The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-04-17


raE son Of Osman Digma was she's In
he recsnt engagement In the soudAn.
The entire Democratic city ticket Vas
lectsi 1t Evansville, Ind, BY increased
majoritics
GRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.
FIRE destroyed the Court house 81 Min
neapolis. MIMI, on the I'd
By the burning Of . steamer At tho re-
cent Aspinwall CONGREGATION. heavy mails
Of the United States were destroyed
WnrLE In the act Of robbing store At
San vsgo, on the night Of the LIST, . gun
was accidentally discharged by ono Of
twelve Mexican bandits. causing the in
slant death OF the robber the ball struck
Citizens pursued the rohbsrA
PErER JOSEPH SCHROEDER, the ex-
Aims house attendant At Philadelphia,
Pa, who was arrested on . charge Of MUIR
der. growing o.. OF the recent fire at the
Aims house. b which twenty-five lives
were lost, was discharged by the Court on
evidence to hold him.
On the I'd stranger giving the name OF
NJ. n. Smith presented check at q Mad
ison (Iowa) bank Banker Richards sus
pected forgery and called an officer. The
man escaped and was pursued. shots be-
ing exchanged, killing .ne Of the pur-
suers' horses. The stranger wrote In q
memorandum book that he would die be-
fore being tax IN. and drawing q revolver
shot himself through the head. Papers
found on the body gave his name as Ar
thur Muller
The boiler Of David Hulx' saw-miils,
near Scipio, Ind. exploded on the I'd and
killed Anthony Cleaver, engineer, and ia
tally injured David Hulk. Morton HULK
aud Alfred Hull
Y, on the ID, Mrs d. 5. Spring, In 1T Of
,assion, saturated her bedding with kero-
sene, applied . match. and herself and
two children persisted in the flames.
JAS. s. WHITE. charged with embezzle-
msnt Of $500 in Milwaukee city bonds,
was arrested ut Niles. Mich, on the ID
while on hls way TO Canada.
RoBBERs entered farmers house near
Lancaster. O., the night OF the I'd. shot
him dead and secured $780,
ALVIN ALLEN, a vermonter and fugi-
tive from justice, killed himself In Iowa
on the Sd, rather than be arrested by OIL
GERS in pursuit
CITIZENS were stlll in pursuit OF Howard
Cooper, the negro brute who outraged a
young lady near Rockland, Nd, and indi-
cations were that Judge Lynch would have
work to do when he was caught
A TERRIFIC explosion Of fire-damp oc-
Cured on the Sd in coal mine near
Charleroix. Belgium. Eighteen miners
were killed outright and many more
wounded.
On the 9Th the paint -shops and the spar
shed of the Gosport navy-yard, at Nor
folk, Va. were burned with heavy loss
AT Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 5sh, during a
wind-storm, one young lady was killed by
falling sign and another was seriously
injured
A CONFESSION has been made by Daniel
b. Blatt, who lives In the finest house Ia
Young stown, o.. and who Is deacon in
the church. that be is forger to the
amount OF 5000.
Four people were burned to death In .
house near Asheville, Tenn, the night OF
the 9th. Foul play il suspected.
DURING the month Of March the losses
by fire were S9,0O0, 00J in the United States
and Canada.
on the 9Th, at fire in Halifax IN. s. }
boarding house, Jas. Fuller was burned "a
death Several fishermen. who were sleep
ing in the upper part Of the house, escaped
by jumping from window to the arm Of
a telephone pole and then sliding to the
ground
FIRE destroyed o. G. Steenaburgh's sash
| and door factory at Fond du Lac. WIS,
together with . large stock Of product, on
the 9th. Loss, $500; insurance, $ls,.
600.
HIsCELLANEOUs.
THE district convention OF the ANAL
gamated Association Of Iron and Steel
Workers met at Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the
4th.
| The report Is current In London that
General Graham has been instructed &c
open peace negotiations with Osman
Digna.
GREAT indignation IL felt in Oak ota be.
causs the Winnebago and Crow reserva.
tions have been declared not open to 80 tie
ment.
| On the 4th the Ladner Brothers, the
Philadelphia bankers, who were recently
convicted, were sentenced TO three years
each In the County prison.
The Lord Mayor Of Dublin IL again in
dilemma concerning the displaying Of
the flag during ths visit OF the Prince OF
Wales.
| The annual conference OF the Mormon
Church met at Logan. Utah, on the 4th,
instead Of Salt Lake City, as customary,
Owrxo to tho sickness OF the British
troops, IL Il said they viii DO ordered "a
withdraw from the Soudan TO Egypt.
| HosTrLTTIEs between Guatemala and the