Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 April 1904 — Page 2
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prairie fir tgn -ed 'he B-irl.n:
Ater-i. iklMlfliB ,k Inlw. Mo. on the Mth iMU , iany holMlngs aid injuring two per an. J V Ihny received a se-. , re alp wound, and Jerry Curry, colred. ith a lea ami an arm lr.
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The XT nor d. 5 frV the famoaaa toonary com President BFaaona (M the election Lea Aurele
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Nn York. a-, igainsi a San'a
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BtlRTDH OF KANSAS IS FOUKO CUIL1T The Jury Says He Used His Official
Influence (or Money. WORKED FOR RIALTO GRAIN CO.
WITHIN Ol R limits, nuiirr nv n nnnp
UHIVmüL Dl rLUUUO IN THREE STATES
News by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana.
km of the I ' 24th indefit . art
p0"1 fWenre Mr. Jaraes . : .. h. ,::' a destroyed
Mr seriously injured. Many other -on pron Wrr inJlVred . Ma -C.n. Jahn C. Rate, commander iu.-h of the northern division of the I'nited . S-a-es army, and the army and navy : 2 oflkora stnttaoed at St Louis were the
lhr rtlHi if tnstnlm 0. aam i ..r rrr Hur Mini t.un llulalli. !.. In (I,.- lull. I la(r.
lub in St. Louis on the
er tat Ma
comptroller of the currency "omted John W Wilson receiethe Orange Growers' national
1 - P-s.-.t a. vr-er ' -o Laar Chicago on April IS for in murder f Mr Mary Spt'ka. Pesant. last fail, strangled the woman to death to proCure $360 which she possessed
Bo t
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e protex S:a-. - The t: - r : .:. Jar -tr. - ir. ; Th,
I a treaty with France mis and other French
7 it ft
led . in
pe on pen ."th
ence law for Iowa The re-commem tion is regarded a equivalent to t passage of the law. The Cuban government has discard the offer of George Ru hardson of CI eago. for the raising of the Unit Sta'e battle. Lip Maine, because 1 has neither furnished a guarantee n Signed n contract for the work.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Senate The senate, on the 2'th. was in session only about three hours Purine that time a number of private pension bills were passed and another por'on of the Distri t of Columbia appro-
. fglattoa Mil was read and debate,) Thn j district bill was sat ill under discussion . I when the senate took up the pen; ion
' '" V - ; . .i . .-r f ''bills on that list the senate adjourned i ' House The house began consider- I j at ion of the sundry civil appropriation ! bill. Ten hours were fixed fcr gen-I Pt? fr.ar. n rVaa ..... ... i .
I mm w. '- -fca a air lit- V HI ur, LUl J4L I the end of an hour and a half there wpre no speakers ready to continue, and the house adjourned for !a ik of , talk, ra. Chairman Henn nway cf the , appropriations committee and Mr Benj ton dem. filed -tatim. nt. on the bill. Mr Kenten was sammci up the fiscal condition for the neat fiscal year. ; show ing t; at after a'! legitininte cxpens had !',-n paid tt.re wonld be -:r;. m for the year. A number of minor bills were passed by t'nanimo i o.nsent. and special orders : w're mail,' for the onsi deration of pension bills which had the right of
R
hn Potts
:day-?f
of Toronto. Ont.. 1 of Mars, on th-j es to the World's ntion. The min-
M lonln, Man ii :. jni Rant Burton. .r.ior I'nited States senator from Kansas and a Hlitual leader of nide inftuem-o throtithoit the we.t. was convicted by a Jury tn the I'nited States district court. Monday on the Bfentnn of aicepttr.- tmymwmukn to protet the interests of the Rialto Gram 4 Ses uriti. s Co a so-c alled ;et-rich-quiik " concern. lefore the post office department Apnjft from the maximum penalty of a l'V"o fine and two years' imprisonment whuh the court may impose. Senator Burton is forever barred from
holding aty public office in the I'nited States The minimum penalty prescribed by the statute is a one-day's jaij sentence and a 1 fine. Th. i , m hNtoa of the fase. which has beta la program before judge Elmer U. Adams since last Monday, marks h ri:.-t eoarlrtioa in the htacory of the ra ioti nf a memUr of the l"n ' d Btnti i -enate. Further the case establishes a prece- , rf . f - .
