The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


AT the session Of the great council
Of Red Men If the United states. Mt
Norfolk. Va, on the sth. report
made showed a balance on hand In
all the funds OF si7-2ls.45.
The Texas republican state conven-
ton adjourned on the 18th. having
made but two nominations for state
Offices governor and treasurer.
Burt Alsord. the famous train rob-
Der and outlaw. has surrendered ia an
Arizona sheriff.
A cold wasr swept cver the state OF
Wyoming on the 10th. and on the nth
il showed.
The Nebraska state bank examiner
says that the losses by The default OF
the cashier of the Chamberlain bank
ing house. at Tecumseh. Neb.. will
not be less than $4,000.
Former GOV. Horace Boies. Of Wa
terloo. Was nominated for congress.
on the 18th. by the democrats of the
Third Iowa district.
b. Whitlock. well-known cattle
man. was accidentally shot and
killed az Rolf. |. T.. by Deputy Mar
shall Edgar Wilhelm.
Senator Be,eridge. OF Indiana.
opened the Utah republican cam
paign. on the nth. at Ogden.
Navy departments dispatches from
the isthmus Of Panama. on the 18th.
showed that battle would probably
be fought somewhere near the line
between Panama and Colon within
the succeeding few days, and that.
generally. the situation there was
critical.
Forest fires were burning over the
Cascade and coast ranges from Brit
ish Columbia TO the California line.
on the 18th. destroying millions of
feet of timber. many farmhouses-
barns and considerable live stock.
Two people are known 10 have lost
their lives. others are missing.
Leopold. King of the Belgians. has
signified his intention of visiting the
United States Dung the ST. Louis
Worlds fair. and looks forward with
pride to being the first king 10 set
foot on the soil of the great Ameri-
can republic.
Sons of Henry c. Frick and Ii.
CLAY Pierce were arrested AT Man
chester. Mass. on the i2th. together
with their chaffenrS. for scorching
on the streets of that city. 1t was
claimed by the arresting officers that
they were running over twenty miles
an hour.
The president. on the 18th. en-
nounced the appointment Of George
W. Ray 10 the vacancy on the bench
of the United States district court
for the northern New York district
Treasury officials call attention 70
the fact that the gross gold in the
treasury. on the 12th-S577. j0i. 40
indicated a new high-water mark Of
government holdings.
Maj. CorDin. on the 18th. de-
livered 10 the German emperor Presi-
dent Roosevelt'S message about the
81. Louis Worlds fair, and Emperor
William said that he would see that
Germany had good representation.
81 will send YOU a large party" he
added. pleasantly
William Waldorf Astor's daughter,
Gwendolin. aged nine years. born
shortly belrre her mothers death
died OF consumption at Cliveden. En-
! gland. on the 18th. Her body will be
taken 10 New York for intermenf by
the side Of her mother.
Mrs. Ella Hall was present at the
hanging of BoiSy Bryant at Sparks
Ga. on the 18th. She wanted to spring
/ the trap that should avenge her n
4 theirs marshal Hyers) murder, but
compromised on cutting the BODY
down and taking the moose a.
souvenir.
Mrs. James helms. OF Rock Island
died in . dentists chair at Taylorville
III. on. the 18th. while having a tool
extracted. Death resulted from chic
reform, which was administered a.
an anaesthetic.
Mrs. William NJ. Stewart, wife o
United States Senator Stewart. of Ne
vada. was killed at Alameda. CAL. OF
the 18th. while riding in an automo
bile with two gentlemen companions
The automobile ran into a telegraph
pole and Mrs. Stewart was throw
against the pole with such force tina
death soon followed.
Alexander r. Shepherd. former gov
ernor Of the District Of Columbis
and who did much to beautify tn
national capital. died 1T Batopila'
Mexico, ON the 18th, where he ha
large mining interests
At Pierce. Neb., on the 18th. Gott
leib Neigenfind shot and killed his q
vorced wife and her father and ser
ously shot her mother. and made hi
escape, pursued BY sherif's posse.
In a battle between moonshiner
and revenue officers in McDDwe
county, w. Va, one moonshiner wa
killed and one wounded. and rev
enue officer seriously wounded.
John Green Sanders. colored. wa
hanged at Marion. Ala. on the l2tl
: from the same gallows on which b
brother was hanged for the sam
crime in March last.
AZ Butte, Mont, on the 18th, job
Taylor shot and killed Pat earn .
believed 10 be insane. who had bee