The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-11-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

VN the evening Oh tue tth al atteiite
was made by inccndiaries to fire the
Hammond packing house at South
Omaha. Neb. Gasoline was thrown
INTO the box department and set on
fire. IL was discovered before gaining
any Roadway and extinguished with
out difficulty.
A Young American doctor named
Nuttall formerly professor at the
Johns Hopkins university at Balti-
more. Md. who for the last two years
has been studying in Berlin, has ad-
vanced claim 10 being the real dis
covercr OF diphtheiia serum, of which
DR. Bchring is considered 10 be the dis
coverer.
TuE sixty-ive Indian children at
Whites Manual Labor institute. a
school of the Friends church, near
Wabash Ind !. will be returned 10 their
reservations in the west at the close Of
the year, and no more Indian students
will be accepted AT the institution
On the Sd visitor found three chill
dren dead and four others, besides the
mother. very sick with smallpox in
the lonely farmhouse of Fred kush. :
miles from llale's Corners. Milwaukee
county Wis. kush's neighbors re-
fused 10 90 near him. and though he
had not slept for five days, his at
tenticns to the living left him no time
10 bury his dead. The little bodies
were already badly decomposed.
Mrs JAMES DoSNALLY. of Ever
green. O.. died on the 9TH. and her
three sisters and father. Joseph Dolit-
tie. were not expected to live from the
effects Of drinking poisoned rain water.
The roofof their house had been painted
with white lead.
:. J. DUNLAP. postmaster at Red
Fork. Okla, W. shot TO pieces by the
Cook gang on the 3D.. Dunlap owned
the store. and the gang ordered him 10
unlock the post Office safe, which he
refused 10 do. and they shot him full
of holes. They robbed the store and
post Office.
Ep MANSFIELD accidentally shot and
killed Henry Gregory, member of the
Rockford rifles. Of Rockford, H.. while
rabbit hunting near Belvidere on the
5th
FRANCIS CALLAHAN. treasurer Of the
Union Traction Go. Of rutherford. \.
j.. was killed by a train on the Erie
road on the ith.
THE origin of the fire in the box fac
South Omaha. Neb., has been discov-
cred. Emory Coulson. a night watch
man. was arrested. on the 5th. and
confessed that he set fire To the build
ing that he might see a fire. be never
before having seen large one
The Chinese troops in Manchuria are
robbing the natives and committing
horrible atrocities wherever they pass.
The Japanese. on the other hand. are
treating the Chinese well. and are. con
sequently. received with open arms by
the natives. who are furnishing them
with supplies Of various kinds.
Mr.. GLADsToSE's "Horace's odes"
were published OF the 9Th.
EpITm MASTERS. Of Auburn. Ind.
and Clara Diebold. of Fort Wayne.
were fatally burned. on the 9th. by
flames caused by an explosion in the
basement of the Westminster female
seminary at Fort Wayne. Ind. Lille
Ander. of Logan, Ind. was also severe
ly burned.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai. dated
the 9Th. says: "All the foreigners re-
siding in Port Arthur have arrived at
Che-Foo An attack is now being
made on Port Arthur by the japanese
torpedo boats. and it is expected that
fallen Wan will be attacked during
the day"
THE trial at Charleston. w. Va. Of
benjamin Clendenin. charged with kill
ing DR. J. q. Davis, near Montgomery,
w. Va, August ;. ended. on the 9TH. in
his conviction Of murder in the first der
gree
THE body OF man was found hang
ing to tree near Roscoe. Mo. on the
5th. It is supposed he was hanged by
moh. There had recently been
many thefts in that region.
A PEpDLER Of American Protective
association tickets at Vallejo, Cal,
was pursued by crowd Of hoodlums,
on the night Of the 9Th, and severely
beaten.
THE eighth fire in twenty-four hours
among the cotton ships at Savannah
Ga. broke ont at o'clock on the morn
ing Of the Goth, on the steamship
Whitefcld. lying besides the Dale
garth. burned the previous night
The flames We're quickly subdued.
MRs. JULIE WRIGHT, OF Annapolis
Md. aged IS. was burned TO death il
the flames which destroyed her HON,
early on the morning of the 9th.
THE Rex -four mill, at Kansas City
Mo-. was completely destroyed by fir
on the night Of the 9Th. Loss. $3.50. OOo
abou, two-thirds covered by insurance
The mill was owned by J. Il. NJ. Koch
Ter. Of st. Louis.
THE tug Crusader was destroyed b.
fire at her dock at Sault Ste. Marie
Mich. early on the morning of tn
9Th. Firemen Henry Billings. Of tina
city. and Charles Williams. Of Por
Huron. who were sleeping on the tug
were burned to death.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has instructc
the collector Of customs at Port Towr
send. Wash. that certificates Of regii
tration issued TO Chinese should i
taken mp by the collector when sue