The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-03-27
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Nilbert NcAlpin. of Whittemore.
e.. charged with using the mails for
purposes, was placed In
ail at Sioux City, Ia. on the 18th.
DIR. BENJAMIN Thomas Whitmore,
once . prominent ST. Louisan. has
been indicted in New York for at
eStortion-
John Whitaker. u sawmill owner.
walked half mile 10 his home at
Mich. on the nth. with .
scantling in his side, which had been |
driven there by circular saw. lie
viii recover.
The German reichstag, on the 18th.
adopted the appropriation of $375.ooo
for the 81. Louis Worlds fair. being
the first quota of the S.50,ooo TO be
appropriated to defray the expenses
of Germany's exhibit at the fair.
The hearing in the case OF the
United States against the S400,oD0,ooo
Northern Securities Co, formed for
the purpose of consolidating the
Great Northern. Northern Pacific and
Burlington railways, began, on tue
18th, before Judges Caldwell, SAN
born. Thayer and Van Deyanter of the
United States circuit court AT st.
Louis.
The worlds largest elephant. JiHgo,
% years old and weighing six tons,
died on board the steamer Georgia,
en- route from Liverpool TO New
York. and was dropped overheard.
lie was valued at $4,000.
The supreme court of Missouri. on
the Goth. handed down an opinion, in
he case of the state against the meat
packers. for unlawful combination,
imposing a penalty of $4,000 on each
firm. with costs, in default OF pay
men. Of which within 80 days To be
forbidden 10 do business in the state.
President Francis of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition CO., made anoth-
sr important capture on the 2oth,
when he met and conquered all the
prominent magazine publishers, who
unanimously agreed to put his name
on their lists and work assiduousiy
for the success of the fair
Six persons were killed and num-
Der injured as the result of collision
between the big passenger steamer
Plymouth. of the Fall River line. and
the freighter City of Taunton, IN
Long Island sound, early on the
morning of the Goth. The Plymouth
reached New London in a badly dam
aged condition.
The Jury of award in the Philadel'
phia Mckinley memorial competition
has selected five models as worthy oil
the $500 in prizes offered to contest.
ants. The memorial will be in the
form of statue of the late presi'
dent. will cost $4,000. and will he
placed in Memorial hall in Paramount
park.
Official returns show that the Vic
torian wheat harvest in Australia
this season will average only one
quarter bushel per acre, owing to thu
drought. This is the lowest average
in IS years.
The Venezuelan congress assembled
in Caracas on the 10th.
The food situation at Memphis wa
considerably improved on the 10Th.
The Woman's Suffrage association
convened in New Orleans or the 18th
John Cusey, aged 81, former state
senator. died at Bloomington, ILL.,, OIL
the 18th.
Work was begun. on the 18th, oil
two half-mile railway tunnels II
fancy county. Mo.
Coal cars ran away at Johnstown
Pa. on the 10th. killing three men an
injuring nine others.
Gov. Peabody Of Colorado appoint
ed an advisory board. on the 18th, Z
settle the strike at Cripple Creek.
Four men were killed and rs horse
suffocated in mine explosion
Glaze Bay, Cape Breton, on the 18TH.
Whitaker Wright. the English pre-
moter, who is wanted in London, wa
denied bail in New York on the 1911
A relief train reached Marion. Ark
on the 10Th, but the inhabitants wh
were held by the flood refused :
leave. believing themselves safe.
After ratifying the Cuban reciproc
~ treaty the senate adjourned sin
die a: Is minutes past five o'clock o
the 10th.
whitecaps whipped Henry Mathis
! at Nashville. Ind. on the 18th. b'
; cause. as they said, he was too laz
to work.
Discovery was made, on the l9t
that the son Of President Palma {
, Cuba and Miss Mabel Jacobs were =
cretly married in New York Februai
. IL.
President Roosevelt received an u
vitation, on the 10Th, engraved on
solid gold plate. to be the guest OF II
/. Union League club at San Francisco
}, Joseph Bradley. farm hand, su
/. posed to be unsound mentally. kill'
!. Mrs. +. +. Bowerman, dangerous
J. wounded her daughter and attempt.
to kill her son at Bear Lake, Micl
on the 10th. He then committed 81
T. eide.
r Former Gov. Francis was the que
= Of honor at a big banquet in NJ
T. York on the 10th.
IS Three men were killed and sever
seriously injured by an explosion
dynamite at Bluefelds. w. Va, on Z
10Th. Dave Steele's eyes were blov