The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


work, have confessed 70 five big rob
berries. Pearls worth 100000 marks
which they stole from jewellers have
been recovered.
john FIrzHuME, the Buffalo murder
err, was electrocuted at Auburn. y. ".
on the 26th. The electrocution was
success. Fitzhumc murdered a young
man named Rocheil ut the latter's
home in Buffalo, in April. 1892
SIX men were instantly killed and
many others seriously injured by an
explosion in Rohig's iron works. at
Maggie burg. Saxony. on the Goth.
THE eighth annual convention OF the
Ohio Christian Endeavor union con-
vened in Cincinnati. on the 26th, with
1000 delegates in attendance.
PRoF. CHARLES A. BRIGGS. of ''heresy"
fame. lectured on Church Unity" at
Asbury Park. n. j.. on the 25th. to an
audience Of 5000 people.
THE Bank Of Commerce of San Diego,
Cal. &, resumed business on the Goth.
A BIG public-works steal has been un-
carthed in Canada.
THE Queen City Bank of Buffalo. n
". failed on the 2eh.
:. & G.. GrNr. dealers in pictures
and bric-a-brac in San Francisco. made
an assignment. on the Goth. with liza
bilities of $50, oo0. and assets $500, ooo
I The Bank of Ness City. kas.. closed
its doors. on the a6th. with but $50 80
in cash on hand. Deposits amount to
s3i. 500 with other liabilities of $4,000.
The report was current in Constan-
tinople. on the 9th. that more arrests
of Armcnians had been made in Nanti.
! Embellishments, and that a conspicu-
Gus Turkish officer had shortly after
been murdered. presumably because he
was supposed TO have caused the ar
rests in question.
THREE convicts were killed and one
mortally wounded. on the 21th. in an
attempt to escape from the peniten-
tiary at Folsom. Cal. among them be-
ing George Sontag. brother of the no.
torious bandit, who was captured a
short time ago.
The village Of Lexington. so miles
south of Guthrie. Okla. was destroyed
by fire. on the 27th. and three people
persisted in the flames. 1t is thought
that the fire was started out of revenge
by negroes who had been driven from
the town.
By the burning of their dwelling.
three children of Mrs. Catherine Neu-
mann, of Saginaw. Mich. were smoth-
cred to death. on the a7th, and the
mother was so badly burned that she
can not recover.
GEN. NICHOLSON. governor of Gibral-
tar, died on the 2sth. of malarial fe-
yer.
CHOLERA has broken ont on the island
of Cephalonia, in the Mediterranean.
The general parliamentary election
in France will be held on August 20
JosISE and Monopenni. the Chippewa
Indian murderers of Old Bonash and
his young squaw near Ashland. Wis.
last fall. were. on the eth. sentenced
by Judge Bunnin, of the United States
court. to be hanged August 26, 1898
john SEAMAN. "A prominent merchant
of Woodstock, O.. and township treas
urer. disappeared. on the 21th. with
81. 900 Of funds. which he is alleged to
have misapp~opriated. Seamen is said
to be heavily in debt to eastern firms.
In dispatch dated June 90 Rear-Ad-
miral Markham reports that Admiral
Tryon's telescope and the dispatch box
and cap were recovered. but that his
body had not been found Markham
had transferred his flag TO the war
ship Trafalgar.
AARON SurcK and wife. together with
his five children and neighbor named
Allen Wisely, were dangerously poi
soned in Findlay, o., on the 9Th, by
eating tainted ice cream.
AFTER losing 900. 900 in the varied
course Of the Reading road and heavily
in a West Virginia construction com
pany. Of which he was president
Charles +. Howe, A. years old. commit
ted suicide at his home in Philadelphia
on the 21th. He swallowed two ounces
/ Of ether. and then. after mailing thu
doors of the room. turned on two ga
burners. placed his mouth over then
and was asphyxiated.
SIX Chinese were arraigned in Phila
delphia. on the 27th. charged with be
ing in this country in violation Of tn,
exclusion act of 1892. The deportation
of Lee Kew. whose case has been unde
. advisement for four weeks, was OF
(, dered. and the statement was made b,
: the United States commissioner tina
! the government had set aside funds 10
!, the deportation of the six prisoners.
!, TnE German military bill Is now al
!, most sure TO become law. II wa
officially announced. on the 2.th. tina
the necessary number of seats had beef
|, secured by the government. Return
from 39l out Of 397 constituencies shoy
4 204 for the bill and Isl against it.
!. A MEETING Of the Amnesty associa
> ton. which labored SO long for tn
! freeing of Fielden. Schwab and Neebe
! will be held in Chicago as soon as tn
+ members can be called together. Al
n arrangements will be made with tn
Pioneer Aid association. which too
care of the families of the men, To rails
I, fund TO be used in establishing tn
= three pardoned men in business.
i II. II. WyLIE. the cyclist. who rod
n against the record from New York
q Chicago. finished his long ride on til
e sTth. His time for tine trip was 10 day,
n 3 hours and 30 minutes The recor