Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 50, Number 17, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 January 1908 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER BEN ED. DOANE, Publlther.

jAM'fcR, . - - - INDIANA NEWS OF THE WEEK THE LATEST NEWS WORLD BRIEFLY OF THE TOLD. NORTH, EASIEST, SOUTH Foreign Lands Throughout the Nat.on and Particularly From the Great Southwest. Mrs. David uTllHs. widow of the S: Louis grocery found t load ami xobbed at Mount Vernon. H .. under crcumstances pointing 10 '" ---- ceived a letter in wnicu "' .-. information, wnicn, u true, may hasten solution of the tuy tenous death of Ellis. Nine tubercular cnttlo were killed In" St Louis under direction of State Veterinarian D. P. Luckoy. Heeding the appeal of the Vnltod Hebrew Charities, which is unable to au-rt the existing distress among the Jewish poor here, and the ; ajnt of one of its members that 0 000 Jewish children were starving, a apec. al committee of the Council of Jewish Communal Institutions mot ta Temple Emanuel, raised $2.660. ana pointed a committee of 250 to colicct contributions from the Je a of city and extend the membership of the charities. The American Bible Society has received a letter from mtsslonaries in ja-an saving that the alleged beMfcn, attitude of the Japs is not repTentative of the nation as a hole. but only among the few. Judge Kimbrough has authorized statt s Attorney Arbuckle of Edgar ct intv Illinois, to exhume the body of William A. Jones, a land owner X, died last August. The day of his d. ath Jones went to Paris. here he a'e a hearty dinner ami soon afterwards became fatally I"- Three Part, physicians and a Chicago surgeon will perform the autopsy. Fight in Cook county. Ill- for governor expected to develop extreme bitterness between Deneen. Brundage and McEwen. called by the deMayor Busse was tin. trial of John R. ahh Mt.ndav as a character witness. He "testified that he had known the defendant for 19 years and that W. reputancm for honesty and integritj was, Wabash Eastern line, when financial conditions improve, may construct short line from Pittsburg to Realizing that the person who killed Mrs Theodore S. Whltmore and put her bodv into the Passaic river swamp Christmas night had an accomplice the police direct every effort toward finding that person. Mrs. Whltraore. whose husband is under arrest here, was a heavy woman, and it would have been a phvslcal impossibility for the slayer to have taken the body to the spot alone. , Texas lines, after a Joint conferpnre. acree to fight the commission s proposition for reduced passenger; rates. .. John F. Fanning. SI years old. v. ell known among railroad men. who built the Des Moines division of the Rock Island and a considerable portion ot the Northern Pacific and Union Pac fic svstems. died after a long illness a. hlshorae in Chicago. Mr. Fanning came to this country from Ireland in 1M4. Crisis in Kentucky tobacco war at hand, night rider?' raids and antagon'.stir positions of growers and buyers complicate conditions. The three miner, A. D. Bailey, Peter McDonald and Fred Brown, who have been entombed in the Alpha shaft of the Glroux Consolidated Mines since Dec. 4i are probably doomed to spend another month under ground. Striking tenants riot in Now York; five artests follow clashes between pohre and renters; rod Hags disrljved. More significant and Important, perhaps. UAn any other statement In the twMitv first annual report of the in ter täte commerce commission. Is that relating to the attitude of railway of ficials toward the new railroad law. in a discussion of the operation of the act. the commission says: "By rail -wav managers almost without excep tion the amended law has boon ac rented in good faith, and they exhibit for the mmt part a sincere and earnest disposition to conform their methods to its reaulrements. Postal revenue collected in 190G Is S1CK.0OO.000; First Assistant Pos master General makes report public American charge d'affaires In Quale mala Investigates alleged attack of Mexico consul on American consulate in Ocos. The solicitors of the Earl of Yar l. oith. whose wife, formerly Miss Alice C. Thaw of Pittsburg, has begun au t for the nullification of her mar rlage. have given notice that they pro pose to defend the action. The case probably will not be heard for sevcra weeks. President Roosevelt wlshoB many a hai rpy New Year; evon Foraker pros c;t at White Houso recoptlon. t'arrllsh men-of-war lands blue Jrc.ets in Nicaragua to protect for e!n subjects in Mosquito Indian up

