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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12
PICTURES AND FREE COFFEE.
"ev' william Csrhle's Method of
CARRYING Religion 10 the sium
Dwe11ers of London.

London, Sept. Rev. Wilson Car.
bile. plenary chief secretary of the
church army. which he founded in the
siums in iss2. is introducing what is
designated here as american ideas
of religion" with vigor that star
ties his more orthodox brethren. His
latest is moving picture service COM
mencing next week. The pictures will
be the chief attraction of the midday
services at his church. in Eastcheap.
Only sacred representations will be
allowed, accompanied by short adj
dress. and by this means Rev. Garlic
hopes to attract Londoners to his
church. At the conclusion Of the serv-
Ice. all the worshipers will be given a
free cup of coffee.
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CURE FOR ASTHMA,
Free sample Packages VIII he Given
to All Sufferers

:, Sufferers from Asthma, Hay Fever or
Broncnltis will be interested to learn that
DR.. X. Schlifmanns Asthma Cure" in
SANITY relieves the most violent attack.
insures comfortable sleep and has effect
ed cures in Thousands of cases that had
previously tried every other remedy in vain a.
No waiting for results. Its action is imme-
date. direct and certain. So firm is his
confidence that the doctor requests this
paper to announce that ne mas sent TO drug
gists OF this town, as well as to all other
druggists in this country, sample packages
of his remedy which Will be given free to
sufferers of above complaints, who apply
promptly, thus Offering an opportunity to
such as have not yet tried the remedy to
make personal test which Will convince
the most skeptical.
Persons failing for any reason &c receive
a sample package from their druggist will
receive one free by mail by sending name
and address fenclosng cent stamp for
postagel 70 DIR. II. Schiffmann, Box sl4,
st. Paul. MINI
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

Memphis, Tenn, Sept. s.-"Baldy"
Taylor, negro desperate, entered q
car occupied by white people on q
railroad in Arkansas, between Osceola
and Luxora, on Sunday afternoon,
and attempted to secure seats for
some colored women who were with
him. On being demonstrated with by
white man, he shot three men, one
Of them fatally, and was himself
slightly wounded. The train was run
into Osceola, where a mob congrc.
gated and tried to- take the negro
from the iailer. hut moi being strone
enough. they sent for reinforccme nta.
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ne Hunted Chicago Murderer Commits
suicide ~ Ricsvilis. L.. Lesv-
Ing = Confession.

Chicago, Sept. s.-The body Of Z
man thought to be William Bartholin
murderer of his mother and sweet
heart in Chicago six weeks ago. was
found Saturday in field near Lowth-
er. Ia. 200 miles from Chicago.
A bullet hole in the head and re-
volver on the ground beside the body
showed how he had died. In the
pocket of the mans coat was a let
ter confessing 10 the murder, of his
mother and Miss Minnie Mitchell.
The confession was dated August 81,
and in ii the writer declares that he
killed his mother, Mrs. Anna Bar
tholin, for her money, and later muir
dered his sweetheart, Miss Minnie
Mitchell.
All others who have been arrested
In the case are cxonerated in the con-
fession, although Bartholin accuses
Minnie Mitchell of being a party to
the plot TO murder his mother.
The murder of Mrs. Bartholin, the
confession runs, was accomplished
according to a plot arranged between
the two lovers, and later Bartholin
killed Miss Mitchell.
The confession explicitly states that
Thompson, Claffy and Counselman,
the other suspects-thei names are
mentioned in the order givcn-are
guilty of no completely in the MUIR
der.
Letters signed M NJ" the initials
OF Minnie Mitchell, Bartholin's MUIR
dered fiancee, also were found in the
suicides pocket.
A verdict of suicide was returned
by the coroner's jury.
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The Murderer Exonerates All Whe
Arc Under Arrest

Riceville, Ia, Sept. s.--The text Of
the confession left by the suicide as
made public by DR.. r. S. Carpenter
coroner Of Howard county. follows:
ITO whom 1T may concern: / want
to state | am the Bartholin the police
are looking for. Also wish TO certify
! had no assistance Of any kind from
any one. thompson, Claffy and Coun.
selman are all as innocent as an I'M
born child and should be freed at
once.
Il can not go into details in re-
gard to the crimes. They were not
planned. IL was all Minnie and I
could do. My mind il wandering.
Such drop in life in a short time.
Two months ago travelling in the best
Of company; to-day living the life OF
hoboes; murderer.
Il intended TO go into details and
tell all. but / can't get my mind GEN.
tered. Even my handwriting is dis
graceful.
But above all things, ask to clear
everybody from under suspicion.
There is no second party; / am the
asst.
"W. j. BARTHOLIy,"
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POSTPONED HIS DEPARTURE.


