The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-05-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ton. and hereafter visitors 10 the ex-
position can be assured they will not
\ be compelled 10 pay extortionate prices
for food poorly served.
Is the court of quarter sessions al
Meadville. Pa. ON the sth. Judge Hem
derson filed opinions quashing all the
indictments. nine in number, against
the Delamaters for embezzlcmcnt
The courts action is severely criticized
by depositors in the wrecked bank
BY an explosion on board of the Mis-
sissippi river steamer Ohio. nj Wolf
island. "a miles below Cairo. Ill. on the
eth, five persons were instantly killed
several died before medical aid could he
secured, and ten were pronounced IA
tally wounded when taken 10 the marine
hospital at Cairo. Many Were fright
/ fully injured
DIR. Ely MCCLELLAN, nephew OF Gen.
George b. Mcclellan. Northumberland
and deputy surgeon-general OF the
1 United states army. and attending sur
I geon at the headquarters of the depart
ment of the Missouri. died in Chicago,
Y on the sth. of uremia.
! EARLY on the morning of the eth ten
persons were killed and tea seriously
injured in a wreck on the Big Four at
f LAFAYETTE. Ind. caused by a failure OF
Y the air brakes to work when running
into the station on heavy down grade.
A MEMBER of the Harvard crew denies
that Harvard has agreed TO row in the
! Columbian regatta at Lake Geneva,
Wis. as telegraphed recently. He says
that so far as Harvard is concerned a
race in the west is entirely out Of the
question.
HERR Row ADovIzKI, who is mem
I Der of the Austrian reichsrath and
owns land in Russian Poland, where
he occasionally spends some time. has
been expelled from Poland with his
family by the Russian authorities.
ON the sth United States Judges Me-
Kenna. Morrow and Hawley, sitting as
circuit court of appeals at San Fran
cisco. affirmed the Judgment of the
/ United States district court of southern
California. Diminishing the libel against
the Gillian steamer Itata, and releas-
7 ing the vessel and two thousand cases
7 of rifles which she had aboard when
z seized ny the Hlttu "AdAtS maj shaA al
San Diego harbor two Years ago.
Ir was said at the New York Play
ers' club, on the sth, that Mr.. Booth
had passed a comfortable night and
4 that his condition was much improved.
The long drought in Austria sand
/ Hungary was broken. on the sth, by a
general rainfall which insures the
safety of the endangered wheat crop.
SIXTY THOUSAND would-be visitors to
the Worlds fair were shut out, on the
9TH, by the Sunday-closing order.
PRIvY COUNCILLOR Won BISMARCK,
eldest brother Of the German ex-chan-
cellor, died in Berlin, on the sth.
GES. MANUEL GONZALES. ex-president
of Mexico and governor of the state OF
Guiana iuato died on the sth.
on the 10th the fleet of Columbus
caravels started for Chicago by way of
the st. Lawrence river. The Pinta will
be towed TO Quebec by the American
cruiser Chicago and then will be towed
bv the Bennington The Santa Maria
will sail under her own canvas. The
caravels will be dismantled at Quebec
in order to go under the locks and
bridges between there and Chicago.
SIR JAMES LONG, proprietor Of the
Sheffield England Telegraph, whovis
tied the Worlds fair opening week, says
the Chicago show is the greatest evel
held. the most extensive, the most cost
". and, INTELLECTUALLY. the most i'm
posing. 1t was n question OF money
and never before had SO much money
been contributed for such purpose
The buildings were much ahead of thos,
at Paris.
A TELEGRAM from Durango. Col, OF
the sth. said it was reported that Lieut.
Plummer. Indian agent at the Navaj'
. agency. was killed while trying to ar
rest Costiano A friendly Navajo sal
! il was probably true. as the Indian
would kill him IL he attempted to arres
Costiano. Trouble is certain il the re
port proves authentic.
CARLYLE w. HARRIS. convicted q
causing the death by poison of his cir
!. wife, Mary Helen Potts. died in tn
0 electrical chair at Sing Sing IN. Y.
. prison on the sth. Seventeen hundre
e and sixty volts of electricity were sen
n into his body. and death was instau
:. taneous On the brink Of the grave h
J. declared his innocence of the crime.
4 JOHN w. Hn.LMAS, the hero and chic
conspirator OF the famous "llillman II
surance swindle" of Kansas. has bee
e found on the Pacific coast. and has col
n fessed. For fifteen years his relative
e have been trying in the courts TO prov
4. him dead in order to collect about $40
Y. 600 insurance on his life. Several ,
" the persons implicated may have to al
n swer a charge Of perjury.
re ii. II. WARNER, the well-known pa
emit medicine man Of Rochester. n. Y
made general assignment in Ne
y York city, on the sth, without prefe
IL ences. His liabilities are roughly es,
p mated at 81 900. 900, but the assets al
be not yet known.
ne G. r. RuDDy, Indian trader amor
d, the Winnie bagos left Black River Fall
at on the sth. with four Indians for Ne
IN York city. where he went to ri
an exhibition in the Indian departing
Of the New York Press club fair. und
r. the direction Of Miss Ellen Sickle
40 government Indian agent. He is to !
- turn later to take charge of an exte