Probably the first lynching of 1908 occurred at Urookhaven. Miss., when a mob In broad daylight took a negro away from police officers and shot him. The negro, whoso name was not known, was accused of killing a police man at Onkvale. Miss. There will be no teamsters to move the goods of the striking touauts on New York's oast side if notices are servod au them, according to announcement from tho strikers' headquarters. It was said that one branch of the ToamsUrs' union had already passed a resolution to refuse all dispossess business and that others would soon follow. The fato of tho Canadian Pacific stoamor Mount Royal, now 25 days out from Antwerp, with Capt. Purcoll and nenrly 4Ö0 persons on board, Is causing groat anxiety. Not one vessel arriving in the last three wueks has reported the missing steamer. Her mind unbalanced by religious fanaticism. Mrs. Elizaboth Mosher deHberately burned herself to death at her home In Lincoln. Neb., praying fervently and singing while her body was being consumed by flames. Lamar Jackson, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian at Otoka, Okla.. has bwn appointed to a cadetship In the United States military academy of West Point by Congressman Charles D. Carter. Governor Hanly of Indiana issued a proclamation declaring martial law at Muncie. The proclamation was given to Quartermaster General Powell of the Indiana national guard, who took It to Muncie and delivered it to Brig. Gen. McKee. who is in command of the stnte troops assembled at that place. The $1.000.000 First National Bank building of Kansas City, recently completed, was shaken to its foundations by the explosion of a bomb which had been secreted in a retiring room in the basement. Nine persons were injured but none badly enough to cause physicians to believe tho consequences will be fatal. Loap year is worrying the unmarried men of Washington. The capital city is said to contain 10.000 more women than men, and some of the bachelors are thinking of taking wives

right away to escape being courted. The sale of liquors, it is understood, is to be discontinued on the dining cars of the New York, NewHaven & Hartford railroad, while their trains are passing through Connecticut, because there is no law in that state under which the railroad company could obtain a license to legalize suc'-J sales. The will of Leopold Vllsack, late head of the Pittsburg Brewing Co., disposes of an estate estimated at between $5.000.000 and SG.000.000. The Alabama 9 o'clock closing law for cities of over 15.000 will be given a test hearing in the courts and will be carried to the state supreme court. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harvey in the Pullman car of the Santa Fe passenger train No. 8 as the train was pulling into Topeka, Kas. The parents of tho baby are residents of Chicago and were en route from San Francisco to that city. They named the baby "Santa Fe." After being out more than fortyeight hours, the Jury in the case of Caleb Powers, tried on the charge ,or complicity In the murder of William Goebel. reported for the second time that it was unable to agree upon a erdict and was discharged. Judge Morris overruled the motion for ball and fixed July C as the date for the next trial. Maxmilllan Harden, who was found guilty of libeling Count Kuno von Moltke and sentenced to four months' imprisonment, hah appealed to the su preme court of Germany on the ground that testimony was illegally excluded from the heating and on several other technicalities. Bishop Canevln of the Pittsburg dio cese nas issued an explicit teuer io the effect that in places where there is a Catholic school within two miles "parents and guardians are forbidden under pain of mortal sin to send their children to any non-tathollc school, and confessors are forbidden to absolve those who do not obey." The president has signed proclama tion creating the Verde National Forest In Arizona, with an area of 721.SO acres, located In Maricopa and avapal counties. Exports from Japan last year amounted to more than 4.15,500.000 yen (J217.750.000) and the Imports to almost 404.200.000 yen ($247.100,000) The grand total of the foreign trade in 1907 exceeds that of 190C by marc than 82.000.000 yen ($41.000.000). In a letter received at Lincoln, Neb., Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland tfecllnes an invitation to the democrat ic dollar dinner cf Jan. 15 for the reason that the 3c fare la to go Into effect on street car lines of Clevoland the same date. In a leitet expressing his regret over inability to attend the Nebraska feast. Mayor Johnson says he does not want to be absent from Cleveland Just at tho culmination cf his long fight. During tho year 1907 the total num her of vessels arriving at the port of New York, according; to the books of the government at the barge office, was 11.122, of which G.C24 were steam nr and 4.498 sailing vessels. This shows a decrease of 584 vessels, com pared with the year 190G. There wa An increase of 212 Jn tho number of steamers and a decrease of 790 sal itig vessels. Col. ilobert II. Thomas, civil war veteran and founder of several agri cultural papers, died at Mechanics

