The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-02-26
AN Italian giving his name as IRA

AN Italluu giving MS hahs Us -"
Matchus, but who tallies with the pie
ture and description OF John Aburzzo.
one of the three "sntchel workers.
who coniidenced New Orleans jew
eler out OF $40, 900 worth OF diamonds,
was arrested in Chicago on the 10th.
FouR indictments have been found
against Sylvester Scogel, core.
spondcnt OF the New York World. re.
Gently arrested by the Spanish author
titles in Cuba.
AN official dispatch from Bombay
saws !, s35 deaths occurred there dur
iny the week ending Friday, February
re. of which SID were due TO the bu.
bonic plague.
To rnx sound of martial music he
loved SO we'll, the body of Gen. Jo q.
shelby was, on the 18th, taken to its
last resting place in Forest Hill Gene
terry, at Kansas City. Mo-, and placed
in the receiving vault TO await its
burial among the 50 followers of the
Lost Cause already sleeping in the
ex-confederate burying ground
GEN. ALFRED PLEAsoNroN, one of
the most distinguished cavalry officers
on the Union side during the late civil
war, died at his apartments in Wash
ington at three o'clock on the morning
Of the nth. His death, which was
calm, resulted from system worn out
with activity and work.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs on the 18th,
appointed j. ID. Miller receiver OF the
First national bank of Franklin. o.;
John L. Pendricks, receiver OF the
First national bank of Griswold, Ia,
and n. A. Phillips receiver of the
First national bank of Olympia, Wash.
The Ottoman government issued an
order, on the 18th, for the mobilization
of the Turkish fleet with the least
possible delay.
THE Cologne Gazette confirms the
report that most of the great European
powers concur in the proposal OF Ger.
many that the powers blockade the
Piraeus.
A FAVORABLE report was ordered,
ON the 18th, by the house labor com
mittee on the Lorimer bill TO prevent
cons piracies to blacklist
The president, on the 18th, COM
muted to five years actual impris-
onment the sentence OF eight years
in the penitentiary imposed March
IL, 1898, on j. f. Crandall. formerly
president of the First national bank
of johnson City. Tenn, for false en-
tries in national bank books and false
reports.
WHILE a force of workmen were
engaged in lowering a boiler into the
new Spanish cruiser Princess of AS.
turia. which is being fitted out at the
naval yards at Cadiz, the tackling
gave way and the boiler fell into the
gathering of men below. killing six
of them and seriously injuring ten
others.
The bill granting women the right
of So ffrage in Oklahoma territory was
defeated in the house. on the 18th, by
a vote of IL to Is 1t was believed the
bill for an educational qualification
would carry.
FRANCE and Brazil signed n protocol,
on the 18th, referring .heir dispute re-
garding territorial boundaries to arbi.
tration, the president of the Swiss con-
federation To be the referee.
THE nomination of j. II. Munger, OF
Nebraska, to be district judge OF Ne
braska. was confirmed by the United
States senate, on the 18th, without OPP.
position.
The general deficiency bill, pre-.
sented in the house of representatives,
on the 18th, carries an appropriation
of s., 44s, 937.
The Spanish government has agreed
to release Julio Sanguilly, the Ameri-
can citizen who was arrested in Cuba
two years ago.