The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-12-02
UURP ENT TOPICS.
TEE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

badly wrecked on the 22d, by bomb
| exploded On the front porch.
Briefs containing the arguments OF
counsel for Senator Joseph r. Burton
OF Kansas, were filed on the 22d. in
the United States supreme court
Rear Admiral lohn russell Bartlett,
United States navy. retired. died al the
Marine hospital in St Louis. on the
-2d. of pneumonia, contracted while on
a tour OF inspection o. government
steam vessels plying gu ,he Ohio and
Mississippi rivers
President Francis OF the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Co. announced. at
meeting Of the board If directors. on
the I'D. thar The Worlds fair had no
bills payable beyond he comparative
~ insignificant curTeAt accounts
Senator r. n Tillman. OF South
Carolina, Ias Withdrawn his bitter op-
position TO Or "rum as collector OF
The port ~ Charleston. and he is re
ported by his friends as having passed
up politics FOR The time being
Benbow's Montana Meteor made a
fight from ne Worlds fair aerodrome.
on he 22d but lis dirigibility was not
demonstrated. Is the motive power
"Wert dead almost Immediately after
the ascension was made. and a land
ing was effected al Underwood. four
miles away
Six negrces engaged in a deadly
fehr I'm e 1f-foot room near Curtis.
la ON the ga The participants be-
Ing armed with shoiguns and pistols.
After The battle. three lay dead. The
other three escaped
By the explosion OF the boilers in
u. r. Middleton's cotton gin in the
town OF Walters Miss. on the 18th.
two lives were lost and FIVE persons in
iured two OF them seriously
One man was killed and three Others
injured IN a freight wreck on the Gin
onnati. New Orleans & Texas Pacific
railroad az Highbridge. KY. on the
24th.
monument 70 the memory OF Pres
ident William Mckinley was unveiled.
on The 24th. al the main entrance OF
Golden Gate park. al San Francisco.
Geyer. a farmer. near Alton. O.. was
elecfrocuted in the annex al the Ohio
penitentiary on he e4th.
Dom Paul Kruger left a fortune esti-
mated a. 81. 900. A large part was
bequeathed for the maintenance of the !
Dutch language
Five Italians persisted in a fire
which destroyed the old Noble grain |
Al North Bend, Pa. on the I
2ith
The special train bearing President I
Roosevelt and party arrived in ST. I
louis al 3 40 a N. on the 10Th. and 4
was at once switched TO siding inside I
The Administration entrance 10 the
Worlds fair. where its occupants we're
left 10 repose undisturbed until the
official day opened
4 Stockholm dispatch OF the 26th
avs that Heinrich Ibsen has had sew
'ral attacks Of heart trouble. and that
bis condition is such that there is little
hope for recovery.
Tremendous excitement prevailed in
s. Petersburg. on the 26th. when il
became known ;hat the car had re-
'eivad iu audience a delegation from
he zemsfvos for consultation over the
demands contained in their memorial.
IL is believed n Toxic that impor-
ant developments in the siege OF Port
Arthur are impending The belief
eenis 10 be based mainly on the un-
,ficial reports Of the successful prog
ess OF the sapping against the Er
Jung. Sung Shu and Tung Kekwan
ortg
II is said that the dispatches sent
y Gen. Stoessel. commander at Port
Arthur. sent by the destroyer Rasto-
opny to Che Foo. contained a frank
tatement OF the hopelessness Of the
iiuation. He said. The garrison is q
eing starved out"
The Thanksgiving day attendance al =
he Worlds fair was ISL sol II would '
robahly have been larger had the
facilities been adequate: Z
vt the Wabash shuttle trains had
cen taken out Of commission and the ii
ireet car companies we're caught nap b
ing. having retired many cars with d
be- advent OF cool weather. L
ST. Wilfrid I.aurier, premier OF Can c
la accompanied by Lady Laurier, s.
as q visitor az the Worlds fair on
lFI ksgiving day Sir Wilfrid ex- i
res ed his amazcment al the exposi- s.
on's magnitude and comprehensive Il
ess. d
Paul Strasser. a union veteran. and al
no was an inmate of the soldiers
ONE al Danville. H.. died suddenly +
Union station. ST. Louis. on the s.
ioIh,hs ~ TIE oath. while Ell route to d
pbrl ~, q % visit his family. 81
A great wolf drive occurred in the
lsture reserve near Chattanooga. ~
kla., on the oath. Forty square miles
territory was covered and about fifty y
Olives corraled. ten OF which were n
Irtureo and killed. II was the larg-
. nunt ever held in the territory. r
Sixteen persons were hurt. two prob !"
by fatally. on the 25th. whom a pas ~
niger train on the Pennsylvania rail- y
ad crashed into a trolley car al Bed
I'd, 0. The trolley car was filed with W