ec-uiion under ..... nn
S2 of the Revised Statutes of the 1 r :' 'f ' which prohibits mrm- ' 1 .-r.- f .. a, . opting . ,m- . 1 "'! '"r 'heir srxicr- in any rae which laroiwei the tatertm of ahe fi jcral p . rnment. Baaator Burton's recourse Is an apMa to the Caited Btntea c:r,u,it court Of ap". a!- which ldy is the final n ! . Pending the final a ' ' ;hat tribunal he may give
Great Damage by Flood. Indianapolis. Ind . Mar. h In, Hanipelll is in the grasp of the greatest Hood that has been recorded in its hislory within the past M years. Ths three- c-raoaa that thread their way through the city are swollen betoml
iheir banks and the result is that huo dr. ds of a. res of MaMaaat rop rty it M.Mled at. I thouan.is of eop;e ars homeless i .-treet railway aid interurban system are without power, because of the rloodiug of the power houses near Whit.- rive-r Communnatfcai with North and West Ipdianapolif is cut off by the Hood, whuh has sw. pt away bridges. Mati 1 ... s hava n carried down Walt rlfor, aid shatt.red against the stone bridgaa, At Portland John l.ai:y and Otil l.iwninc. hoth ncooaiaamt. were drowned In an
effort to re. ue iJnvid Knoll, an aged
larmer. who had driven off th lv.
Reuben Miller, aged ten was drowned
at Huntington. Levees have br.iken
at Wabash r;w i--. t - - at..! the wat.r
rusne.i tnrouah.
acres and drrang the people from their
nome-s. Much live Mock perished.
Hamilton Courthouse Rejuvenated.
.Noblesville. Ind. March IN Th
repairs on the courthouse are nra.-ri.
rally compile!, and Hamilton county
now nas a public building comparing favorably with all others In the state
all of the corridors have been fre
OM I and tintM with gold leaf, with
marble wainscoting The four main
entrances are solid marble. The of
fices have -.ri painted, and new
noors have W-en put d.run The ,3.
:nc are finished in eviart. red oak
The building i
lighting, and it
wat-r The- total rot of the Improve-I ment-e is . While the struc- I ttire was built - years ago. the outside i well preserved and is mod-; cm in every mini t Little Boy Loses an Eye. Columbus. Ind . March 2$ - Marion
Some Loss of Life and Much Suffering. WORST THOUGHT TO BE OVER
be heated bv hot
le. it
The final installment of the 922 t.ot called for by Secretary Shaw from the interior detitorT banks ta
nth
Lanks of M
The prelim cary eaamination at Saa Francisco, of F A. Hyde and Henry P D.mocd. charged in an indictment ol the federal grand jury at Wasbingron U C. w.th obtaining govemnnw tend
ay fraudulent meant bean
n the
a .
P Tau! H :.- s--. ary of ., Tu Qoesne M cine Co and prominent In Pennsylvania financial ma'ters. shot i.1 himself through the bad 00 the shorn f Mahon lake, near Norfolk. Va on i?1 ths 2id He is thought to have im j lotsb
t :r.4 a ar.. - !
i. tt c.'.jlr w-aa
memlers of the party from the I'nited S-a:.- are well :,t. w.; ir, , ... -,, Jerusalem, where the nienng of the convention will be held. O S Strickland, a rromlnent cr.atracting mason of Guthrie. Ok!a and 1 William Shaul. of Ponca City, vera -killed while engaged in pulling the framework from a stone arch bridge Orth Went of Ponca City on the ly.th i The arch feil, and Strickland and
bcanl were burled under tons of stone Tne bodies were horribly mangb- L
Mrs Jefferson Davis, widow of the'
Mi southern eonfedon the 27th. in Atvrh an attack cd? 'In rough her reMrs. Davis rained. -- - " -cd
B 1 on n 1 Ir. N
e summarized as follows: 'mber, IMI, to eoantaf. a to become general counsel Grain k- Securities Co. lose opt ration.- at tje time the sc rutiny cd post offic
Linke, the s tad Mrs Willi losi the sight hacds of his t i The bovs decic
war
f Mr "lifford. at the ar Carl.
