The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-05
CURR ENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

damage u ftpbifN ~ ""' -
The new brewing plant OF the ihae-
pendent brewing Co.. at South sea'-
lie. Wash, was destroyed by an IN
cendiary ire. on the goth.
Can't. Lewis Dickes was nominated
for congress by the democrats "t the
Thirteenth Illinois district, at Free
port. on the eth.
The democrats OF the Eleventh
Iowa district. At Sioux City, on the
,,th. nominated L. NJ. Sink, of Lemars.
for congress.
II. IL. Brinker. formerly receiving
teller of the Germania national pahh,
of Pittsburg. Pa. was arrested. ON inc
2,th. al the instance of "A trust com
pany, and placed in prison as a de-
faulter.
freight train on the Chicago,
Burlington 4 Quincy was wrecked al
kemper, Ill. on tue 2sth, by raining
through a bridge. and three lrainpN
claimed to have been on the tram are
supposed To have persisted.
Wbitecaps near Ellis, Neb.. on the
night OF the csth. fired several Nolle!S
into the house of James Rolan, wh"m
they had previously warned ~ ieaNt
the country. narrowly missing srNerai
members of his family.
Theodore Roosevelt. .Ir.. accompan-
led by ii. X. Mccullough. vice-pre~'-
den, of the Chicago & Northwestern
railway, left New York. on the -sth'
for a three-weeks' hunting and hsh'
in.' trip in the west.
The charred bodies Of John >
Holmes and his housekeeper. MIS-
Katherine >hute. We're found IN the
ruins of Holmes barn. which wa
burned at Bridgeton. ~ j., on th'
ufght Of the 9th.
Mrs. Reese Wagner and her three
children were found dead in bed witt
their throats cut, at North Lhtt1'
Rock, Ark. on the 2sth, presumapi.
the act Of the mother
NJ. A. Carmichael. junior vice-com
mander of The kansas q. \. X. die'
: ST his home At Colony. kas., on IN
2s,h.
The coal miners and operators d
th> Pittsburg tka~.l district hay
reached an agreement. and It Is h'
lieved that ali danger of strike ha
!, been ayertcd-
! Fellow passengers of Charles
schwab on his trip 10 Europe say tina
he worked very hard all the wa
:, across. and never CAV himself an
leisure.
Engineer Dad Carey and Firema
d Lee. of Chicago. were killed in
: wreck on the Chicago & Eastern III
Is nois. at Cayuga. Ind, on She 2sth.
: Grand Duke Boris. Of Russia, WI
Il arrived in New York on the 2sth, vi
a visit President Roosevelt, at oyst'
n Bay, about September 3.
The concentrator Of smeltH
works AT Butte. Mont. was destroy'
in bv fire on the 2sth. and 1000 men a
IN thrown out OF work.
IL Mrs. Jack Frost. wife Of prom
Of nent business man and politician
ed Blackwell. Okla. was arrested. on y
es Goth, charged with poisoning Nj
Of Alice Combs and her eldest son,
putting arsenic in the coffee IN
absence OF the NoinD~ ldii'i.'
m Walter Lemarand, Of Monroe. Mic
Ihi on going to his home, on the ~
IN found man in the house with
ir' wife. After quarrel the man
r. from the house into the street. wh'
az he was pursued by mob and shot
I'n death in a corn field.
IN The bodies Of Bruce and Lewis,
missionaries murdered in China, hi
- been recovered, mutilated beyond +
ON ignition.
at President Roosevelt went hunt
a. ncai Newport, n. H., on the Goth.
me succeeding in shooting bear.
in The Public Alliance of Wilkesbal
,te Pa. on the 10Th, sent an appeal
no President Roosevelt, asking him
use his influence TO end the strike
the anthracite coal regions.
.als The department OF agriculture,
lied Washington, will take a leading |
,eas in the good roads convention 10
om- held in connection with the MINES
Iges state .s.r. September !, and 2.
,un- At the meeting of representa-
re- Of the American Window Glass
eral the Independent Glass 90. and
}, in Federation Cooperative Glass Co
,nds Columbus, o., on the Goth, II was
fter cided to reopen the factories on
tober l.
Ex-President Cleveland and
Jefferson, the actor, were among
speakers at the town dinner, du
So the observance of Old Home weel
Sandwich. Mass, on the Gsth.
J nv John G. Carlisle. former secre
IN, 81, Of the treasury. delivered The an
Barr. au'' s. = y,
J. NJ. sovia''o"' az
- 2sth.
William +. Hull, Of Peoria, lil.'
ne. chosen vice-president Of the Nat
.c,,o. Postmasters' association. at the
vention held At Milwaukee. OF
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