The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-10-04

1 n tl~fAItn from NinHstOfi, ddIliic1s
on the 25th. said that Capt Williams,
commander OF the British ship Lady
Blake. had been arrested 10y the au-
thorties AT Cape lIayti for alleged
smuggling. The officers who arrested
him handled him SO roughly as 10 en-
danger his life; ana in fact, he came
very near being murdered
MIR MioDo lroiRo. a Japanese jour
nalist, has shown that "A celebrated
Chinese poem, written several hun
drcd years ago by Liu Ting Che.
bears "A really striking resemblance TO
''Thc Last Leaf" by Oliver Wendell
Holmes. 1t is scarcely conceivable
tina, the American poet could have had
any idea OF the Chinese poets work
a DISPATCH from Constantinoplc. on
the s5th. said the town OF lluycda. in
the province OF Yemen, had been over
whelmed by IA landslide from a noun
tain near 10y which killed 100 persons
THE steamer Sylvia. with the Peary
Arctic expedition party on board.
sailed from ST Johns, y. f., on the
s5th. for New York
OK the a5th United States Secret
Service Detective Louis Summers ar
rested Capt. Henry Il. Patton. foreman
of the Patton Manufacturing Co. To-
Gated in the Indiana penitentiary at
Jacksonville. on the charge OF circu-
lating counterfeit money manufac-
tured by the convicts. Patton con-
fessed.
Mrs. LANGTRy, who expects to re-
ceive a divorce from her hus band a bout
October .. will thereafter take up her
residence on her Lake county (Cal.)
ranch, aud devote her time to the
breeding Of fine stock. the growing of
fruits and the cultivation of garden
truck
a TERRIBLE wind and rain storm
struck Barnum 4 Bailey's circus tents
at darlington. la. on the 25th. com
pletey wreclSing the ma in tent. an
imal tent and boarding tent The even
ing performance had just ended, and
the audience and employees escaped I'M
hurt.
WILTON iACKAyE and Miss Alice
Evans were married at Council Bluffs,
Ia. on the 25th. 10y Rev. Stephen
Phelps. Both are well-known theatri-
cal people, and reside in New York
dent Of St Louis.
SIX MEN were killed outright and
five fatally injured by an explosion of
dynamite in the Belgian mine in AIDE
laide park miles from Leadville. Col.
on the Goth The explosion caused a
cavern under which the miners were
crushed TO death.
ApviCEs were received from San
Francisco. on the Goth. announcing the |
arrest of f. X. Clark, the diamond
broker. who last month ran away
with $4,000 worth of diamonds left |
with him by Denver Coll citizens.
IL the United States court at Guth-
lie, okla. Mrs W. c. Taylor was. on
he Goth. acquitted of the charge OF
the jury being out but two
Mrs Taylor shot and killed
William Henry Harrison or February
y last. while the latter was trying to
'orce an entrance to her house.
DURING a recess in the Irish national
in Chicago. on the Goth,
nearly 900 of those present signed
petitions to congress in favor of recog.
lizing the Cuban patriots as belliger.
nts
The Venezuelan authorities at Cara.
as refused 10 interfere with a ing
{ young men held for the purpose OF
rganzing a club TO aid the Cuban in
urgents. and il Is stated that the
panish minister TO Venezuela will re-
ign and leave the county Thus Ven.
zuela may be the first to recognize
he struggling Cubans.