Tbey
late pr eracy
William Shaw Campbell. fr many years in the consular service of the tTnited States died at Washington on the 4 agd c years From IUI hwas consul at Rotterdam for ? year nd later sgrved la the same capar:tv Jn Dresden and at Newas-:-on.TTne" lie mi native of N-w Y. rk
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Prcf John I'ndoraer. of Cleveland O. widely known as an organist and itfical director, died on the 24th after a long lllneae Prof I'ndemer ac compared Jenny Lind as ar. arcompan y !ur:nx her triumphal visit to the t'nit-
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Chrisrian 1 ouse keeper
Iant:c City. . J J acute indig.-stioo. markaMe vitalitr. and no apprebens for her raoi.l re. o
The Wabash. White and Pat ok a river, near Prlaei 'on. Ind . wer. r;-:ng ' on the 2Tth. The property loss has already reached tl in southwestern Indiana. AH trains are greatly .. a - I Sfia'-T. 'ma', on Hag :s'v. j discussed for three hours the rece nt ordor of h pension bureau making old age an evidence of disability, and then passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill. The discussion of the pension order was Las. d on thn resolution offer! s me da 1 aeo br
Cr -
nch of ar r1 23 p. sundry
ime to
2 Burton demand.! 12 SOO for his " e mas antlaBed 'o be paid la 1 mon'hl installmen;- ,.f $.vi etch. t5 af-r fli.. mployrnent it deri petl that tha federal grand jurywas invesfiuaticg the Brooks Brokerage r with which Maj Hugh C Dennis, president of the Rialto company had beri aMagfafad 4 In December. lwr. Dennis was indi.'-: and appealed to Burton ar help.
- i.-.j in fr vri'if n t'V Burton howed that the senator was u-ing his Inflnei to prevent the issuance of a fraud order again-t tfc.. Rialto Gram S Co C Bur'on submitted regular reports to the Rialto people, tellinr them how matter were progressing at Washington, adv. sing them of complaints filed t the po.r office department, and closing wrh the assurance that if you look after things at you end of thMp. I :.! attend to matters here" Ter;m ,nv of p,.., ,,fflfA off., jal, trat Senator Burton h..i r,.iA
. nu 1111., lie i::fr.ud to itractii ,. . i.a-me rc rore the departmen- that he had lost 170.000 in the pan.o. and desired to make some asOaey a. a practicing lawyer Senator B ir-on was indi. ted in January iast Although e, a m miter of
"gays in fun.
d to in-
i'.-e a ume real warrare itto the game. He nicartd a bow and arrow, the arrow lipped with a nail to make it ffcarp Aiming this at his brother, he twanged the bowstring and the arrow sped into
nis brothers right rye The boy was I brought here and was operated on. but I the ( Deration could aat save his sieht I Teachers to Meet. Winona Lake. ltd . March 2 At '
1 winona Lake the big hotels and board I ing houses are be;ng generally over- , hauled and put In order for the r.r.
ta.nment of the teachers of northern '
Indiana schools, who meet there in an
nual convention April 7 to 9. The convention will be one of the largest meet
ings of the season and will bring many
prominent educators to the park. The visitors will represent the lljggg teachears of northern Indiana and it is tha wish of the Winona Assembly and the residents of Warsaw that they be royally entertained. fnirinMt V lJ
Fort Wayne I r ? . Mar. h 2S-Jan.el
MeMullen. a well-known engineer, of this city, employed by the Pennsylvania . ornpany.waskülf .: h) a wreck at Crestline. He was the er.gii.en.an on the rast east-bour.d social and did no? that the engine of the aM-hound freight, which was hachjag into naM Ing. had cot cleared the track nr.til ton !
a N h mbrr nf irr im ImlUu, mi. teiitni n.i UMaada Haavn veataWaend iiieir Hai.,
gndanj 1rh llaaatr. Grand BajfUa. Mi. h , Mar. b fj The flo.i.1 conditions in th Gr.ii.d nv.r valley have greatly improved in the pajt 21 hours and utile? M r. . .. 1 be a fall of rain, which is threatened Monday night, further danger from high water is passed. Sin. the morning the river has lonered nine iu bes from high water mark of )t:tf ! Monday night the water Is stationary.
All the marooned Inhabitants in this city have been properly eared for. School houses, church and tnc auditorium are Ix-ing used fer that purpoe. Contrary tu ail iwaofftA, thera has lieen no loss of life in this nfty on accoimt of the flood The subway recently cut out under the Grand Trunk railroad tra ks Is now believed to lie r.sponsihle for the uiipreced.-nted fooding of the upper half nf the w. side Heretofore the. railroad embankment. 2 feet high served a.- a dvke Encouraging reports from Lansing. Battle Creek. Flint. Kalamazoo and other towns where flood damage have hn estimated up in the hundreds ol
tnouands of doMars. show tha' the danger and distress are largely centralized in the Saginaw j and around Grand Rapids in the valley of the Grand river And at Gr.a.. 1 Rapids. t ... a marked improv . ni-: - n xed. yet it is e.-'imated that 14.s people are in distr.ss. On the Shiawassee river near Che.
