The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-07-31
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

former and $40 Of the latter were
killed.
The reported illness of Associate
Justice Field OF the United States SUI
preme court at san Francisco, as might
be expected. attracts much attention
in Washington. Justice Field is the
oldest member of the court. having
been appointed by President Lincoln
early in his administration.
SIX months in the Central prison for
stealing one cent was the punishment
inflicted by Magistrate O'Gara at OF
tawa, Ont. upon Arthur Nerault, lad
of Il. The boy took the coin from the
poor box of st. Joseph's Roman
Ctholic church.
AMoSG the passengers on the steamer
China. which arrived ut san Francisco
from Yokohama, on the 10th, were Sho
Memoto and L. kusakado. prominent
Japanese business men. whose errand
is to arrange the details of gigantic
colonization scheme in Mexico.
By bequest in the will of John W.
Lanehart. the Chicago lawyer, who
died recently, Gov. John Z. Altgeld of
Illinois is given about $40. 900 worth of
real estate Mr.. Lanehart was Mr..
Atgeld's brother-in-law and his law
partner.
Kansas City. kas, on the Goth. for
counterfeiting. He is connected with
the Jane Doe gang, recently arrested
in Jersey City, y. j.
The state house in Boston was closed
n: noon. on the Goth, out of respect TO
the memory Of the late ex-Gov. Rus
sell. The governors counsel met at
two o'clock and drew up suitable
resolutions and then attended the
funeral in body.
JOSEPH W. JOHNSON. of Bridgeport,
Conn, was found dead in his room at
the Midland hotel in Kansas City. Mo,
on the night of the Goth. His clothes
were of expensive black worsted. and
in the pockets were found s236 SO in
money, mostly in large bills. Heart
failure was the cause of death.
NAYLoR's opera house and three adj
joining buildings in Terre Haute. Ind,
were destroyed by fire, on the 2lst,
causing a loss of si5O,OO0 TO SITS, OOO
with perhaps $4,000 insurance.
DURING the passage of the barken-
tine Herbert Fuller from Boston to
Halifax, where she arrived on the
2lst. the captain and his wife and the
second mate were brutality murdered
in their berths. The vessels crew
were promptly placed under arrest.
pending investigation of the myster
ious and bloody affair.
THE main storage house of the Dia-
mond Match Co, - and So Michigan
avenue. Chicago. was destroyed b. fire,
on the 2lst. causing a loss of 10000
The fire broke out at 3 a. m. and was
caused by an explosion on the second
floor, the exact nature of which was
not known.
On the 2lst German Swain. farmer,
living one mile south of Attica. Mich,
killed three of his children with a
butcher knife. set fire TO his house and
then committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart.
Mrs j. II. ToLFREE committed sui
eide at Mojave. Cal. on the night Of
the Goth. by drinking carbolic acid.
She was private secretary to President
Cleveland when he was mayor of Buff
falo. Ii is believed she was insane
when the deed was committed
ID. G. BARKER. of Albert Lea, Mimi,
was knocked down by an electric car
in 1T. Louis. on the 2lst, and badly in
jured He was attempting to board a
car from the wrong side of the tracks
when the accident happened. Barker
is 50 years of age, and was in attend
anc- at the populist convention.
JosKPH WESLEY HARPER died at his
home in New York city. on the 2lst.
after an illness Of three weeks. He
had long been sufferer from govt.
Up 10 last wear he had been the senior
member of the firm of Harper Broth
ers. publishers.
The London Times Of the 22d an
nounced the death in that city, on the
Goth, of Charles Dickens, son Of the
great novelist.
Two NEW counterfeits of United
States silver certificates have been dis
covered by the treasury department
| The first is a one dollar. series of 1891
check letter G. signed by j. Fount Till
man. register. and ID. y. Morgan, treas
urer, and having portrait OF stanton
The second is five dollar, series o.
1891. check letter u. signed by J. Foun'
Tillman. register, and ID. y. Morgan
treasurer, and having a portrait o
i Grant.
A cLouDBURsI caused the loss of ter
lives on Bensons creek in Franklin
county. Ky, on the 2lst While thu
cloudburst was worst in Franklin
county. the heavy rainfall EXTENDED
over shelby, jefferson, Woodford an'
Fayette counties, and was genera
over the state
A MODEST monument to the memor.
of John Brown was unveiled at Nortl
Elba, y. j., on the 2lst, under tn
auspices of the State Forestry associa
ton. An address was made by Gen. L
A. Merritt. and State Excise Commits
sioner Lyman deliver the grafton.
The New York Sun publishes an eS
preston from Prince Bismarck on tn
pending European crisis, in which tn
ex-chancellor is reported rs saying tina
England must eventually fight Russi
and France to retain her grip on Indi
and the Soudan-