The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
The NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the clubs of Springfield aud kanss
&c ,ity. Denver, Helena, Mont, and q
. tnmwa, la, In grand parade in Oh
&c cago on the night of July d.
D Tx Venezuelan government Ia
presented 10 the United States Ven,
zuelan commission.the second volum
!, of its certified copies of spanish arch
=, ives bearing 'upon the boundary dis
pute, and has promised third an,
neutrality-suspicious. in few days.
SIR LEONARD TILLEY. ex-lieutenant
{ governor OF New Brunswick and a
/ one time minister Of finance in the Do
mlnion government, died in st. Johns
t y. r. on the 25th, of blood poisoning
resulting from an injury To his foot
received week before. He was Is
years Of age.
4 DISPATCH from Athens saws that
the Turks are marking the Christian
SHOPS III 0anea, Island of Crete. with
cross, and IL is feared that this
means a general pillage or massacre.
w the I'D duel was fought at
hummersdorf, near Berlin. between
Lieut. Bueh. of the Ninth regiment.
ana Lieut. Luehring. of the Sixth regi-
ment- The weapons used were pistols.
Lieut. Luehring was shot and almost
instantly killed.
IHE Miners bank mt Creede. Col. was
robbed OF 900. on the ord, by an un-
known man who slipped into the room
by the private entrance and covered
the cashier with a revolver before that
ofhcial was aware that anyone was
The t-Ahka.- 4
IN hand, walked over to the money
drawer and transferred all the bills To
his coat pocket Then. backing out.
he slipped through an alley and disap- |
peared
On the ed the British house of lords
passed the second reading of the de-
ceased wifes sister bill bv a vote of
l42 to ll3. The prince of Wales. the
duke OF York. the duke of Connaupht.
the duke Of Fife, the duke of Devon
shire, the duke of Westminster. the
marquis of Ripon and Lord Roseberv
were among those who voted for the
bill.
A FALL Of scull in the stack of the
converting mill at the Carnegie steel
works at Braddock. Pa. on the pad.
instantly killed Albert Peterson and
seriously injured three others. Peter
son had just returned to work after !
recovery from injuries received three I
before. Peterson owned pron-
erty valued at $40, 600. !
10y the collapse OF three-stcrv frame ,
guiding on the corner of Fifth street t
ma Mint avenue, San Francisco ON y
ne I2d. three persons were killed ont n
light and IL others more or less in. a
ured. Other victims were known In
De in the ruins. :
ihE trial of James Il. Gentry. the o
'etor' Tor the murder of his sweet o
ieart' Margaret W. Drysdale tMadge r.
orSel, the actress. in Philadelphia. on ;,
ebruary IL, 1895, was begun in that
ity on the 22d. ..
HE Bank of Salt Lake City, former ID,
the American national bank. closed ii
5 doors on the 23d The owner. j. II w
aeon. says that all the Tia bilities win
e paid in full "a,
The post Office department has de- al
ded to discontinue IS of the expert.
ental free delivery Offices scattered at
lroughout the country. IN
JOSEPH PREsTwICH, ID. C. T. r
; the celebrated English geologist
ld author, died in London on the cad.
e was 81 years of age. ,
The jury in the case of Mrs. Narv IL,
lice Almont Livingston Fleming. on a,
ial IN New York city on a charge of "a,
wing poisoned her mother. Mrs obt
ISIS, returned a verdict. on the a3d. of n
i guilty
he cornerstone of The new Meth n..l
list college at London. Ky. was laid Na
the I'D. The exercises were con- =
cted by Bishop Hendricks, Of Kansas
~ The school will be under the -
pervision Of the Womcn's board ~
ssions Of the VI. T.. church soptb ny
when completed will cost sl5, 900 ~
WHILE making an excavation at M,
rras' Mexico, recently a subter. ,vni
mean passage was discovered. which III.
: explored and found To lead to All
rus 81 the city. Several large cham =
rs were found, and in one of them 'nv'
re several casks filed with Spanisb mn
a coin amounting To $50 600. ''''
N the 23d ex-Congressman A. r
ling dropped dead Of heart disease -
Jircleville. o., his home "aS
oHN J.. CowAN. the Young lumber =,
reliant who disappeared from Pitts.
'gh, Pa. last winter, Leaving an in iou'
'tedness of $4,000, and was later prov
ested in Central America and yea.
ught back To Pittsburgh was found ~
n.y. on the ED, on three charges of '''e
gerry. mat
AVN Rrr, s,.o ro., Jun,
New York city, on the 93d. after n ~
trial, for $4,000 against n X hisi'
rbank. a millionaire 80 CO.. ~ -. ingt'
ming Mrs Leslie Carter for the .,c''
te. Interest at five per cent. from Mav
was allowed by the court, and mo- was
by Fairbank for a new trial was a
led. vas Goth,
RS hANEY, the keeper of the sec I'm, iou'
crew boarding car at Rock Springs. n..''
TO- and her six-months-old child
shot and killed. on the 23d. bv n - "
VINO was recently discharged from my ~.
section. The murderer then com ~
ed suicide ioadi
VI big pottery Of Richard a por, =" On