The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-03-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


1890 a. IN. Of the 18th an explo-
sion blew out the whole front OF the
high and manual training school at
Toledo. o.. which at once took fire.
The loss will be about $500. 200.
The secretary of the interior, on the
nth. decided case involving about
Is. 900 acres Of land located in the up
per peninsula of Michigan. near Lake
Superior. and valued at between Sl0.-
600 600 and $4,000. oo0 in favor of the
Wakeela. Limited, "A corporation. for
merly the Portage Lake and Lake SUI
perior ship Canal Co
SIR ELLIS AsHMEAD BARTLETT. NJ. r..
on the 18th. challenged the London
Telegraph TO produce the alleged dis
patches detailing the blood-curdling
stories of atrocities against the Arme-
mans, or To unite with him in re-
quest 10 the telegraph company TO pre-
serve the dispatches for future exam
nation.
PAULINE CoNy AUBREY, daughter OF
Chief-J Justice Fuller of the United
states supreme court, applied, on the
18th. TO the circuit court of Cook coun-
Nv. Ill. lOr uiNtIt- AtpAAA ~ A'"'
band. James Matthew Aubrey, Jr.
DISPATCH from IT. Johns. y. r..
on the 18th. said that the Newfound-
land government was holding daily
caucuses for the purpose of consider
ing a plan Of confederation with Can
ada.
GEORGE KING, James +. Otis and
John Downs, of New York city. were
each convicted, on the nth. Of illegal
registration. and each sentenced TO one
year in the peuitentiary.
Two MEN who had stolen thirty horses
| in the Choctaw nation. being hard
pressed by a posse after three days
| chase. took refuge in cabin. which
was fired by the posse. and. refusing
TO surrender, were roasted 10 death.
| A FIRE which started at Waupun,
Wis, early on the morning of the lsth,
destroyed the business portion of that
city. Six persons were seriously hurt
BY falling wall. The loss will reach
$4,000: insurance small
DRIVEN out into the cold by her hus-
bands parents, Lizzie Martin. bride
Of a month. committed suicide at Ken
dallville, Ind. on the 18th, by taking
morphine Her sufferings had MADE
her delirious-
Ox the 10th Secretary Herbert re-
ceived cablegram from Capt Crom'
we'll. commanding the Atlanta. at Co
lon. stating that a. was quiet al
Bocas del Toro and all well on board
his vessel.
FREDERICK GEORGE BRABAzoN PoS
SONNY. sixth earl of Bess borough. dlee
in London on the 18th. He was 81
years OF age.
In London. on the l2th. the new
American loan opened at per cent
premium and closed at -.
A SIX months dispute for possession
Of st. Paul's tPoiish) Catholic churcl
at Omaha. Ncb., eliminated, on tn
leth. in pitched battle in the churcl
edifice, in which pistols and all kind
of missiles were used-one man in tn
party attacking the priest was serl
ously injured by two pistol-sho
wou nds, and the altar was riddles
with bullets, one of which pierced tn
image Of the Virgin Mary. Severa
. arrests were made.
JosErn PIERRE DRoUILLABD, a vet
. eran of the war of 1872, died. on tn
, 18th. at his home in Gallipolis. o., hi
demise leaving but four surviving We
: Grams Of that war. Mr.. Drouillar
Z fought in eighteen pitched battles !
the war of 1872. Had he lived unit
September. he would have been nin'
1 ty-nine years old.
e THE BODY of David Aldridge. I
! Rome. n. y. one of the victims OF tn
V steamer Longfellow disaster in II
= Ohio river at Cincinnati. was recovere
; from the wrecked hull lying at Trau
L mans station, 5 miles down the rive
on the 18th.
WILLIAM w. TAYLOR, the fugiti'
: treasurer OF south Dakota, was trace
= by a Pinkerton detective to Havan
= where he had gone from Tampa. fli
. on the steamer Olivette. He had
months start, and got away from Gu
- before the detective could lay han
= on him. He was last heard OF in =
= CITY OF Mexico, under the name
Mason.
- AT Stringtown. Okla, on the mig
- Of the 18th, robbers entered the sta
m kept by NJ. Pounda. and, loading I
n safe on a pair of trucks. secured ut I
,e station, hauled it several miles in
a the country and blew IL open with 9
10 Mantle. They secured about $50.
Is PosTMAsTER-GENERAL BIssELL
r. turned TO Washington, on the 18th,
close up the urgent business of the I
partment prior to his retirement
~ April !.
IN WHILE assisting the Ward u
~ steamer Seneca, from Havana. to ma
I'm her dock at New York, on the 18th, !
tug NJ. p. Starbuck was capsized a
nc her crew thrown into the water.
ri were picked up little worse for tn
VI immersion except the captain, Jose
ai Brandow. in whose case the efforts
resuscitation proved unavailirg
nm GEORGE GRIDDALL and Mag
III. Wachter. witnesses for Harry II
he ward, the defendant in the Cling m
NO der trial in Minneapolis. MINI,
". rested for perjury. were liberated,
ror the 18TH. because the grand jury
,as fuse " indict them. believing con
asst ton impossible on the Evidence