The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-11-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the police Of thicrgo, ST. Louis, Gin
cinnati and Kansas Citv.
GIN, clENFraos, the lieutenant OF
EEeta, who was released from the
Alameda county lCal.l Jail, on the eth,
on an order from Secretary Gresham.
sailed on the steamer san Jose, on the
e9th. for Acapulco. II is his intention
To go straight To that place to return
To his young wife.
/ TnE LeNow committee in New York
will call Superintendent Byrncs to ties
tify. and il is expected that the inside
history Of the police department will
be told at length The superintendent
is not the man To be made scapegoat
Of by the commissioners. and If his
friends may Ice credited he will tell
some very interesting things when he
takes the stand.
! AARON LEWIS, proprietor ofthe White
House hotel. at Leadville. Col. was
shot and fatally wounded by his wife
on the 10Th. The trouble arose over
jealousy on the husbands part. and
during a quarrel he badly chol<ed her
Freeing herself She gra bbed revolver
and fired four shots. one of which
passed through her husbands body.
A DEPUTY SHERIFF arrived at Topeka
kas.. on the night of the 10Th. from
lola. armed with warrant for the ar
rest of United States senator John
Martin on charge OF libel. The com
plant was sworn out by Nelson +.
Acers. the attorney for the ,xlottery
king. Peter Kline
lloNoRE MERCER. ex-prcmier of Que
bee. died. on the 3Oth. at Montreal
Can. after long illness.
THOMAS SHARP was arrested at John
son Springs. Va. on the Goth. for
poisoning his wife in Kentucky. \
Kentucky officer caught sharp as he
was going to mill with a turn Of corn.
Sharp had walked all the way from
Kentucky 20 Goochland. where he had
formerly lived.
The town of Rising sun, o.. was
totally destroyed by fire on the Goth
Rising sun has a population of l,50O
and j. the center of the oil operations
in northwestern Ohio The loss can
not exceed $4,000.
BILL Cook. the leader of the Mis-
souri, Pacific train robbers. sent a mes
sage. on the 3oth. to Marshal Crump.
Of Fort Smith. Ark. that he was after
his deputy marshals, only two hours
behind them and expected to overhaul
them soon.
THREE men were killed in a wreck on
the Beech Creek railroad near Clear
field. Pa. on the Goth an examination
Of whose effects showed them to he a
gang Of burglars. They were other
wise unknown.
THE Zambesi. formerly Northern
Pacific steamer. but recently pur-
chased by some wealthy japanese, ran
into the Japanese war ship Tsubukan
in Kobe harbor last month and sunk
her.
THE president has appointed James
r. Willett. of Washington. postmaster
Of that city. to succeed Henry Sher-
wood, whose commission has expired.
A NEW petroleum wclls has been
tapped at Baku. Asiatic Russia at
depth of seventy fathoms, which dis
charges 5000 tons daily.
THIRTEEN battalions of IIunanese
troops left Han kow. on the 3Oth. for
Chin kiang, whence they will proceed
overland To Picking.
Ar fredericksburg, Va, Charles
Searcy, the alleged Aqua Creek (Va.)
train robber, was taken before Judge
Fitzhugh for preliminary examination
on the Both On the warrant being
read. Searcy waived examination The
case was sent 10 the grand jury and
Searcy was re-committed to Jail.
PROF LEYDEN telegraphed from Ii
vadia to Count Schouvaloff, the Rus
sian ambassador to Germany. on the
3lst. as follows: II am in despair. A
catastrophe is inevitable
Cor. JACQUES. the London agent of
the American claimants of the Townley
estates, who Is in custody on charges
of fraud. was again arraigncd in the
Bow-stree: police court on the 3lst,
and fully committed for trial
The members OF the diplomatic corps
in Buenos Ayres representing the for
eign monarchies have agreed not to at
tend the festivities Of the 18TH the an
niversary of the establishment of the
Argentine republic.
Two DYNAMITE bombs, filed with
scrap iron, were exploded outside Of
two of the police stations in Milan.
Italy on the 30th. The fronts of the
buildings were wrecked, but, fortunate
~, no one was hurt.
SEVEN persons were asphyxiated and
another fatally injured by jumping
as the result Of fire in New York
tenement on the 3Otl.
THE emperor Of China has summoned
the viceroys. governors and other Of
ficials before him to learn why a small
country like Japan cannot be exter-
minated.
FIFTEEN inmates of an insane asylum
at Docnkoeping, sweden, were ere
mated in the burning Of the institu-
ton on the 3ist.
The British steamer Tonnes soun-
dcred off Pembroke. Wales. on the
sOth, and fourteen OF her crew were
drowned.
On the LIST President Cleveland issued
his annual thanksgiving proclamation.
In his annual report TO the secretary
Of war Gen. Flagler. chief Of ordnance,
makes strong point on the INSULT.
4 cheney OF the appropriations for arm.