The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-11-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


recent New York Central wreck lie
was en- route from Toronto with Ed
ward wilkinson. of London. When
the crash came and the coaches were
thrown into the water. Lord Douglass
assisted 10y Mr.. Wilkinson. managed,
after great difficulty, 10 get out OF the
coach.
The instructions given to Marshal
Blaneo the new governor general OF
Cuba. are conciliatory, aud aim to Sc
cure the cooperation Of all parties IL
is asserted that the Cuban press VIII
'.enioy more liberty. subject TO re-
striai,5ns upon criticisms calculated 10 /,
affect military discipline
AFTER search for heirs etending
over a score of years, the vast estate OF
Imblay Clarke, now appraised at go
600. 900, seems about to come 10 It's
rightful possessor, his daughter hving
in San Francisco, whom Clarke iett In
the home for the friendless. clarke
was mine owner who died IN Aus
tralla over 20 years ago
EXACTLY ESQ dogs of high and low
degree. mostly the latter, the property
of w. III. Lewis. a Seattle lawyer, We're
shipped to the Pacific coast from Chr
cago, recently, and viii oe sold TO
| klondize miners Lawyer Lewis hopes
to get from SIS To $50 apiece tor the
CANNES. and should his fond hopes oe
realized. he will take two more car
| loads of the product of the Chicago dog
pound.
In is officially announced that an out
break of the bubonic plague has oc-
Cured in the Jalandhar district OF the
| Puniab The village of khatkarhalan,
the seat of the infection, has been cor
doned. In the hospitals of Poonah ga
eases of the plague are being treated,
and physicians are attending TO 10
eases of the plague in the Bombay hos
pitfalls.
A FRENCH tile-malxer named Guillout'
his wife and four children committed
suicide. ON the 25th. by the use of
charcoal fumes al Choisy lie Roy. Pow
ertv was the cause of their self-de-
struction.
The Spanish government is having
serious trouble with the soldiers at
Santander who refuse to adopt the
dress uniform of the colonial army and
announce that they will not embark for
Cuba.
WIrn a rush and roar. spreading
destruction in its path. hurricane
from the West Indies swept up the At
lantic coas. on the 25th, and created
havoc among coastipg vessels. ne
shores of New Jersey and Long Island
were strewn with wreckage.
In view of the outbreak OF yellow
fever at Memphis. Tenn, and Birming-
ham. Ala. the Mississippi board of
health. on the 25th. notified its eNecu.
tive officer at ViclSs burg that no refu-
gees must be allowed to return from
the north before November J.
OVER 500, 900 of alleged fraudulent
warrants on the United States treas
ury. on the account of the Creek Indian
: nation, in Indian territory, have been
: discovered by the government authori
ties.
J A DISPATCH from Havana, received il
Madrid on the 25th. said there were
40. 900 soldiers on the sick list. and tina
the financial condition on the islam,
was frightful, commerce being com
pletely raralyzed.
President MCKINLEY, on the 25th
positively decided to request the cour
: to defer the sale Of the Union Paci ii
z railroad at least until December Is,
y give congress one last chance TO act !.
> the matter.
Iris understood in Ottawa, Ont. tina
Sir Wilfred Laurier willvisit Washing
, ton with Sir Louis Davies to atten
the sealing conference.
SIIAs GRAY. who had served IA year
of life sentence for murder whic
it develops was done by another. wa
: released from the penitentiary at Pitt
burgh, Pa, on the Goth. and left Il
y his home in Indiana county.
= OK board the Vigilancia from Tan
e pico, which arrived at New York q
the 26th, was Viscount Sante Thyrs
late Portuguese minister to Mcxic
- who has been promoted to minister
the United States.
T.. A. HITcncocK. of St. Louis. Unit
- States minister to St Petersburg. TOO
- passage on the American liner
:. Paul, which sailed for Europe on I
27th lie was accompanied by b
an wife and daughter.
YEARS OF fraud, abuse of power al
no loss of money to the city OF Chicago
it's water department. have final
a. been recognized 10y the mayor and
dermen. and water commission. co
posed OF Commissioner McCiann. sup
intendent of the Water Office Lar
three aldermen aud two real est'
D., men has been appointed. thorou
~ revision Of the present water rates
"a contemplated.
40 Mrs. BoorH-TUcKER.o the Salvati
-. army, arrived at Minneapolis. Min
- on the 26th, from lshpeming. Mic
49, and was greeted by several hundl
., officers and privates At night,
dressing a mass-meeting at the III
Baptist church, she tainted and
all to be carried from the platform. ]
a, physicians did not anticipate seri'
an results. but ordered = season OF rest
m REPLYING to the semi-ofsicial sta
ted ment concerning the dangerous st
ON Of affairs ia west Africa, issued