Constantinople, Thursday. Sept. 4
The United States minister, John
Q. A. Leishman, who intended to start
with IL family on a vacation, Thurs
day. has postponed his departure
from Constantinoplc until Monday.
because Of request Of the sultan 10
see the minister before the latter
left All the recent claims Of the
United States are in course Of settle.
ment.
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Roosevelt Has Nothing to SAY.

Chattanooga Tenn, Sept. AS
soon as the dispatch from Cape Hay
ten was received here Sunday night
II was shown to President Roosevelt,
while he was in church. A reporter
later visited the Read house, where
the president is stopping The prcsi-
dent had retired, but Secretary Cortel-
you stated that the president had
nothing to say about the matter at
the present time.
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VICTIM OF SELF MURDER.
~esesee OF MAJ. Wn. >. Brackete At
Peoria, H., Probably Due 10
Domestic Trouble.

Peoria. ILL.,, Sept 6.-Maj. WIN. s.
brackctt. OF this city. was found dead
a bed. Friday morning. with bullet
hole through his head.
II - supposed Mr.. Bracket killed
himself because Of dependency over
family troubles, having secured a di.
vorce from his wife recently.
Nj. Bracket had large mining and
1nzing interests in Montana
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HAYTIEN cUNB0Ar SUNK.


Cape Haytien. Hayti. Sept. s.-Ths
gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot. which was in
the service OIL the Firminist party,
has been sunk at ,nc entrance of the
harbor Of Gonaiyes by the German
gunboat Panther. Details Of the oc-
currencc are lacking. The crew of
the Crete-a-pierrot left her before
she went down.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

Chicago. Sept. 7.-Indictments were
returned in Judge Chetlain's court,
Friday, against four men implicated
In the Masonic Fraternity Temple as
ISOLATION "tax-fixing" scandal, which,
has occupied the time Of the grand
Jury for several days.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

Washington, Sept. "A Post special
from Newport News. Va. says a tug
OF the New York. Philadelphia and
Norfolk fleet ran into the United
States gunboat Topeka there and
stove large hole in her port bow
lust above the water line.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

Yokohama, Sept. THE Japanese
cruiser Takachiho returned here to-
day from Marcus island. She reports
that Capt. Rosehill is at Marcus -
land. but that everything has been ar
ranged satisfac torily.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

rom connecticut woman's dairy, dhted
I.oV: We had roast pork for dinner. and
IT 3, who carved, held up rib on his
i9fk and said: Here. adaes. is what
Mother I've was made Of Yes said Sister
Patty, and it's mrcA the same kind OF crit
ter. Living Church.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

Cape Town. Sept. 7.--Owing TO an
outbreak of rabies In Rhodesia the M
tive chiefs have promised to destroy
all dogs except few favoritcs, which
means the killing Of 10000, to $4,000
caniues.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

While lovely woman is supposed to 20 al.
most any length in her beauty doctorirr.
not many of them can make the decision io
TAX less because wrinkles arc caused by
too much talking Milwaukee Sentinel
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

