The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-09-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Asa result of efforts made by the
Unstea States consul Mt Havana. Jose
Maria Arnirr~. an A ssa.riss. eitizsn.
has been -. al liberty Ivy the Spanish
authorities and ordered To leave the
island
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has refused TO
pardon &. \. Boyer, sentenced in Mis-
sissippi TO imprisonment for fifteen
months and fine for violating the
pension laws Upon the papers in the
case the president wrote: Denied. |
shall refuse all applications for pen
sions in cases involving violations of
the pension laws. except when very
strong and unusual reasons are pre-
sented"
TWENTY-FIVE mail carriers connected
with the post Office Of Milwaukee were
cited. on the 9th. 10 show cause why
they should not 10 removed. suspended
or reprim nded. Each of the men re-
ceived letter from Washington, in
which the nature OF his otfense was set
forth, and the men were required 10
make an answer within one week from
date.
QUEESIE CARROLL. n young lady l6
years old. committed suicide at Alton.
la, on the 9th. Her father insisted
that she should attend school, and she
wanted TO learn the millinery trade.
Rather than accede TO her fathers
wishes she shot herself through the
heart
For the vacancy in the corps OF army
cha plains occasioned by the recent re-
tirement OF Chaplain John d. Parker.
there are now 100 applicants. The po-
sition is practically life sinecure with
good pay.
Mrs. PIETzEL and her daughter Das-
sa. the only child that escaped the
murderous clutches of H. II. Holmes.
went before Coroner Carter at India n
apolis Ind, on the 10th. Mrs. Pet
eel. while looking upon the trinkets
found in the chimney of the Irvngton
house. where little Howard Pietzel's
charred re mains were found. went into
mysteries. and sobbed almost continu
ously during her testimony.
JONI MoRRIs. aged -. was burned
to death. and William Laidlaw. an
other employe. was badly injured at
Winnipeg. Man. on the 10th, by the
explo OF powder in the mill OF the
Robin Hood Smoxeless Powder Co. of
that city. The mill was burned down.
and Morris was incinerated
Miss LONDONDERRY, the lady cyclist.
who left Boston. June 25. 1894. TO make
tour of the world within fifteen
months. arrived at Clinton, la, from
the west on tne 10th.
LORD ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL and his
Hig bland pipcrs marched through
Glencoe. Scotland, on the night Of the
9th. playing dirge Lord Archibald
devised this project as an expiration for
the historical massacre OF Glencoe by
the Campbells-
THE Spring Valley Coal Co has be-
gun suit for sl6,0 damages against
the city of Spring Valley. Ill. for
damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned at the hands of the mob that,
on July o. 1894. looted the company's
store. This suit will involve the right
OF the corporation to- operate truck
store contrary to the provisions OF its
eli arter.
TIE Clyde steamer Delaware. which
arrived at New York. on the 10th. from
Haytian ports, reported that whilst at
Port de Paix in forma tion was received
that great fire ragged at Les Gonaives
on the 4th. No particulars could be
ascertained at Port de Paix. as the
wires we're interrupted
WALTER SCOTT, leading druggist
and business man OF Des Moines. Ia,
was forced 10 make an assignment or
the 10th. As soon as the papers were
fled he went to his room and took
prussic acid and died shortly after
His failure had been forced as result
Of the drug store war.
A DISPATCH from Tangier. on thu
9th. denied the reports that choleri
prevails there.
PRINCE voS HonESLoHE. chancello
Of the German empire. arrived in ~
Petersburg on the 10th. lie was re
ceived at the railway station by Princ'
Radolin, German ambassador To Rus
STA. and escorted to the German EN-
bassy.
The death of Mr.. J. c. Ashbury. for
merly member Of the British hous
Of commons and a well-kno wn yachts
man, was announced in London on til
nth. Mr.. Ashbury brought the zach
Cambria to America in 1870 and unsus
cessfully competed for tire America
cup In 1871 he again contested f.
the cup with the yacht Livona. an
won one out OF the four races sailed.
BY the ridiculous mistake OF a ban
of train robbers in detaching the wron
car, the robbery Of the express on
Rio Grande Western train at Crcvass
siding, in Colorado. near the Utah stat
line, at 2:35 o'clock on the morning I
the 18th, was prevented. After II
robbers discovered their mistake the
became panic-striclsen and took to u
n woods.
! HENRY NJ. STANLEY. the African e
, plorer and author, recently elected
: member ofparliamcnt, arrived in Ne
: York city, on the nth. Hcw was IN
mt the dock by Mai Pond aud
J. half dozen newspaper men.
a A DISPATCH from Christiana. on u
q 18th. said that the yacht Windward,
!. the Iackson-II Harms worth expedition
4 had arrived at the island OF Sardoc.
! the Arctic ocean, having broken out
\ the ice belt between Franz Josef Lar
and Barent's sea.