The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-12-02

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.



resulting in a terrible collision between
two heavily loaded freight trains on
the BELT Line railway near the Archer
avenue crossing, in Chicago, at
o'clock on the morning of the Goth.
three lives were lost and two men were
in iured so seriously that they may not
recover
WHILE the body Of Joshua Summers
was being taken into the cemetery al
Brown City. Mich. for interment' on
the 10Th the horses attached 20 'ne
hearsc became frightened and ran
away. The horses and hearse were
thrown into ditch the casket crashed
through the glass window ana the
corpse fell out Of the coffin ana was
badly mutilatcd by the vehicle roiiing
over il.
SOME of the citizens Of western Kan
sas are agitating the question OF the
partition of the state. They think they
are big enough for two
A FEARFUL. powder explosion oc-
CURED, during the noon hour on the
DIST in the blanche coal mine, located
NJ the west end of Golfers. w. Va
Twenty-Five kegs OF powder exploded,
causing the instant death OF three
miners and the serious wounding OF
eight others, three Of them probably
fatally.
E OS the 10th the president appointed
: VIM. NJ Stone. Of Knoxville, Ia, to be-
:. commissioner Of the general land ONCE
2 vice Thomas II. Carter, resigned.
. MAySrSG II. ROSE, of Ohio, CHIEF
clerk of the general land office, mas
= been appointed assistant commission
o er. vice stone promoted TO be commls-
. sioner.
d ALI. the delegates to the international
l. monetary conference had arrived at
Brussels on the 2lst.
SUPERINTENDENT BosBY SHE'LL OF the
Philadelphia mint is liable To get into
: serious trouble for distributing Worlds
= fair souvenir half dollars without al
thority
PRESIDENT HARRISON. on the 22d, par
doned James 4. sermons, who toos
,r mart in :he wrecking of the sixth ma
10 ,ional bank of New York city, because
a. the convict was represented 10 be dy
Ill ing.
"a. THE French troops under Col. Dodd
= have conquered Dehomey, and at las
accounts were in Abomey. the capital
w King Behanzin having fled
~ RApoS DE REfSAcH. Paris million
!e- aire and connected with the Panama ca
he nal. died mysteriously, on the list an
n snicide i limited at. owing TO fear Q
ar exposure at the Forthcoming lnquir
IN into the canal company's affairs by tn
government
WHILE celebrating at Democrat
RI ratification meeting near 6rantsourl
X Ind. on the night of the 2lst' henr
ms Vorleson's hand was nearly torn on .
ere the bursting of an anvil which was p
m ing used to fire n salute.
he GEORGE HOWARD. crossroads store
ex- keeper west of Columbus, Ind, WI
has -four living wives, eloped. on u
night of the alst, with Miss Magg
no Pertlebaugh. going to St Louis al
w VIZ leaving a large string Of creditors.
- AFTER ninety-six hours hard work
- large force of men. on the 2lst, succee
- ed in Harvesting down the big gas W.
IN. on the Spilker farm, north OF Munc
'''e Ind. The daily outflow is estimated
1. 900. 900 feet Of gas, and pipe dout
n the ordinary size was required
~. RrcycrIsr W. c. Sanger. of Milwa
>tPr kte. mas dtttYt''' ss'hs''>'
~ lenpe 10 race for a $40, 900 prize.
ich- AT Lotus. lnd.' recently arson'.
, he nut in the well on the Crawiey lar
"a is and failing 10 kill the family, pos
was next put in the -four barrel
Crawley and a son have died.
rom A BOLD attempt was made, on
the night Of the 2lst, TO rob and muir
de- James COMBS, wealthy lum
,nth dealer Of Carbon, Ind. who was on
first way from Carbon TO Bridgeton TO
ST Of of the men in his employ and had
bal eral thousand dollars on his person
ZOO. was attacked by two masked men
shot and dangerously wounded.
e % report Of the pistol frightened
en-. horse which ran away, carrying mn
hin vond the reach of the robbers
: in THE Morning Patriot building
was Harrisburg. Pa, was entirely bu
and ont on the ed. The loss is estim
osion :, 40 600 70 $50. 900: partly insu
she The morning edition had just
run off when the confagration
nlace Several persons were sev'
burned.
mar Tur Union Pacific overland exl
brew ran into a broken switch at Aida,
I, and -, leland Neh ON the odd.
:. Granu lSianu. 4SVo.s va 49,
urinR collidcd with freight train stan
! Des or a sidetrack. killing two engin
nav a conductor and fireman, and
npany inc a fireman and mail clerk.
HIRAM DANAHAUR. aged - }
Mrs. Danahaur, aged As, and
ssoc'a- daughter, 10 years old, were crer
ng on in their burning home in Pittso
as AZ Pa early on the morning of the
SEQ MATHEW 4. TRuMrBouR VINO
Stripes .aass;s,ap, treasurer Of the wr
De car Ulster County savings Institute
puohe Kingston, ". Y. was sentence
'aer"ue the nd, TO five years imprisonm
mousiy Dannemora, for perjury.
SIX lumbermcn arrived in ~
Ont, from the numbering regior
'e Lon. port that black diphtheria Is m
Gu that serious havoc among the mer
'rectors ployed in cutting timber in the
OF tne waska camp. The people are "
'ys' tne medical aid The Ontario Cover
nat the has sent up number OF DOCTORS
SWIM hope of checking the disease
direc- GOV. VAN HoEGARDEN Of the Na
impris- 10 pa,,,,m ,v;ll rive a rec