The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-10-16

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

hdHcuuiist uiitSS ntf idtSl utildHu
are granted. China is said TO have ar
pealed To Japan.
John Evans and John Cord. miners
employed at the Silver Star mine, q
Lake City. Col. were instantly kille
and their bodies horribly manglcd. o.
the Eth, by an explosion while thawin
out giant powder.
A story is published in Paris to III
effect that King Peter of Servia is con
fined in fortress at Belgrade unde
control of the officers who assassinat
ed King Alexander and Queen Draga
pressure of the conspirators.
Another attempt at flight was made
by Prof Langleys areodrome at Wide
water. Va. on the eth. Under the mo
mentum OF its start the flying machine
travelled about hundred yards ano
then plunged into the Potomac, iota
wreck
mat marvel OF mechanical con
struetion, the Ferris Wheel, which was
one of the greatest attractions of the
Midway OF the Chicago Worlds fair
has been rescued from the junk pile
and will he set up under a concession
at the 81. Louis Worlds fair
After attempting for three days TO
break the Franklin union of press
feeders. the Typothetae and the Print
ing Pressmen's union, of Chicago, on
the sth, gave up the fight. A truce was
arranged pending the settlement of the
disputed points by Cancellation board
and the press feeders returned TO work.
The mines north of Colorado Springs,
Col. were successfully opened with nom
union miners. on the sth, about one
hundred men reporting for work. which
was about one-third the usual number.
The operators believed that they
would soon have a full quota of miners
Union miners made no resistance.
The failure Of Albert Nudge & Sons.
printers. OF Boston, Mass, was an
nounced. on the Sth. Assets, 500. 900;
liabilities, $4,000. insufficient capital
was said to be the cause of the failure.
Fire. ON the sth. destroyed the Up
dixie Grain Co.'S elevator. in Missouri
Valley. Ia. together with 100000 BUSH
els of grain. Loss, 100000; fully in
sured
The president. on the Sth. appointed
r. Pope 10 be associate justice
Of the supreme court of New Mexico.
Minnie Britt. a negress. who was
condemned TO death for murder. has
written TO Judge Caruth. of Louisville.
Ky, requesting him not TO grant her
lawyers motion for q new trial. She
SAID sne feared life term at the sec
ond trial. and would rather go to
heaven from the gallows than to spend
the rest of her days in the penitentiary.
Earl Neil and J. NJ. Peterson, the
young men who were attendants al
the Kansas state insane asylum and
who were charged with the murder OF
A. Il. l.. Maxwell. one of the pate Is,
were acquitted. on the 9th, in the
Topeka district court. The jury Was
out a little over II hours.
Ii Is believed that Thomas Cassidy,
who was reported killed by being run
over by Chicago & Eastern Illinois
train. at Danville. Ill, on
the 9Th. had been previously murdered.
The crew OF The train that ran over
the body claimed 1t was cold, showing
ae had been dead several hours.
In broad daylight. and under the
very eyes of the police force of Alton,
ILL.,, Arthur Taylor. who was convict
ed, on the 7th. on charge Of larceny
and given an indeterminate sentence in
the penitentiary, escaped. on the 9Th,
from the Alton city Jail.
Sir Thomas Upton sailed. on the
9th, for England on the White Star
liner Cedric.
The terms of the general treaty of
arbitration between France and Great
Britain have been concluded There re-
mains only minor questions of detail
to be settled. The treaty follows the
general lines of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty.
The octogenarian marquis of Done
gal who, ON December %, 1902, mar
ried Miss Violet Twining. aged %, has
been presented with a son and heir, OF
Wultu TIC dnsitut 30 Soiu ~
be intensely proud Should the child
live, Lord Henry Fitzwarren Chiches-
ter's aspirations will vanish.
The upper Mississippi is on high
again. All bottom farm lands between
Hannibal. Mo, and keokuk, la, are
under water and the late corn and
winter wheat which has been sowed
will be total loss.
Twenty-seyen indictments were re-
turned ia the federal court at Helena.
Ark, on the Sth. against white citizens
Of Cross and Poinsett counties, who
are charged with conspiracy to de-
prive certain negro citizens Of their
rights. guaranteed to them under the
constitution Of the United States.
The monument erected TO the mem
DRY OF both Union and Confederate SOL
dlsrs OF Maryland who participated in
he battles Around Chattanooga, Tenn,
was dedicated ut Orchard Knob. neHe
the location Of Grants headQuartsrs.
on the sth