The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-09-29
SPARKS FROM LIVE WIRES

Georgia viii be the FIRST southern
state TO begin the manufacture OF
serum for hog cholera. The serum will
be made at the state college.
October .. the fortieth Anniversary
OF the Chicago fire. has been set aside
by Governor Deneen in a proclamation
issued from the executive Office as
Illinois Fire Prevention day.
Practically ] 900 tailor shops In New
York, where the better class OF gar
ments for women are made. were de-
serted by their workers. Ten thou
sand tailors, 1000 OF them women.
were employed in the shops affected.
Wholesale frauds in the branding OF
inferior grades OF liquors with spuri-
Gus trademarks OF staple products
were revealed through the arrest or
Martin Alborie in New York city.
charged with infringement OF trade
marks.
A pickpocket at the Kansas state
fair robbed Lester Wylder. an Oberiin
! (Kan.) boy, OF $50 he had saved on
which TO start TO college. and Wylder
returned to his home to go to work
and earn money with which to enter
college next year.
The five-year-old son OF Owen Nc
Enany OF Websters Prairie. WIS. has
been kidnapped. The child was gath
ering hickory nuts near his home
when an automobile stopped. one OF
the occupants picked him up and the
automobile sped away.
Upon adyices that five Gillian mid
shipmen were drowned at Valparaiso
by the dragging OF their boat under
the propeller OF warship. the navy
department at Washington cabled It's
sympathy and that of the midshipmen
OF the Naval academy.
Two women are dying in a hospital
and two others are seriously hurt as
the result OF an automobile accident at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y. The victims are:
Mrs. George Van Wegenen. Mrs.
James Moran, Mrs. Philip Winters
and Mrs Frank Seaman.
! Two hundred dairymen of Virginia.
} West Virginia and Maryland, members
: of the Producers Association OF Dairy
} men Of those states. started cam
paign at their annual meeting in
: Washington against the present fed
: eral tuberculin test for cows.
I The trial by court-martial OF Gunner
4 Henry McEveri, u. S. N, whose wife
committed suicide September 5. was
r begun at the Mare Island (Cal.) navy
3 yard. McEveri is charged with drunk
e enness One specification is that ne
struck his wife the day of her death
In round numbers the cost OF the
5 Roosevelt expedition into Africa un'
I. der the auspices OF the Smithsonian
; institution was $4,000. The expenses
Q of the actual hunting were divided
/ the Smithsonian paying about three
y fifths and Colonel Roosevelt about two
fifths
s Oficials Of the New York state fail
! at Syracuse, who have given unusual
recognition 10 the suffragists at thii
s years meetings. have voted TO Dr
Il Mary Walker the annual prize for be
T. ing the best dressed woman on thu
grounds. She appeared in MASCULINE
d costume.
D. Cold storage chicken is believed 4
f. have caused the death of William
D. Starkweather of New York and tn
illness of between sixty and sevent
II sailors on board the battleship Mich
l. gan, which arrived at Boston from tn
-e southern drill grounds. All OF the sic
TX men have recovered.
Of A confetti-covered automobile n
is turning from the Coney island Marc
at Gras was wrecked while rounding
IL curve In Brooklyn. ~ Y. fashion
ably dressed woman. said to be Mr.
ed Josephine Noble, was killed. Her e
in cort. Thomas Swain, a contractor. wa
Is probably fatally injured.