The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-04-10
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


II snot Nnaries through the
thigh. at Concordia. HAS, on the LIST.
The men were trying to break into
her house.
A man supposed 10 he a Chicago
clerk was found murdered az Belle
PLANE. Ia. on the 3lst. His throat
was cut, his head crushed and his leg
broken
Several students were injured at FL
fingham. Ill. on the list. where a bat
tie was fought between the college OF
photography and Austin college for
the possession Of "A cannon.
In the Illinois senate, on the LIST,
Parker's resolution for the investiga-
tion of the Office of the attorney gen
eral. III. J. Hamlin. was laid on the
table by a vote of 2. TO ?.
DIR. Theodore j. Biuthardt. Of Chi
cago. was appointed. on the LIST. Unit
ed States consul at Barmen. Germany,
vice Max Bouchsein. If Illinois.
Col. Edmund c. Bainbridge. L. s. A..
retired. died in Washington. ID. c.. on
the lst- of heart trouble and compli-
cations incident 10 old age.
The Henry James-Ten Eyck prize
at Yale was awarded. on the LIST, to
William Pickens. colored, whose home
is in Little Rock, Ark.
Minister Merry. on the lst. reported
70 the state department in a cable
gram that martial law has been pro-
claimed in Nicaragua.
Mrs. Olivia Worden. widow OF Ad-
miral John l.. Worden. died ut her
home in Lakewood, y. j., on the LIST.
aged So years
President Roosevelt began his $4,000
mile tour, on the 1st. in one of the
finest special trains ever run out Of
Washington
The award of the anthracite coal
strike commission went into effect on
the LIST throughout the anthracite
coal region.
Col. Jonathan IL Miles died su iuen-
" at his home At Miles Station. Ma
coupin county, ILL.,, on the I'd. age $.
Col. Miles vas at one time a business
associate Of former Gov. Stanard, cf
Missouri.
Ten American fishing vessels which
have been frozen into the ice field
were reported in a perilous position
on the I'd. Provisions were running
low.
A mob attacked Gov. Reyes Of the
state of Nuevo Ico1- Mexico. at Mon
terey. on the I'd. and stoned him. Po-
lice were called. and Tour men were
killed during the riot.
A severe snows-orm began early on
the I'd in Colorado. Many snow and
landslides occurred in the mountains,
doing much damage TO railroad ard
mining property.
A fight broke out in a mission hos
pital in Seattle. Wash. on the I'd. and
result
One person was killed and eight
others injured in a panic in which -
families we're driven into the street,
caused by FIRE IN 4 New York trne-
ment on the I'd.
Iowa democrats gave a Jefersonian
banquet at Des Moines on the I'd. w
]. Bryan and former vice-President
Stevenson were the principal speak.
ers-
Philip II. ~Sternberch. vice-president
and treasurer Of the Kansas City
(Mo.) Bolt A NIT Co.. died there Of
pneumonia. on the I'd. aged IS years.
b. r. Reed. right eminent grand
commander of the Masonic order OF
Wisconsin. died OF Bright's disease at
Chippewa Falls on the I'd.
John McQuade. for % a treasur
er of Tammany Hall. died in New
York on the I'd.
George Edward Mills. business part
ner Of the son of DR.. Richard c. Flow.
er, was arrested in New York, on the
Sd, ON the charge of attempting 10
bride Assistant District Attorney
Garvan. who is the prosecutor in the
case against DIR. Flower.
Herbert Bowen. representing Vene.
zrela. emphatically rejected. on the
Sd. . clause in the arbitration pro.
tocol which sought to make venezue-
In pay the cost of the blockade. Mr.
Bowen's reply was cabled at once 10
Europe
DIR. Lewald. the commissioned of Ger.
many TO the -. Louis Worlds fair
held. on the I'd, in Berlin. what the
artists call an art parliament to de
eide ON Cermary's art exhibit NJ the
fair.
Sir Chen Tung LANG Cheng. the
new Chinese minister TO the United
States. with his entire suite and party
including in all about forty-fve per.
. ms, reached Washington, on the I'd
A severe storm passed over Okla.
homa, on the ID. cutting on Guthrie
and practically all Oklahoma from
the outside world. IL began with
severe dust and windstorm.
Prof. II. r. Marsh died in Helena
Mont. on the ID. aged S. He made
the first survey OF lands WITHIN the
present limit Of Montana lie wal
horn in Vernon. in lslA