The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-09-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND cENEPAL.


sessions on that day.
THE Fifteenth regiment. after being
ON duty at Homestead. Pa. seventy-one
days. broke camp. on the 10th. and tool;
the train FOR home This leaves but
one regiment (the Sixteenth) now ON
duty. and Il Is the general impression
that II will soon be withdrawn.
A CARLOAD Of dynamite. constituting
part Of a fast freight train on the Phil
adelphia 4 Reading road. exploded
from the conclusion caused BY the
rapid motion Of the train on down
grade few miles west Of New Hart
ford, Conn, on the Goth. Five cars Of
the train were blown 70 pieces and
their contents sea ttercd To the winds.
Trees on both sides of the road were
blown down. the track was torn up
and a large hole. twenty feet in dame
ter and ten feet deep, was made in the
roadhed
CrsToMHorsE officers were. on the
Goth. sent Ia the house Of cx-Mayor
Chaplin. Of Brooklyn, for the purpose Of
scizing both his own and his wife's
trunks on the technical charge Of hav-
laws. Mr.. Chaplin and his wife arrived
some DAYS before from Europe and
were given permission to land by
Health officer Jenkins.
LORD II AGIS, who belongs to one Of
the first families in the pccrage Of Ire
land, has been arrested for vagrancy in
Winnipeg. Man. and sent TO the COM
mon Jail for two months lie was at
one time an inspector In the Royal
Irish constabulary. and still draws
handsome pension for past services.
Drink caused his fall.
THE mination in the case OF Labor
Commissioner Peck Of New York,
charged with destroying public docu-
ments. began in Albany on the Goth.
ONE suspicious case was discovered
by the New York health authorities on
the Goth. The subject was promptly
removed to the reception hospital.
HoIArIo Il. WATERWAYS will has
been sustained and the poor Of Coven-
try, Il. l.. will be benefited to the
amount Of $4,000.
The convention Of democratic clubs
Of Pennsylvania met in Scranton on the
Goth.
EocKAwAy BEACH n. j.. the famous
seaside summer resort. was visited by
a destructive confiagration on the Goth.
All the hotels, the Seaside museum
and many other buildings-about 100
in all-were destroyed. Robert Phil
lips, aged 60, was burned TO death. and
several other persons were severely in
jured. The loss will reach nearly
q. 900. 900.
REV. J. w. ARSEY, a Methodist minis
ter in Michigan. who made reputa-
ton because he raced horses week days
and preached rafting sermons sun
days. and who was thrown out OF the
church for it, is going back to the pull
pit. lie. however. will race the season
out, having won six first purses in the
Greenville meet and lowered Guaran-
tees record 10 2:2O. lie will leave the
track and sulkcy just IN time 70 ask the
conference for pulpit.
MoRRIs 5. BARNET. Of New York city.
recently met Prince Bismarck at
Kissengen, in Bavaria. and he says that
the Iron chancellor spoke OF his inten-
ton 10 visit this country during the
Worlds fair at Chicago.
THE Fall River Mass Globe prints
statements 70 the effect that Lizzie Bor-
den. several weeks before the murders.
consulted a Providence tR. ID lawyer
as to the disposition of her fathers
property in the event Of his death. The
lawyer will give evidence at the trial.
The negroes Of Larncd. KaS.. have
organized and sworn to prevent repe-
tition Of the recent lynching Of Hugh
Henry. one of their race. Two white
men in particular have been threatened.
and the town Is now watched BY an
armed patrol.
Mrs. EDWARD J. POTTER. Of New
Haven. Conn. was shot and instantly
killed by her husband about II o'clock
on the night 81 the Goth. Potter who
was alone with his wife at the time.
weapon was discharged. lie was. how
ever. placed under arrest and will have
to answer to the charge OF man
slaughter.
THE French anarchists posted the pro-
gramme Of their proposed celebration
over the official programme for the
fctes ia celebration Of the one hum
dredth anniversary Of the proclamation
Of the First French republic by the ma
tional convention.
Mrs. J. NJ. ARuAGo Of David City.
Neb.. middle-aged woman, the wife
cf farmer. was arrested. on the aist.
charged with poisoning by arsenic her
mother-in-lnw. two years ago. and her
former husband, VIM. y. Roberts. Eve
years ago.
A. electric motor in Cleveland. o..
collsicd with Pcnnsy lvana freight
train at the ccdar-avcnuc crossing on
the 2ist. and number OF persons were
in jurel, two Of them. il was thought.
fatally
THE annual convention Of the SUI
prcme council Of Free Masons 81 the
thirty-third degree Of the United States
was held i'm Providence. X. l., from the
nth 20 I'D. inclusive.
The Long Islanders are taking legal I
steps 10 compcl the removal Of quaran-
tinei passengers from Fire island. |
TmE shca~ in the elcvcn.inch plate \
mill ~ the Carnegie steel works in
Homestead. Ia. broke. on the 2ist en-
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