twas doctorcd by several good physi-
tcians, but none did me any good. MY
Imother was taking Peruna at the time
land gave some of it to me, and / soon
began to improve, and am now well
! and fat as little pig. am twelve
syears old. The doctors told mother I
had the consumption, but it was only
eatarrh- Miss Pearl Bousch.
] Its nolongeraquestion as to whether
Peruna can be relied on to cure a II such
cases. During the many years in which
Peruna has been put to test in ali forms
and stages OF acute and chronic catarrh
no one year has put this remedy 10
greater test than the past wear.
feruna is the acknowledged catarrh
remedy of the age. DIR. Hartman. the
compounder of Peruna, has written a
book on the phases of catarrh peculiar
TO women, entitled, Health and
beauty IL will be sent free to anv
address by The Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus, 0. ~
lfyou do not derive prompt and salts.
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to DR.. Hartman giving n
iull statement Of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President n,
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus.
Ohio.
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Mrs. NJ. X. Bousch, Richmond, Va,
writes:
~ mad cafarrh all through my sys-
fem for two years and could get no re-
HeL Twas advised 10 try Peruna, and
have taken five bottles Of IL and am
wen and better now than have been
for years. lean advise any one who
mas cafarrh of any part of the body 10
take Pcruna. My little girI, who Is
eleven years old had cetarrh, bur was
cured by Peruna. 4 fore began 10
fake Pergna was sick all the time.
but now am entirely cured and ali
praise Is due Peruna. Mrs. NJ. X.
BOuSch.
Miss Pearl Bousch, writes: "Whcn I
was baby 4 contracted catarrh, and
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-12

The earth shook with so great vio-
lence that she coud not retain her
feet. She was blinded by the glare Of
the flames. The heat was so terrific
that her flesh was blistered. She
awaited the death which she believed
to he inevitable. Fortunately the fire
swept . little to one side Of her, and
Ghe was saved.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-31
NORTH CAROLINA.

Newton Enterprise: NJ. f. E. Post
says he never knew cotton TO turn out
So we'll from a given amount of seed
as it does this year. From 1855 pounds
of seed cotton he got a hale Of 5S3
pounds. He says if .le hod solo lh+
seed as we'll as the lint. r. would have
realized about 4 cents a pound TOr his
seed cotton.
Durham Herald: The following $
the registration in eleven Of the twelve
precincts in Durham TOWNSHIP. White,
2170; colored, So The infoinrti0n 70
ceived from the county precincts show
that the total negro registration will
be in the neighborhood Of 160 Two
years ago there were about 17CC negro
voters in the county.
Winston Journal: Wins on-Salem
is to have another large furniture fac
tory, the company to organize with
a large capital for the manufacture of
high grade goods. Though the enter
prise is not definitely SHAPED. plans
"a sufficiently developed to make
the rumor an assured fact. The site
for the factory has been settled and
preliminaries are being arranged.
Som of our foremost and most relia-
BILE citizens are backing the scheme.
Elizabeth City Economist. Every
two or three days there IS Il new case
of typhoid fever reporccd IN the city.
Let us have better sanitation and
thereby have less feve~. W~aterworks
n sewerage is badly needed, but let
US have a more speedy improvement
by having better Saltary regulations.
Let us have it by all means.-Last
Monday there were three or four Bal
timore capitalists. who are directly in
terested in the street railway for this
city, here looking over the own. They
were very favorably impressed with
the town and community, a~d they, it
is believed, will not hesitate to invest
their money here. From all indications
it looks as if the work on the street
railway will begin very soon, though
as yet there is no definite time known
when the work will begin.
Asheville Citizen: Ever since the
county campaign began Mr.. ]. M. Pat
terson, straight-out republican candi-
date for the legislature, has been ask
ing his ring-tail opponent, the Hon.
Jumbo" Thompson, these questions:
Are you a republican or a democratic"
will you vote for Prit mad for the
United States senator" Will you vot4
for Moody (Rep.) or Gudger CDem.)
for congress-" Though these questions
had been fired at Jumbo" on every
stump, he refused to answer or no.
tice them. The result vas shat the
old mossy-backs on ali sides ~ere dc
claring against him So at Sandy
Mush he came from unueZ cover and
answered as follows: II am "A demo-
GRAFT" Il will vote for Pritchard.' II
will vote for Moody" He added that
he promised to DO these things before
he was put on the ring-tail ticket
From this only one Inference can Re
drawn: That Thompson has Swapred
his vote to the republican Iarty for a
legislative nomination. Fortunately
for the good people Of TIE county there
is no danger of his election.
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ONE FATALLY SHOT ANOTHER
LAST NIGHT.
BROOKLYN WAS THE SCENE
I'D. French Sent n Bullet Into the
Brain of Dave Armstrong-He Died
I'm . Few Moments-The inyer DIS
appeared-ShootiDx Said to be Ac-
cidcntaI.

