The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-01-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Instantly killed while standing III the
second-sto window Of hotel at
Los Angeles. Cal. watching the
crowds of New Years revelers on the
street below. The bullet entered LIS
forehead and he fell from the win
dow TO the ground
San Jose. Costa Rica, opened up the
new year with an earthquake, severe
shock occurring there on the LIST.
Austin ii. Brown. a prominent citl-
zen of indianapolis. Ind. and brother
of Admiral George Brown, died on
the LIST.
Col. Phil Shenon, pioneer and one
OF the best-known mining men in the
state, was thrown from a wagon al
Salmon. Idaho. on the LIST, and killed.
The White House reception by Pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt. on the lst.
was a very brilliant affair. The call
ers numbered about 1000 persons.
Arthur \. Daniels. eX-speaker OF the
Oklahoma legislature, died at Guthrie,
Okla. on the LIST. He was native of
Galesburg. Ill.
Morris X. Jessup, of New York. has
given $4,000 each 10 the colored in
stitutes at Hampton, Va, and Tus-
kegee. Ala.
The gold production Of the Cripple
Greek (Col.) district for 1902 Is esti-
mated at S24, 50s.5ll-
Gov. Odell was inaugurated for q
second term at Albany, y. L., on the
LIST.
A grain elevator at Fort Dodge. la.
containing 100000 bushels of oats
was burned. on the LIST. causing a loss
of 100000.
Mrs. Mary E. Dockery. wife of tn,
governor of Missouri, died at the ex
ecutive mansion, jefferson City. early
on the morning of the LIST. of hear
failure. with which she had been IL
for several weeks She was born IL
Chillicothe. No. in lsis.
King Edward of England was Off
cially proclaimed emperor OF India
the durbar at Delhi. on the lst-
Fire in the basement of the capito
building at jefferson City, No.. o.
/ the list, burned some records OF tn
land department, but otherwise di
little damage.
A message came over the new ia
cific cable. on the evening of the isl
from Honolulu saying that the cabl
was spliced to the shore end at tire
o'clock on that day The messag
gave no explanation of the six day.
delay in the completion of the col
nection.
There is no longer the slightes
doubt that the disease now affiictin
Mazatlan, Mexico. is genuine Asiati
plague, for microscopic investigator
proves that bubonic pest bacilli are
the blood of those afflicted with III
prevailing disease.
Thomas A. Edison promises to hay
mis- new storage battery on the ma
ket this month, and declares il wi
solve the traction problem and tn;
its introduction will mean that II
horse will have to go.
President Castro's reply to the po'
ers, through Minister Bowen, Is su
stantially an unqualified acceptance
their proposals to arbitrate, and u
accompanying conditions. A furth'
interchange of views, preparatory
signing the protocol will take pla
in Washington.
President Palma OF Cuba celebrate
: his first New Years as chief exec
tive with a public reception at q
palace in Havana, and diplomat
. dinner at night There were mai
Americans among those VINO pa
their respects.
Miss MolHe Atchison. the large
woman in southern Illinois. died
Ina, a small station IL miles fro
, Benton, on the LIST. She was 20 Yea
, old and weighed $50 pounds.
! II is said that the sultan of Moro
CO has summoned the shereefs a
nota bles to Fez and made a bid
n their loyalty, offering TO abjure
J. European predictions, to break
: relations with Christians and to ma
:, tain Islamism.
Is Miss Helen Miller Gould recei,
, as a New Years gift handsome i
ing cup. NIltu WIS BttsShAtu w 4
by about 900 enlisted men of
: Eighty-frst coast artillery. who ,
o stationed at Fort Siocum.
:, In a drunken brawl at Santia
x Cuba, on the I'd. between seven II
IL ians. two of them we're killed insta
al ly, two died in the hospital, one '
fatally and one seriously wound
The seventh man was unhlrt.
= Grief over the death Of her h
- band. who fell from wagon I
IS broke his neck. impelled Mrs. Eli
IN beth Gleich, Of ST. Louis, to dro
ne herself in cistern, on the I'd.
u A wild engine crashed into Il,
r. on the night of the I'd, at Shelbur
VT. killing both engineers and I
men and fatally injuring brakcm
- The American Association for
- Advancement of Science will hold
~ next meeting in st. Louis, from
" cember Is. 1903. TO January 2. 1904
=, The village Of Woodruff, in Mel.
a, county, H.. was destroyed by fire,
the ID