The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-08-08
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


feet throughout the Indiana coal
field on August Is.
VIM. j. White, cashier of the san
Francisco board of public works, has
disappeared, and il is officially an
nounced that his accounts are several
thousand dollars short.
Fire at the Kansas state prison at
Leavenworth, on. the 2sth, DESTROYED
the shoe factory, causing a loss OK
$4,000.
Mrs. Gideon Mcdowell was burned
10 death and her invalid husband ia
tally burned near Scranton, kas., on
the Goth.
Capt. Knable. for more than fifty
years a steamboat captain on the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers. died
at St. Joseph. Mo. on the Goth.
Warren Smith shot and killed Cal
vim Ssater. at Middlesboro. Ky. on
the aoth. and was himself mortally
wounded by senter.
Geo. ID. Middleton was electrocuted
at Clinton prison, y. y, on the 10Th.
for the murder of his wife.
Dwight l.. Wing filed a petition in
bankruptcy at Springfield, H., on the
Goth.
Chas. Green and John Richards. sus-
pected of the murder of Austin j.
Grove at Buffalo, n. Y. on June 81,
were arrested at Denver, Col, IN the
goth.
A gang Of river thieves who have
been operating along the Ohio river
were captured near Metropolis, H.,
on the Goth.
Thomas Payne. for many years a
railway conductor, committed suicide
at Trenton. No, on the Goth, by
shooting.
An unknown negro was lynched at
San Antonio, Fla, on the 30th. for
assault on a white oma
Forty lives were lost by a collision
between two British steamers off Ma
lacca, Straits Settlement.
The democratic convention of the
Seventeenth Illinois district, on the
Goth. nominated z. r. Yost. of Ponti-
&C. Livingstone county, for congress
Five lives were lost and hundreds
Of head of live stock were drowned
in the food in Texas. 40 miles south
east Of Austin. on the Goth.
The thermometer reached 30 al
Omaha, on the 3oth, and one man
was Frustrated by the heat.
Fire in the plant Of the Thcs. j
Linton Co.. at the Union stock yards
Chicago. on the 30fh, caused a loss
Of $4,000.
The Roer generals, Botha. De We,
and Deiarey. sailed from Cape towr
for England on the 5oth.
John Quigley, of Mount Ayr, Ind
committed suicide at Lawton. Okla
on the 2oth.
Since the first Disturbances. on Jul,
q, up to July 81, there had been ovci
seventy distinct shocks of earth
quake in Los Alamos valley. Califor
mia. The village Of San Luis Obisp'
has been badly damaged, and the PEG
pie are terror-stricken and leaving foi
other parts.
DIR. W. c. Gabbert- president of tn
village board of Trilla, Ill, was brut
ally beaten and seriously injured b.
two young farmers, named Rardil
and Brown. on the 3lst.
The Republican river a. concordia
Kas.. has changed it's channel sine
the recent flood. and left the city
|, mile TO one side.
: Seven men were fearfully burne
: at a factory at Dayton,O on the Sis
by an explosion caused by leaking o
natural gas
The cholera epidemic IN Man0huri
In spreading with terrible rapidit'
hundreds II deaths occurring daily
The Argo starch works at Nebrask
City. Neb., are being dismaniled pr
: paratory to going out Of business.
Grand Duke Boris, cousin " II
czar Of Russia, arrived at San Fral
\ cisco from China on the 3lst.
Col. William +. Cody arrived
Omaha on the 3lst. and was given 9
ovation by his old associates.
\ Miss Anna ID. Collier. of Worceste
n Mass. and Miss .Jean Brown. Of u
troit, Mich. were drowned in Il
surf while bathing at Bay Side, Mas
a on the 31st.
% Charles Craven, a supposed murde
"a err, was lynched near Leesburg, Y;
r on the 31st.
- Miss May Yohc. the actress, arrive
n in London July -.
a Colorado suffered from extren
heat on the lst. the figures for son
places in the mountains being u
hi precedcnted.
.e At an execution Of a negro in Wi
,e Co~Inty. Va, on the LIST, the rope bro
o. and the condemned man had 10 WI
te until the sheriff procured q new one
q Miss Helen West. 81 Des Moines. Il
= will chvisten the cruiser Des Moins
n which will be launched at Quins
Mass. September 20.
. Elizabeth ncrstow S.oddard. wi
y Of Richard Henry Stoddrrd. tic PC
and writer. died in New \ ,rk. On I
lst, eyed 90 years