The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-08-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

>oJTH-BorND passenger train No.
on the Grand Rapids x Indiana was
wrecked at Laotto. Ind. at midnight Of
the list Some miscreant had driven
beam in frog. The engine passed over
safely but the tender, baggage car and
smoker jumped the track. The train
was loaded with Fort Wayne excur-
sionists hut officials Of the road assert
that none were seriously injured.
THE police guard was withdrawn
from one district at the Chicago stock
yards. on the I'D. and the result was
bloody riot between union and non
union butchers. When the police ar
rived the trouble was almost over, and
three men probably fatally stabbed and
severely dubbed were picked up and
taken to the hospitals.
A. q. REysAw. British capitalist.
has begun suit in the United States
district court at San Francisco 10 re-
cover $4,000. He charges that the
sale of the Bears Nest group of mines
in Alaska was accomplished by gigantic
frauds. He accuses the sellers Of salt
ing the mines with gold-bearing rccx
from the rich Treadwell mines.
DURING fire at Perry. Okla. on the
night of the 2ist. Clay Davis. a noted
horse-thief and member of the Dalton
gang. and Bud Appling. alias ''califor-
mia Cyclone" a prize-fghter. broke jail.
II is said that the prisoner, had as
sistance from the outside.
The Chicago express. No. /. on the
Big Four. collided with freight en-
CINE at Griffiths. o.. on the 2id. killing
the fireman on the freight engine and
two tramps of the front end Of the
mail car. and injuring several persons
ON the 23d the Canadian revenue cut
ter Petrol seized the American steamer
Louise on the east side of Point Pelee.
The Louise was engaged in the fishing
trade. and is charged with trespassing
in Canadian waters.
On the cath the British charge daft.
fairies al Toxic wired the British con
sui at Shanghai tina. Japan had agreed
to treat Shanghai a. outside the sphere
Of operations in any warfare that
Jap may engage in with Corca-
&. :. NcAULIFrE. r. W. Archibald
Eugene " Debs and seven other mem
bers Of the American Railway unior
were held for trial in Milwaukee. OF
the ed. by United States Commission
err Bloodgood on the charge Of conspir
ing 10 obstruct the mails
Ten houses were destroyed by fire on
Van Horn street between Oakley ans
Leavitt streets. Chicago. on the ed
Four children were killed and mum
Der of persons injured.
THE republican convention Of III.
first congressional district of Main.
met in Biddcford. on the cath. and re
nominated Hon. Thomas Il. Reed fol
congress.
OK the cath the French chamber o
deputies passed the second. third an,
fourth articles Of the anti-anarchisi
bill
DS the 18th. Judge Baker. 81 Chi
cago. held Mrs Warren Springer e
the grand jury on the charge of at
tempting 20 bride Jurors Marinan ant
slider in the land -coDdemnation suit
Of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated
Railroad 90 vs.. Warren Springer She
was released on 5000 bonds
THREE bogus checks. aggrcgatint
=. go drawn on the Columbia ma
tional bank of Washington. have beer
passed in New York city. The Lincoln
national bank was victimizcd 10 tn.
extent Of Ssi 600. and the Fourtccth
Street national bank for se0.5O0 Tn,
checks were signed David Coleman
and were indorscf II. q. Rice. paying
teller" Mr.. Rice is the teller Of m,
Washington bank