The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

L :" pair oi Dldch knlckerbOckers,
d Jumped into the water and saved a
c nine-year-old boy from drowning.
5 UNCLE JoHN NORM died at Columbus.
u, on the 4th, aged u years, and be-
loved by all. A negro who could
p neither read nor write. he was the
: product of the Virginia black belt.
S After being hanged and left for dead
by the knklux, and being cut down
and resuscitated by colored friends.
he settled in Columbus Is years ago.
where he resided till his death
IHE national celebration of the
daughters and Sons of the American
Revolution was held at Saratora. \
\. The patriotic societies held a re-
llglous and choral service in conven-
ton hall ON the 5th. An able and nat
riotic sermon was delivered bv DIR.
David X. Burrell. pastor of the Collegi-
ate Reformed church of New York
city.
CHARLES L. LELoop. professor emeri- !
tns at Mount St Mary's college. died
at Emmitshurg, Md, on the 5th. Prof. |
Leloop was born in Baltimore in 1910 |
lie studied law, was admitted to the
bar and filed many important posi-
tons OF trust in that city before he en-
tered upon his career as an educator.
For some years he filed the chair of
French language at Loyola Jesuit col.
lege, baltimore
NO IMPORTANCE is attached at the
papal delegation in Washington to the
report from Rome that Bishop Fal-
COMO Will replace Cardinal Satolli as
papal delegate at Washington.
DANIEL III. YoUMANs, of New York
city, the well-known halter. and his {
wife were drowned in a lake near Ber-
gen, Norway, on the 4th I
The work of the National Council Of c
Education, at Buffalo, n. Y, on the l.
oth, was along practical and interest !
ing lnes. At the morning session DIR. 4
VIM. a. Mowrey, of Hyde Park, Mass. [
chairman OF the committee on school
sanitation, read report on "School Il
Room Hygiene In the afternoon the q
council listened To a paper by DIR. q
Aaron Cove, of Denver. Col, chairman II
OF the committee on city school svs- b
TENS, on The business Side of Citv
School systems" Il
ss.oNzo j. WALLING, convicted Of cl
with Scott Jackson. ,n in
he murder of Pearl Bryan, was sen. I'll
enced at Newport, KY. on the 9th. to
De hanged August :. ed
On the 9th Gen. Pierce NJ. h. Younp Is
lnited States minister to Guatemala in
nd Honduras, died In the Presbvte- Sc
ian hospital, New York CITY. The pr
Iospital authorities were undecided as
the nature of loung's disease. They
ehned IT as medical case. " lie was
native OF Georgia, and had distin-
uished record in the confederate on
rmy. ITO
lHE ffty-second annual convention iV'
The Sons of Temperance of North On
merica began in Washington. ID. c. vo'
the 9th, with n large number of lor
elegates present, mostly from the GU
ew England and the middle Atlantic uei
ates, and from Quebec Prince Ed Iu'
ara island. Nova Scotia and Ontario iVN
WHILE the immediate collection of ""
&c meet OF Oaited States war ship on ~
e Atlantic coast is for the purpose car
tactical training, it is well UNDER 'o'
ood that IT is also intended as a use y
! object lesson to those European put
untries which believe that the Ion
nited States navy exists largely on at
per. ishI
A TRAMP was taken before Jud,e OF /
utcher at Nicholasville. XIV. on the wise
A. and fined one dollar and costs per
lis provoked the prisoner to upbraid woi
; honor, who resented the insolence NC.
knocking the tramp down with n IN
arr. The Judge then increased the ton
G TO $40, and sent the wounded pris. gre,
err to the work house Nell
ioS GARRETT A. HoPART. renub. ball
an nominee for vice-president. was adh
mally notified of the action of the by
tional convention, on the 18th. by the the
nmittee chosen for that purnose mot
ided by Charles W. Fairbanks. of bear
mana, who made the notification adj mon
IS, TO which Mr. Hobart made fl. r.,
= response. Paterson, N. j.. Mr.. Tia I
a.. "ol'e' was ga'ly decorated OF 10
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IAN its sessions In the Coliseum u.I,, N
lding In Chicago on the 9TH. The lorl.
mt of the day was the brusbing ,,a.
ie OF Que of the traditions Of the a,'.'tI
.atif, ~. ',a. u 'ne convention Pr
,m;,,.o a. u 'ne hational priva
ior temporary chairman in,r
ator Hill, OF New York, and sena- -;
Daniel, of Virginia, pronounced M
'"S' eau at Cl
easter, Ind, became involved in NJ,
larrel over game of croquet. on stat
1th, when Ross struck Lacke on - :.
head with mallet, killing him in yara
tly. were
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