The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-09
FRANCE has concluded treaties with

FRANCE has concluded treaties with
Austria and Italy in regard To Tunis,
and now England's refusal To renouncs
her "most favored nation" rights alone
prevents Tunis from becoming abso'
lutely French territory.
Ar Harper's Ferry. w. Va, ON the
30th. an old man pushed into the thick
OF the crowd. declaring that he wanted
to hear The Boy Orator" Several
brawny fellows lifted him To their
shoulders that he might see as well as
hear. lie suddenly collapsed, and an
examination showed that he was dead.
ANDREW NELSON, who was herding
5000 sheep on the eastern slope of the
Cascade mountains in Washington.
was buried beneath the carcases of
l, 100 of the animals who were tramp
led to death in a stampede.
AN explosion Of ammonia occurred
at the Schmidt brewery, owned by the
Indianapolis Ind Brewing Co. on the
sOth. which completely wrecked the
cold storage plant, badly iujuring
eight men and causing great damage.
The fiftieth anniversary OF the we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred %Tredway,
of Dubuque, Ia, "a duly celebrated
on the 30th. They were married at
Lyons, N. ". September 30, 1916. They
removed to Dubuque in 1851.
GEORGE BARNUM, an old hermit aud
hunter. was found, on the Both, muir.
dered in his hut near Harrison. Mich.
He was a brother of the late L. L. Bar
mum, Snowman, and served in the late
civil war.
AN immense bed of ore, carrying rich
deposits of gold and silver, has just
been located on the west slope of
Mount Tacoma, Wash, near the snow
line. There are millions of tons, rum
ming $50 per ton, in sight.
THE reviewing stand of the Iowa
semi-centennial parade at Burlington
fell. on the 1st, iniuring several per-
sons.
john c. BoDEwIG and George w.
Johnson, charged with having wrecked
a mail train on the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railroad at Battle Creek, Mich,
on July 10, 1894, during the A. X. u.
strike, in which the fireman was in
stantly killed and a number of persons
were injured, were found guilty of
conspiracy in the United States court
at Detroit, on the 1st, after a trial
lasting ten days.
The members of the Venezuelan
commission will soon resume their dis
cussion Of the boundary question at
their headquarters in Washington,
when the evidence collected and
studied Independently by them during
the past few months will be compared
and arranged for Incorporation in the
final determination of the true divi-
sional line.
Mrs. RosALIE j. ANDERSON, o. hi,h.
inond, Ind, was awarded a verdict II
S17, 900 damages against the North Chr
cago street railway company by a jury
ia Judge Chetlain's court in Chicago
on the 1st. During the Worlds fair
Mrs. Anderson was injured while at
tempting TO board car. She sued the
company for $50, 600.
A BAND of rebels attacked the town
Of Canas, near Artemisa, in the prov
ince of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, on the
but were repulsed by the Span
ish garrison. Before retiring the in.
surgents looted a number of stores and
burned several huts on the outskirts
of the town.
THE public debt statement, issued
on the lst, showed a net increase in
the public debt, less cash in the treas
ury during the month of September
of 81, SOC. 033. Total cash in the treas.
ury. $40, ca, re.
OF the recently expected 10000 rein.
to the lst.