NINE QUALIFY

ON THAW JURY ALL OF THE MEN SELECTED ARB SUBJECT TO PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE. INSANITY TO BE THE DEFENSE The Defendant's Wife Is Again the Center of Interest Jurors Will Bo Locked Up Throughout the Trial. New York At the close of three court sessions, which marked tho first day of tho second trial of Harry K. Thaw for the alleged murder of Stanford White, nine tentative Jurors had been selected out of 57 tnlosmen examined by District Attorney Jerome, for the prosecution, and Martin W. Littleton, for the dofense. All of the men in tho jury box are subject to peremptory challenge, of which each side has thirty. In view of the diffi culty experienced last year In discharging five jurors' after they had taken tho oath of service, it was agreed this time not to administer any oaths until both sides finally are satlsfied with the full panel To Plead Legal Insanity. Legal Insanity at the time of the tragedy Is to be the sole dofense. This was made clear at the very outset of the proceedings, when Mr. Littleton formally served notice that the former plea of not guilty was amended by the specification that the defendant was Insane when the homicide was committed. The trial opened with little or no ceremony and there was distinct evi dence of a slackening of public inter est. Admittance to the courtroom was rigorously restricted and all day long there were vacant benches In the cur tailed quarters given over to spocta tors. The only women allowed to be present are the members of the de fondant's family and newspaper writ ers. Artists, who were barred after the first few days of the first trial, were allowed to sketch to their heart's content. Throngs Follow Mrs. Thaw Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was again the center of Interest, even to the exclu slon of the defendant himself. She was followed by throngs of curious persons as she entered and left the courthouse for the morning and aft ernoon sessions. She did not attend the night sitting. The long court hours and the tedious monotony of the repeated jury examinations proved Intensely fatiguing. Every possible convenience is to be provided for the jurors, who are to be locked up throughout the trial. They are to be quartered in one of the fashionable hotels ou Upper Broadway and luncheon will be served at an expensive downtown restaurant. The jury examinations did not develop such a strong vein of unalterable oplnion as was ftMlclpated and many of the talesmen were excused on other grounds than bias based upon reading of extensive reports of tho flriJt trial. PHYSICIAN HEARS MAN DIE. Chicagoan Succumbs as Doctor Exam ines His Heart. Chicago While a physician count ed his irregular heart beats, Lewis Cass Robinson, for ;5 years a proofreader on n morning newspaper, died Sunday. Experiencing pains about his heart, Robinson at noon vis ited Dr. Frank J. Stewart, who lis tened to the heart pulsations through a stethoscope. Robinson was In the midst of a sentence answering a question of tho physician when he died. He was 52 years old and the owner of the first newspaper of .Toplin, Mo. Stabbed by "Jack the Ripper." Berlin Another mysterious "rip per crime was commuieu annuity night in the suburb of Cliarlottnburg. A little girl 4 years old was enticed into the hallway or a house and fatally stabbed In tho abdomen. She was In jured in exactly the same manner as that employed by the man who last July startled the city by a series of stabblnga of young children. No traco of the criminal has boon found. Newlands a Candidate. Reno, Nov. United States Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada will bo a candidate for the presidential nomination at the democratic national convention to be held at Denver In July. Private information received here states that his candidacy has already been launched In tho hands of his frlenda In the East, who are supported by his personal admirers in Nevada. Mayor Busse Witness for Walsh. Chicago Mayor Busse was callod by the defense In tho trial of John R. Walsh Monday as a character witness. He testified that he had known the defendant for 19 years and that his reputation for honesty and Integrity was :ood. Governor Boles Is Better. El Paso, Texas Former Governor Horace A. BoIcb of Iowa, who Is critically 111 from pneumonia, sponJ a restful day and wa roportod botto Monday.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS I I Latest News of Interest from Various I I Towns in. Indiana I

