The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-12-21

MILES KITCHEN Of Okevne. Okla.
while repairing the cross on top Of
church steeple there, on the 10th, Eel
10 the ground. a distance OF 80 feet. an,
was intantly killed.
1koReE SMITH, who WAS injured u,
the Australian pugiiist Winters In i
ocut 1T Ilolborn hall, London, on ia.
9TH, died on the nth. His death re
sulted In several arrests
The reported robbery, on the nigh,
of the 10th, of the Farmers aud Mcr
chants bank mt Eennessy. Okla. bv
members Of the Cook gang, proves &c
have been without foundation.
The secretary Of the navy, on the
nth. made the last payment but one
on account Of the CHILEAN indemnity
claims, being that of Joseph Quigley. a
fireman on the Baltimore, who was re.
leased from confinement at Mare island.
Cal. for being absent without leave.
and discharged with check Cor 81 900.
On the nth Harry Stoner and Mary
Breuster, William u. Casswell and
Katie May Griffith. Charles :. McClel.
laad and Sallie Eustis. q. l.. Markham
and Matte Middleton. George r. Cook
and Lottie H. Smith. Of Louisville. and
Alvin Fry and Winnie Warfield. of Gray
son, were among those who eloped to
Jeffersonville. Ind, from Kentucky.
Ina collision between cable cars in
the Washington street tChicago) tun-
mel, on the evening of the 18th. one
man was fatally hurt. fifteen more
people were seriously injured. and a
score of others more or less bruised.
The cars were set on fire by the stoves.
and for time there was fearful panic
around the neck.
LIZZIE MAYsrEE. aged 5. was PLAYING
on the roof of shed at her parents
house. near Edmund. Okla. on the 18th.
Slipping between two p,anks. the girl
struck on her chin and was literally
hanged TO death.
ROBERT WEBSTER. an aged farmer
living near South Haven. Mich. on the
18th. set fire To his barn. shot and fear.
fully wounded Eugene keasy, a neigh. |
Dor, and then attempted to commi, sui.
.ide.
The annual convention of the IA. !
ional Civil->ervice Reform league con.
Tened at the rooms of the Chicago
commerce club in the Auditorium
building on the lath.
An Englishman giving the name OF
" Horst who is wanted for swindlinp
'anks in various parts of this country.
vas arrested in Philadelphia on the
eth
NJ. ArGrsrE BrRDEAu. president of
he French chamber of deputies, died
q Paris on the 18th.
FRAU Louise RorHscHup. widow Of
ne banker Carl Rothschild, of Berlin.
led on the l2th.
EARL DAVIS. Ed Singer. Fleming
a ckson. John Bunnell. John Brown.
uck Taylor. James Parke. Mrs. Van
hooden. Willie Wolf. aged 5: Gordon
'olfe and Sherman Chase. all of whom
ere bitten by rabid dog at Mount
ernon. o.. were, on the 18th. sent TO
ne Lagario Pasteur institute at Chi
igo. the city council Of Mount Yer
IN approprIating sl.5OO TO defray the
Ipenses.
A DISPATCH from Ten Tsin. on the
tn said the report Of the capture of !
in-chow by the Japanese lacked con- {
nation Japanese cruisers contin.
ID TO reconnoitcr along the coast.
JEAN MACE. the French lit;erateur. !
ed in Paris on the 18th. He was born q
pril -. 1915.
LreHT shocks Of earthquake were Z
I Mt Cape Town, south. Africa. on the Il
tn v
The ST. Petersburg :Bourse Gazctte
the eth said the new Russian loan I;
d been subscribed forty times in ex-
> OF the sum req uired y