The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-02-16
SPARKS FROM LIVE WIRES

st. Louis physicians received let
ters from the city health commission
er warning them Of the dangers OF an
epidemic of meningitis.
A dispatch from Vienna says Count
Won A~ehrenthal. the foreign minister.
Is in such a serious condition that no
nope is entertained for his recovery.
The nude body of a middle aged
man with the head and arms cut OF
was found frozen into shore ice near
the bank Of the Great Kanawha river
near G%allipolis, o.
State Auditor OF Public Accounts
Mccullough has filed suit for s.. 900
against the Western Union Telegraph
company at Springfield. ILL.,, because
a messenger boy on a bicycle ran into
him. injuring him.
Rev. o. f. Harvey. a veteran evan
gelist among the woodsmen of Mime
sofa and Wisconsin, was found dead
In bed at his home at Fond du Lac, a
suburb of Duluth. He vas dressed
and both feet were frozen.
Va INC JCAcC1 AlAf DQSI
ness Mems association have pledged
themselves 10 boycott members of
tie Hudson County Bar association
because that organization decided TO
&c TO a New York hotel TO hold its
annual banquet
Chauncey Hammond, who in 1910
was acquitted of the charge of steal
ing a $4,000 pay roll from a Detroit
automobile concern. was convicted OF
stealing an automobile. He will be
sentenced later. Hammond was ar
rested in Columbus. o.
Presiden; Taft's meditations on fill
ing the present vacancy in the SUI
preme court were mcmentarily dis
turbed by a communication from the
Woman Suffrage Association of the
District of Columbia suggesting that
a woman be appointed.
Shiloh. 1.-The Holy Ghost and Us"
colony near Brunswick. Me, has not
yet capituiated TO Rev Arthur Hersee.
who went from Vancouver TO take
Rev. Frank W. Sandford's place az
leader. Hersee styles himself "Boan-
erges. the Son Of Thunder"
Free marriage licenses are offered
by County Clerk Singleton of Padu-
cab, KY, TO all girls in "Jackson's
Purchase" who will make affidavit
upon application that they proposed
to their frances. This offer stands, the
clerk says. until February 2S.
The meeting of the Interparliamen-
tary Peace union at Brussels is re-
garded at Rome as highly important,
owing to the decision Of the Italian
group not to participate and to sever
connection with the union If the meet
ing insists on ~condemning the action
of Italy in the conflict with Turkey.
News was brought TO Victoria. b. c..
by the Canada Maru of the arrival at
Yokohama of the Teyo Kisen Kaisha
steamer, Kiyo Maru, from South
America, without fuel. Chief Engineer
Yamashita committed suicide by jump
ing overheard. A note he left says
he did so 10 atone for his fault for
the fuel shortage.
Sixty-two miners entombed in the
Bunker Hill mine for % hours by a
cave-in in the mouth OF the shaft at
Suter Creek, Cal. were rescued. after
desperate work by miners from a
nearby mine. None of the men was
injured. Several were weak from lack
of food, but none will suffer any per
manent i'll effects.
A Gordon OF policemen and detec-
tives paced the streets surrounding
Bellevue hospital. New York. through
out the early morning hours TO guard
an expected attack on the institution
By gangsters, who. it is said. were
planning 10 rescue from the prison
ward of the institution a man who
was shot in a street fight January 20.