WABASH EXPECTS CROWD. Lincoln League to Be Guest February 12 and 13 Great Plans Made. Wabash. Wabash will furnish ac commodations for tho thousand or moro visitors for tho state gathering of tho Lincoln league February 12 and 13. At a meeting of all the committees it was decided to ask residents of Wabash to open their homes to tho visitors and a special committee has canvassed tho city. As a result every member coming to Wabash, no dif ference how many come, will be as sured of accommodations. Elaborate plans are being prepared by tho com mittees for the big state gathering. and Wabash will seek to make tho visitors entertnined as never before. An elaborate band program will be given each day. It was decided to make the smoker on the first night an inrormat event. Every stnte and district candidate and every prominent state poli tician will be callod upon for a brief speech. This Is In preference ot sei speeches, but on the second nignt tue main sneech will be given in the Kagles theater, it is thought, by Sen ator Beveridge. Would Solve Murder Mystery. Muncie. The Muncie police at tempted to solve a mysterious mur der which was committed in this city when John Skinner, a saloonkeopor." killed Cola Eppards. 2C yenrs old. by firing the contents of a shotgun into his abdomen and shoulder. The motive for the crime is unknown, and the police have been working con stantly on the case in the hope of ferreting out the circumstances attending the shooting. Three Injured In Explosion. Linton. Harry Gardener, era nloved in Vandalia mine No. u. was caught by an explosion, thrown some distance, and badly burned about the arms and face. In the same mine Robert Woodruff and Charles Snyden were Injured in a similar manner. Woodruff was burned about tho face and shoulders, and he was hurled against Snyden with such violence as to fracture two of Snyden's ribs. Snake Thawed; Made Pet. Marion. Gas well drillers on the Jesse Johnson farm, near Up land, this county, have a blue racer. H. R. Miles discovered a snake's head protruding from the earth that had been thawed out near the well. He dug it up, thawed it out thoroughly. nnd, as it appeared grateful for this at tentlon, adopted It as the mascot of the drilling outfit. Eccentric Old Character Dead. Rochester. Isaac Moore, 0 years old. the Athens farmer, who gained nntnrlotv hv being twice white capped and once locked tip on surety of peace proceedings, for an alleged abuse of his aged wife, was found dead in bed by one of his children. Moore was an eccentric character and an honorably discharged soldier of the civil war Familiar Figure Gone. Columbus. The sudden death of Archibald McEwen at his notne farm, near this city, removes a familiar ficttre in the county. His death came on his wedding day anni versary and the next day after nis sixty-fifth birthday anniversary. His wifo died five years ago. inree enwdron survive, Miss Annie, William and Archie, Jr. Unearth Daring Plot. Greensburg. That a bold plot to rob Chicago, St Louis and New York jewelry houses of thousands of dollars' worth of gootlß was frustrated by Francis Blank, the Adams Express agent at Batesville, developed when the first clew to the recent safe robbery was found. The scheme was one of the most daring and novel in the annals or Indiana robberies. Father Commits Suicide. Kokomo. Broken in health and snlrlt as a result of charges of theft brought against his son. Ira C Hoops, aged GO, a wealthy attorney, committed suicide by shooting In his home here. Tho son. Richard Hoops, formerly was a student at Lake Forest college, and it was while there that ho was arrested last March, charged with having robbed the homes of several persons. Shower of $40,000 at Wedding. Peru. Happy with the memories of a married life well lived nnd surrounded by a large group of children and grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Godlove Conradt celebrated their golden wedding by bestowing on their descendants the sum of $40,000, the bulk of their earthly possessions. Bedford Extends Limits. Bedford. By the action of the city council extending the city limits over 2,500 persons have been added to the population of the city Over 500 children will also have to be carod for by the city schools, which are now overcrowded. Pin Scratch Fatal. Frankfort. As the result of slight pin scratch Infllctod on one of her fingers six weeks ago Mrs Mary Barrett died here of blood pol toning-

PRICELESS PIG CASE" ON.