Brooklyn was the scene of another
killing scrape last night about I O'Clock
Dave Armstrong, co!ored. was shot
throue the brain b. Cd. French. col
ored.
The shooting n a room at
lilo James street between Fourth and
Fifth and Swami and Nixon streets
The house is occupied by Henry New,
coIored, who runs a boarding house.
Six young negroes about twenty years
of age were in the room when the
shooting occurred.
The four witnesses of h tragedy
state that while they were sitting n
the room French was fOoling with a
pistol. and without any words passing,
the pistol fired. Armstrong fell over.
and when French saw that he had snot
him he jumped up anG exclaimed: MY
Cod! what shall 1 dO?' He said he did
not intend to shoot Armstrong.
The others told French to stay there
till a policeman came. He SAID ne
would do so and walked up and down
the passage a few minutes and then
disappeared.
DR.. G.. d. Bell, the coroner, was mott
fed and he found that Armstrong was
shot in the left side of the head just
above the ear. He turned the body
over to Alex Davis, the cOlOred under
taker An inquest will be held today.
The police looked for French last
night but could not find him anywhere.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-31
Bible Fit fer a King.

The preparation of the Bible which
the king has graciously consented to &C
cept from the British and Foreign Bible
Society as a mOmentO of his coronation,
has o been completed, and it will be
on view, at the Bible House, Queen Vic
toria street, from the 22nd to the 9th
instant. for the inspection of subscrib-
ers and friends of the society.
The volume, which has been prepared
under the personal direction of Lord
Northampton, the president of the sOci-
ETY.. has been bound in the finest style
of modern art in pressed royal red mo-
rocco, with bevelie1 boards, gilt edges,
richly inlaid. and hand-toOled through
out
The design is adapted from various
early Christian symbols and ornamental
work of the first to the fifth centuries.
The inside of the cover is lined with
morocco, the fly leaves being of red
silk to match.
A fine Illuminated vellum leaf Ii
serted before the title pages hears the
following inscription:
Presented by the British and Foreign
Bible Society to his Majesty. King Ed
ward VII. as a memorial OF his Males
tvs coronation, August ., 1902. GOD
save the King"
The volume is enclosed in a royal red
velvet ease, embroidered with his Ma
jeSty's ROY n cipher.-Lopdon EX-
press.
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An Ex-Confederate soldier
ed-AII the Cotton Picked-Sclooi
Statistics Report
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., October IS

Raleigh, n. c., October IS.
Chairman Armistead Jones of the
democratic committee OF this county,
says all the registration returns are in,
and show 6.1OO whites. $50 negroes. He
says the negro registration here was
larger than elsewhere. as the law was
literally construed.
The independents in this county have
decided to fill out their ticket, which
at present is a skeleton one.
Major John NJ. Crenshaw, of Forest
vile, is here to attend the state fair.
In 80 years he had missed My n
fair.
Congressman E. w. Pou says he
candidacy of John w. Atwater, indie
pendent, is pitiful.
Governor Aycock today pardoped
Jesse L. Havener, of Wilkes county, an
ex-confederate soldier IS years old, who
tore out part of the foundation OF a
dwelling occupied by some dissolute
women in a few yards Of his own home,
after he had tried all other to
induce them to leave. No one was In
jured. He was sentenced for 4 months
on the public Dad in Forsyth county.
At the home of the brides sister here
this morning Mr.. Sanford L. Rotter,
city editor of the News and Observer,
was united In marriage 10 Miss f1eSlcT
Beaseley, formerly of Granville county,
but for a ear residing here. Mr.. Rot
ter is a native of Petersburg.
In the superior court today after the
jury had been drawn and passed, one
of the jurors in the damage case OF
Robert O.. King against n Seabodrd
Air Line for $4,000 notified the judge
that he had been for % years n agent
Of that railway. Kings side had over
looked this. A non-suit was taken b.
King.
There is almost no cotton in the fields
low. and it is doubtful whether that
crop was yer picked so clean and so
early. The cotton IS yet blooming and
there are a number Of young forms and
bc' >. There will be another cleaning.
in d week or ten days. and this will
finish il.
The report on public schools in this
state was made today. The census u
children between the ages CT six and y
shows 454. SIS whites. POI. s51 negroes.
l,764 Croatan Indians; total 67S,377. tn.
enrolment in the schools is 3I4,6n
whites, 1929 negroes. III Croatan IT.
dams This shows an increase OF 32.22i
G 1901. The average attendance al
schools is 1s5, 59S whites, 81 1872 negroes.
total 2S8, so, an increase OF 1920 over
iaSt year. The enrolment in city ana
town graded schools is 22,33S. II Is the
first time the latter report was ever
made. Thirty three cities and towns
reported.
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hOrGan's Opposition to Roosevelt.

