The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-30

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


A. Colby and Roy Beckwith. lessees
of the Tanzy mine in Tuolumne coun-
ty. Cal, had. up to last accounts. taken
s+2. 600 in bullion from the pocket r.
Gently struck. and there was more in
sight.
The executive committee in charge
of the celebration TO be given at FIRE.
mont. o., September 2, when Presi-
dent Mckinley will visit that city,
have issued invitations to w. j. Bryan,
Grover Cleveland and Horace Chap
man, the democratic nominee for gov
ernor of Ohio. TO be guests of the city
the same day and take part in the ex-
ercises.
\ DISPATCH from San Francisco says
Ex-Gen. Hubbard. of New York. is the
most prominently mentioned man as
the probable successor of Col. Croker
as first vice-president of the ;iouthern
Pacific Railroad Co.
A SPECIAL from Constantinople says:
In spite of the presence of the Euro
pean troops the nglo-IIellenic revo-
lutionary societies keep sending agents
and arms into Crete.
THE famous Broadmoor Casino, the
slOo,oo pleasure resort of Colorado
Springs, Col, was burned to the ground
on the 10th.
SENIOR MoRET PRENDERGAsT, the
Spanish liberal leader and former min
lister, delivered brilliant speech at
Saragossa, on the night of the 10TH on
the Cuban question. He violently at
tackled the policy of the government,
especially its methods of campaigning
in Cuba, and declared that autonomy
must be proclaimed.
j.. Ford. a prominent business man
of liolyokc, Mass, died at his home, on
the 2lst, as the result of bicycle ac-
cident He collided with another
rider.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE has been forced
to sever his connection with the First
Presbyterian church of Washington
owing to dissension among its mem
bers DIR. Sunderland is now in charge
of the church.
Miss JEAN INGELow, the distin-
guished poet and novelist, died in Lon
don on the night of the 10Th. She was
in her seventy year.
TIE president signed the deficiency
appropriation bill ON the 20tL.
The beginning of litigation in
which Yale university is interested to
the extent of $3.50, 600 was marked in
srrrogate's courts in Batavia. n. ", on
the Goth, when objections were filed To
the probate over the will of William
Lampson, late of Leroy. who left the
bulk of his estate to Yale.
REPORTS from various parts Of the
country tell of preparations on the part
of individuals and parties for pill
grimagc to the new gold fields Of Alas
ka and British Northwest Territory.
Victoria, Is. g.. is full of prospective
miners, waiting for transportation
northward.
THE Constantinople correspondent Of
the London Post says the Turkish min
listers have accepted the frontier pro-
posals made by the European powers,
but the sultan has not yet ratified their
acceptance.
Law and order have triumphed ut
Lcadville, Col, and all the great gam
bling halls are closed. The gamblers
admit that they have been beaten. and
will go TO the new Monte Carlo. near
Denver.
CHARLES HEIBACH. a well-known
slack and tight wire performer, OF
Neenah, Wis, has decided to imitato
Blondin and walk a cable stre.ss he'd
across Niagara Falls.
NINE members Of the crew =. he
steamer Concho were drowned, on tine
2lst, in consequence of the sinking Of
the vessel named. off the Isle of Wight
as the result of collision with the
British steamer St Fillans.
ForR women and two men were
killed by an explosion in the loading de-
partment OF the armory OF the Win
chester Repeating Arms CO.. at New
Haven, Conn. on the 2lst. Five Others
were taken 70 the hospital badly in
'nred