The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-08-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIL NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AM GENERAL.

visit o The Democratic national COM F..
mtfro ana Tammaay leaders 10 the
homo ~ judge Parker, al Lsopu-, on
Tile -..h
Alner. Boener; Theodore Styner and
Phil G. Erb. doing business 10 81.
Louis under The title of the Missouri
Rental Co. were arrested. on the 18th,
by United States officers. charged with
usir- the mails in an attempt 10 de-
irarl
For the killing OF his aged father-in-
law. August Raphael in the Kitchen
OF their home at Tenth and Geyer ave-
nue.. St. Louis. on March rs, Henry
Heusack viii pay the extreme penalty
OF TIE law in the yard OF the St
Louis jail on September G. unless the
supreme court reverses the verdict re-
Gently returned against him.
The report that Port Arthur had
fallen REQUIRED 50 frequently on the
2sth as 10 give rise TO the belief that
there was truth in the rumors and
that over the great Russian Gibraltar
o. the cas-, was flying the flag Of the
mikado Whether true or not there
had been severe fighting for three
days both on land and sea
The German foreign office. on the
goth. stated hat Russia had agreed 70
/ fully indemnify German shippers and
I their cons. rnees for any losses sus-
tanned hy the seizures of German ships
and the detention of the Prinz Helm
riohs mail
sI IS Ne ff4rr az
Minister Won Plehve in s. Peters
burr. has disclosed a wholesale con-
spiracy TO assassinate ministers. gov
I errors and other high officials Who
stand in tie way Of governmental re-
form.
Capt Van schaick. Federal steam
boat Inspector Fleming and former In
zpector Lundberg were indicted by the
federal grand jury in New York In
connection with the disaster 70 me
n steamer General siocum. on June -
when nearly 1000 lives We're lost
George F. Golden president Of tae
CHICAGO tcamsters' union. was ARE =
ed. on The 2gth. for intimldaane. A,-
CT many heated conferences tethe e
Inspector Hunt and labor chiefs. Gold
en- was released on bail THE arrest
caused great indignation and excite
ment among the strikers
The Pacific Mail Go s steamer 10
rea. which. it was rumored. had been
. captured by the RI Ian N.aliF0sioA
squadron. has arrived ct her dest.na-
ton safely.
: After indicting "a hoohmakers. the
: Chicago grand jury ordered Sheriff
Barrett TO take immediate steps %
stop all gambling az the race tracks
in Cook county.
c. r. Ball. attorney for William
Church, recently convicted at Warren
ton. Mo. Of the murder OF his fos,er
parents. Mr. and Mrs Yaater IS coli
,ecting evidence to show that young
Church % mentally ponsible for
his actions
In the British house Of commons, on
: the 2sth. Premier Balfour said the
= acute stage Of the Red sea incidents
] had passed. and that the Russian vol
2 unteer flee. vessels would be with
drawn. He laid down the British view
] that no belligerent waTship could Is
sue from the Black sea
The assassination Of NJ Won Plehve,
in St Petersburg, has created panic
among officials, some OF whom fear 6
fresh outbreak Of nihilsm- Some claim
that the war with Japan is insignih-
! cant compared to the peril nearer
home.
Special dispatches from Shanghai
and Yokohama. Of he 18th, said that
general attack on Port Arthur wa
in progress.
| The London Times correspondent
T al Toxic renews the assertion that tn
Russian army in Manchuria is using
{. dum-durn bullets.
Y The strike conditions at Ziegler. III.
are not relaxed. both sides watchini
/, developments with utmost vigilance.
! Eight large sticks Of dynamite an
y two dozen percussion caps were foun
under the Santa Fe station at Ell PasC
Tex. on the 9th The explosive
were so arranged that is is though
any heavy jar would have set them of
On the 9th. Engineer Bud Durba
was fatally injured, and two me
named Imam were seriously hurt b
lie the explosion Of a boiler at lnma
Ie Bros sawmill, near Minnowfor'
le Tenn. The mill was demolished.
z. 1t is said the United States has Dc
Of cided to demand full pay from Russ
T. for American goods destroyed by u
" sinking OF the steamer knight Con
Pr mander.
Charles Kratz. the former 81. Lou
councilman. indicted in connection wit
= the Suburban railway deal. is report'
= seriously III at his home
President Roosevelt was formal
notified. on the 9th, OF his nominate
q for president by tie republican natioi
al convention.
- The body OF F Kent LOOMS vi
~ put aboard the American liner 81. Pat
- which sailed fer New York on the 21t