The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-12-11
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Jameson, the leader of the lrahsNaai
raid. who is undergoing a sentence OF
Is months Imprisonment. 10 be IN d
%precarious state.
THF new electric light plant at the
national capitol was put in motion. on
the asth. and proved to have been snc-
cessfully installed. The new plant Is
the biggest and most complete the
capital has ever owned.
A FETE organized at Baroda. India.
in honor Of the visit Of the earl OF Ill
Gin, viceroy of India, had a terrible
outcome in the killing of % persons
and the injuriug Of many others By a
great crush followed by a panic
COLUMBIA Typographical union. at a
special meeting held at Washington.
by a decisive vote. censured three dele
gates TO the convention of the Inter
national Typographical union. which
met al Colorado Springs recently. for
their action in opposing the civil
service system as administered at the
government printing office
lr is stated that Gen. Neyler, several
weeks ago. issued a secret order to his
commanders in the various Cuban prov
inces to clear the country OF non
combatants. This order has been in
terpreted by the Spanish commanders
as an edict to massacre old men, women
and children. and the result is an APP
palling list of butcheries.
In is rumored in military circles that
the troops Of the First artillery. now
stationed at various posts on the gulf
and Atlantic coasts. are to be concen-
trated at Pensacola, Fla, for practice
with the modern heavy guns which
will soon be in position on santa Rosa
island.
MARK McTIGUE has just completed
his thirtieth continuous year as sexton
Of Crown Point cemetery, at kokomo.
Ind. Before that Mr.. McTigue was
sexton OF the old cemetery. During
this period the veteran sexton has
buried 4,Oo6 persons. digging all the
graves himself.
THE palatial home OF ID. NJ. Kirk
bride in Wichita, kas.. was totally de-
stroyed by fire, early on the morning
of the 10Th. and the occupants barely
escaped with their lives, Mr.. Kirk
bride. entirely unassisted. rescuing his
family by carrying them down a a
der from a second-story window. Loss
on house, Sl2. SEQ. on furniture and IL
brary, 5000.
THIRTEEN OF the se prisoners con-
fned in the wyandotte county jail in
Kansas City. kas.. made their escape.
on the 3Otn. through f. window from
which the bars had been sawed. Three
Of the number were recaptured-
TIE home Of Luther Greenman.
farmer. four miles northeast of Perry,
n. ", was destroyed by fire, on th'
morning Of the 10Th. and the entire
family. consisting of live persons. wa
burned to death.
; PETER BRossEAU. a Chicago commits
sion merchant. was held upand robbie
of 50. 900 on a Halstead-st street electri
car at Thirty-ninth street on the 10Th
Charles Mathusek. who stole the wal
: let containing the money, was arreste
after a severe struggle. but W com
4 panions who aided him snatched tn
a pocketbook while Mathusek was strue
Cling with his captors, jumped froI
x TIE ear and escaped.
The steamer City of Kalamazoo wa
Is burned at her dock at South HaveI
Mich, on the morning Of the 3Otl
Robert Van ostrand and Joe Ian,
II fremen, were burned to death. I'll
n stewardess is missing. and ii Is feare
l. She also has persisted.
a. oS the 2sth the associated banks
New York city held s3l. All, 625 in e
IA cess Of the requirements Of the 25-pe
cent. rule.
of InE November treasury deficit. fro
official figures issued on the LIST. "
s7.e2l 900. and for the Eve months
ID the fiscal year Il date, $40. 500, 900.
at on the 3Oth United States Treasur
Il Morgan mailed 1000 checks. aggrcg
AZ ting sl6s. So. in payment Of Decemb
IS interest on the funded loan of lss6.
he TIM Falls Cotton Co. at NorwiC
ue Conn, resumed, on the 30th, after 70
and a half months shutdown a
Ca some 500 employees began work.
VIM IEINwAy. the well-known pia
manufacturer, who had been III
some time with typhoid fever. died
le- New York on the 30th.
ng A xEw bridge is to be construct
lst over the Hudson river at New York
he a cost not to exceed sc5. 900. 900.
IN The $50 employees of the Stands
,l silk mill, at Philipsburg, n. j.. "
,ot had been working Oh short time
sas several months, went TO work on I
ST. time on the 30th. The knitting est
lishment of Seifert a Eitonheart.
the same place. which had beer }
cts several months. has been purchased
Carly 4 Souders. who also comment
Ia oerations on the 3cth.
IN GEN. WEyLER. as acknowledged
ny himself in interviews with promin'
sed Spanial DIS OF the Junta de DEFENSE
en- his paiaee at Havana. has resolved
ties exterminA te all the Cubans ia
ian province Oh Pinar del Rio not enaa,
ect as soldiers Ia the Spanish ranks.
ry, matter how peaceful and barml
they appear.