The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-12-11

AF,ns ENGINE called out by a false
alarm AT Everett. Mass. ON IA ist.
was run into by a locomotive y
engineer 81 the steamer was killed.
ana the driver and both horses were
fatally injured
An. the logging camps in the neigh
bnrhood II Manila. Mich. are max
inc p-reparations To begin work. and
many have already started The pros
poets are for a very prosperous WIN
ter.
OK the ca kansas City Mo- police
officials arrested JEFF Paget and Albert
Els. two OF the bandits who held up
and attempted 10 roba an Alton express
train al Blue Cut. near Independence.
Mo-. on the evening Of -
Evidence against them j. conclusive
The situation al Chippewa Pals
Wis. was very critical. on the "a, the
entire city and much of the Chippewa
valley being liable to destruction aud
devastation al almost any moment by
the giving way OF the immense Ice
rorres that had formed in the river al
intervals for many miles The resi-
dents were rapidly moving their mer-
chandise and household effects &c
higher ground.
TmE official count Of the votes cast IN
the recent election in the state OF
Rhode Island Is 1000 larger than al
FIRST supposed. The correct figures are;
Mckinley. 37.a4-. Bryan. l4.i5g; pln-
rality for Mckinley. ss-s7>
Tux body OF sheriff William t. Her
ron OF Plymouth county. la. Was
found. bruised and frozen. beside the
railway track near Merrill. Neh.. on
The "a. where he had evidently fallen
from a train.
The Wisconsin board of election can
vassers completed its labors, on the
I'd. finding that Mckinley electors
received e6>. l35. as against l6-.S-s fof
the Bryan electors.
JONI ". lRoNs. secretary of the Full
ton county board Of health. reported
to the Indiana state board Of health
on the 81. the death Of five children IN
that county from diphiheria- Their
parents belonged TO the sanctihec
sect. and positively refused medical
aid FOR the children. Finally. how
ever. they submitted 10 allow a ply
stefan 10 prescribe. and the disease
was broken up after five children had
died.
The ladies' committee. which during
the past year has been engaged IN
raising the 500. Oo0 endowment func
for a chair Of English literature IN
Lawrence university. at Appleton
Wis. have completed their work Mrs
J.. Il. Ni;ter. OF Grand Rapids. gav'
S. 100 on the Sd. making $1,000 raised
and thus securing >enator SAWYER
conditional gift of $4,000
ELIZA CUMMINGS. IS years Of age. G
Hillsboro. o.. a guest at the Empire no
tel. sixty-third street and boulevard
New York city. while in a TT of insan
ity. on the Sd. jumped from ms hfii
story Of the hotel to the yard and wa
instantly killed
.JoHS Ton. of Cleveland. one of the
prominent business men OF northern
Ohio. and a son of David Tod. one @
Ohio's war governors. died SUDDEN.
OF ~apoplexy at the C~rittenden hotel !
Columbus OF the I'd
NEWS wa received from Cuba. o
the 81. confirming the report tina
Nai-Gen. ~ereEn Sanchez vas kille
in an engagement a. Las Damai
Santa Clara province
DIR Louis PEESAs Figuerri
a druggist. and several other we
known residents Of C~ienfuegos. Cuh'
have been arrested - political sn'
poets.
HALF a dozen steamers are said
be bound tight in the ice along IN
north shore Of Lake Superior. aud
Will be impossible TO release them