The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-29
CURREN I TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

AT Troppau- Arckduke Frederick on
uered that an annual pension Of 10
D norlns be paid the widow OF each vic
tim, the first pay meat 10 be made a
once.
oN the 18th Reuben II. Lloyd. o
counsel Tor the children. presented be
fore Judge Slack. of san Francisco. ,
Photographic will of the late ex-senator
FAR, dated three days later than tn,
one originally filed for probate, and
which has been stolen. Under the pro
visions OF the newly-discovered will.
charles Fair, the son, is to receive
500, 900 at once. and after minor be.
quests are made the estate is to be di-
vided among the three children. share
and share alike.
The extraordinary grand Jury which
was sworn in on January :. and has
since been investigating the New
York police department and the tes-
timony taken before the Lexow SEN
ate committee. handed big bundle
OF indictments to Judge lngraham
on the 18TH Bench warrants were at
once issued for those who had been in
dicted.
Mr. RAMON WILLIAMS United States
consul general at Havana. telerraphed
the state department on the 18th. that
the Spanish government had acceded
To the contention of this government
that >anguilly, the naturalized Amer
lean citizen arrested in Cuba as a revo-
lutionist, shall be tried by civil
tribunal and not by a courtmartial.
DR. 6. ". SAMPSON. SIR. died in Tiff
fin. o.. on the 18th. in his ninetv-third
year. lie practiced medicine in WAN
dotte and adjoining counties for sixty
two years, fifteen of thern among the
Wyandotte Indians
PRESIDENT CARO- of Colombia tele-
graphed from Borota. on the 18th. that
the instruction in that country had I
been completely suppressed
PRESIDENT CLEvEr. AND was s. wears
old on the 18th lie spent the morn
ing receiving congressman and other
callers.
AMONG the conditions precedent TO
Newfoundland joining the dominion
OF Canada. is said To be one that the
latter shall tunnel the straits of Belle
Isle. In order to give the island all
rail connection with Canada. This. il
: urged. will reduce the voyage 10 En-
gland by one-third and render il pos
'ible TO convey passengers from Mon
real 10 Liverpool in los hours.
lT IS reported in Berlin that Count
Herbert Bismarck will su cceed Gen.
'on Werder, shortly TO retire, as Ger
nan EN- bassadcr to Russia.
FEARS Of the loss of the Spanish war
hip Reina Eegcute Were confirmed. on
ne 18TH. by the report Of the tndinp
4 the peak OF her mast rising from
he waters OF the Mediterranean near T
he straits OF Gibraltar. where She had |
foundered with her entire X
omplement Of 400 Officers mi nan +
HE indictment for ENLIGHTENMENT p
yainst Mark c. pavis. ex-cashier of a
ne Iron Hall, was dismissed at Indian
polls. Ind. on the 10Th. for failure to II
II
JOSEPH r. HERoD. of Indiana, was. Il
n the 18th, appointed to be secretary "
legation OF the United States in ia o
an. o.
MRS. MARIA LIvERMoRE. of Dayton, IL
:, died Of old age on the 10Th Had
ne lived until April 81 she would have
.lebrated her one-h undredth birth
Az.
The secretary Of state was advised. u
J the 10TH by the diplomatic repre- =
natives Of the United States in the n
ty of Mexico. that between 700 and ~
y negro families had recently ar y
we'd from the United States at Hahua- ~
Ia. state Of Durango. Mex. as coll "
lists. under a federal concession q;
-anted 10 W. II. Ellis. an American q
tizen. ~
ACCORDING to Commissioner Loeb
Ms figures, iasued on the Goth. per- pl
IN appropriations are likely 10 re- #
ain at about the resent rate for at v
asst three years to come The rea- rs
n for the absence Of any percepti Die til
crease j. that the falling of. owing h;
deaths and other causes, is. for the M
esent, a bout counter balanc ID by first 10
vments on new pensions allowed fc
ter 1888 Commissioner Lochre
inks, the pension appropriation will ca
pidly decrease RIA
bY an explosion Of gas in the Rocky In
ountain Coal and Iron Co.'S mine No. II,
at Red Canyon, Wyo., on the Goth. to
me fifty men are believed 10 have ia
i their lives. OF the first twenty be
rec bodies recovered many were ca
rned beyond recognition, and no
pe was entertained for those still in Of
c pit. There were usually 100 nen se
lployed in the mine -,
A TORNADO passed over the south ~
stern portion Of the city Of Augusta, Tl
\, on the Goth, doing consid erabl pa
mage 70 property. About fifty de-
uses, mostly small ones, were nm
eckcd. and large -four mill in the q
ok Of the storm was partly blown for
sn. ~,
BARRY MINES, 5e years old. was com 40,
tied TO the Tombs prison in New We
rk city. on the 10Th. on charge of ur,
wing stolen 10000 from the bank /
firm Of Pierpont Morgan & Co. wr,
lie in the employ 81 the firm nj,
y the goth Mr.. Preston, director OF Ind
mint confirmed the published re- wa
Is Of a shortage in tile mint at Car i'm,
!. New. placing the amount at 1000 /
ices OF silver and 4. ZOO ounces Of III,