Cost of Row Over 75-Cent Propert) Reaches $500. Richmond "Priceless pig case" is the title that has been given an tin usual legal action that has been in the Rush county courts for a consider nblo time. Twlco the case has been tried, and both times the jury has dis agreed. The costs of the action have already been run to $500, while a third trial Is pending, and tho value of the iroperty In question, a pig. was nevet placed at more than 75 cents. The pig weighed 20 pounds when the suit was first begun between William Ewlng, white, and Almond Watkins, a negro. Riot on Passenger Train. Columbus. There was a fairslzod riot on the Big Four passen ger train running between Grecnsburg and this city. Residents of Burney, in Decatur county, boarded tho train nt Creonsburir. Mentor Luther, a farmer, near Hope, Bartholomew county. Incurred the displeasure of the Burney people, nnd there was a fight in the smoking compartment, which caused a stampede in the crowded train. A passenger pulled the bell cord, and ns the train slowed down the lighting stopped. When the train started again tho fight was ronewed only ceasing when the fighters left the train at Burney. Find Body of Missing Woman. Michigan City. Tho mystery oi the disannearanco of Miss Imogeno KInner from tho homo of her rel atives in this city December 11 was cleared up by the finding of her body near a creek two miles from the city It was a wild and unfrequented place where the body was found, nnd It la supposed that the woman perished from exposure, probably having lost her way. Miss Kinnor was 45 years old and had long been a teacher at Nvack and Yonkers. N. Y. Her health failed and she came hero In Novern bor to spend the winter. Calls County Convention. Danville. Democratic County Chair man David A. Higgins has is sued a call for a mass conven tlon in Danvlllo Saturday, at which time delegates will be selected to at tend the district convention in Terra Haute January 2. A member of the Democratic state committco will also bo elected. Samuel Ralston, of Leb Dion, is expected to be presont and address the convention. Judge Artman to Publish a Book. Lohanon. Jurice S. R. Artman is now engaged In writing a book in which ho will set forth. In printed form, the arguments that he has been from the platform. He will devote himself to this book to the ex elusion of everything else, except his work as Judgo of the Boone circuit court He will fill no more lecture engagements until aftor the book is completed. Knocked Out by "Gin-Pole." Jonesboro Jesso May, while as sisting In unloading a gas en gine on a car at tho Pan-Handle rail ctntinn w.-iR struck bv the cm I pole," used as a derrick for block and tackle, tho iole striking mm across the forehead, destroying the sight of his right eye and hurling him to the ground in a semi-conscious con dltion. Lawrence County Prosperous. Bedford. According to returns for 1907 the total taxable prop erty in Lawrence county Is valued at $12.315.730, against which there are mortgage exemptions amounting to $341.915. The taxable value of land and lots is $3,905.020. and the valuo of improvements on these lands and lots is fixed at $2.098.720. Build Church in Four Weeks. Evansvllle. The new Jefferson avenue Presbytorian church wna dedicated here. The church was built in four weeks by members of tho old Jefferson avenue church, who pulled out because of the union question. The erection of tho new church in so quick a time broke all records known here. Burglaries at Batesville. Batesville. Safe blowers again worked in this city, but little money rewarded their efforts. They entered the office of the Meyer Lumber nnd Hardwood company, blew the safe door off Its hinges, and rifled the money drawer, securing a small amount of cash. Will Issue Script. Terre Haute. The promoters of the Torre Hattto & Merom traction line will try to build it by issuing scrip. Contractor Roberts, w'lh a force of men, is making the surve. County Abandons Schools. Shelbyville. In his report to the state department of public Instruc tion, County Superintendent Everson says thai there have been 23 schools in Shelby cour.ty abandoned on account of the dally average attendance being 12 pupils or under. Insane Man Dies In Cell. Torre Haute. Edward Lappln, the Insane Seelyvllle man who had beon confined In the county Jail her? for the ln3t three weeks, was found dead In his coll

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