The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-11-06
NE WIS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Win que ttTtIloHy.
The losses in the Paducah tKy) fire
on the 2Sth. did not exceed $3.50. 0o0
Mayor Lang was slightly inju. ed whil'
aiding the firemen.
H. Chester Crouch, professor of me
chanical engineering at the University
of Colorado, died. on the 10Th. a
Boulder. Col. of typhoid fever. at th'
age of 81 years.
Mrs. Thomas Hendricks. widow o.
the late Vice President Hendricks. was
reported. on the a9tt as dyirg. Ply
sicans salu she cc9ld live but a shor,
time
Henry Hopp. aged 20 years. employed
in the Mueller coal mine. north OF
Belleyilie. H.. was instantly killed. OF
The 29th. by fall OF slate az the mine
When President Roosevelt goes e
Oyster Bay, y. y. November =. to vote
he viii be accompanied by Secretary
Loeb. who will also vote In Oyster Bay
Percy Baker. aged IA. son Of ". \.
Baker. OF Stewartson. Ill. was dragged
TO death on the 18th. by cow while
attempting TO take her from pasture
Dora Meek, of Centralia. ILL.,, who
caused a stir by sleeping several weeks
last winter. is believed to have begun
another extended sleep
The Illinois Tunnel Co. of Chicago.
with a capital OF $50. 900. 000. was in
coroprated by Secretary OF State Rose,
al Springfield, H.. on the 18th. The
state received s30,Oi5 for Incorporating
the concern.
For the second time within two
months. Samuel J. Parks. walking
delegate. was convicted. on the 3Otl,
in New York city. Of the crime Of ex-
tortion. II took the jury just II mir
utes 10 ag-ae on the guilt of Paris
in extor;ing $500 from the Tiffany
studios. firm of contractors. under
threat OF keeping them from continu
ing work on buildings.
The fedora. grand jury al Portland,
Ore, on the 30th, returned an indict-
ment against r. A. Wood. pension
attorney. and his son. Hosea Wood.
partner in the business conducted by
his father. The men were charged
with the procuring, making and filing
of false and fraudulent affidavits on
account Of applications for Indian ~ar
pension claims.
One of the hottest and most stub
born fires that the Philadelphia depart
ment has ever been called upon 10
fight started shortly before noon, on
the Goth. in the grain and feed mills
operated by W. ID. Woodward e. 20.
The loss was 100000 One man was
killed and a number were injured By
falling walls.
BY an act OF train wreckers. east
bound Santa Fe train No. G. known as
the Colorado Chicago flyer" in which
was one car filled with eastern bank
ers homeward bound from California,
was derailed, on the 30th. at Apishapa
creek. 35 miles east. of Pueblo, Col.
Over 80 passengers we're injured.
While dynamiting the river, on the
goth. at Dies Moines. la, for the body
Of Miss Lilly Cole, who committed sui
eide by jumping from a bridge. tho
police not only brought up the body
OF the girl. but that Of an unknown
man. There was nothing on the body
by which 1t could be identified.
The London Spectator. on the 30th.
contended that as Washington, ID. G.,
has become the most important sta
ton in the British diplomatic service.
the salary Of the ambassador ought to
be raised TO $4,000. The salary
Of the late ambassador. Sir Michael
Herbert. was $32,500.
An unsuccessful attempt was made,
ON the 3Oth. to wreck switch engine
in the Colorado & Southern yards, at
Denver. Col. and by the merest acct
dent the crew escaped death. Dyna-
mite had been placed under tie, and
II exploded as the locomotive passed
over 1t.
On the Goth, the submarine torpedo
boat Plunger was accepted by the gov
eminent
The secretary Of the interior, on the
30th, gave directions to the Dawes III.
dian commission to prepare revised
roll OF the Delaware Indians, with
view Of allotting lands to them. Two
rolls have been prepared and both
have been found Incorrect.
American Secretary Of War Root.
who was one of the the American conf
missioners OF the Alaskan boundary
tribunal, left London for New York
on the Both. Ambassador Choate and
. number OF other prominent Ameri-
cans babe him farewell.
The steamer Helen M. Gould, on
route to Louisville, KY. sunk at Wise's
landing. IS miles below Madison. Ind,
on the 3Oth. No lives we're lost.
The cruiser Cleveland. built at the
Bath tMe.) iron works. was deli, sred
TO the government, on the 30th. NJ the
navy yard. Boston, Mass.
Il. r. Archer, president Of the Cam.
den IN. j. national bank, died at his
home there on the 30th. aged G5 yeats.
Mr.. Archer was widely known In finan.
cial circles and was connected with
several corporations