The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-01-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


mortally wounded.
Miss Lizzie Hillhouse fired six shots
from revolver into the body of a
young man named Marsh. at Toone
station. Tenn. on The ed, fatally
wounding him.
At Kansas City. Mo. on the cath.
William l.. IIollenbeck. actuated by
injured his sick wife. attempted to
kill his stepdaughter. and then shot
himself through the heart.
Mrs. McGovern and her three chill
dren We're burned TO death in a fire
which destroyed the house in which
they We're sleeping. in Piercefeld, y.
y. on the 25th.
Two men who were badly injured
in The explosion in pool room at
Hot Springs. Ark. on the afternoon
Of the cath. died the same night.
The residence of II. NJ. Chambers. at
Ferguson. Mo. was destroyed by fire
on the 25th. causing a loss OF SIS. 900.
Emil Engstrom was found frozen
10 death on the river bank al Moline.
III. on the 25th.
George Carter shot and killed his
wife and himself at Eugene. Ore. on
the a5th.
Two hundred passengers were bad
" shaken up and bruised by wreck
on the Chicago 4 Alton, AT Atlanta.
H.. on the cath.
Med Ledford. aged e5. and Mrs.
Mary a. -..lsopp. aged 50. were mar
ried ~ Harrisburg. H., on the 25ih.
At Algona. Ia. on the 25ih. Harry
Adams killed his wife with a shotgun
and then blew out his brains.
The thermometer was II below zero
ind the snow two feet deep al Bone
steel. :. d.. on the 25th.
Edward Mosby. a negro. was stabbed
10 death by Eugene Roberts. in ST.
Louis, on the 25th.
Advocates of the omnibus statehood
bill have not by any means abandoned
hope of securing the passage of the
bill by the senate, despite the evident
determination of the opponents OF
the measure TO talk ii TO death.
1t is estimated that Chicago citi-
zens spent $4,000. 900 for Christmas
presents. They bought goods OF better
grade and in larger quantities this
year than ever before. According to
population 81. Louis was well up with
her sister city.
Charles Henry Burr Crosby has re-
turned to his home in Detroit. after
an absence Of almost thirty years
Mr.. Crosby is now in his one hundred
and eighth year. He claims that he is
the son of Aaron Burr.
A home for orphan girls. daughter
OF Free Masons of Pennsylvania. * 10
he erected at Broad street and Bristol
avenue. Philadelphia, by William l..
Elkins, at cost of more than 500
900.
Col. Henry Clay Lockwood died in
Bellevue hospital. New York. on the
2jth. after short illness. He was q;
years old. lie was breveted ma ior
for gallantry at the storming Of For,
Fisher. lie was the author of ..The
Abolition of the Presidency
Mr.. A. w. Machen. superintendent;
81 rural free delivery. has issued an
order that the postmaster at each Of
flee from which q rural free delivery
route starts shall post in a conspicu-
Gus place in his Office a list of the
patrons Of each delivery route.
Thousands of cattle are reported
to be starving on the range in north
western Colorado. The Humane So
"A lasl 81.
cue their stock and they have replied
that they are powerless TO do so. The
cattle are showed in on the high
range without pasture or water avail
able.
= berhn newspaper announces. ap-
rarently on authority. that German
condition precedent TO arbitration i
that Venezuela must pay ZOO. 600 Dol
wars tS3iO,00o) in cash 10 satisfy
claims.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt found
the usual parental pleasures in Seeing
that their children were the recipi- |
enfs ~ such articles as they desired
Tor the Christmas season. There was
no Christmas tree. but there were
library. ..
Emperor William spent Christmas
N his usual way. His majesty took
walk in the afternoon in the Sans
souci park and distributed bright |
gold pieces, fresh from the mint.
among the gardeners and watchmcn.
Jean Echeyarria. a saloon passenger
IN the steamer La Touraine. commit |
ted suicide by jumping overheard. on
he .lst. on the voyage from New
York to Ha,re.
Mrs. NJ. a. McGuire. Of 81. Louis.
mother of the wife OF Gen. Eugene =. /
-arr. I. :. A.. retired. died Of pneu-
nonia. on the Goth. at 50. vincent's /
hospital, Santa Re. n. NJ.
Fire at Newark. y. ~, on the Goth.
lid $4,000 damage to number OF
houses.
Amos HsselI. a pioneer banker OF
Denver, Col, died Of paralysis, on the