The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-04-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEVIS N BRIEF.


years
Ruth zeigler, aged IS years. lately
public school teacher of Minneapo-
lis. MINI. committed suicide near
Saratoga, CAL. on the cath. drowning
herself because her fance had ~
quested the breaking Of their engage
ment.
Moses Fowler Chase. the central fG-
ure in an Indiana will case, was found
In Q private santa rum in France ON
the 25th. He is pronounced incurably
insane.
Former County Surveyor Louis En-
RIGHT and r. c. Deuscher. an attorney.
we're arrested in Chicago. on the 2srh,
charged with making fraudulent land
deals
A broken rail wrecked Santa Fe
passenger train at Lakin. Kas.. on the
aSth.a every car Except one left the
track Conductor Pond was badly in
jured.
The woman's Suffrage association
adjourned at New Orleans, on the
18th. after selecting Washington as
thC hC&t Vtatc VI knctung-
Dr. r. c. Flower was indicted for
grand larceny in New York, on the
ssth. and locked up in the Tombs in
default Of $4,000 bond.
George Nelk, who killed his mother.
was declared sane and convicted of
murNer in the first degree in Phila-
delphia on the 25th.
Five hundred barrels Of burgundy
wine were shipped from San Jose,
Cal. TO Antwerp and London ON the
25th.
President Roosevelt was invited, on
the 25th. by representatives Of the
typographical union in Washington
TO open the international convention
on August 10. The president pro
ised TO do 50. il in the city It that
time.
A brother of Sir Hector MacDona'
the British officer who committed sui
eide in Paris. on the 25th. arrived in
bury the remains in French soil.
The National Council Of Women of
the United States convened in New
on the 26th. No trouble arose
over the color question rs no negro
delegates were in attendance.
Rev. J. c. Grimes. attempted to kill
with a revolver while attend
ing a Methodist conference at Al
toona, Pa. on the Goth. He was SUI
fering from lancholia.
An anti-cigarette bill passed The
Wisconsin assembly on the GOTH 1t
prohibits the manufacture Of or sale
Of cigarettes or cigarette paper, and
takes effect July 1 next.
Louis A. Monette was sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years, at
Texarkana. Ark. On the 26th, 1or
brea king into the Jail there while
for friend.
Robert Winscott was married to
Mrs. Mary Harmon at Bowling Grsen,
KY, on the Goth. and died while re
reiving congratula tions Immediately
after the ceremony
The plants of the American Bicycle
Co. and the India Rubber Co. were !
totally destroyed by fire at Akron, o.,
On the Zeth- The total loss is esti-
mated at s25o.0oo.
Francis Hare. a political leader
Imong the Chickasaw Indians. and his
wife were assassinated by an un-
known person at Ravia, l. T., ON the |
night of the Goth.
Senator Parker introduced a resolu- |
ion in the Illinois legislature. 1t
Springfield. on the Goth. to investigate
he expenditures Of Attorney-GeneTal
IIamIin's Office.
The inquest into the death OF Edwin
L. Burdick. at Buffalo. y. H.. closed,
On the Goth. without discovering evil
iencc sufficient to point out the MIR
lereP-
Gov. Yates. on the 26th. appointed
William NJ. Mounte. OF Carlinville, a
Of the Illinois commission TO |
he Louisiana Purchase exposition.
A strange plant ut Glcnwood. Ia.
oiled two children IN III. 26th. They |
ste the roots A third child was in
critical condition.
Peter Luttrell and wife. both past
eighty. we're murdered by unknown
PERSONS near McMinpyille, Tenn. ON
he Goth.
Announcement was made in Chica-
20. on the 21th. that newspaper
company had been formed by women,
With Mrs. Alice Blount at its head.
which will dare TO print everything
ind anything exactly as il Is"
Delegates from educational institu-
ions in Illinois met at Bloomington.
N the 9th. and adopted q code Of
'nles tending TO place athletics ON q
,etter basis.
Daniel Allen and Will Way. who re-
emily broke out Of jail at South Sioux
lily. were arrested. on the 27th. and
'laced in the waverIy DAD Jail after
J battle. The men are wanted in Ne
,raska.
James Flowers and his SON John
we're shot and killed near Knoxville.
Tenn-, on the :7th, while resisting ar
est.
Lieut.. Reese. formerly of Carroll
on. Ga. was killed in brilliant AMI
charge on Gen. San Mi
'uel's force of lairon.s by Macatcbe
couts in the Philippines IN the 10Th.