The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-09-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

with their grandmother. sailed from
Queenstown. on the 10th, on board the
steamer Aurauia. for New \ ork.
SENATOR PALMER. OF Illinois, and
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner. of Ken
lucky, were formally notified of their
nomination as presidential and vice
presidential candidates Of the National
democratic party before an immense
audience at Louisville. Ky, on the
night of the l2th.
PETER WARNER, well-to-do farmer
near Edwards burg, Mich, having no
faith in banks, hid si2,O0 in bills in
the parlor stove. His wife was enter
tanning some company the other even
ing, and it being cool. started what
proved To be the most costly fire OF her
life, the entire roll being destroyed.
lioN. WM JENNINGS BRYAN, demo-
cratic populist-silve nominee for the
presidency, was given great recep-
ton at ST. Louis, on the night of the
18th, where he addressed three i'm
mense audiences in as many different
portions of the city.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TAYLOR
ment that the United States is most
favorably disposed toward Spain. but
that owing 10 the extent of the United
States coast line. she is unable to pre-
vent the departure of filibusters for
the island Of Cuba.
ANOTHER glorious victory" is re-
ported from Cuba. wherein Spanish
troops under Gen. Moiinas. ruthlessly
butchcred is men and four women and
wounded 10 others. including three
children-all non-combatants- the
Las Canas sugar estate.
lyman. the notorious Number One"
the murderer Of Lord Frederick Cav
endish in Phoenix park, Dublin, on
May &. 1852. was arrested in Boulogne.
France. on the 18th.
VICE-PREsIDENT STEVENSON and
Speaker Reed having given their con
sent Mr.. Bryan will. on his visit to the
national capital. speak from the steps
of the capitol building.
A MAN said to be Lawrence A. Gull
YER, accused of being the absconding
president of a Logan county lind.
bank. was arrested on Vandaiia
west-bound train at Terre Haute, on
the i4th, charged with taking $50, 900
in 1892, and with being a fugitive dur
ing the four years succeeding the EN-
bezZlement. He refused to talk.
Mr.. BRYAN reached Louisville, Ky,
on the evening of the l4th, after
a 14-hours journey from st. Louis,
during WHICH he had made score of
impromptu speeches to assembled
multitudes along the route, tired al
most 10 the point of prostration. but
concluded his days labors by speaking
before three large audiences.
POLK WELLS. the notorious outlaw,
who was transferred from Fort Madi.
son TO the Anamosa Qa.) prison re-
Gently died at the penitentiary on the
18th. The remains were shipped to his
wife. who lives in Missouri.
THE Capital furniture factory at Sac
ramcnto, Cal, was destroyed by fire |
on the l4th. Jacob IIentsman, EN-
ployed as a Waterman, was burned TO |
death; loss, S25, 900.
Hon. WM. V. ALLEN. chairman of the !
Populist national committee, sent to
Hon. William Jennings Bryan. by
mail. on the 18th, official notification
of his nomination as presidential can
didate by the Populist national con-
III liuNG CHANG sailed for China on
the steamer Empress of China, which
left Vancouver, j.. c.. on the 18th. AS
the steamer left the wharf the Chinese
started fusillade of firecrackers
which was kept up for over an hour.
II "a lengthy letter senator Butler,
Of North Carolina, on the 18th. Off
cially notified Hon. Thomas l.. Wat
son, of Georgia, of his nomination as
vice presidential candidate by the Pop
ulist national convention.
HENRY LIcKEY was killed at Waupa-
koneta, o., on the lith, by bull which
he was taking to a watering trough.
shapeless mass of flesh.
A THOUSAND Harrison county (O.)
WOO! growers paid their respects to (
Maj. Mckinley at Canton, o.. on the
lith, and had very pleasant visit
with the republican presidential nomi.
nee.
III is now said that the arrest of Pat |
rick j. lyman and three other dyna-
miters by and at the instigation Of
the British police authorities broke |
up an extensive dynamiting plot which
had for its detectives British and Rus
sian royal personages.
AFTER a lA-hours' trip through lii
nois, Indiana and Kentucky, on the
18th. William Jennings Bryan arrived
at Louisville. The entire trip was a
series of enthusiastic greetings and
speech making, and by the time Louis
vile was reached Mr.. Bryan was
pretty nearly used up man.
The London Pail Mall Gazette, of
the 18th, asserted that it was the de-
sign OF the conspirator lyman to blow
up Marlborough house, the residence
of the prince of Wales, when his royal
highness should be there. According
TO this yarn, the dynamiters intended
to reach the princes house by tunnel
Ing from the house opposite.
In letter written to Gen. Powell
Clayton, Of the republican national
committee, Gen. Joe Shelby, OF Mis-
souri,. uses the following language.
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