The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

machine. Barney Oldlield. professional
racing chauffeur drove his automobile
az a 60-mile- AMI hour rate through the
fence al The Fair grounds track IN St
Louis. on the 2Sth. BEFORE $4,000 per-
sons. killing one man. fatally injurins
another. and sustaining slight injuries
himself HIS machine was completely
demolished.
Vala. considered the most valuable
Angus COW in the country and
valued at s.. coo. died n Adei Ia,
on the eSth. she was owned by W d.
See,ey. OF Mount Pleasant. Ia who
was shipping her from the Iowa state
fair at Des Moines, TO the Minnesota
stats fair
Amid the cheering OF 300 men and
women. the sh teking Of Whistles and
the playing OF che national anthem the
final splicing OF the Seattle-Sitka gov
eminent cable was made. on The
18th. in the harbor, ten miles out of
Seattle Wash.
In a head-on collision between two
passenger trains OF the Pittsburg diyi-
sion of the Baltimore & Ohio. near Glen
wood. Pa. on the 2Sih. four persons
we're severely hurt. and ten or twelve
sustained minor injuries.
An imperial decree has been pub
Mshed that. in commemoration OF the
| czartvitch"s birth. a sum az money
shall be assigned from the imperial
privy purse Of Russia sufficient 70
found II scholarships
The battleship Louisiana. sister ship
10 the Conneoucut. being built ar he
Brooklyn navy yard. was successfully
launched ar the Newport News ship
building Yards on the 27th.
JOHN Mitchell. president Of the init
"a Nine Workers OF America. arrived
in New York on he American liner St
Paul. on the 27,t. after a two months
sojourn abroad
David B. Hill. in conversation with
friends in Albany y y, on the 2Sth.
announced that he intends 10 retire
from politics January ! next
Paraguayan revolutionary vessels are
extremely active They are carrying
men. horses and arms and are search-
ing al passenger Duats
Four Joints. OF illicit saloons. we're
wrecked by women az Cuba. kas On
the 2Sth. and much liquor destroyed
Jose Pardo who was elected presi-
DENT OF Peru ID June last VIII b. IN
Iauglrated September a.
Angus Mort- Jr American vice-
consul 70 Chile. IS dead
The United Mine Workers ~ Amer
ica have withdrawn the petition filed
in the United states district court az
1 Springfield ILL., asking that an iniunc
ton he issued restraining the ZiegleT
Coal Co from importing miners from
lother states 70 work in the Letter mine
al 4legler,
Sc bastian Mcbride a negro man liv-
ing near Portal. in the upper part OF
lBuiloch county. Ca was 'aken out o.
his house on the 27th. by mob Of
five men carried TO he woods.
whipped. then shot from which he
died soon afterwards.
Rolla Wells. mayor q ST Ions. al
the head OF a delegation Of Worlds fair
officials. called on Mayor Harrison Of
Chicago. on the 10Th. to ask the may
or's attendance az the exposition ON DC
tober s. which has been officially desig-
mated Chicago Day"
Application was made 10 the packers
BY the stock Yards strikers in Chicago.
ion the 29th. for a conference. the pur-
pose being 10 bring about peace in the
industrial conflict waginr al Packing
town. The conference was refused by
the packers.
Uruguayan troops sent 10 capture a
party or insurgents fought with the
rebels in Argentina territory. and the
diplomatic relations between the two
countries. in consequence, are consid-
/ .erably strained
The city u Binang. in Laguna prov
lince. Island OF Luzon has been de
lstroyed BY fire One hundred persons
: persisted in the flames and 5000 were
rendered homeless.
len Harrington, Snowman. was ar
E frosted az Evansville Ind. on the 18th
! lon the charge of enticing Carrie Elem
t ing. a 15-year-old girl. from her hom
: Vat Sullivan. III.
Missouri week al the Worlds fai
lbroke the record for weeks attend
2 ance. the admissions having been 1873,
4 All. a noticeable increase over like pre-
e vious periods.
James w. Hathaway. postmaster o
the house OF representatives Of III
: Fifty-hrst congress. died az Helena
z Mont. on the 2eth. aged 60 years
u Asa result Of recent rains practical
e " all the forest fires thai have beei
raging IN various parts Of westeri
z Montana are now extinguished.
2 A case Of supposed leprosy was re
y ported 10 the state board az health o
= Illinois, on the 10Th, from Lasalle. b
Ian attending physician.