The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-31

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


Samuel Allison Parsons. who shot
Ninstanley avenue. East -. Louis,
Ill. on the 2lst. was held 70 the grand
jury on the ed.
Hot winds began 10 blow. on the
22d. AZ Hutchison. kas.. the first cf
the season. The thermometer reached
los at two o'clock.
Gen. Cassius Marcellus Clay. amhas-
sador 10 Russia under President Lin
coin. noted aboliiionist and author.
died AT his home. White Hall. In Madi-
son county. Ky. on the ed.
r. :. Pillsbury was. on the 2ad. APP
pointed attorney for the Santa Fe
railroad 10 succeed the late Judge
Sterry. who died at Los Angeles. Cal.
The counter proposition made by
the striking nnionists 10 the Kellogg
company. Of Chicago. that the latter
reinsrate within 80 days all the sirik-
ers who applied for reinstatement
within five days was emphatically re-
jected by the Kellogg company on tie
Esd.
iFftif RtlAtA iAAAti iilth
ers' apprentice in the employ Of the
Chicago. -. Paul. Minneapolis & 0ma-
Ia road struck. on the sd. and the
total number j. about one hundred
and forty-fiye.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Grace harrington
was, on the ed. granted a divorce
from Lord" Frederick Seymour Bar
rington. who is now under arrest in
81. Louis county. Mo, charged With
murder.
Lawrence Summerfield. who, the
police say. is wanted by the New
York authorities on the charge q
grand larceny. was arrested ia phila
delphia on the 23d
4 woman registering as Mrs Col
well. Of Chicago. attempted suicide az
the Frankfort hotel. Cleveland. O.. by
asphyNiation on the Esd.
II was announced. on the ed. that
in spite Of the hot winds in central
Kansas. corn was not damaged 20
any great extent.
An open switch caused the Missouri
Pacific fast express train No. 10 col
Tide with the rear end Of accomncda-
ton train No. ; in the yards just east
OF the depot at sedalia. Mo. on the
Esd.
William Ahern. an Irish comedian,
Well known on the vaudeville cir
cults. died at hi home at Kansas City.
Mo. on the Esd. of consumption. aged
80 wears.
Judge Ryan viii. on the 2-th. PASS
sentence on five ex-members Of the
house of delegates who have been con
victed on charges of bribery and per-
Jury in 81. Louis.
Many Of the eastern college stu
dents who were iured 10 Kansas hv
stories Of good wages in the harvest
fields. are stranded 1000 miles from
home. having discovered that the APP
peal for help at good wages was a
first class bunco game.
Dennis and Latimore. counted by
the police as two Of the most exper-
blowers and bank robbers in the
country. both Of whom live in Chi
cage, escaped from jail at Waukesha,
" 49, VII tlif- III vi Alt --'
Earl Whitney and Claude O'Brien.
the youthful murderers Of 4. II.
Chinn. were hanged at Lexington.
Ky, on the cath. The prisoners were
attended by Father Cunningham. Of
Louisville, and Father Roland, OF
Somerset.
The treaty providing for the acqai-
sition by the United States Of the
Danish West Indies officially died on
the cath. II Denmark should conclude
20 sell the islands to the United
States, il may be possible 10 revive
the provisions OF the treaty which has
just failed.
The navy department has decided
TO assign Capt. William 5. Cowles 10
the command of the battleship Mis-
souri,. Capt Cowles is the brother-in-
law Of President Roosevelt and at
present is on shore duty.
Word was received in New York.
on the cath. that Gen. J. II. Hobart
Ward. a special term clerk Of the SUI
preme court. had been killed by being
run over by an Erie railroad train ia
Monroe county. \. Y. Gen. Ward was
veteran Of the Mexican and civil
wars. and was SO years old.
w T.. Ashton. describing himself rs
an American journalist and author.
who was arrested in London last
month ON the charge IF forging
checks for $4,000 in the name If Laird.
Scholes a. Co.. OF Philadelphia. was
sentenced. on the cath, 10 seven years
penal seryitude.
The king and queen. on the cath.
visited Mayneeth college. Ireland. at
tended by Chief Secretary for ireland
Wyndham and his suite. They were
received on their arrival by the arch
bishops Of Dublin. Cashel and Tuam,
20 bishops and other ecclesiastics.
The statement Of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund. exclusive
Of the sl5o,0Oo,0Oo gold reserve in the
division Of redemption. issued on tho
24th. showed: Available cash balance,
s22s.o55,517; gold. s9s,6el,i o7.
Reuben Burton, an old sol Tier. q VIC
tim Of the intense heat, was adjudged
insane, on the cath, at Emporia. kas.
This Is the fifth case Of the kind there
from this cause during the present