\ story a recently been going the
und of the republican press to the
effect that j. Pierpont Morgan had set
his stakes to defeat Roosevelt for re
Homlnatlon, and that if he was unsuc-
cessful in this he would carry the war
further and would bring about the
nomination of Cleveland, whom Ia
would have elected as a punishment ID
Roosevelt and this antitrust doctrine.
This is a fit companion to that other
campaign canard to the effect tina the
trust We're contributing to the demo-
cratic campaign tund as a result of the
presidents New England speeches on
the trusts: and the story was Matched
UP in some republican mine bent on
hOodooing some voter, no matter if al
the expense OF truth. just as its com
paniOn was. 1t is simply to be OBJ
served that when party organs get Sc
short on arguments in defense of their
own party policy as 10 lave to resort 10
cock and bull stories and cheap cam
paign fiction as these two stories are.
they must be in desperate straits anG
their position must be we'll night indie
fenSible.-GreenSboro Record
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4 Mistaken Impression.

The AshevilIe Gazette republican,
copying and commenting upon a recent
editorial in this paper in which it was
said that the further Judge Clark's re-
cord is unfOlded the worse 1t appears,
says that CLARK did not nominate him
self. but he was nominated after his
record had been fully exposed" and
that his nomination was a proof, an
indisputable proof. of the supremacy of
the machine politicians over the dem
Ocratic party in this state" It will not
change the opinion of The Asheville
Gazette but nevertheless we are in a
position to say. that it IS mistaken. The
Observer one thought as the Asheviile
paper does. but the evidence is the
ernOr Aycock are a large part of the
Machinery of the democratic party and
ntither of them wanted Judge Clark.
1t was perfectly manifest to any one
who attended the democratic state con-
yentiOn in July that the delegates to
that convention did not want him and
his was d purely perfume
tory performance. The whole history
of this affair makes the StrangeSt chap
ter that was ever written in the chron-
icles of politics. By some deft manip-
ulatiOn it was made to appear. that
there was a tremendous popular upris-
ing for Judge Clark and the lawyers OF
the state were p~aralyzed with fear.
Not one of them would offer for the
nomination and it went to Judge Clark
by default. the convention which made
1T refusing to make it unanimous. The
hollowness of this claim of popularity
was fully disclosed before the conven-
ton was eve called TO order. but it
as too late then: and now, if the peo-
pie of North Carolina would vote as
they think Judge Clark would be de-
feated by 90. 900 instead IF being elected
by that figure, as his friends claim he
will be. But they haven't go: the sand.
If they had had the sand to vote as they
hoped and prayed Colonel Bryan would
not have gotten the electoral vote OF
this state in 19O0.-Chlrlorte Observer.
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Change for u Lump of Coal.

After drinking a cocktail in a saloon
opposite the court house in jersey City
yesterday John Saul, a practical joker,
laid a lump of coal on the bar. saying:
I'm broke and can't pay YOU in COIL
of the realm. VIII you accept this?
Certainly 1 WILL" said the proprietor,
ringing up fifteen cents on the cash reg
lister. Then he dropped the coal in the
money drawer, and pushed 80 cents IN
front of the surprised customer with
the remark: Here's your change"
Saul scratched his head for a SECOND
and said: The jokes on me, I'll sci
'em up."-New York Sun.