The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-06


Covinrton, XIV, on the night OF the
ped. vas taken before the police court
on the Goth, but the hearing was post
poned 10 November s.
THE Venezuelan government, on the
2sth. appointed Drs. Eduardo Andrade-
Penny, Acosta and Guardia TO repre-
sent that country az the lnternational
Medical congress, to be held IN the
City of Mexico in November.
MILITARY men in Washington say /
that the management of the Spanish /
campaign in Cuba has been a most !
dismal failure, and that If Weyler can
not subdue the insurgents with his
present great force the island Is lost
TO Spain.
THE exports of specie fromsthe port
of New York for the week ended the
Path amounted TO SIZE, 600 in gold and
81 $40. AS in silver. The imports were:
Gold, 5,7g9.043; silver, s2l,59s; dry
goods, 81, 55l, 746; general merchandise,
&c, Co., 12.
THE medical inspection regulations
in force since April against ships GO
ing to Japan from Chinese and For
mosan ports have ceased to be opera
tive, the importation of the bubonic
plague and cholera being no longer
apprehended.
WIN. STEPHENS, a pioneer lawyer Of
Kansas, died in Kansas City, Mo-, OF
injuries received during carnival week
there, when he was hurt by his horse.
lie was So years old, was born at Can
ton, o., aud moved to Kansas in 1850
for the purpose of defending the free
sellers.
THE president has appointed George
/. Moore United States attorney for
the middle district of Alabama. lie
is at present the assistant district at
torney and takes the place of Senator
Purh's son-in-law, District Attorney
CLAYTON, who was retired for mixing
politics with his official duties.
THE Long Lochren pension case was
dismissed by the supreme court of the
United States, on the goth, upon the
authority of previous decisions of that
court a5ating proceedings against
public officers who have died or left
the service Commissioner Lochren
having resigned his office, Judge Long I
case is dismissed.
THE cruiser Marblchead, on her way
home from Turkey with the short.
"A al f,-fI Ha..f
reached Gibraltar, on the 27th. eight
DAYS out from Smyrna. The remain
ing ships Of the squadron, the flagship
Minneapolis, the san Francisco, Gin
cinnati and Bancroft, were still a
Smyrna, not having moved Cor TIVE
weeks.
A TORNADO, originating near Farm
ington, Tex. and passing three mile
east of sherman. and, 30 minutes
later, passing cast of Denison, vas re
ported on the 2sth. There were bu
meager accounts of the damage done
but calls for physicians, bandages
stimriants and other necessary an
ticles Indicated quite number OF cas-
ualtics.
TIE publication OF the new Japan
ese civil code renders ii clear that tn
complaints made by Europeans an
Americans about the tenure OF Ian
under the revised treaties are base
less. Although the privilege of owr
ing land is withheld, foreigners wi
be able to secure land for any numbe
of years in the capacity OF "supel
6ciaries."
CnAuScEY NJ. DEpEw, president {
the New York Central & Hudson Riv,
Railroad Co., said, on the 27th: IF
learn that any agent of this road a
tempts IN any way to coerc0 an eu
ploye. no matter how high or low,
shall discharge him Immediately. f.
cry railroad man has a right to vot
rs he peases, and so has evcryor
else the right to do So"
On the evening of the cad Chicas
d. Alton train No. 4s was held up
four masked robbers at Blue Cut, b
tween Glendale and independence, M,
the spot made famous by former IRA
robbery by the James gang. 1t W
reported that the robbers secured 81
600; though another account plac
the amount at 500 and some jewelr
The passengers were not molestcd al
no one was hurt.
The coroner's jury investigating I
cause Of the Frisco wreck in the Mel
NICE cut, near ST. Louis, on the 25i
returned verdic. of carelessn,
against George Atwood, condl
tor. and }. A. Dryden, engineer
charge of the west-bound train, a
the failure of the ST. Louis a. 5
Francisco Railroad Co. to exercise {
proper supervision over tho u,o,
nents Of its trains