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

LATE NEWS ITEMS
Gen. >. c. Jamison received word. a.
Guthrie. Okla. on the 26th, that the
carload OF Oklahoma Elberta peaches
consigned TO London (England) parties
during August sold for $2l per bushel.
In the lot were two case for King Ed
ward and United States Ambassador
Choate. and the commission firm took
advantage of that fact to advertise his
Oklahoma consignment.
]. j. Speyer. OF Kansas City, Mo-.
closed contract. on the 26th, with the
officials of the ST Louis Worlds fair
for the publication of 100000 souvenir
booklets. They Will be pictorily de-
scriptive of the Worlds fair. and the
first order of 100000 copies will be
published at cost of $4,000. They
will be used for souvenir purposes.
The 1903 crop of broom corn was re-
ported, on the 26th. to be moving rapid
ly at 500 ton, one Of the highest
prices ever paid for brush at harvest
time. One farmer sold bis crop of SO
tons at Arcola, Ill, at 500 ton. The
weather for harvesting was ideal, and
the crop gathered was in good shape.
Walter Crandall. on the 26th. at
BLOOMINGTON, H., pleaded bully to
four indictments for emDezzlement OF
$12 900. from the order Of Modern
Woodmen while serving as clerk in
the head Office of the order at Rock
Island. Ill He was given an indeter-
inmate sentence in the Iententiary.
DIR. Lowry. secretary of the Kansas
state board OF health, who COM
pleted an investigation on the
26th. into the causes of the typhoid
fever epidemic in Topeka, Kas., de-
clared that the drinking of unboiled
water from the Kansas river was the
cause Of nine-tenths of the cases.
| Adjt-Gen. Scott issued an order, on
the Goth. granting permission to the
Seventh infantry. Illinois national
guard. to parade. fully armed and
equipped. for the purpose of participate
ing in the exercises OF the Chicago CEN
tennial celebration September 20.
The top works and storage bins at
the Black Diamond coal mine were
burned at Springfield. H.. on the eth.
| The damage was estimated at sf0,0p0
or $50 900.
| President Roosevelt arrived in wash
| .ngton, ID. c., on the 2Sth, by special
train from Jersey City He was ac-
companied by Mrs. Roosevelt and the
children.
Superintendent Elliott Woods was.
on the Goth, instructed to have the
capitol building ready for session OF
congress November g.
James H. Tillman, former lieuten
ant governor of South Carolina, and
son of former Congressman George ID.
| Tillman and nephew of United States
Senator Tilman, was put on trial in
Lexington. s. c.. on the 2Sth. for the
murder of n. G. Gonzales, editor OF
the State, the chief newspaper OF
South Carolina.
John O'Grady. prominent corpora
tion lawyer, died in Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 2Sth, after brief illness. Mr..
OGrady was born in Ireland in 1850
and was admitted to the bar at Wex-
ford. He came to this country in 1870.
He had practiced law in Kansas City
for the past Is years.
The employees in the Cincinnati
branch of the American Type Foundry
Co. went out on a strike at Cincin-
natl, on the 2Sth, on orders from thcir
organization headquarters in Chicago.
The men said il was to be a general
strike of all the type foundries In the
country.
Charles Becker, considered the clev.
crest forger in America. is once more
at liberty Becker left San Quentin
(Cal) prison, on the 2Sth, after having
served seven years for raising $12
draft to $4,000 on the Crocker-Wool-
worth bank of San Francisco. Cal.
At a consultation of physicians, on
the 28th. 1t was decided that an OPP
GRAFTON was not necessary in the case
OF Archbishop John Joseph Kain, of
St Louis. who was suffering from an
attack OF appendicitis at st. Agnes
santarium in Baltimore, Md.
East st. Louis & Suburban railroad
will begin on October !, to run its
cars through from Edwardsville, ILL.,,
to the East ST Louis loop The cars
will run on one-hour schedule and
will run to Edwardsvillc In one hour
and a half.
Burglars, at four o'clock on the
morning of the 2Sth, blew open the
safe in the Missouri, Kansas e. Texas
depot at Pilot Grove. Cooper county,
Mo, and secured about thirty dollars.
i The preliminary examination OF
Senator Geo. Il. Green on charges Of
conspiracy and bribery In connection
with post ONCE Investigations was, ON
the 2Sth, postponed until October IL.
After an absence OF 13 weeks spent
at Oyster Bay, N. r., President Roose
welt returned, on the 2Sth, to Wash
ington, ID. G.
II Five buildings were destroyed BY
an explosion, ON the 2Sth, 1t the Con
nell powder mills near Shamokin, Pa