The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-03-31

Miss CARRIE SwAzKy lost lec
and was injured internally. and &.
w. Davis was Gu; aud bruised about
the head and chest, Ia collision. on
the a2d. at Oshkosh. Wis, between n
Northern Pacific freight train and a
street car
Miss NANCY MARVIN. Of Monroyia.
Ind, died on the 2ist, aged 1908 years.
She was born in London. England. but
was brought 10 this country when =
years old. She remembered well the
visits Of Washington and Lafayette to
her fathers house. and says the former
often took her upon his knee.
forR big British ships left San Fran
cisco, on the ed, on race around Cape
Horn to England They are the Bow
den. Pinmore, Lord Iemplemore and
Lache. The ship City of Athens. which
sailed on the .3d. expected To join the
race. The captain of each ship put mp
$3.50. and the winner will take $1,000,
while the second ship will save stake
money,
DETECTIVES Of the Pennsylvania and
Big Four lines have unearthed "A gi-
gantic combine that has been robbing
railroad cars and taken thousands of
dollars worth Of goods The rob berry
has been going on for over year. and
cars on both roads have been literally
Quilted Of their contents in transit
through the states of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.
CARLYLE w. HARRIS was taken TO
Sing Sing IN W prison, on the 23d.
and placed in cell in "Murderers'
Row." there to remain until. in the
week beginning May 8. he is taken out
to die. Harris has broken down under
the conviction that the efforts his
friends are making 10 obtain executive
clemency will not avail
JoHS TERRY and Ben Mccoy, negroes.
were hanged, on the ed. at Halle
hurst, Miss. for the murder OF j. {.
Davis, white, in October last. For com
plicity in the same crime two other
negroes are serving each ten-year
sentence in the penitentiary Two are
still at large, and will be hanged ifever
caught.
BECAUSE OF unrequited love Will
Fry. aged II years. laid his head on the
Louisville Southern track near Shelby
vile, KY, on the ed. and suffered de-
capitation. He had been in love with
schoolgirl and she did not en- courage
his attentions
THE court 81 arbitration appointed to
adjust the difficulties between Great
Britain and the United States in rela-
ton TO the Behring sea seal fisheries
met in Paris, on the Esd, in the Office of
the French foreign ministry. All the
me mbers of the court were present.
AS ONE result OF the destructive cy-
lone which visited Tennessee and
northern Mississippi. on the esd. a
'choolhouse at Tunica, Miss. was de-
nolished. burving $50 colored children
n the ruins many of whom sustained
broken limbs and fractured skulls
FIRE broke out in the Claggett sad
Ilery shop Of the Southern Indiana
'rison at Jacksonville, Ind. on the
81, from defective fue. and spread 10
he dining hall. the tailor shop and
Iospital, causing damage To the amount
# $50 600
SECRETARY CARLISLE has given il out
hat he will spend great deal of time
he coming summer in preparing what
will be known as an administration
ariff bill for submission to congress as
DON as il assemblies.
SEVEN persons. including Il blind wo-
IAN and "A little boy of Is months were
nffocated during the burning Of The
lorgan a fashionable boarding house
! Cleveland. O., on the 23d.
oNE HUNDRED people were killed in
de Of four days, recently, by snow
IN Yetshili Gun, Hida prov
ice Japan