The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-03-05

A POLITICAL prisoner named Andres
Dclgado. who was imprisoned IN com
unicado. has been found dead, hanging
by the neck in his cell. M >agua. Cuba.
A SOUTHERN RAiLwA, train struck a
wagon full OF people at sherman
Heights. near Chattanooga. Tenn. or
the cath. The wagon contained }. a.
Robinson. farmer. and his family. and
was struck full by the flying passenger
train. The ground was strcwn with
mangled. bleeding bodies and severed
limbs. Robinson and wife and five
children were killed outright. One
child was uninjured.
Mrs. JEREMIAH :. BLACK. widow of
President Buchanan's encouragement
and mother of ex-tiov. Chauncey +.
Black. died suddenly al her home in
York. Pa. On the cath. She retired in
her usual health and was taken sudden
In III and expired ten minutes later.
She was y wears old, and had been in
feeble health for several years.
TnE Daughters Of the American Rev
olution. liz their congress IN Washing
ton. ON the 2Ith, made plans for build
ing "A hall 2OON2nl feet on the Monument
lot. and raised about $4,000 To start
the work 4 bill To give them the site
ha, passed the senate. and il Is expected
10 pass the house before the close of
the session.
Az explosion occurred. on the cath.
in the extensive works devoted to tho
manufacture of Nobel's explosive in
London. The explosion took place
while the men were washing nitro
glvcerine Six persons were killed.
THE damage To the II. Loais Mer-
chants Exchange building by fire. on
the gath. President Langenberg says.
will not exceed $4,000. which win be
repaired a rapidly a. men and material
can make connections.
j. H. THOMPSON. who was recently
elected city treasurer of Minneapolis,
Mimi. has resigned He refused to
give the amount of bonds required by
the city council.
PRESTON Il. DURLEY. manager of the
Des Moines la.) Daily News. died in
that city on the cath.
Early in the session bills were passed
TO fix and determine the number of
justices Of the supreme court of Okla
homa, who shall constitute a majority
Of the bench and To confer upon post
office inspectors in the enforcement Of
the postal laws. the same powers as are
possessed by marshals and sheriffs in
the several states.
Ir was announced in Athens. on the
25th. that the foreign consuls in the
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and the Suda valley between Akrotori
and Canea under the protection of the
united fleets. The Christians At salemo
were permitting the departure of Mos
lens and their families. and the foreign
war ships were taking the fugitives on
board.
Scorr Jackson. who with Alonzo
Walling. will be hanged in Newport,
Ky. March 20. for numbering Pearl
Bryan. is writing confession. which,
il i reported. will soon be forthcoming
He will sell ii to the highest bidder.
and expects $4,000 for it. A Cincin-
natl newspaper is said to have already
offered s..
A BILL comforting upon post office in
spectors the authority of marshals in
making arrests was passed 10y the house
OF representatives on the 25th.
VAST quantity of nitro-glycerine
stored between Gould station and New
Alexandria. O.. on the Panhandle rail
road. in the Gould oil field. explod-
ed. on the 18th. killing two men and
in Turing a number of others. Both
men were blown to atoms only man 5
toe being found. Houses We're knocked
down and trees were torn up by the
explosion.