The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-05-28

LIErr. PEARy Is going north again
and steamer Is being fitted out at 81.
'onns. \. H., for that purpose. The
oolect sof the expedition is TO secure
Tor the Philadelphia Academy OF Sci.
ence the 4O-ton meteorite near Cana
York which Lieut.. Peary discovered
last wear.
The executive council AT Pretoria
lransvaal, on the 10th. decided that
the punishmentof Col. Francis Rhodes
Lionel Phillips, George Fa.rar and
John Hays Hammond tthe leaders ~
the reformers who were sentenced 10
DEATH shall be Is years imprisonment.
IWtNry-EiGHr killed outright SO or
more injured. some OF them fatallv
ana property loss aggrcgating about
siuoo'uuO, Is given as the estimated
damage done by the cyclone In Mar.
shail' Ncmaha and Brown counties.
kas
FIRE, the result of spontaneous com.
bustion, broke on, in one Of The COM
bunkers of the battle-ship Indiana in
'he brooklyn navy yard. on the 10Th.
rign' next 20 one of the magazines. .It |
was extinguished before any serious
damage was done
OK the Goth, Coroner Dobbs Of Now
York county \. T., gave, and ex- Con-
gresham Ralph Hill, of indianapolis.
ina., took possession of the body of
his daughter-in-law, Mrs. T.. T.. hin.
who committed suicide, on the stb
inst, at the Colonnade hotel in Ney
York city. Mr. Hill said he woula
nave the body ere mated AT once.
IN a fire at a boarding house in
providence. Il. l.. on the Goth. Vim
'enzo Rizzi was sutfoca.ed. Several
'tner men were taken out of the :
'ullaing In an unconscious condition. :
me OF whom will probably die. /.
w the goth the president recognized ,
: l.. Hudson as consul of the Argen-
me Republic at Chicago. and A. j. :
'ailiot as consul of Salvador at Seat. /,
Ie. Wash.
LIE Southern Presbyterian general :,
ssembly met at Memphis. Tenn. on !,
le 2lst. {
On the 2lst, after services M The {
hurch Of the Messiah. all that was =
ortai OF the noted journalist John A. .
'ckerill was deposited in Elk's Rest
bellefontaine cemetery, st. Louis. y
EIGHT miners, who were at work 4;
. feet below the surface on the third =,
vel OF No. shaft of the Ashland q
me at lronwood. Mich. on the o,st n,
ere entombed by the sudden falling
body OF ore. They were all res. %
ed alive and but little the worse for hi
err terrible experience by party re
10 dug through TO the Shaft from NJ
G Norrie mine a.,
HE Canadian Association Of Anna. DR.
II oarsmen will hold its yearly re. 20
TIA at Brockville, Ont, on Angus, lit
nd = l..
He supreme court, on the 2lst. sus- OH
lded the l9-year sentence of ex-Citv sill!
sasurer Bolln. of Omaha. and fixed 4
oaii at $4,000 pending a review .. fro
case. ,;o
~ the collapse of a building under fro
ng repairs in Buffalo, n. ". on the en-.
I. more than a score of its 50 occu. his
rs We're buried in the ruins. Res. yea
RS were Immediately put to work hei
soon recovered the bodies Of two coy
the victims. man and a woman
aug out many who were more or sal,
seriously injured eau
FEARFUL natural gas explosion star
made the earth tremble for blocks Of t
ind, occurred in Coffevville. Kas NJ
he 21st. Two fiue two-storv bricl fell
mess buildings were reduced 10 4 rela
; OF RUNS, one man was killed and h
rye number of people were more or resi-
injured was