The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


EDWARD LA MONTAGUE. JR.. banker,
was arrested in New York, on the LIST.
on charge of grand larceny, and was
arraigned in the Tombs police court.
where he was admitted TO bail. Ii is
said that the larceny involves $4,000,
and that the complainant j. Florence
Davids or Laurence e.. Davis.
JULIAN @. DAVIDSON. the well-known
artist. died at his home in Nyack. \.
y. on the LIST. Of heart disease and
dropsy. Mr.. Davidson's marine pic
lures ranked among the best in the
country. In later years Mr.. Davidson
also acquired some renown as an au-
thor.
THE murder of City Marshal Whit
ney Of Missouri Valley. Ia. on the
night of April 81. by "Reddy" Wilson.
notorious burglar and thug. has been
avenged. At an early hour on the
morning of the list Wilson was taken
from Jail by mob and hanged from
the railing of the city hall portico.
Ex-STATE SENATOR NORMAN BoRD-
MAN. of Lyon. la. died on the night Of
the soth on his eighty-frst birthday
anniversary. lie held the position OF
states attorney of Vermont from 1850
TO 1859. One of his sons is the present
Iowa state dairy commissioner. lie
/ had lived in Iowa since 1853.
The fourth annual convention Of the
Association of Military Surgeons. rep
rescnting surgeons Of the regular army
navy and national guard. began in
Washington on the LIST. The delegates
were welcomed to the city by Commits
sioner Ross and President Cleveland
made the convention a speech.
II. +. ScHRIvER, wanted at BROOKLYN
Ia. for alleged fraudulent transactions
involving $4,000, was arrested in Kan
sas CITY. Mo, on the lst. The authori
ties had been looking for Schriver fol
several weeks.
IS funeral procession at Leaven
worth. kas.. on the LIST. a team became
frightened at an approaching electric
car. and i'm the excitement three car
riages Were backed onto the track an,
were wrecked by the car. Many mar
row escapes were experienced. an'
Mrs Rafferty, and Mrs Phillips Bake
sustained what we're supposed TO b
fatal injuries.
RECTOR AHLwARDT. the notoriou
anti-Semite, who was released from tn
Ploetzensee prison in March last, wher
he had been confined after being con
victed of libeling the Loewe firm o
Hebrew gunmaSers. was sentenced Il
Berlin. on the lst, TO three months i'm
lrisonment for insulting Prussian OF
ficials during recent speech
HARRISON PRICE. aged so years.
second cabin passenger, comlnitte
) suicide by shooting on board In
} steamer Saale soon after the vessel LEI
= lthampton for New York. where h
arrived on the lst Price was nativ
. of the United States, but had reside
+ ia England for the last ten years.
by an explosion ~ benzine in tn
cellar of a New York dyeing house, 0
the ID. two persons were roasted t
death and three Others were terribl
burned The fve-story building wa
: almost instantly enveloped in flames
and il was feared that three or fou
: other persons persisted.
GEN. MoRRrsoN's army, 30l stron.
: was fcrried away from II. Louis to til
Illinois shore. on the afternoon OF th
"a. literally without purse or scril
their entire commissary outfit consis
ing Of $50 loaves of bread and a coupl
Of caddies of chewing tobacco. Their
was not half-dozen blankets in th
), outfit. The men had been harangue
!. into temporary enthusiasm. and too
, up the march in apparent good spirit
: Aran early hour on the morning I
; the I'd bomb was found on windo
I sill Of the palace Of Prince lIohenloh
, in Prague. bohemia. II was ftte
. with an igniting device which reache
9 10 the ground. and would, IL tcuche
!. by anyone passing by. have caused III
bomb 10 explode.