The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-02
rur MAGAZINE Of the Rock Glvcer,ne

THE magazine OF tne ROCK uiyccriu0
Co, located mile and half from
Wellsville. n. Y, blew up, on the s2d.
and shooter Youngs. his team Of horses
and wagon were blown To atoms. Dorr
Clark and Thomas Meyer, who were at
y orll 80 feet from the magazine. were
quite badly hurt
TnE celebration of the centenary of
Emperor William L.. who was born
March -. l797, was observed through
ont Germany rs a national holiday.
Two GROCERY stores, a meat market,
warehouse and residence were
burned at Andrews. Ind, on the 22d.
The fire is supposed To have been in
cendiary; loss. S20, 600. Fred Reeves
ana David Olive were burned, the lat
ter fatally.
The family of Louis Perez, an insur
gent chief. consisting of two sisters
and eight children, have been captured
by Spanish troops and placed in the
prison for disordcrly women in lia-
vana.
IL "A wreck on the Cleveland & Mari
eta railroad at Eagle Hill, o., on the
cath, Fireman Dye was pinioned be-
tween the engine and tender and death
seemed certain to him from the flames
of the wreck. but with rare presence of
mind and nerve, he called upon min
err, Ed Jones' to take his pocket knife
and cut his arm off, which was done,
saving him from n horrible death.
CAPT. SAMUEL {. LEMLy, Judge advo-
cate general of the navy, went to Pitts
burgh. Pa, on the cath. 10 receive the
honorary degree of doctor of laws from
the Western University of Pennsyl-
vania.
The Cuban insurgents captured lIol
guin, in Santiago de Cuba, on the 9Th.
The town is n very important one and
the news of its loss has east great
gloom over official circles in the city of
Havana.
THE president promptly signed the
joint resolution, which passed congress
on the 25th, authorizing the secretary
of war to furnish tents to the sufferers
of the Mississippi river floods.
FRANK BUTLER. the prisoner of many
aliases, who is wanted in Australia for
half dozen murders. has volunteered
queer confession, declaring and en-
deavoring To prove that ten years ago.
he killed fellow soldier at Walla
Walla. Wash. for which he is amena-
BILE to the United States.
The engine in mill No. . of the Ed
gar Thomson steel works at Pitts
burgh, Pa. ran away, on the 25th. re-
sulting in the bursting of the immense
fly wheel. David Hugo, engineer,
whose legs were crushed, is dead. and
George Il. McClelland was fatally in
jured.
THIRTY men were injured on board
the British first-class cruiser Theseus.
on the 18th, while practicing outside
the harbor at Malta, by the explosion
of torpedoes which were being lowered
into the ships launch.
Born antitrust bills introduced by
the Lexow trust -estigating commit
tee have been psssed by the New York
assembly without amendment.
THE poue gave an audience. on the
25th. to number of Americans who are
on their way home from a pilgrimage
to Jerusalem. After celebrating mass
his holiness pronounced an allocution,
highly praising the Catholics of the
United States and distributed souve-
mir medals among the pilgrims.
THE Austrian cruiser Satellit arrived
in Suda bay, on the 25th. having in
custody Greek steamer with 90 vol
untecrs on board. and n Greek sail
ing vessel laden with ammunition in
tended for the Cretan insurgents.
Both were captured by the Satellit
while they were attempting to run the
blockade.