The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-11-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN ePlTOME or The MOST IN
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
a Carefully Oisestad and CONDENSED
Compilation OF Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

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camp. on Hotkams sound. British Co
lumbia. shot down shinele hume
5000 feet. tossed % feet. falling into
The ocean He swan 10 the rocks and
clung there until rescued by his wife
lie went down the iume SO fast that
his clothing was torn OF and then his
skin was burned Off.
Bris Gen. Frederick Funston has
arrived in ST Louis and taken charge
OF the Southwest division ~ the United
States army. removed there from ok
iahoma City. Okla The Northern d.
vision headquarters have been re-
moved from s. Louis 70 Chicago.
James d. Money Jr nephew OF
United States Senator Il D. Money. OF
Mississippi who killed L J. Hender-
son az Money station, Miss. has been
released on 10000 bond
John Smalley. OF futile. Okla. killed
his wife and then him self after she
had applied for a divorce.
Prospectors near Watertown. y d,
are searching for the source Of gold
nuggets found in the crop OF duck.
William Randolph Hearst has gone
20 California for recuperauon from the
strain incident 70 his gubernatorial
campaign
Ambrose L. Thomas president Of
Lord & Thomas. advertising agents.
Chicago. and interested IN other enter
prises. dropped dead in a department
store in that city from heart disease.
Railroads are expending $1,000 600
improving Ashtabula (O) harbor. the
greatest iron ore receiving port in the
world.
Jonah P Sappington. who died in
ST. Louis county Missouri. was the
last OF seven men who assisted L. 5
Grant 10 build the log cabin in which
he lived on a farm south of 81. Louis
few years before the civil war
St Louis chapter OF the Daughters
OF the Confederacy have subscribed
$1,000 toward the erection Of a monu-
ment 10 the eonfederacy in Forest
park in that city.
The preliminary returns to the de-
pertinent Of agriculture on the pro-
duetion Of corn in 1906 indicates a
Total yield OF about ASST 09G bush
els or an average OF 800 bushels per
acre. as compared withan avera q
yield Of 2S.S bushels as finally astima--
ed 10 1905. 26.S Ia 1904 and a ten-year
average Of 30 bushels
Thomas Dougherty. a prominent
young man 0f Dunm1re pa. died ia
the state hosDi-a. 10 sacran-on as The
result Of being stabbed by In TIM.
known woman The corner says ne
wound was ia %. heart and was in.
flic,ed by 4 bat pin
Mrs. Esther summer Damon said
20 he the last surviving widow ~ "a
solder OF the revolutionary war died
al her home 10 Plymouth Union Va
eyed So She was marrl q ia 1885
when p years old. 70 Noah Damon
who was them - years old Damon
seryed through the revolutionary war
hayins enlis, i In 1775.
The federal grand jury. in its inves
tigation Of the Shelby tube scandal a
Pittsburg Pa. returned indictment.
against three individuals chargin.
them with conspiracy 20 defraud th'
government by selling ii defective
boilers Some OF these tubes. accord
ing 10 the grand jug, are in use oil
the battleship louisiana on which
President Roosevelt is making hi
Panama trip.
a lone boy bandit. weighing scarcel
ITO pounds. held mp the Golden Stat
Limited the fast Chicago. Rock ISLAM
a. Pacific train. near Slater. Mo. an
telling the passengers that he wa
from Missouri. robbed the rear Pull
mar car. forcing the porter 70 collec
IN his cap the booty from the occt
pants OF each berth He allowed IA
women in the car 70 20 nmolestec
saying that: Jesse James neve
robbed ladies'"
II is stated that a general invest
CATION Of what is known as the Harr
man system OF railroads. under IN
authority conferred by law. Is one ,
the subjects that has been discusse
for some time by the interstate cor
merce commission. and that body
IS said. really stands committed % a
inquiry
The directors Of the state bank
New York have declared divlder
OF 900 per cent. payable in cash. Z
lhe udHh 3 tuplt dllIdilNu 81 SlVV.bi
The directors also declared the usu
semi-annual dividend Of 80 per cen
Every member Of the faculty Of &c
tenary college. Jackson. La exec
President Moncreif has resigned. as
consequence OF the recent stabbir
Of Rev Miller By Moncreif Two da,
previous the entire student body le
the college on account of the rete
ton Of Prof Moncreif
The United States circuit court
appeals, al st. Paul. MINI. bias han
ed down a decision upholdlng the v
lldity Of contracts for the purcha
and sale OF grain for future deliver
as II Is practiccd by the Chicago boa
of trade and the Merchants exchanl
of 81. Louis