The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-17
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

AccoRptSG To the estimate OF Com
missioner OF Agriculture Moore OF Ken
lucky. who has just sent to the printer
his crop report for August, the farmers
Of Kentucky now have more than So
900. 600 worth Of wheat on their hands,
being 65 per cent of the crop, the re-
mainder having been sold at good
prices. The wheat crop of the state Is
estimated at over IL, 900, 600 bushels.
NEARLY all of the southern cities have
established quarantine against the coast
towns on the gulf and Mississippi sound,
and it is believed the prompt precau-
tions will result in the speedy check to
the yellow fever scare
THE celebration of Labor day at
GAINESVILLE. o., was marred by several
accidents. William O. Berne was IA
tally injured while ~alighting from a
train, and nine other persons were
hurt in street car accidents. four OF
whom will die.
FIRE started at Cairo, w. Va, at mid
night OF the 9th, and by 2:3o a. IN. of
the 9Th every hotel and business u
in the town had been burned, IA losses
far exceeding 500, 00O-
HARRY +. LEADLEY, Of Rochester, n.
Y. died in Bancroft, Mich, on h
9th. Before his demise he stated that
he had been guilty OF killing a Miss
Emerson, in Rochester, and of embez-
element from n Rochester fire insur-
ance firm. Investigation proved both
statements to be false. and it is be-
- 49,. ..l1.rfo mind xrae wan
dering when he made them.
POSTMASTER STULI.. at Mt Pleasan I
Ia. and Postmaster Hamilton, at War
rem, Ind. who declined TO surrender
their offices, when removed. on the
ground that the recent civil service or
der covered their cases, have both sur
rendered their offices to the inspectors.
JUDGMENTS by confession aggrega-
ting $50, l02, were entered, on the eth.
against the American Cycle Manufac-
turing Co. Of Chicago. and in favor OF
the Continental national bank and As
signee Boyd Of the Haymarket Produce
bank.
Mrs. III. l.. SPELLMAN. mother o1
Mrs. John ID. Rockefeller. died, on the
18th, at Forest Hill, Mr.. Rockefeller
Cleveland (O.) home. She was IS years
old, and had been in failing health FOL
some time.
SENATOR MORGAN. of Alabama, sailed
from San Francisco, on the eth, on the
steamer Australia for Honolulu.
MARQUIS DE RocHAMBEAU, grandson
of Count Rochambeau. who command
ed the French contingent in Americi
during the revolutionary war, died re
Gently in France.
Hon. SIR LEWIS WILLIAM CAVE, judg'
Of the English high court OF justice. die
in London or the nth. He was born IL
1882. and was .he EDITOR Of many i'm
portant legs' FORKS.
CoMPTRoLLaR OF THE CURRENCY JANE
II. EcKELs, wife and daughter, arrive
at Yellowstone Lake, Wyo.. on tn
nth. lie and Bank Examiner A. |
Lynch went fishing and caught
trout.
FORMER President Cleveland has file
with the assessors of Mercer count.
n. j., a schedule Of his property. h
fixed the value of his new home at SIC
900. aud his personal property at sla'
900.
GEN. PAspo. who was relieved of h
command in Cuba, after threatenir
to slap Gen. Weyler's face. says the W
in Cuba is a mistake, and that Cap
Gen. Weyler is making both neutra
, and the friends of Spain more host
than the rebels themselves
ANOTHER sensation has developed
, the Mitchell county Na.) defalcatic
Some person or persons broke into :
county t~reasurer's Office and vault
Mason City, and burned and destroy
!, a large part OF the records. when W.
q under examination by an expert
ADvIcEs from Uganda state tina
a mutiny has occurred there among
n troops of the Congo Free State, in
= Toro district The mutineers. 1T
said, killed so Belgian officers and
stroyed all the forts
Mrs. SARAH HOSE, mother-in-law
90 Preacher Hinshaw, who is serving u
ne in Indiana for numbering his wife.
Nj been granted a divorce at Nun
d. Hose believed Hinshaw guilty and n
Hose thinks him innocent
o. An explosion OF nitro-glycerine, u
" by well shooters, occurred at Cypl
o., on the 9TH, whereby nearly a do
lives were lost, several persons
jured. and the country for miles AFRO,
~ alarmed by the shock.
- ONE of the worst wrecks In the
tory of the Santa Fe railroad occur
~ three miles east of Emporia, Kas.
a.. the sth. A dozen persons were XII
nj and M many more badly hurt.
,re fast mail train going east and the n
he leo and California express. west boz
H.. collided head on. Three locomot
exploded. digging a hole in the gro
deep enough 70 bury themselves
several Of the wrecked cars.
ADvIcEs received in Lima from
livia, on the sth. stated that $50 T.
guayans. who recently landed at
Pacheo, had seized the Bolivian :,
Chiquotos, in the province OF Mojo'
On account Of the immense shipm'
Of grain from the west, the Penusy
mia and baltimore 4 Ohio railr,
are experiencing considerable tro'
In furnishing enough freight CAL
meet the demand.