The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-05-15
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


toSAcu up
The new cup Yacht Reliance was
beaten By the Columbia in about hall
an hours sailing of Glencoye. Conn.
On the ith-
The American fishing schooner
Gloriana ran ashore on the cliffs AT
Whale Cove. y. :. on the 9th. and Is
Of the crew. including the captain
were drowned
The bill granting women the right
10 vote was rejected in the Connecti-
cut house If representatives. on the
9th. bv vote If los 20 90
DIR. : ii. Rice. physician Of Mem
phiS. Tenn. committed suicide. on the
9th. al his home by shooting himself
No motive for the act is known
Col. Asa Philip Stanford. II years
old. and brother If the late senator
Leland stanford. Of California. died
in New York on the 9Th.
Secretary shaw. accompanied by
Mrs shaw. his TWO daughters and
son. will sail for Europe July T.
George Burrier. wanted in four
states for robbery. was sentenced al
Chuton. Ia. on the 9th. 10 Is years IN
the state penitentiary.
Col. santos and Col. Marcelo Della
,rinc. leaders Of the recent insurrec-
ton in Rial province. Luzon- have
heen convicted. al Manila. of brigand-
age and conspiracy and have been
sentenced 10 death The supreme
court must review the case
4 large number Of Italian and Po-
lish residents who were fraudulently
naturalized in the ST. Louis court OF
appeals. within the past two years
will forfeit their papers OF citizenship
through the action Of the United
States circuit court
Great Britain has just proclaimed a
Monroe doctrine Of her own. by mott
fying competing powers that any at
tempt on their part TO establish naval
bases or fortified ports in the Persian
gulf means war with Great Britain.
Gov. Van SAINT Of Minnesota created
a sensation al the state capitol. on
the 9Th. hy personally interfering
with members of the legislature who
were attempting TO loot the house ~
Representatives chamber Of desks and
chairs which they had occupied dur
ing the recent session
+. T. buchanan. aged "A years.
president and treasurer of buchanan
4 Thorpe. wholesale fish dealers az
Tacoma. Wash. committed suicide.
on the 9Th. by shooting himself be-
cause OF business troubles.
A freight on the Illinois Central
was derailed near Morcanfield- Ky.
on the eth. and Engineer John ;
Hegog. Fireman Manion and Caesar
Hicks. colored fagman- were killed.
Arnold J. Padgetr. a prominent
politician and lawyer. was shot by his
son. David H. Padrett. deputy prose
cufor. during quarrel on the sth, al
Washington. Ind.
John t. Morrison. one Of the best
known Goa, operators in the south
west. died at Pittsburg. kas., on the
9TH. of Bright's disease.
Sheriff Power swore in 80 deputies
on the eth. at Omaha, Neb.. and -
sued proclamation to strikers an
the public generally that order would
be preserved
Nine men were killed and five 9th
ers injured. three Of them fatally. OF
the eth. by a slide Of rock in the cas-
end Of Tunnel No. . at EgglestoI
Springs. Va
a huge rock. On the eth. fell from
cliffs along the west bottoms at Kan
sas CITY. No. smashing a frame hous
: and killing an invalid woman
. Twelve men were burned to dealt
: and eight slightly injured in a trail
wreck 30 miles west Of Por> Arthur
Ont. on the eth.
: President Roosevelt was formal
welcomed TO California, on the 18th
bv a crowd estimated at 10000 a
! Redlands.
The dispatch II troops 10 old Servi
: continues. Three battalions Of redlf'
on the eth. proceeded 10 Verisovitcl
Ten or twelve persons were severel
Injured and three business houses
, the center of stockton. Cal. WEI
burned. on the eth. by an explosio
u in the rear Of shoe store.
The airship constructed for the u
baudy brothers made highly success
full trip at Paris. France, on the ST
The dirigible craft passed over nun
e Der Of suburban towns
p The fifty-fourih annual session
: the American Medical association AZ
jour ned in New Orleans On the 81
- DR.. J. H. Muss-r, of Philadelphia, ";
: elected president.
Information from the Eggleste
tunnel disaster in Virginia. On Il
= ksh. showed that ten dead bodies h.
n been recovered from the debris so Il
removed.
z Charles J. Fisk. senior member
~ the firm OF Harvey Fisk 4 Sons. Ne
ae York bankers. was. on the sth, cri
= ica1ly i'll az his home in that city.
: Bubonic jlague was discovered
Cailao. Peru. on the sth.