The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-09-19

Memorial services IN commemora-
ton OF the first anniversary of the
death Of President Mckinley were
held throughout the country on the
l4th. At Canton, o., Judge Day. Nc
Kinley's secretary of state. delivered
an address in which he paid a touch
ing tribute to the memory Of his dead
friend.
The board of education at Salt Lake
City, Utah. has ordered that hereafter
no married women shall he employed
as teachers in the public schools OF
that place, and those who get mar
ried will be requested TO resign.
News reached Kalama. Wash, on
the 14th. that the bodies of ID. l.. Wal
lace, wife and two children, and SIX
others had been found burned to
death in the forest fires on Lewis riv-
er. Washington.
Earl Caldwell, ''strike-breaker" at
the Union Pacific shops at Omaha.
was killed on the morning of the lith
by party of men alleged TO have
been pickets Of the strikers.
More than five hundred employees in
the freight departments of the diff
ferent Kansas City railroads were
granted substantial increases in sal
airy within the past month.
James Oliver, who at one time con-
Quoted a seminary in Roxbury, n. Y.
at which he had the late Jay Gould as
pupil. died at his home at Burlin-
game, kas.. on the 14th.
Joseph Watkins. farmer Of Beaver
county. Okla. was killea by Doe T..
Cravens, a neighbor, in quarrel over
q tax levy which had been made by .
school board.
Col William A. Rafferty,. Of the
Fifth cavalry, U. 5. A.. died at San
Felipe. p. l.. on the 14th. from n
jories sustained by fall a week be-
fore.
Winfield Scott Stratton. a million
aire mining man of Colorado, noted
for his private charities. died at his
home in Colorado Springs. on the
l4th.
| Mr.. Reitz, formerly state secretary
| Of the Transvaal. will sail from am
sterdam for New York, on the 2jth. to
give a series of lectures in this coun-
try.
The auxiliary cruiser Panther left
the League Island navy yard. on the
l4th, for Colon. carrying a battalion
Of marines numbering $50 men.
A non-union miner was accidentally
shot and killed by a deputy at Mosque
honing, Pa, on the 18th.
IrSans in southern Nevada recently
captrred notorious Indian outlaw
who had killed a squaw. They fas-
tened one end of rope around his
neck and the other end to the horn
of saddle. dragged him a mile over
rocky ground. and then burned him.
Lieut.. John II. Norris. U. s. ~. COM
mitfed suicide in his stateroom on the
ship Olympia. on the 18TH BY shoot
Ing himself with revolver. Morris
was appointed to the naval academy
from Missouri lie was born in Ore
gon. Mo-. and was % years old.
A dispatch was received in New
York. on the 18th. from Lieut.. Peary.
the Arctic explorer. dated Chateau
bav. Labrador, in which he said he
was on his way home in the relief
ship Windward, and that all on board
were well.
friends and neighbors of Nassau
county. \. ", at Oyster Bay. on the
18th, between six and seven thousand
people being present. with all OF
whom the president shook hands.
Fire at Rock Island. ILL.,, on ths
18th, burned over three acres OF
; weyerhauser & Denkmann's lumber
yard and destroyed several neighbor
! ing houses. Loss 100000, with insur
ance Of $40. 800.
At Denver, Col, on the 18th, Edgar
ii. Neff pleaded guilty to embezzle
ment from the Union Pacific Railroad
Co. and was sentenced to serve tive
TO five years at hard labor in the peni
Tertiary.
VIM. Howard and Maud Solt. ages
respectively 20 and is years. Of Gid
den. Ia, were instantly killed by
| passenger tram near iAuiStoh. ms ~
the 18th. while driving across tn
track.
II, A check for $50. 500 was forwarde'
from Washington. on the 18th. TO Mrs
Mckinley, widow Of the late presi
dent. for salarv which would hav
been done him on July !. 1902.
The Alabama republican execuiiv
! committee. on the 18th. decided tina
hereafter negroes will not be admit
ted as delegates TO republican cor
: ventions in that state.
Il Twcnty-eight thousand cattle wer
received in Kansas City, Mo-, on IN
18th. the largest drive ever know
| there.
The brotherhood Of Carpenters an
Soiners met in annual convention .
Atlanta, Co.. o. the 18th.