The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-26

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

n She was to have been married tn
next day. but az the hour set for ia
marriage her funeral took place
4 IN the 18th Albert Therney. II Oh
4 cage. fired two shots AT his wife Will
E i'm a drunken rage. She was unhur'
: but fell 10 the ground in dead faint
Thinking he had killed her. Their
ney turned the revolver upon him
self and sent two bullets into hi
head. He was taken 10 the hospita
fatally wounded.
Mis- THOMAS IlARRlGAN. aged ,
years, living in the suburbs of Eliza
beth y. " took her three children
aged ; and years and months. an.
budding them close Ia her in a hay
NOV. set fire 10 the hay. and all WEIR
burned 10 death
A. THr result OF dispute over land
Al Perry. okla. on the 18th. George r
Pohr. formerly mayor Of Arkansa,
City. ka>.. was shot and killed 10y
frof +. 4. Hand. principal II kildar,
high school. who soon afterward lie
came insane.
ELIOT WYNN. = Young man whose fam.
lily live near II. Louis. committed sui
eide in Dnluth. MINI. on the 18TH hy
taking carbolic acid. Beside his dead
body lay hi> mothers picture anu a let
ter stating that financial troubles were
the cause.
HALF ~ the looms al Fall River.
Mas. So long idle on account of the
weaver> strike. started M on the 18th.
SIR ALFRED STEPHEN. X L. NJ G..
formerly chief justice of New South
Wales. died Ii London. on the 18th.
aged q. wears.
A CABLE dispatch from ST Thomas.
West Indies. Says a cyclone passed over
that place on the 18th. going south
west
THK Japanese parliament. convoled
for seven days session 10 consider
war measures. met at Hiroshima on the
18th.
IHF budget committee of the French
chamber Of deputies has resolved TO
insert in it, estimates credit of lO0.-
oUu francs. 10 be- devoted 10 u trial Of
zerum a. a preventive against diph-
liberia
A DIsPATcn from Laurence MARQUES.
I.
on the l.th. the natives made repeated
attacks upon the Portuguese garrison.
and that nine soldiers and two white
women were killed. The Portuguese
refused an offer of assistance made.
by ;o0 Beers. fearing that If the Beers
once gained an entrance into Lou
renco Marques they could not easily be
dislodged.
Al Davenport. Ia. On the 10th a the
result of lovers quarrel. Frank
kahler. young carpenter. shot Lizzie
Jchtorf in the face. infiicting serious
wound. and then killed himself
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER STRONG.
on the 10th. issued an order for the re-
turn to China Of five Chinese who
landed at ogden>burg. y. Y. >cptem-
her n.
THK Greek government has ordered
the >trictest enforcement Of the regu-
lations in regard to passports 10 Corfu.
with view Of insuring the safety Of
the ear during his sojourn in Greece
On the 18th Postmaster-General Bis
sell returned 10 Washington from his
five weeks visit in Buffalo. " i.
BY the defeat Of eight liberal candi-
dates the clericals have secured ma
jority in the Belgian senate.
An Infatuated mob numbering thou
sands attempted To take "A negro named
William Dolby. charged with criminal
assault from the sheriff and deputies
of Fayette county. o.. on the 18th. for
the avowed purpose Of lynching him.
Troops were promptly called out and
stationed with the prisoner in the
courthouse. When the mob battered
down the doors the troops fired upon
them. killing three and seriously wound
ing several. some If them fatally.
HERR EoTHGARDT. leather mer-
chant Of Hamburg. and his four chill
dren We're drowned. on the 10th. by
the capsizing Of "A small boat in which
they were sailing on the River Elbe.
WALTER STRANGE. one Of the Wood
bury county la supervisors. who was
arrested for malfeasance in office and
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. swore out criminal Informal
tions. on the nth, against John c.
Kelly. editor Of the Sioux City Times.
charging him with obtaining money
from the county by stufting bills for
county printing.
a PORTION Of the false work located
at the south wing Of the Inflated
Louisville and Jacksonville bridge at
Louisville. Ny. between piers and 4.
fell with crash. on the 18th. iniurinr
three men. one Of them probably ia
tally.
The schedule for Gen. Ilarrison's
trip To Fort Wayne. arranged for the
18th and 10Th. was shattered by the
death al Minneapolis OF Mrs. BETTE L.
Harrison. widow Of Col. A. l. IIarri-
son. eldest brother Of the ex-president.
QUEEN ErGENr CHRISTINA or SPAIN
has instructed the government to pros
ecute the proprietors and managers If
several Catholic papers for asserting
that she had caused the king Ia be en-
rolled a. q Free Mason.
TIE entire Greek court will receive
the car upon his arrival at Athens. en-
route "a Corfu
ALL foreigner remaining in Pekin.
on the 18th. rece we'd peremptorv orders
to leave
A DISPATCH to the Pail Maj Gazette
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