The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-10
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

bodies of two drowned men. Tn,
crew attempted TO put the men in
, their boat, but the undertow was toe
strong and they were washed TO sea
The drowned men were Swedish fish
! ermen.
The strike at the Brown Hosting
: Co. at Cleveland, O., involving 500 men,
has been in progress FIVE weeks, and
no settlement is in sight. The brutal
treatment 10y the strikers of those
who have returned 10 work has alien
ated ali public sympathy for the men.
Martin Schautz. one OF the men who
returned to work. was set upon as he
left the worries. on the Goth, and beaten
SO that he will die.
The trial of John ID. Hart. Emile
Nunez. Capt. John d. OBrien and
Mate Edward Murphy. accused of aid
ing military expedition to Cuba in
the steamship Burmuda. came up in
the United States circuit court of New
York city on the Goth
MoRE than l,iO0.OOO spindles at Fall
River, Mass, are pledged to shut down
for four weeks, either consecutively or
alternately. during July and August.
and il Is considered probable that every
plain cotton goods and PRINT cloth fac
tory in that city will enter the agree
ment to curtail production bv a sus-
pension of operations
ALErrER received by Superintendent
Vision of the county infrmarv AT
| Portsmouth. O.. on the Goth from an
Ohio man in the Cuban army. stated
that his son. Capt. Ralph Wishon, was
killed in fight with the spaniards.
lie went To Cuba year ago.
AFFIDAvITs were fled in Justice
Tanceys court at Fort Wayne, Ind,
on the goth. against the players of the
Fort Wayne and Saginaw baseb
clubs, charging them with engaging
in game of baseball on SUNDAY i'm Vi
olation of the Indiana state law. The
complaining witness was Rev. J. s.
Ainsile, of the Congregational church.
Rev. Mr.. Ainslie is backed by the Min
isterial association.
NOTICE was posted in the Pember-
ton mills. at Lawrence. Mass. on the
3oth, informing 200 operatives that the
plant would shut down on Friday. July
3, and remain closed until September |
:. Agent +. Clark explaine that II \
was intended TO make important re-
pairs, and advantage is taken of the
times to do this.
AT Newport. Ky, on the 29th, Judge
Helm overruled the motion for a new
trial for Alonzo Walling. convicted as
an accomplish of Scott Jack son, in the
murder of Pearl Bryan. The appeals
Of Walling and jackson can not be
heard by the appellate court at Frank
fort before the September term.
IL Judge lianecy's court in Chicago,
on the 10Th, decree was entered pro-
viding for the sale to the highest bid
der of the Chicago & South Side Rapid
Transit railroad, better known as
the ALLEY J., under foreclosure of
mortgage.
JoHN McGINNER and John O'Brien,
both men of many aliases and both no.
torious bank robbers. were captured in
vancouver, u. G.. on the 2sth. by a
Portland Ore detective and were
housed in the Clark county Jail. A
man giving his name as Fred Martin.
who was with the pair, was also ar
rested
THREE unknown men near MeSsu-
KEY, !. T., early on the morning OF the
goth, stole a work train engine. and
ran IL to Choctaw City, where they
abandoned the engine and took to the
woods. The railroad company has
offered a reward for the capture Of the
A PARTY of berry piclxers consisting
OF Alexander Anger. aged 40. his
cousin Gene LaForme and two nieces.
Liza and Annie Anger. three girls Of
ten or twelve years, were struck by a
train on the Massachusetts Central
road near Worcester, Mass, on the
Both. They saw the train coming and
ran for their lives, and had almost
reached pace of safety when the !
engine struck them. The Anger girls i
were instantly killed. the LaForme !
girls leg was broken and the mans \
head was badly injured.
FRANK IVES, the champion billiard {
player OF the world. has made win. y
N which he bequeaths his right arm TO II
his physician for dissection He does o
TINS IN order that men Of science may q
determine why he strikes "A billiard v
pail harder than any other man living.
-orbett. Fitzsimmons. Sandow and c
other athletes and strong men have 9
competed with him and he has not y
9een beaten vet /,
WORK on the largest fire engine in L
ne world was completed. on the 3Oth.
u the shops of a Cincinnati fire en- b
line company The boiler il 20 inches d
ong and 40 inches in diameter The II
wo steam cylinders and two pumps n
re each. respectively, 10 inches long "
md inches in diameter The stroke
5 inches. At full speed the engines G.
apacity is 1900 gallons per minute. !.
I was built for the Grand Rapids o
Mich fire department q
THERE was no change in the situa. il
ion In the Twin Shaft mine al Pitts
on, Pa, on the Both. The rescuers 4
ontinucd to work hard in their en- ri
eavor to reach the entombed miners. r,
nd rapid progress was being made. o.