The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-09-11

the state of Illinois fully armed ana
equipped TO Company II, F1fty-fourth
infantry. of Burlington, Ia, for the
purpose OF visiting the Soldiers and
Sailors association Of Hancock coun-
ty during the reunion TO be held at
Carthage September 8 and 10.
The University of Kansas, at Topeka
will be equipped with a chair in jour
nalism when II opens this fall accord
ing 10 a statement issued. on the 9th,
by Chancellor Frank Strong. In addi-
ton TO teaching the various branches
Of journalistic work. lectures will lie
given by newspaper editors and man
ayers.
Gov. Peabody Of Colorado was threat
e1ed with assassination. On arriving
as his Office. on the 9th. he received an
anonymous letter. threatening TO kill
him II he dared to call out the troops
Of the state in order to restore law
and order in the Cripple Greek district.
The letter was abusive in the extreme.
AS the result of the enormous raise
In insurance rates announced. the
packing companies having plants in st.
Joseph. Mo, have been considering .
scheme for organizing a mutual COM
pany to protect their property from fire
and TO escape what they term extortion
by the insurance companies.
While passing Greenwich. H.. at full
speed the boiler Of locomotive pulling
q Kansas City fast freight train. west
bound, on the Chicago & Alton railway
exploded, on the 9Th, killing Engineer
Frank J. Upton, of Bloomington; prob
ably fatally injuring Fireman c. c.
Keltner. OF Bloomington.
Gov. Yates Of Illinois said that It
would be impracticable for various
reasons TO have the Illinois national
guard modified at the Worlds fair in
St Louis next year, instead OF having
the encampment at Camp Lincoln.
| Chancellor Strong, Of the Kansas
university. at Topeka. Kas., was chos-
en-. on the 9th, 10 superintend the
state educational display at the st.
Louis Worlds fair. The display is to
cost $4,000.
| During a severe storm which passed
over Shelbyville. Ill, on the 9Th. John
Durbn and Cement Wag>er were
killed by lightning at Henton. eight
miles north Of Shelbyville.
The Paris store at Burlington. Ia.
was Quilted by fire on the 9Th. The loss
on the stock and building was $4,000.
coo to adjacent stocks.
A heavy snow storm FL on the con.
tinental divide, on the 9Th. and the en-
tire range was covered with several
feet of snow. The saguache Tango,
comprising the Collegiate peaks,
princeton. Harvard and Yale. AL more
than fourteen thousand feet high, were
massive monuments Of immaculate
white. The temperature in the valley
was 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
Uncle Sans troops ard union men.
at Leavenworth, Kas., On the 7th. for
the first time in the history Of tie day
Joined hands in celebrating labor's
holiday. Two thousand union men anu
an equal number OF regulars of all
branches paraded in the morning and
INDUCED in military carnival In the
afternoon.
President Roosevelt was, on the 7th,
accorded a magnificent reception by
the citizens Of his own state. From
the moment of his arrival in Syracuse.
". r.. until he stepped aboard. his spe-
cial train TO begin his return trip to
Oyster Bay. ~ ". he was given a con-
tinual ovation.
In the Labor day parade at Spring
field. Ill, on the 9TH, delegations were
present from Bloomington, Lincoln
and other Illinois cities In the after
noon a mass meeting was he'll at tho
state fair grounds, with addreasrs by
Gov. Yates and others
Fireman Chester Keliher. Of Bloom
Iington, Ill, who was injured in the er
Iplosion of a Chicago & alton lccomo
tive at Greenwich. on thu 9th. Gied al
Jacksonville. Ill. on the Eth, being the
second victim Of the accident.
Seven bodies have Leen washed
ashore between Port Jefferson and
Wading river, l.. I. II was supposed
that they were those OF sailors who
we're lost from schooner that capsized
in the storm Of August %
Curtis Jet, convicted of the murdc,
of J. 3. Marcum at Jackson, KY, was
taken to Cynthiana. KY. on the eth.
10 stand trial for the assassinat on Of
Town Marshal James Cockrill. which
began on the sth.
Tommy Michigan, i. years old. OF
st. Louis. :ell distance ~ so feet from
the Merchants bridge vialuct crossing
the Chicago & Alton tracks in Venice,
Ill. on the 7th. and was insanity
KILLED.
Mrs. vitula Bowman Clifford. for
several years editor OF The sedalia
MOI Morning Capital, died, on tho
9TH. Of diabetes. She leaves three
daughters.