The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-04-24
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


~ |" 'piishuo NhNh Niritcd huhtoS
county. Ala, On the isth, according to
reports received in Birmingham.
The boiler Of the Charles Bevans
sawmill ut Ruby, o., exploded. on the
f4th. killing Charles Beyans, Richard
Houck, Rufus Houck and two boys
named Houck and Gouridge.
The Iron Mountain freight car re-
pair shor at Little Rock, Ark, was
burned. on the i4th. including about
t~hirty-four freight ears and two ca
booses; loss. 10000.
The Glen Oak and Prospect Heights
street car line was, on the l4th, at
Peoria, ILL.,, sold to the Central City
Co. for 100000.
Police Officer {. Leslie was shot and
instantly killed. on the lith. at Jop-
lin. Mo. while trying TO capture sew
eral negroes suspected of theft.
John II. Lincoln, n distant relative
of Abraham Lincoln, died at the home
Of his son-in-law in Kansas City, Mo 4,
on the 18th. aged s. years.
The East q West railroad, in course
OF construction from Leorock, on the
Mississippi river, to Altamont. H..
was sold. on the 18th. TO the ST. Louis
Valley railroad, and is now a part of
the Gould system.
Rabbi Gustav Gottheil was reported
dying IL his home in New York on the
14th.
1t was stated in Wall street, on the
l4th, that J. T.. Morgan would sail for
Europe on the 22d.
. Thirty farms in West Terre
Haute, Ind. were compelled 10 aban-
don operations, on the 18Th. on ac-
count OF the sudden rise in the W a.
bash river.
Mrs. A. II. Eaton, of Princeton, Ind,
aged "a years. was killed by her
brother in.law, Charley Eaton, aged
l. years, on the 18th.
A mob took an unknown negro from
jail al Joplin. Mo-. on the 18th, and
hanged him 10 a telegraph pole. He
was accused of killing Policeman c.
Leslie. The mob then stoned negroes
and burned a number of their houses.
Fire swept the oil field at Beau
mont, Tex. on the 18th, resulting in
a loss of $1,000 900 and financial ruin
TO about twenty oil companies. The
FIRE was caused by a careless work
man overturning a lantern.
The Tennessee senate adopted reso-
buttons, on the 18th. indorsing the
speech on the negro question deliy-
cred by former President Cleveland at
New York.
The plant Of the Paving & Harm
ischfeger company, at Milwaukee,
Wis. manufacturers of electric
cranes and other machinery, was de-
stroyel by fire on the 18th. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
Gustav Gottheil. rabbi emeritus of
Temple Emmanuel. New York. died OF
apoplexy. on the 18th, after an illness
of several weeks. He was IS years
old.
Mayor Trigg of Joplin, Mo. issued
a proclamation. on the 10th. calling a
public meeting of citizens to organize
500 ,igilantes 10 preserve order. This
was done. and quiet. which had been
disturbed by a lynching on the 18th,
was restored.
Gen. Davis reported to the war de-
partment. on the 10th. sever deaths
from cholera in the Philippines:
Frank NJ. Squires, Richard a. Norris,
William X. McGregor. Dlnilo A Coter.
Kinney Miller, II. O. Hiatt and Henry
NJ. Diedel.
Two stables belonging TO Joseph b.
Vandergrift were burned at Wells
burg. w. Va. on the 10th, entailing a
loss Of 5000. Thirteen of his blood
ed horses we're burned, including his
prize driving horse, Edna Cook, valued
at $1,000.
Lieut.-Gov. Ice was served with .
subpoena by n Jackson county deputy
marshal. on the 10TH just as he wa
leaving Kansas City. Mo-. Cd a Chica-
&c & Alton train. lie is wanted by
the grand jury in St. Louis.
II. c. Dougherty, city superintend'
ent Of schools and a former president
Of the National Educational associa-
ton. was thrown from his riding
horse at Bloomington, H.. on the
10th, and seriously injured.
Gen. Badcn-Powell. hero of Mafe-
king is travelling in the United States
under an assumed name to avoid pub
licity. He called at the war depart
ment in Washington, d. C.. on the
10th.
NJ. Diefenderfer, Of Wood River,
Neb., won the grand American handi.
cap at inanimate targets, at Kansas
City. Mo-, on the 10th, breaking "a
out Of a possible 100 targets.
Misses Phoebe and Libbie Heeley,
at Bear Creek. Wis. were burned 10
death on the 10th. The sisters were
IS and 30 years Of age.
An explosion in Mine No. 12 n
the McAlister Coal and Mining Co. nj
Buck. /. L, on the 10th, resulted in
the death Of Dave Fyfe.
John Sommers, of Marble Rock, Ia.
died suddenly in the Grand Central
depot. Chicago. on the 10th, while ou
his way 10 Paris.
Judge Humphrey. in the United
States district court at Springfield,
ILL.,, on the 18th, granted an order au-
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