The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-06-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS

II Is stated at Lisbon. Portugal. that
the United States cruisers Baltimore,
Olympia and Cleveland will not come
10 Lisbon, but will stay at Tangier.
pending q settlement of the difficulty
arising out of the detention OF Ion
Perdicaris and Cromwell Marley. re-
spectively citizens Of the United States
and Great Britain by the bandit Raj
suli
Libefty bell reached Milwaukee on
a special train over the Chicago. Mil
wnukee & st Paul railway on schedule
time on the 5ih. and was viewed dur
ing its stay of about two and one-haf
hours by several thousand persons. in
Gliding a large number OF school chill
dren. There was no formal programme.
Curtis McClin. a cripple. who is
wasted al Charlottesville, No. on a
charge OF murder. was arrested at
Grand Tower. IL, and while being
taken 10 -hcbes TO be turned over 10
the Missouri officials made his escape
through Tic car window by jumping
from a rspidly-moying train.
IL has been ascertained that Mrs.
Nan Patterson. who was arrested by
the police of New York city in con-
rection w'sh the shooting OF Caesar"
Young. the thurman. is a Washington
ID c. girl. Her father, John B. Pat
terson. IS well well known in real es-
tate circles Of that city.
Instead CT nine dead. as first report
ed. II is now known that Il men lost
their lives in the fire and explosion
az the Coming distillery al Peoria. H.,
on the 9Th Eight more bodies have
leen removed from the ruins four OF
whom were identified.
TIE barge Loreberry. Of the Philadel-
phia & Reading Coal Co. was sunk Of
Vineyard Sound Iightship during
dense fog. on the 9Th, through a col
lision with the steamer Tallahassee. Sa-
vannah. for Boston.
DR. ] " Simpson. married. vas
shot and killed. on the 4th. at Weston,
Mo. by Julius Rumpel. a saloonkeeper.
Rumpel gave himself up. Rumpel
claims Simpson was too friendly to-
ward Mrs Rumpel
Families who propose 10 cast their
lot on the Rosebud reservation, which
vill soon be opened 10 settlement by
the government. are going 10 Bonesteel
az the rate OF 50 a day.
George VI Philips. who won renown
as engineer on the collier Merrimac
sunk By Hobson al the mouth OF Sa--
tiago harhor died on the 5th a, his
home in Cambridge, Mass.
The department Of agriculture a,
Washington has been advised that Or.
Cook. who has discovered in Guata-
mala an ant that is a fierce enemy 0.
the boil weevil. has started by this
overland route for the cotton fields.
carrying colonies 81 ants. with which
experiments will be made in the
weevil-ravaged sections.
J. E MARCEL. whose forgerics OF
100000 wrecked the Highland bank.
at Highland Kas.. has been sentenced
TO IS years in prison. five years on
each Of the seven counts and began
serving time in the penitentiary on the
9Th He was placed as an apprentice
under Emmett Dalton. the former out.
law and bank robber
Potatoes are selling at the highest
prices on record in New York. and
housekeepers are told there Is no i'm
mediate prospect that they will be
cheaper. New potatoes are selling on
the dock for ScZ5 a barrel. 50 cents
above any previous record
Ninety Englishmen. who are
10 make a five weeks tour Of the
United States and Canada. including
visits 10 st. Louis. Buffalo. Niagara
Falls. Washington and ether places Of
interest arrived in New York. on the
5th. on the Celtic.
Thirteen men were killed by the ex
plosion OF an Internal machine at the
railroad station in Independence. Col-
on the 9th. and seven others were Sc
rious!y injured Eleven men were
killed outright. and two died later
from their wounds.
Caesar Vivian. Porto Rican stu
dent at Dickson seminary Williams
port. Pa. was drowned in the Sus-
quehanna river while swimming His
parents had Just landed az New York,
IN route 20 witness their sons gradu-
alton
on he ith tornado near Conan.
che. l. r.. destroyed several houses
-Four persons were seriously hurt. but
no deaths are reported. The school
house at Wlliamsport was iemol
ished and heavy damage to crops
done.
Mrs Samuel VI Clemens. the wife
OF Marx Twain the American au-
thor and lecturer. died OF syncope az
Florence. italy. on the 5th. Half an
hour before her death she had con-
versed cheerfully with her husband.
Miss Alice Roosevelt. who. for the
last fortnight has been the guest Of
friends In St Louis. returned to Wash
'ington on the 9th.