The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-10-28
CURRE NT TOPICS.
THE NEWS ~ BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

Fiume. Hungary was sunk IN 4 storm
on the Spanish coast with . 200 emf
, grants on board
} Reports from the seat OF war in tn
= far east say the roads have been RUNE,
. by the heavy rains Tut the stubborn
armies continue their struggles. Tn,
Russians. On the 18th admitted tina
their losses had never been less thar
1000 a day during the nine DAYS fight
ing. and those Of the Japanese could
hardly have been less.
Shanghai dispatch OF the 18th said
Il was reported there that the Japan-
csc had sunk the Russian cruiser Bay
an 10y fire OF the land batteries having
range over Port Arthur harbor.
I ST. Petersburg dispatch saws:
Russia. as he emperor announced.
+ will only make peace direct with ia
pan. No Intervention OF an outside
power can be tolerated. II Japan de-
sires 10 end the war. she must applv
direct Through such mediary as she
may choosc-the United States. IL she
prefers-but no representations not
coming directly from Toxic would even
be answered
The r. \. Patterson tobacco factory
AZ Richmond Va. was practically de-
siroyed BY fine. on he night OF the
18th. involving n loss cf about sl0O.-
COS
Helen Keller day at the Worlds fair
10 81 Louis on the 18th. was one of
the most interesting events OF he fair
Miss Keller was the center OF interest
for thousands who desired 10 see the
Young woman who had overcome the
deprivation Of her faculties of sight
ana hearing. Not the least interested
was Miss Keller herself. who entered
.cyoasly into everything that was
done
Fire. on me 18th. destroyed the prin. /
c.pal business section OF Sturgess. I
Miss Every store hut one was burned |
In rear-end collision on the Cleve-
land & Pitisburg road near Alliance
-. on The 18th Fireman Washer and
brakeman Lally were killed. Twelve
cars We're wrecked.
Fire. on the 18th, DESTROYED the new
freieht sheds of the Nashville. Chat
anoosa & ST. Louis railway az Nash
vile Tenn; loss. 100000.
Pope Plus. on the 18th. received
Archbishop Chapelle. OF New Orleans.
The papal delegate for Cuba and Porto :
i-co. IN private audience
Rain has put thorough stop 10
heavy fighting between The armies Of +.
Jyama and Kuropatkin. Both sides
re now resting
The remains of King George of say
'ny were laid to rest. on The rqtb IN
vault OF the Catholic court church
Il Dresden.
Ae s. Louis Hay a Gram Co. on Z
Ae -'ih, hiei with the interstate com Il
'esce commission al Washington
1npia-nt against the Chicago. Burning I
VA 81 Quincy railroad. alleging exces. ,
I'VE charses on car loads of nav ~
The cannon BAIL train. south.bound u
r the Illinois Central. was wrecked
Tiilatoba Miss. on The goth. jump. q
ig The track at a trestie Seventy-fve q
assengers We're aboard but three On
o-tal clerks only We're hurt. re
II now transpires that Thomas Lane
no was shot and killed By Myrtle b;
berry. in St Louis. because he re. -
lsed 20 make good his promise 10 n
AIRY her. had a wife and daughter u
wing in Cambridge. Mass. "a
Robert 5. Mccormick. American am. tic
'ssador TO Russia. arrived in New 10
ork, on the goth. on the steamer
TO
Fire on the goth. destroyed several ~
lsiness houses at Oakwood. Tex. oil
'ss, $4,000; insurance unknown. az
r. Cunningham. recorder of ID
Lean county. H.. sent his wife TO a rn
ighlors. in Bloomington. on the w
IN. and then. taking a revolver laid
wn on couch and shot himself vi
rough the head. Cunningham was I'll
FUSED Of being short in his accounts. VI
J. Lee, the American loco ps
tive engineer who has been held in ~
son at Zacatecas Mexico, since MAY 'sA
ast, has been found guilty OF respon-
MY Tor the wrecking OF train -
ich he was pulling and has been 20
ltenced TO hard laDor in the salt ~
mes for four years. ~
according TO reports from Man
iria neither Of the contending arm
dafes attempt a vigorous forward -.
vemsnt, owing to he abominable g.
ather and impossible condition of -.
roads. Should the fighting be re- ~ ~
we'd 1t may be on entirely new lines.
The American navy: may its glory 49,
'er grow less. were the words of a ~
81 given by King Edward at a -
cheon TO the flag officers of tho g..
erican European squadron at Buck 80,
ham palace, London. on the Goth. I
american marines will be retained
the isthmus OF Panama for the pres.
, prepared to meet any emergency ~.
lch may arise as a result OF the lis. =,
nt'ed elements in the new repub. -.
ne correspondent OF a Chioago
Vspaper cables that so 600 Janan. '"'
have been killed IN the siege of On
I Arthur since operations 5.ean n .iel
spring huu
man giving his name as Thomas a