The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-05-15
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LATE NEWS ITEMS

Fire AZ Ottawa. Ont. on me 10th.
destroyed hundreds of houses and mill
lions OF feet of lumber. John White.
who had been released from the pem-
Tertiary. was caught near where the
fire vas first discovered and placed
under arrest
Coy. Yates of Illinois. on the 9th.
vetoed the senate bill providing for
the examina fion. registration and liz
censing of nurses and the regulations
Of institutions which graduate or
confer degrees or diplomas on nurses.
Herman NJ. Basdell. Of North Col
Inns, y. ". and his wife were so badly
burned in a fire which started from
gas explosion and which DESTROYED
their home. on the 10th, that they
died few hours later.
The capture of Curtis Je't. charged
with the assassination OF J. II. Mar
cum. in jackson. Ky. was accom-
plished without bloodshed on The 9th.
He is now in the Clark county Jail at
Winchester.
Mrs. y. 4. Long. of Frankfort, Ind.
and her five-year-old daughter. are
dead. and three-year-old son is per.
haps fatally burned rs the result of
an oil lamp explosion on the 10th.
Forty-eight German agriculturists
who are ma king a tour Of the United
States inspecting live stock and pack
| ing house conditions. were received in
Kansas City. Mo-. on the 10th.
4 passenger train on the Southern
railway jumped the track. on the 10th,
| at White Pine. Tenn. Engineer Rob
ert Il. Holloman. of Knoxville. was
crushed 10 death.
The quarantining of transports
bound for San Francisco. was resumed
at Manila. on the 10th. on account OF
the cholera. The epidemic is making
gains in Luzon.
Mrs Mary Y. Baker. wife Of ex-
United states Senator Lucien Baker.
died at her home in Leavenworth.
| Has. on the 10th. as the result OF
| apoplexy.
| All efforts 10 reach a settlement OF
the laundry strike in Chicago. on the
10th. failed. and a disruption Of the
ranks ~ the employers association is
expected.
One man killed. two trains wrecked
and business badly tied up resulted.
on the 10th. from the Mobile a Ohio
railway strike at jackson, Tenn
Albert Robert. cashier of the gov
eminent ice plant in Manila. was ar
rested. on the 10th, on the charge Of
embezzling $4,000.
An ultima-um was. on the nth. sent
by the frainmen's committee declin-
ing the concessions offered by General
Manager Ward OF the Great Northern
and insisting upon the original de-
mands Of the men with regard 10
double headers The situation lis
critical.
The body Of Mrs. Mary Augusta
Harper Lyndc, who disappeared from
her home two weeks ago. was found
floating in the North River. al New
York. on the nth. She was the
daughter Of James Harper founder Of
the Harper publishing house.
Il Magistrate Leydat. on the 18th. con
GUIDED his investigation of the Hum
bert fraud case in Paris. France. ono
| | has decided " commit Thresa Hum
/ bert, her husband and her brother TO-
! trial on the charges of forgery.
Keepers OF Chinese gambling house
, in Honolulu were arrested. on tn
: 18th. charged with attempting TO brib
: Deputy Attorney-General Andrews Z
permit gambling They offered hin
! $4,000 month.
Crazed from liquor and the In
: formation that his mother was dying
Edward Clark. switchman. shot an
J killed his wife and seriously wound
}, ed his son. on the 18th. at kansa
City. Mo.
Reports That President Marroqui
a had been compelled TO resign Office o
:. account Of political troubles were GU
J. | rent at Panama. COLOMBIA. on the It'll
y The canal treaty may be affected.
p Post Office inspectors. on the 1T
e completed an investigation Of II
% Washington city post Office. The r.
suits Of the inspection have not bee
made known.
> Washburn college. of Topeka. Kas
>. on the 18th. selected Ernest II. Conan
= of Chicago, as dean of the new la
school which the college will es'ablis
= this summer.
= The state department. on the III
y notified the department Of agricultu
y that the foot and mouth disease h
again broken out in the Argentine II
I" public.
'e Secretary Hitchcock. on the lit
10 visited Oklahoma City. Chickasha. La
- ton and Anadarko. lie is schedule
To arrive in Washington on the l5tl
n Sixteen hours rain fell. on the III
over the northern part OF Nilsson
doing great good to crops.
III a fresh massacre was reported fro
:. Russia. on the 18th, in which roo Je'
swere slain.