The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

OFFICIAL returns from a majority OF
the counties in Pennsylvania and com
plete returns from those III which the
official count has not yet beeL com
pleted, give Mckinley a plurality OF
Sol. 900.
j. Hermann & Co.'S jewelry store on
the tenth floor of the Masonic temple
in Chicago. was entered by two armed
robbers, on the 9th, who, after gag.
ging and binding the owner and a
clerk, secured about $1,000 worth OF
diamonds, IA gold watch and chain and
500 in money, and escaped.
EDWARD T.. BENNETT. formerly man
ager of the Bay City iMich.) Tribune,
was arrested in Chicago, on the 9th. on
"A charge of embezzlement. The war.
rant for the arrest was sworn out by
John f. Eddy and Ed ward T. CARING
ton, both stock holders in the paper.
ANTICIPATING the early evacuat ion
of Cuba by Spain, insurgent leaders in
New York are taking steps to evolve a
constitution for the republic. A pre-
liminary organization With this work
in hand had already been formed.
OK the 9th ex-Chief-Justice w. E.
Miller, of Iowa, died at his home in
Des Moines. aged 73 years. lie was
born in Pennsylvania. He was mem
Der of the supreme court from 1870 to
1876. Afterward he wrote and pub
lished code OF Iowa, which became
standard work.
CAPT GEN. WEYLER has taken the
field in person again ST the insurge
Al
of Pinar del Rio, and news received
from the front indicates that the Span
ish columns are approaching close TO
the enemy
The town of Spencer, w. Va, was
almost destroyed by fire on the morn
ing Of the 9th. Thirty-nine stores and
houses were burned. The fire started
in room over Simmons& Co. S gener-
al store, and swept along the main
business street, leaving destruction in
its path.
a GOLDEN torrent has been submerg-
| ing the United States sub-treasuries
since the 5th inst, which has risen so
high that some of the sub-treasur;es
are begging for time within which to
count the gold and get the pa per money
to pay for it.
OFFICIAL advices from Manila. the
capital of the Philippine islands, say
that the Spanish troops have defeated
a force of 1000 rebels at Montaloan
The insurgents lost 90 men killed, W lille
the Spanish had only one killed.
PREPARATIONS have begun in Wash
ington for the greatest inaugural fete
upon the occasion Of the installation
OF President Mckinley. March next.
that has ever taken place in the his
tory of the national capital. Local
republicans and gold democrats are
already at work making arrange
ments.
DIR. JARED ID. WETMoRE. who had
been in Jail at Grand Haven, Mich,
for three months charged with com
plicity in the murder of Enos Law
renee. at Holland. for which Ray
Coates is serving life imprisonment
and Mrs. Lawrence 20-year sentence,
was discharged, on the 10th, on Mrs.
Lawrence admitting that her testi-
mony against him was perjured.
AT Bonner Springs, Kas., Peter J.
Greenwald. former preacher in the
Reformed church. was found hanging
from the rafters in his barn on the
9th. He had become respondent over
business affairs. Greenwald was 4s
years old and had n wife and eight
cb ildren.
The Lowell astron omical observa.
tory is to be removed from Flagstaff,
Ariz., to the City Of Mexico.
BELLEFoNTAISE, the famous local
option town in Ohio, which was re
lice force, is now on the eve of giving
up its electric lights. The electric
light trustees have notified the city
council that they must have at least
So, 900 i'm mediatcly or shut the works
down.
A TRAMP discovered dynamite on the
Baltimore g. Ohio Southwestern track
east of Washington, Ind, at one o clock
on the morning Of the 10th. He sig
nailed "A passenger train with 800 pco.
pie aboard. The train wrecners fired
at the tramp, shooting him through
the leg. The engineer saw the signal
and stopped his train just in time.
The train wreckcrs escaped.
On the 10th the secretary of the in
terror approved schedule of allot.
ments of lands to 30i Chippewa In
dians ins Minnesota.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster oc.
Cured at Sokolka, in the Russian gov.
eminent Of Grodno, on the 18th. The
st. Petersburg and Warsaw express
while running at a high rate of speed,
collided with a freight train, com
pletely wreck.ng the engine and all
, the cars comprising the express. and
killing six persons and injuring 3 9th
+ ers, some OF them fatally.
WALTER WALTERS. colored. was re-
turned TO New York city, on the 10th
I from Providence, X. L., where he wa,
' arrested while attempting to pawn
D some Of the jcwelry stolen from til,
/. residence Of Mrs. +. G. Jones, OF New
r York city, on October 10. Walter,
3 later confessed TO the burglary of tn,
: entire $4,000 worth of jcwelry, most o.
!, which was recovered.
!, The new battleship Iowa went /,
b sea from Lewes, Del, or the lilh, OF