The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-08-17

A FREIGHT train on the West Jersey
morning of the eth. AT Mays Landing.
\. j.. ny band of twenty-five CoNry-
ties under Carl Browne. The "hoboc>'
stuhbornly fought the train crew. but
were finally suhdued.
TIN pope received 40 pilgrims from
the United States ON the eth. There
were no speeches. The Americans at
tended mass celebrated by his Holt
ness.
WILLIAM BEAN. farmer living near
Grand Rapids, O., was instantly killed.
on the eth. by a bainble-bee singing
him on the neck
TIM Sioux City da) Telephone Go.
has applied for franchise. II j. max
ing duplicate of the Bell instrument.
which il sells outright. The company
will not operate "A central exchange
for some time. but will put up wires
which will Toe leased to patrons.
DAVE NA> LEW and &. e. Ame>.
painters. fell 30 feet with a scaffolding.
on the >th. while painting sign on
the Duncombe house at Fort Dodge.
la. Van Lew was fatally injured. but
Ame> may live
THE viceroy Of Kwang Tung. China.
has engaged 1000 Black Flags tc
strengthen the Notifications and river
defense in the north Of Canton.
HARRY a. GARDNER. cashier of the
Second national bank of Altoona. Pa.
has disappeared in company with a
Mrs. Gordon. To whom Gardner has
been 80 attentive during the past year
a. Ia excite much unfavorab le com
ment. A director Of the bank Is au-
thority for the statement that Gardner
has also taken with him large sum OF
money belonging TO the bank
IL speaking Of the probabilities of
the pending war between Japan and
China an official of the Japanese Legal
tion recalled the fact that the season
of the monsoon and the typhoon j. rap
idly approaching. The presence Of the
former Is not regarded a. Il menace to
sea naneuvering, but fear j. felt for
the latter.
LAST March \. II. Batliif killed An
drew Thompson NJ >ewcll. w. Va. and
escaped The authorities offered re-
ward of 500 for his arrest and the citi-
zen> added $50. ON the >th the police
at Charleston. ". Va. received q tele-
gram from the marshal Of Pittsburr.
kas. saving that Batliff was in jail
there.
II. WEsyER was shot and killed ~ his
father-in-law. jas Livingston. at the
latter's home in Lebanon. Ind. on the
night OF the >th. We>ner i "A son Of
Lawyer c. w. Wesner who was killed
hy J. c. Brown in the courtroom at
Danville year ago last May.
THREE HUNDRED miners at Mystic
Ia. went ont on a strike. on the ~th.
because the company insisted on hold
ing back two or three days wages
when paying their men every two
weeks
REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN. Of Ncbra>-
lsa. has petition bearing 10000 sigma
lures for an inve i cation of the course
taken by Atty.-Gen. Olnev during tn,
recent strike looking to his iapeach.
ment.
THE police have discovered in Rome
a revolutionary band who correspond
regularly WIN ioEtiEn dudrcni>t>- 80
cietv women have acted as go-betweens
for the correspondents in order that
the suspicious Of the police might not
be aroused.
On the night Of the 9th the east
bound Oklahoma and Texas express on
the Rock Island road plunged through
an overhead bridge. 80 feet high.
miles .ausb ~ in..,lr Nah int. ..
creek. killing eight persons and wound
ing many Others. Five Of the victims
were burned 10 death in the wreck