The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-10-18

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


ranted, Illegal, unjust and ,yrannicaL
THE American fishing tug Grace.
which was seized by the Dominion
cruiser Dolphin. ia Lake Erie. in April.
1894. for Illegal fishing ard condemned
hy the admiralty court at Toronto was
SOLID 40 public auction. on ihc lth. for
81 .26O 20 satisfy tic Judgment against
her.
HARRY HtkIIL manager 81 a Chi
cage shoe compa NY. j. said 70 he one 81
four heirs toan English estate valued
at 500. 900. 900
The first of the new battle-ship> will
shortly 70 into commission. The In
diana j. ready for lis trial trip. which
7 is slated TO take place October Is. 4
I 3a-mile course of the Massachusetts
coas, between Cape Ann and Cape Por-
poise has been selected. To meet the
requirements the Indiana must main
tain speed Of - knots for four hours.
JUDGE GIBSON CLARK. United states
attorney for Wyoming. has received
formal instructions from the attorney
general 10 apply for writ of ha beas
corpus for the release of the two Ban
mock Indians arrested at Evanston for
violation OF the state game laws. thus
making a test case.
FARMERS in Eaton county. Mich.
will not make any cider this year. I'M
less they take their apples outside of
the county. Prosecuting Attorney
Maynard has looked up the local OPP
ton law OF the county. and finds that
il preclude> the manufacture Of cider.
AFTER a chase extending over thou
sands OF miles Detective John X.
>ayille. of the Pinkerton agency in
Philadelphia. on the 9Th caught John
Don Farden, alias j. Il. Franklin. the
cashier who robbed the Adams Express
Go. in Terre IIaute, Ind. of sl6. OOO at
pa timore. Md.
o. the evening Of the 9Th. by col
lision between an engine and crowd
ed passenger train near Wavre. Bel
gium, ten persons were killed and forty
injured, several OF them seriously.
Ir will interest the non-commissioned
officers of the army to learn that sew
eral of the members Of the new
congress have expressed themselves
in favor of the proposed effort 20
secure to them an increase of
monthly pay. The proposition is TO
make the pay Of first sergeants s45.
sergeants s35and corporals SIS. which.
it is contended. will be more common
surate with the duties they have to
perform.
The Northern Steamship Co. will re-
move its headquarters from Buffalo.
\. Y. to Duluth. Mimi. at the close
of this seasons navigation
The Ohio River improvement con-
vention opened in Cincinnati. on the
sth. promising to be one of the largest
ever held in that city.
FIRE at Green Bay. Wis. on the Eth.
destroyed the docks of the Murphy
In mber Co. together with millions Of
feet OF logs and lumber and number
OF buildings Loss 500, 000 insurance.
s67 900 The fire was caused BY a
spark from "a tug.
a TERRIFIC explosion occurred in the
Dorrence mine. AZ NillSesbarre. Pa.
on the eth. OF nine men in the nine
at the time five We're hoisted ont on
the carriage. one of them fatally
remained unknown.
Two nEAvILY-LADES trains. a freight
and passenger. collided between
Wavre and Ottignies. about Is miles
from Brussels, on the 9Th. and most of
the ears Of both trains were wrecked.
Eighteen persons we're killed outright
and fully 100 We're injured, proba bl y
twenty-five OF them IA tally.
A BAND Of robbers attempted to hold
up the Grand Rapids s. Indiana north
bound train near kalamazoo, Mich.
on the 9Th, but the engineer opened
the throttle and did not heed the sig.
ma. to stop, dashing through a fu-
sillade of bullets The headlight was
shot out and the cab riddled.
A GANG Of five armed aud masked
men held up an electric car near the
Berwin-avenue crossing of Evanston
avenue on the outskirts Of Chicago. on
the evening Of the eth. and robbed the
sixteen male passengers. one OF whom
was shot through the leg bv his owl
revolver which was discharged wher
one Of the robbers struck his arm with
his pistol The robbers CALAMITY re
Trained from molesting the two lady
passengers.
TnE wrecking steamer Lord Stanle,
returned 10 Quebec. Can, from tn,
steamer Mariposa AZ Belle Isle. on Tia,
7th. and reported the vessel a com
plcte wreck. A portion Of her carg,
had been saved and taken 70 81. John
Miss ADA CAyrSDTsn. the actress
died III London on the 18th.
SIx ME~ were seriously injured b,
the explosion 81 boiler in the Whar
ton Iron Co.'S mine in lIihernia. y. j.
on the sth. The town was shaken a
by an earthquake Ike. and scarcely "A win
dow in any Of the frame houses re
manned unbrol<en.
TmE Darling hotel. the largest hos
tclry in Lorain. o., was burned earl,
. on the morning Of the .th. Fort,
guests escaped in their nightclothes
| losing all their effects. Nothing wa
, saved from the burning building but
piano aud one chest