavy rainfalls in central Iowa, Q
y the s1th and 10th, raised all II
Z streams in that section, and the Mi
I. sissippi is rising rapidly. Telegraph
ic warnings have been sent to a
points south of Kcokuk. and u
: greatest damage ever known from
q, food on the upper river is predicte
= Fred weichbrod. 30 years old. al
!. . son and daughter Of Jacob P. Mu
y kopf, aged respectively IA and
= years, were struck by lightning ne