The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-08-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


minated that any further imprison
! ment of American citizens would not
be tolerated,S
Indian mound ON the farm of Marion
Thompson, in Huntington county
Ind, on the l4th, uncarthed a number
of Indian skeletons. the largest being
that OF giant, eight feet two inches
long. The skull is tive-eights of an
inch thick.
The surviving members of Morgan s
famous regiment, the Eighth Kentucky
cavalry, have formed an organization.
Col Cicero Coleman. of Fayette coun.
ty, has been elected president. A re.
union will be held in October. probably
at Versailles, Ky.
WILLARD i. NEEDY, a Cripple Creek
(Col) miner, while ascending the
Phoenix shaft, struck his head against
the timber lining. lie fell IS feet.
death resulting instantly. He leaves
n family.
The deadlock in the sixth demo-
cratic congressional convention at Los
Angeles, Cal, was broken. on the Goth.
after 1870 ballots had been taken, by
the withdrawal of two leading candi-
dates, and later Harry Patton, editor
of the Capital, was nominated.
The air at Binghamton. n. ".
echoed with martial music on the
10Th, the occasion being the grand pa
rade of the Union Veterans union.
one of the features of the second days
session of the national encampment.
There were about 500 veterans in
line.
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY has completed
through an agent, the purchase OF
nearly 5000 acres of land in the heart
of the Berkshire hills, eight miles from
the exclusive summer resort of Len
nox. Mass, upon which he intends to
erect one of the finest summer resi-
dences in the country. The cost of
the land was more than Se00,0O
THOMAS DEvASY, one of the Irish
dynamiters, who, in Edinburgh. in
ISIS, was sentenced to penal servitude
for life. was released from Portland
prison, on the 18th, and Immediately
took a train for Glasgow
GAIL HAMILTON Miss Abigail Dodge,
whose remarkable recovery from "A
stroke Of paralysis at Washington oc-
Cured about a year ago, was again
stricken. at her home in Hamilton,
Mass. on the 10th. while at the break
fast table, after arising in her usual
health. She died. on the nth
GEN. WHEATON, commanding the de-
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the war department, on the 18th, that
he believed the Yaqui Indian raiders
had moved north. They had scat
tered. and the recent heavy rains had
obliterated their trails
The president has approved the find
ings Of the court-martial sentencing
to dismissal Capt. NJ. L. lamar, of the
Fourteenth infantry. He was sta
toned at Vancouver, WASH, and the
charge against him was the non-pay-
ment of debts
THE hard times have caused no fall
ing Off in the number OF passports is
sued by the state department. During
the months of June and July the pass
ports issued averaged more than 100
per day, and they now average 80.
WHILE the guests invited to partalc
of birthday dinner. given at licking
ton. Ky, on the 18th. by ID. Mucci,
were being photographed, tramps en-
tered the dining-room and carried
away the entire repast.
HATTIE ScAGGs, aged Is, while rid
ing bicycle two miles west of Craw-
louisville, Ind, on the 18th, was
knocked from her wheel, and her
pocket book, containing s., was stolen
by robbers.
In tit Of jealousy Charles Nelson
shot and killed his wife at their home
in Chicago on the 18th. After sending
two bullets into the womans left
breast the murderer turned upon their
three-year-old daughter and fired a
shot at her. The bullet struck the
child on the right side of the head. in
flicting a slight wound.
AMONG the cabin passengers arriv-
ing at Quarantine. :. l.. on the steamer
Orizaba. from Havana, on the 18th,
were three deserters from the Cuban
army, who were given passports by
Gen. Weyler. Their names are Sam
uel McNally, James I. Quinn and
Maximiliana Jorntscha.
q. Il. MooLE, a young man of Cheney
Kas.. was thrown from his horse into
the Walnut river, on the 18th. while
the stream was swollen. lie took hold
of the horses tail and the animal drag
ged him to the bank. the n kicked him
in the forehead and killed him.
Gov. MATTHEWS Of Indiana was re-
ported, on the 18th, as confined to his
home by illness. lie suffered from a
congcstivc chill, brought on by expo
sure at Rockville, where he spoke for
two hours In the rain.
JomN u. CHAMBERLAIN, proprietor of
hotels bearing his name at Washington
and Old Point Comfort, was reported.
on the 18th, as dangerously i'll at the
Grand Union hotel, Saratoga, N. u
THREE men were instantly killed
and 10 injured by the explosion of 25
pounds Of dynamite at New Holland.
Pa, on the 18th. Several building
were badly wrecked.
By the collapse Of the building in
Eau Claire. Wis. known as Music hall,
on the nth. five persons were killed
and 1? injured.
PRIVATE adviccs received in rhila-