The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-01-03

Two MEN were blown 90 atoms. sever
more fatally injured and number al
others more or less hur. by the prema.
tnre explosion OF a dynamite blast on
the Chicago drainage canal ON the
evening of the 2sd. Vhe accident oc-
Cured on section IA, at a pos,t three
miles from LocISport and Is miles from
Chicago.
W lillian W. CURTIS. farmer. wa :
drowned two and one-half miles cast q 2
Wear City. HAS. on the evening Of the
2Sd. while trying 20 ford Brush creek
a --year-old SON. Who was wiz a him in
the wagon got out One horse was
rescued and the other was drowned.
>ERGir> ~rFr>AiK is dead. Ile was
killed BY train Willie walking over !,
level railway crossing at Chis,vicS. En-
gland. on the .ad. >ergius Michael
narEomancf >tcpnailS was ltorn ia
is4l a. lIadjat~ch. IN the t-smine
mou ntain>. and came of senfi.noll..
family. descended from the Cossaei,-
OF Little Russia.
CANADIAN officer SAYS tha< once "A
force OF $1,000 British troots, wer..
esla DllShcd on the south side 81 the II
Law renee IL would take zoo. 600 such
Anne rican troops as fought during the
war of the rebellion To fight their way
to Montreal. and long before they
COULD succeed the guns OF the ROYAL
navy would have dictated the terms OF
peace OF Boston. New York. Philadel-
phla- San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago
and Milwaukee.
IHE Frankfort Zeitnng published a
dispatch from C<lstantinople. on the
I'D. saying that there had been fierce
hghting al Zcitoun between the Turk !
ISL troops. who surrounded that city. |
and the insurgent Arme mans who de- !
Tended II. Both sides were said 10 have, |
lost frightfully. The Turks Were l0.
90 strong. and had q pieces Of artil-
ierv The Armenians numbered Is
600, but they had no artillery.
THOMAS Quinn and Kate Mccarthy
were arraigned in the New York city
police court. on the 18th. and remand
ed on the charge Of having stol en- sew
eral thousand dollars worth II Jew
elry and diamonds from the residence
OF their employer. Actor VI. Il. Curtis.
TO St Nicholas avenue.
FLORENCE Mack "A i7-year-old girl Of !
Detroit. Mich. died. on the a5-h. of |
iockja wresultmg froma splinter thrust
under her thumb nail She di>re-
rarded the advice Of the physician
who removed the splinter in falling 10
ooultice the thuinb upon her return
nome
At Deposit. NY. on the eith.. aoval-
iable Jersey cattle on the stock farm l
p Alvin Devereaux which were in <ected
With tuberculosis were killed bv order
4 the state board ot health. q
UNITED STATES MINISTER TERRELL {
eturned 70 Constantinople. on the a
'th' from >'ayrna. whittier he went I
. secure protection for American resi- !
cnts.
No T-Fss than FIVE suicides occurred :
? New York city on the 24th. v
IT WAS given out in Washington. on q
'io e5th. On the hest Of authority. tha. j
he president had rendered places on "
ne Venezuela high commission to Ell v
ard - Phelps, Of Vermont. ma TO 4,
ebert 4. Lincoln. ~ Illinois ex min
tiers 70 England Their accept y nccs q
ad not been received. and it was said III
ne third place on the high cornmis- III
on would not be filed until Mr. Il
helps and Mr.. Lincoln had accepted al
\ I~PArcH from Massovvah. on the
tn. said that two battalions Of Ital- lie
n troops had arrived there. and that Ola
the Italian achievements won be e
the held by January 1. when an ex-
dition comprising 10000 men would yDi
ready to advance against the Abvs. VII
mans