'.ansng. H families were ft . their homes on a sugar hoal in the nie k of time, before th were almost entirely suhme: bert Bertras. a foreman for company, lost his life tryin
some of the property He was in the
water five hours and died fr. m xre.
d from
;.!-ive
not be arr re.) until Ijourned. he volunnime!f to the pronto the a mate JanuSl ho 4T-II! I .
lately fibd a
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Hi a.uiu siuepwiping it. his endue wa upset and badly daaagd His death was dne to e.apir.i: -t 3m. Heir to Newton Estate. Portland, lad.. March Ml - artAr
rMOMMtlaa .r,e at lln. i Hr.
Bay City. Mm h . Mar. h 2 Flood conditions Monday are very grave The k in the river started ou: Mnaflnj. - 'ar north as tL Behndn street hridge. where It gorged, seriaaatf damaging the piers and threatening to sweep the bridge away Relow this point the river is filled w.th Ice and the bay Is still covered, allowJig no rep. . i.f londitior in tV St;inaw river The basements along the river front are filling, and the fire engines are endeavoring to ke p the newspaper press room: clear A s. ore of Mocks in the extreme south ar under water. X. Inpr.irnr.1 in Indiana. Pe'ersliirg. Ind. March 21 Th
Baad situation in this county is appalling White river, above her, is 12 miles wide in places, and 2 feet deep In tha channel Patoka river, which flows through the county's center, is three miles wide fur nearly forty miles Farms are under water, bridges and fences are gone, the soil washed away and much stork drowned The loss now reaches $2.V rt. Th wheat Is ru-:..-J It Is feared there Will he two or more f.ot 0f water, an 1 will quadrnpb the loan. Hn.. ell. HI.- I ... rr- llroke. Vimernes. Ind.. March 2:' The Ru-setj-, nie Ic-.e broke Monday night and 2. acres are und. r wa-r An
Ht a.'
Gr?
ar
gave the royal ..-- - - 'i 2m h. came re- : rivers. Tha
Int and S?inaw their banks. t eared 'ha- many
tar:fT
er at I m I " w
laaaja rainfall, tha orln. Ill . on the
I -w. ) a vaire of Jf of a '.i . . e a
is ihoa I,.
Bnohar Washington to dine with him. (and -aid th t0oldea. was a man of la big heart, as !! aa birth, breeding and cu.tivation. Mr Clark (Mo i made ja speech c.n llo. tariff, and declared
uneju. vocally programme fo A strong plea was mad" by urged the ren cents a poiin I
adjourned at I
Jarne B. Ho
THEY WENT TOGETHER
of to If I
sulcus i.. tanaynlngnn) ..i ir. ..n.i Man, J..HB h. anm-n mt at. lasnOa.
as ihoa J lr every
thea ho-tr TV ., r..i
iaetfaa John j Lairl
ar'
his brothei es He! nies 1 'rzm TA" V
county 1 titlLn.'
' Trimble (Ky.t. who al of the tax of six raw tobarc i Housn ! P m. ord. of Helena. Mont., lected whh the offle ig architect of the nf. and f r over two
lenly oa tte IS l-.ut Brich rs eh.-ease, I 57 .ears Intemitnt at QmM o. If Wat'ih. of Lincoln. N'eb for-
ai-ar.r m the Lnna- r
j John B. I ife. Jnlt flay taarg
I-
ar. ! a
Th Shaw av gae . n. v
a . r-f t lag le. :.
jtenced to serve (our vears ia the pe6. of Kna. Ve ' fn'iar x '"Tred tax re-
of oh ' A C S itch. a gas. oil and brick and la i l T "in. Kas . has at hmA -ir9n fo- a fin.- ars ..'.pan-
as f onnd
n lha
IhO San'a Fe rallr.n'e'on. Kas . which ie rronnd to fc.-'a ta
w no at
been I wfatof rrke ir.v the mir. of rha . rant. Blllir thk Works at Jar .. : fniL. Z'. UM T Mn 0,4 2 .h and impr1son1 15 r.en. I The Cre department took a.: ;i.e a.ea . I out caiurtd. j.n. I Itikca c:Th. ;mr
se. Topeka in 'ry of a son and attended that sarat on he Uhh Ittai of II If Rat d ntendent of the diand allowance- of rtment. The icuon
- -larch 23- Burdened hv neing years. lonelinesa and üon of a fonune vanished .e:r friendship fer o'hers. l-ri an g y.ars e ld. and his ::na Altnian. 17 year old. Bnaday .lih. to slumber Tar.ged death m of their home at 4?i:
avenaa, just opposite shaws i. v. as th.-ir d.ath ehamlep it: a i and crev ice had be n e afaalhed and plastered with s-r.pa
';,r-''r- ml 'ren a gas ;.f hang;i 'h. enter of the teiling had inr.. raft
They aara ftmnd Hofday asorahaf, as they ha i planned to be found A er. mailecj by them fo their law vet
Biaiay told of their suicide act. Mli.i.ier HwHilea llealh. S. Loahk March 29 Rev Charier. Hei-; !, i Methyl!-, miniver of War-rent..-M who came -o gi ho!.
