The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-10-02

Compiled from Various Sources.
reRs OVAL AMI GENERAL.

on the railway tracks at Gordon PARK
on the 22d. Nothing was brought out
tending to show thar the girl had been
murdered.
In an attempt 10 regain possession OF
bundle Of clothing that he had
dropped frcm the rail of the steamer
Lotus Simms. Charles Davis. aged 49,
fell into the Mississippi river at st
Louis, on the 23d, and was drowre ed
Sixty unions. having a membership
of nearly $1,000 affiliated with the
building material trades council. de-
cided, on the Esd. 10 support the mar
BILE workers union of Chicago against
the effort of the national marble deal
ers OF that city TO maintain open
shops"
After a continuous session Of nine
days the grand jury at Eminence, Mo-.
on the 231, indicted George Johnston.
charged with the murder OF Della John
ston. his young niece. at Winona. Mo.
The Osservatore Romano, the or
gan OF the vatican. says the pope has
chosen Mgr. Giuseppe Wilpert. the
apostolic protEonotary. to be secretary
OF state
The United States squadron under
the command OF Rear-Admiral Evans,
arrived, on the 22d. at Kiao-C Chou. the
German colony on the east coast OF
China
Walter Issclhardt, the seven-year-old
son OF John lsselhardt. farmer liv-
ing on the Jefferson road. about five
miles southeast OF Believille. Iil., met
a horrible death by jumping. While at
play. into a cauldron of boiling apple
butter. containing about thirty gal
Ions.
Secretary Shaw announces that,
owing 10 the scarcity of two per cent.
bonds. he will resume refunding opera
tons TO the extent OF $4,000, 900. He
also offers TO take up five per cent.
bonds due in February. 1904, paying in
terest TO maturity.
Hon. Seth Low, mayor of New
York city. Comptroller Grant and
President of the Board of Aldermen
rosnes were renominated by the re-
publican city convention and Endorsed
by the Citizens union convention, on
the night OF the Odd.
Statistics of the imperial health Of
ace show that the total amount spent
OH alcoholic liquors in 1892 through
gut the German empire was about
s625. o00. 00o, an average per head for
persons over Is years OF age of sl35.
The city marshal at Jacksonville,
Tex, on the Gath, telegraphed Gov.
Pardee of California that he nad ar
rested Red Shirt Gordon, the notori-
ous convict who escaped from olson
tCalD prison in July last.
Superintendent J. ID. Hawkins an
nounced, on the gath, that the Stand
ard M. at Colorado City, Col. owned
by the United States Reduction and
Refining Co. would resume operations
October L.
The state convention of the League
Of Republican Clubs, at Wilkesbarre.
Pa. on the oath. heartily Endorsed
President Roosevelt's administration.
Airs. jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the southern coniederacy.
was taken seriously i'll, on the gath, in
Buffalo. -. "
The coroner's jury in C-Acago, on
the nth. in the case Of Harriet Eliza
beth Weber and Inocenti Talimini, who
were found dead there on the ed. re-
turned verdict to the effect that the
woman was killed by Talimini. who
then committed suicide.
The state bank of Roberts, Wis, was
robbed, on the oath of more than three
thousand dollars, with no clew to the
thieves.
When a car of lumber which had
been shipped from Michigan was
opened at Brownsville. Pa, on the
18TH. the dead bodies of two men were
found II was thought they crawled In
to steal a ride, were locked in and
starved to death.
Mai. Ross Quinn, agent Of the Sec
and Fox Indians in Oklahoma. died, on
the 18th, at Stroud. Okla. aged II
years. Maj Guftin was a prominent at
torney. and, under President Harrison,
was surveyor Of customs at Kansas
City, Mo.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow Of the
president OF the confederacy. was, ON
the 25th, still in u critical condition.
Mrs Davis was at Castle Inn, Buffalo,
n. ", once the home OF President Mil
lard fillmore.
The jury, on the 25th. at Greenville,
ILL.,, returned verdict of guilty and
gave Charles Ethridge 40 years in the
Illinois penitentiary for the killing OF
John Kesner at Pocahontas, Ill, about
\ year ago.
The business portion of Winslow
Ind, was destroyed, on the 25th. by a
$40 900 fire which started from gas
oline explosion. Joseph Willard. one OF
the losers. dropped dead from excite
ment.
Fire, believed 10 have been Of incen-
diary origin. destroyed An entire block
Of business houses at South Haven
kas., on the 25th, causing loss esti-
mated at $4,000.
One man was killed outright and two
others badly. IL not fatally. injured al
Buffalo, N. r., on the 25th, by New
York Central passenger trSin-
Fire, on the 25th, at Toronto, Ont
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