The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-08-19


and Nateenvh tribes % British Column
bia were lost while engaged In sea
lion hunt near Queen Charlotte Isl
ands In me dense mist their canoe
struck rock. and the Indians were
prccipitatcd into the water ar. all
1 drowned.
/ AT Talladcga. Ala. on the 9th. Il. l..
Rasbcrry. a bartender employed by y.
simmons. was discharged. Pulling ont
pistol he fired AT simmons and killed
him. lie then placed the pistol against
I. his own heart and fired. Before he
4 died he fired two more shots AZ the
body Of simmons. lying near BY on the
ground.
Tnr Iowa state institute for the dca I
and dumb. located three miles south
east 81 Council Bluffs. was destroyed
by fire on the 18th. There We're hut
few pupils in the school N the time,
and all escaped without harm. The
los was estimated 1T $4,000.
4 NEW form OF epidemic prevails at
Iielmcta. near New brunswick. y. j..
which. up To the 10th. had already
claimed twenty victims. More than
fifty people had been stricken.
BENDER Bios planning mill at Ham
ilton. O.. was burned. on the morning
Of the 18th. throwing zoo men ont of
work. The loss Is nearly 100000. In
ccndiar;sn Is suspected.
EDWARD PARKER DEACON has been
offered a pardon from prison II he will
leave France and not prosecute his
wife for divorce. and has declined the
Offer
SEVEN soldiers were drowned AT
NeiSsc. rrnssian Slesia. on the nth.
while practicing in the military swim
ming school
Cruiser No. IL was christcncd the
''Marblehead" and launched at South
Boston on the nth.
Mrs. ELIZA ROBERTS. from Battle
Creek. Mich. one Of those who sus-
tanned injuries in the Santa Fe wreck
near Denver. Col. on the 9th. died at
81. Joscph's hospital in that city on the
18th. The husband accompanied the
remains home.
II. CLAY KING. the Memphis murderer.
was safely lodged in the Tennessee pen
itentiary AZ Nashville on the 18th. the
threatened lynchinc party not having
been encountered. King had been drink
ing so heavily for some time that he
was in danger of IN attack Of dclirium
tremens.
The commissioner of internal revenue
decided that the various hichloridc of
gold Institutes in this country must
take ont government retail liquor IL
censes. involving an annual tax Of SD.
and they have all submitted to the rul-
ing. including the leading one at
Dwight, III.
HUGH RIDDLE. chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Chicago. Rock
Island 4 Pacific Railway Co.. and ex-
president of the corporation. died at
his residence in Chicago. on the night
of the 10th. Of heart disease lie was
exactly 20 years Of age. having been
born August IL. ls22. at Bedford. y. Y.
THE Danish minister al Washington
has notified the state department that
he has been informed by his govern
ment Of the confession of Consul Ryder.
The department has notified Minister
Carr at his home in Illinois to proceed
to Denmark.
MISS LIZZIE BORDEN was arrested at
Fall River. Mass. on the evening Of the
18th. on the charge Of having muir
dcred her father and mother. who were
found some days previous horribly
butchered with an AK or Ratchet. hav-
ing previously been poisoned.
BosToS was selected as the next
meeting place for the triennial knights
Templar conclave. to lie held in 1898.