The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-08-07

Ex-CoSeREssxAN JonN I. BRowS died
suddenly at his home In Fowler, Ind.
on the esth. Of heart trouble. He leaves
q widow and an adopted child in com-
Portable circumstances.
TINS notification committee appointed
by the Prohibition national conven-
ton. which met last May in Pitts
burgh, called upon Joshua lowering at
Baltimore, Md, on the 2sth, and Off
cially informed him of his nomination
for the presidency upon the prohibi-
ton ticket
A COMMITTEE from the University Of
Chicago called upon Maj. Mckinley at
Canton. q on the Goth, as representa-
tives of the Republican club of that
school to pay their respects to the re-
publican candidate and to present To
him life-sized marble bust of himself.
made by Hans llirsch, the noted sculp-
tor of that city.
PosrMAsTER-GENERAL WILSON has is
sued an order TO all railway mail
clerks, directing them not to take an
active interest in the political cam
paign, such as would be involved in
their attending political conventions
as delegates, making political speeches
or assisting in the management of POI
litical campaigns.
DR. JAMESON and his fellow Trans
vaal raiders are to be treated as first
class misdemeanants in Holloway
prison, London. They will receive
their meals from the OUTSIDE. wear
their own clothes and have less dis
tinguished prisoners detailed TO per-
form mental offices for them.
AN express train from Philadelphia
collided with special excursion train
OF seven cars of Red Men near Atlantic
City, \. j.. on the 30th, the ponderous
trains coming together at right angles,
and causing frightful wreck in which
about forty persons were killed out
right and twice that number injured,
many of them fatally The wife of
one of the engineers who died at his
post, upon hearing the sad news, fell
dead from the shock.
BoDY of striking miners went to
the Hymers mines near sullivan, Ind,
on the Goth inst Two or three of
them covered the night watchmen
with guns. marched them 20 the woods
half mile distant and stood guard
over them while the balance of the
crowd set fire TO the plant which was
totally destroyed Burning timbers
fell into the shaft and set fire to the
mine also.
A POWDER magazine at Funfkirchen,
Hungary, exploded, on the Goth, with
fatal results. The shock of the explo-
sion almost completely wrecked the
town hall. and other buildings in the
vicinity were badly damaged. More
than one hundred persons were in
jured, and it was thought that large
proportion of them would die.
THE supreme court of California
having affirmed the judgment of the
superior court, ; ID. Worden. the
railroad striker, charged with wreck
ing the railway bridge near Sac
ramento. two years ago. and thereby
causing the death Of Engineer Clark
and three United States soldiers, must
hang
THE boiler in Sullivans big shingle
mills at Cedar. Mich, burst on the
Goth. Engineer Scott was badly man
gled and scalded. and lived but two
hours. Ten other employees were more
or less seriously scalded and bruised.
JUpGE ORLADY, of the Pennsylvania
state superior court, on the 29th, grant
ed an allocatur in the appeal of attor-
neys representing ex-Assistant City
Attorney VIM. ii. House. of Pitts
burgh, who was sentenced TO two
years and three months in the peni-
tiary. for aiding and abetting in the
embezzlement of city money.