to rtiaducl the anarttrtf services at Salem Gern.an M E rureh. died suddenlv. Sinday. as the re-uit of heart trout 1 tewMesttnl Dniii i n latnd. Harti ! r,rn. March 21 -A cableKram fr .m prof Wjw R , .ton of Ihe Hartford Thecdeical seminary, announces he acddaatal death of his
w.i win, whom he v,as traveling in I - Hclj Urd. ty a fall from a bona I
th esta'e of the lae William ? Inn 1. LI. J ,
w I.... .nu in. ij iiTo'iier jonn were burned to death in .their home near this city, has been foaa I at dene. R BaJoOBM M a grMldr nephew, and will share in the .-state, originally valued ar t: Shocked h L.ve W.: e
Ijifayette. ind . March 2. Police-
man HoQraw diacovere ; a wire in an alley, and notified fayncta Qaa mmninv Patri
anaugh. an employe, was sen' t investigate. Nt knowing that it was a 'live" wire, he tovk hold and received a shock of 0(o volts, to his very serious injury
II feet and rising an Inch an The Ir.- : -riapo'is A Vincenncc E -ht of tra ': t :.r Sir.: wa.-h'd away. tWstsgfls. in.. gwnsstsoL Tana Ha-ite. Ird . March 2S
I -a rav-
t-et of water. Th" haritabi o-g-nl-raiions are earing for the p, n THE BENNETT WILL CASE. William j. Mr. a-, t.. (p,.rar j N. perO.r mart In rYaWSCBSBtO Hi. Vi.pe-il.
His Second Fall. V Albar.v Jnd . Mar.-h 2S - Charles Williams, while cleaning VlnddWa In Morgan s business block fell to thenavs-
n'-r.t ar.d sustained a fractured skull which may cause his iath About s year aco he fell from a third-rtory window and suffered a fracture of the
ski. II bot soon recovered ar.,'. returned
to work. Awarded Big Damages. Importe. Ir.d . March 2 A Jury In I-aporfe ircult cum has award".! Mrs Jennl Barnes $...5on for permanent Injuries received by being struck by a luike Shore limited near New Carlisle sued for flft.ooo II. r husband was hllttdl ar.d another suit is pending. Children li-.ve Mumps. Delphi. Ind . Mar'-h 2 An epidemic of mump has attacked IMphl children Many of the pupils of the public rehools are confined to their home More than balf the pupil: of the slx'h grade ere abent. . I
hi
Mrs.
Xrw Haven. Cnn . March 2' I lam J. Bryan will anmar in I
perior court Tuesday, to pmneci apt eal fnm the decrees of the n court excluding as a part of t .he sealed letter." in rh .
wia..- luiogene it. nn- ft. the wi i n dir.-cf. d to pay to Mr. Bryan men'ionel in the w ill f h ;,, s n Bett Bryan Is an executor und r the wifl. and the objection to the e ed latfar ay Mn lu-nnett la aaoad that Mr Baaaatl was intlnenced in tha
araw ing up or the doc iuient. Mrs Bryan came her with her huahnad. She is to be a witness. Iganadaaad aSsiial Bi.'riaieW,wl. Toledo. O . March IJ faghlll WiIIlatns. formerly
- - - "im tiiy igtrm Cedar Rapids Northern id. was Monday appointed g. a. uperintendent of the Tol.-d . St. u'- ' r railroa ! . . :c. I L Fra'ler. re-iitnol
BarB railrc eral 1 l -i
I a. hier lien 4. l.ulll. Paris. Terr . March 2? - s J ?-.te
former ca-h.er nf the First natl nal lank at Petty, pleaded guilt
in the ft farm t to th. charge
5J" :nt. li. was renter, J to Qv yeara imprison mer t