The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-01-05

Two MEN entered a gambling house
AZ M. - Quincy street. Chicago, the
other night secured e.. o in cash.
and with revolvers still leyeled at
a badly.frightened group OF three
and made their escape.
a ST. PErEgsBrRG dispatch 10 the
London Chronicle says that hosts Of
Jews are being expelled from kieff.
The explosions from ST. Petersburg
continue. but upon a milder scale.
Jews in the interior are being provided
with tickets To the frontier by the gov
eminent for speedier radiance.
Mrs. ALFRED HEpBERG, widow OF
Capt. Hedbcrg. the army officer who
was shot aYd killed at Fort Sheridan,
Chicago, by Lieut. Nancy some time
ago, is in Washington with the avowed
intention OF makllg trouble for the
officials hy whom Nancy is 10 be tried.
and who. She claims. are not ardent in
their prosecution.
WM. L. MURRAY. "A veteran Chicago
board of trade man. died at Pass Chris
iian. Miss. Christmas night. lie was
al one time a prominent trader in Chi
cago, and ran the first m~illion-dollar
wheat former made on the Chicago
board. Murray was born near Roches
ter. y. y, fifty-nine wears ago, and be-
gan his career in Chicago as "A book
keeper for y. X. Fairbank.
TEE tradition that Cayuga lake never
gives up its dead has at last been up
set. for at noon on the 10Th the body
Of Miss Mary l.. Y~eargin, who, in COM
pany with Instructor Merriam. of Cor
nell. was drowned in the lake Novem-
Der Is, was found by Lehigh Valley
track walker on the east side of the
lake. about 8 miles from Ithaca. y. Y.
FRANCIS J. DEwEs. the wealthy Chi
cago brewer. received word at New Or
leans that his child was dying in Chi
cago. and, chartering an Illinois Cen
trial train. the tracks were cleared and
Mr.. Dewes and his wife were whirlcd
over the 1000 miles at the rate OF a mile
a minute. lie paid about $1,000 for the
trip and broke all records between New
Orleans and Chicago. making the run
in % hours and 80 minutes.
As a measur Of ~precaution against
a possible dynamite outrage, the pub
lie securities in the custody of the
Bank of France have been removed to
the Place Nentadour, where there is
an immense strong room. The esti-
mated value of the securities is up
wards of 1000, 600. 600 francs.
An unconfirmed report was published
=. \ - ~ - 49, IL. lF-..-t
d'Arces. Portuguese minister to Brazil,
who was making preparations to de-
part from Rio de Janeiro on leave of
absence. had been detained by order of
President Peixoto.
THE Hanging Rock stove foundry at
Ironton, O., was burned to the ground
on the a7th. Sixty men are thrown out
dry. and $40. 600 on stock and patterns.
The foundry will not be rebuilt.
ONE THOUSAND families. representing
1000 persons. will be provided for by
the Indianapolis committee having
charge of the care of the poor of that
city.
THE nineteenth annual convention
Of the Northwestern Commercial Trar-
elers' Insurance association began in
Chicago on the 21th-
PRIME MINISTER CRIsPI of Italy is ar.
ranging in Germany to float a loan of
ga. 600. 600.
w. w. LLOYD. a noted Shakespear-
can essayist. died in London on the
2. tn.
JoHS PUESrSG. a saloon-keeper and
treasurer for the corporation of Elm
wood. a suburb of Cincinnati. epbez-
zled s5. 1000. the entire funds of the
town. and disappeared on the 9Th.