The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-08-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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deep The engineer, fireman anu
brakeman were buried under 400 tons
OF coal. and il j. thought that the re-
mains 81 four tramps who were steal
ing a ride are also Al the bottom 81
the river.
GEoEGE w. LoEnMER for several
wears book keeper AT the Cleveland toD
city workhouse. was ARRESTED, on the
morning of the 18th, on the charge ~
embezxlement of city money. At
o'clock in the evening he was found
dead in his cell at the Central police
station under circumstances which in
Dictated suicide.
NEW York city made "A record. on the
18th, of nine persons drowned by bath
ing and boating casualties. and four
teen others were rescued when IN i'm
minent peril.
OWING TO the recent death ~ his wife.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage did not preach
on the 18th. the first time he has failed
TO do SO on the sabbath in many years
AN American woman. booked ~ Mrs.
STANLEY. was arrested on board the
steamship Et~uria at Liverpool, on the
10th. charged with the theft Of jewel
nv valued at $4,000 from Mrs Glib
bons. whose guest she had been in
London. The jewelry was recovered
ADoLPH >uTRo, mayor of san Fran
cisco. has offered 10 the California state
university real estate TO the value
of 81. 800. 900 on which TO erect buildings
for collegiate and library purposes.
TnF Central Stamping Co, at New
ark. " j.. sustained loss OF S50o,00o,
on the llth. by fire, with insurance OF
about half that amount. Other losses
incident To the conhagration will foot
up $50 600
TwENTY-oSE Italians, part of body
Of 100 armed strikers. who made an at
tack upon party of laborers in Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the l2th. were taken in
by the police. The others fed upon
the approach of the officers
The tsung Ii yamen or Chinese board
of foreign affairs has promised Minis
ter DENLY redress for damages done TO
American missionary property al lung
Fuh and future protection.
The forty-fifth annual session of
the American Protestant association
convened in Cincinnati on the 18th.
The grand session began on the i4th.
TIE cruiser Detroit arrived at Pa
CODA on her way from Shanghai 10
Foo-Chow. the nearest point 70 the
scene of the Chinese riots. on the lath.
LrcrES NAPOLEON BoSAPARTE WYsE,
the celebrated French engineer and
explorer. died in Paris, on the 18th,
aged 80
TuFEKTcHIEFF. the only person ar
rested in sofia on suspicion Of having
murdered cx-Pritne Minister Stambu-
loft. was liberated on bail on the 18th.
A FIRE. which did damage amount
ing to between $3.50. 600 and S400ooo
started in the big five-story building
occupied by Brown 4 Bailey as paper
box manu- facturers. in Philadelphia. or
the 12th. and before the flames wer,
gotten under control the big gas fix
ture establishment OF Buck & Co. ad
Joining. and a dozen dwellings in the
vicinity were laid in ashes.
SECURITIES and other property valued
at about 81 600, 900 have been turned
over by the trustees of the Tildet
estate To Edward King. president Of thu
/ Union Trust Co. and treasurer Of thu
New York public library. under which
name The then big library funds Q
the city. the Aston. the Lenox and TIL
| Tilden estates. were consolidate las
) spring.
A STATEMENT prepared by the burea
of statistics. treasury department
gives the amounts Of the principal al
: ticles OF export during July as follows
Mineral oils, 81. 992. 90s. July last year
S2.9s5. TOP: cotton. Si.9ls.l1e July las
year. SO. III, $50: breadstuff>, Ss.5o0.9l'
July last year. ss,lss.59s. provisions
. sl4.Oai. 6ss. as against si4,1s5.755 las
: year during July.
TnE total value Of the clay product
: Of the United States for 1894. excludin
pottery. was over S55. 900, 600. The onl
!, comparison that can be made Is wit
the census OF 1890. which placed Il
value at s5-. 900, 900 Fifty-threc ps
cent. of this value was in bricks. while
!, numbered 6,i5., 900. 600. There we
enough Of them to make walk ov
eleven feet wide all around the gioh
u MINISTER RANSOM has asked the sta
a. department for an extension OF b
,e leave ~ absence. Under the regul
IN tions of the state department he "
10 not be able TO have his present lea
ic extended more than thirty days, or
TO total of ninety days. His physical Q
IL pcarance does not seem 10 indicate tn
he will be able within the time OF
leave to 90 To Mexico.
q. ALBERT FISHER and Oscar Daws'
~ two young men who had been robbi
ne post offices il West Virginia for mont
g were captured, on the 18th. by Unit
a' states officers. Their depredatic
ms amount TO thousands OF dollars.
.re The remains OF Justice Howell
~ Jackson were laid To rest in priv'
family cemetery at Belle Meade stc
10 farm, 6 miles from Nashville. Ten
90 on the iath.
a., MIR. RoBERT +. PEARSON, director
NJ the mint. will leave Washington.
I'll. the 2lst, for Denver. Col. where
M. will remain for week or more
TIA specting the several sites suggest
~. for a new mint at that point
Ar Wellington. kas, on the 18th.
community was Mortified by the cha
I at discovery ut her home. AZ miles no
nis. Of the town. OF the decayed corpse
red Mrs. Benjamin lIsynesworth. She
and over 50 years old, and lived alone
nal had been dead over a week.
ure Mr. RrDyARD KILLING. the "
$50 known author. and Nine Mode