The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-02
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was cx-President Harrison. ON the 2lst
% presented a silver service and librar1
To the battleship Indiana in honor o
her name.
OLIVER w. WINTHROP, who was con
:, victed in San Francisco, of abductins
: and robbing James Campbell. tn,
: Hawaiian millionaire. was, on the 2lst
sentenced To Imprisonment for life.
The democratic committee an
nounces that Mr.. Bryan's brooklyn
speech has been postponed from Sep
tember 20 to September %. This will
entail "A change of his other eastern
dates.
THE monthly statement of collections
OF internal revenues shows the total
receipts for the month of August to
nave been Sli,527, 074, AS compared with
Sl2, 49,, s5S during August, 1895.
IRWIN GRANDIN, u poor man. IS
months ago bought a farm Of 20 acres
on Broad run, near st. Mary's, w. Va,
Tor $3.50. He has now five producing
OIL wells, bringing him $500 a day roy
alties.
RloTING by striking miners at Lead
vile, Col, began, soon after midnight
on the morning of the 2lst. by an at
tack upon the Coronado mine, where
n desperate engagement was fought be-
tween the strikers and the men in
trenched in the mine. The strikers
used dynamite and the torch, and de-
stroyed the shaft houses and outbuild-
ings. losing three of their number
killed and II MORALLY wounded.
The strikers then moved on to other
mines. where the employees. being pre-
pared for the attack, gave them a
warm reception. A call for state aid
was made, and troops were soon hur-
rying to the scene.
BANKER FRANCIS A. COFFIN. of
indianapolis. Ind. was sem to prison.
on the 2lst. to serve his term for
wrecking a national bank.
THE expected and officially predicted
improvement in the condition of the
national treasury has not vet come to
pass. In fact, the condition is steadily
growing worse. The receipts for the
first 20 days of September were sl6.-
656,3l4 against receipts in the same
days of September, 1895, of SIS. $50. 81.
Gov. HASTINGS of Pennsylvania, on
the 2ist, pardoned John Bardsley.
formerly treasurer of Philadelphia.
who. on July ?, 1891, was sentenced to
Is years in the eastern penitentiary
Incorporating over $500, 600 of
city and state money while occupying
his official position.
WHAT is believed to be a genuine case
of leprosy was accidentally discovered
In the waiting-room at Bellevue hos
pital, New York, on the Fist. The vic
tim is George Fleming, 40 years old, a
German baker.
SPEAKER REED. Senators Frye and
Hale, N congressman Dingley. Mil
and Boutelle VIII leave Maine to
take the stump for the republican
party in tie middle and western states.
The London Times expresses the be-
lief that Russia and Japan have agreed
TO a joint protectorate in Corea, Rus
sia. virtually taking the position there
China had before the war.
JONI COINS was sentenced at Frank
i'm, Ind. on the 2lst, to four years i'm {.
prisonment in the penitentiary for lar
,eny Coins offense was stealing five .
chickens. {
PRINCESS OLGA of Montenegro. niece !
Nicholas l.. the reigning prince of :
Montenegro, died on the FIST. She was I
at Cettinje on March 10, 1859, and
vas not married.
JULIA BRADLEY. an aged woman of
.'eoria, H., has bestowed all her for II
une, estimated at s.. 200, 900. upon the n
Z University of Chicago, on condition If
hq- n hrnneh enha,1 pha1l - l.H. -.
'eoria. Mrs. Bradley has planned for Il
he gift for Is years, but the fact has pl
'nly now leaked out. =,
~. A. CRAIG. city marshal OF Table
iock. Neb., was killed, on the 2sd. by !.
of two tramps whom he sought to +
.rrest as suspected post Office burglars. n
he deputy marshal tripped over the H
'ody OF his fallen chief and both I.
escaped. N.
A PRIVATE telegram received in
on the ed, by United =
tates Treasurer Morgan stated that !,
allis Bey, husband of Il. Il. Barnum's ;,
'idow, died. on the 2lst, in Constan- d
-
The artillery department. of the I,
urkish war Office has on exhibition "
10 Armenian bombs from FIVE to nine
iches in length, which the authori- :
es discovered in an Armenian bomb .
in Constantinople. ~
The official report of the trial trip :,
I the cruiser Brooklyn gives the YES e.
speed at Fl. 9il7 knots, which earns
pr the Cramps, her builders, a pre- :,
ium Of $3.50, 900. IT,
TIE boiler of a cotton, en.whecl =,
locomotive o N the Big Four railroad 20
urst at Pekin, ILL.,. on the 22d. hurl- =,
X the enormous engine more than ,o
10 feet, partially demolishing a large
killing the fireman and break oa
" nearly all the glass within a quar- -
n of a mile of the scene of the re- ~
accident. Pieces of the ~
ngine were picked up 1000 feet away. ~,
The directors of the American Bell ba
telephone Co. met in Boston, on the
50. n declared the regular quarter st
7 dividend OF three per cent. This ne
lO11 per cent. declared SO far III
mis- year. ",
y was IA severe frost. on the ch
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