The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-05-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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William III. Jackson, member 81
congress from the First Maryland dis
trict. announces that he will ask for
the disconiinuance Of tn. post ofice
at Quindocquia. in Somerset county,
TO which Andrew j. Day, negro. Mas
recently appointed.
The Commonwealth. the largest bat
tleship aioa'. WAS launched at Go,an.
on the CLYDE. on the 18th. She viii
carry crew Of ,55 men. The Com
mouwealth is Of 1880 tons d.splace-
ment and her engines are 10 be OF Is
600 horsepower.
Miss Katherine Martin, the daugh-
ter OF one OF the swell social families
Of Washington. u. G., has been sus-
pended hv the faculty Of the cathedral
school. one Of the exclusive schools
for females. because she wrote a par
odv on the Mr. Dooley" song. but
worked the names cf members of the
faculty az the school into the lines.
George +. Spencer. clothing mer-
chant. recently from birmingham. Ala.
was shot and killed AT Kansas City.
Mo. on the i4th. by ratro.man Flana-
gan while resisting arrest. Flanagan
was also shot. Spencer had been an
moving women.
Vs. ". Mont ycmery. an alleged higa-
mist. shot and killed Jai,er Jerry En-
erscn. ~ Guthrie, Okla. on the 18th.
and was III turn shot by Emerson's
wife Montgomery. though wounded,
escaped
Judge Lee Estellc. Of Omaha. Neb..
was. on the 18th. elected state COM
mandcr of the 6. \. r., and John
Lett. OF York. senior ,ice-commander.
Ten women were badly injured in 4
street ear collision at Indianapolis.
Ind. on the l4th. Mrs. Winnie Field
er. Of Peoria. Ill. was hurt seriously.
The Federal Salt Co. was fined ST.
600 in the United States court at san
Francisco. on the 18th. for violating
the sherman antitrust law.
:. c. Allen. a pioneer of Honolulu.
died. on the nth. of heart disease.
aged = wears. Aliens fortune was es-
timated al S5.0oo.0O0.
Gov Yates Of Illinois. on the 18th,
vetoed measure increasing the sai-
aries Of circuit court judges on thc
ground If economy.
I Joseph Riley. OF Hot Springs. ArN.,
was killed and at least twenty per-
sons injured. one fatally. in a wreck
on the Chociaw. Oklahoma & Gull
road near Hot Springs, Ark. on the
/ l4th.
Gen. Shafter was. on the l+th. elect
ed department commander Of the q
A. r. for California and Nevada.
The strike al the Dcering harvester
works in Chicago was settled on tho
l4ih.
Detective J. A. Sweeney. Of Cincin
natl. reached Memphis. Tenn, on tn
18th. with a warrant charging Mrs
Lizzie Mccormick with the murder o.
an express company employe who dies
from the effects Of drinking poisoned
whisky.
George Kettler. who. as Baron Vol
Kettler. was worth half a million dol
lars in Hanover, Germany. was foun'
dead in bed. on the 18th. in his sho'
shop in Argentine, kas. Indication
point TO murder.
Among the effects Of the man VIII
sent the internal machine to the ca
nard line dock in New York was
piece Of paper on which was write
in French: The destruction % III
Naronic was complete. Mr.. LeBrur
who made the box. has this momen
gone to Chicago" The Naronic wa
never heard from after leaving Lily
erpool February IL. 1923.
The memorial arch erected 70 th
memory Of the 10 missionaries Of IN
American board of foreign mission
who suffered martyrdom in China
1900. was dedicated at Oberlin. O.. 0
the 18th. The dedicatory address wa
delivered by Rev. Frank 5. Fitch. |
d.. Of Buffalo. \. y.
Frederick w. Hollis, of New Yorl
who was rendered. by Presider
Roosevelt, the position of umpire
! act in the settlement of the claims {
Germany and Italy against Vene1uel
: has declined the appointment. OWN
(. to pressure Of private business.
: Shortly after four o'clock in the a
I ternoon Of the l4th. the post office |
Kossuth. Ia, was blown up and Pos
master Hedges killed, his body bcin
n torn TO pieces. No one was at II
9 post Office building except the info
$ tunate postmaster NJ the time.
The services Of the women iIDmigr
a ton inspectors appointed thr'
: months ago, at New York, under Il
operation Of the civil service law,wc
discontinued on tho 18th.
Z The liinois-Wisconsin dual tra'
/ meet held at Champaign. H.. on u
+ 18th. resulted in "a victory for the Wi
i consin university athletes. who score
:, e2 points. az against so for lIlirois.
Il Adyices from Hungary, on the i5t
ID were to the effect that political stri
was increasing and rioters were
control at several places.
4 Gov. Yates Of Illinois. on the l5i
l. vetoed bill which provided for
Re state board OF dental examiners.
I, Three men were killed near ii