The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-03-19

TuR north bound Illinois General ~
Louis express collided with freight
train at East Cairo. Ny, ON the 10th, at
l:2O "A. m, killing Fireman Walter
Rogers, colored. and injuring Tele-
graph Operator Goodwin Boaz, who Was
in the station, which was knocked over
into the backwater by the passenger
engine. which left the track
OS the 10th Mayor Campbell, OF Bowl
ing Green. o.. imposed "A fine of i've
dollars and costs upon himself for be-
ing drunk aud disorderly. Ills hon
or" was carried To the police station IN
a beastly state Of intoxication and oc-
cupied a cell with the common drunk
ards Citizens are indignant. and he
will probably be removed from Office,
GEN RUSSELL HASTINGS, of Bermu-
da, W. l., said 10 have been ranking
officer OF President Mckinley's regi-
ment during the war. was knocked
down and run over by "A wagon near
the treasury building in Washington
city on the 10th. fracturing his right
leg near the knee.
THE flagship Philadelphia, with Adj
miral Beardslee on board. has left Aca-
pulco. Mexico. for san Jose dc uuate-
mala. To be present at the opening of
the international exposition as repre-
sentative of the United states.
Mrs. Cora STUART WHEELER. we'll
known literary woman, died in Boston
ON the 10th.
WM. II. HEAroN. ex-commissioner OF
King county. Wash, was arrested in
seattle. on the 9th. on charge of em-
bezzlement of county funds. 1t is
claimed that his peculations amount To
about so. 0O0
Is tenement house fire in Brooklyn,
on the 9th. Mrs Gladys Duncan threw
her eight-months-old boy from the
fourth-story window. and then jumped
10 the pavement The babe was killed
and the mother fatally injured.
The Mussulmans who Were besieged
by the insurgents at kandamo. island
of Crete. arrived ut Canea. on the 10th,
on board an Italian war ship.
EN-UNITED STATES SENATOR JOSEPH
| DoLPH died at Portland. Ore. on the
I 10th.
A SPECIAL. dated the 10th. from IIa-
vana. said: From information received
I | can announce positively that Capt.
( Gen. Weyler has had orders To seek
[ Gonez and offer him Nv hatever terms
/ are necessary to end the war"
! ON the l1th the state department re.
ceived copy OF President Crespo's mes
sage To the Nenezue AN congress OF Feb
ruary 20. sent by the American minis
ter at Caracas. in which he discusses
the arbitration treaty at considerable
length and urges the congress TO post
pone allother business until Il decision
Is reached upon it.
PHYSICIANS at II. Luke's hospital,
/ Chicago. said. on the llth. that they
7 had hopes Of the ultimate recovery OF
Mrs. Caroline +. Bragg. who was mys
tcriously shot at her home, 22l East
I Thirty-first street. If she RECEIVERS.
the PHYSICIANS say. She will be- totally
blind. the bullet having penetrated the
right eyeball. Mrs. Bragg has made q
new will disenheriting her adopted
daughter Josephine.
THE LaGrange county safe in the
courthouse at Lairange. Ind. was
blown open, early ON the morning o
the 18th. and $500 was carried away
Two thousand pennies just received
from the mint was portion OF the
plunder
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY. on the 18th
signed the new patent convention
with Japan. which thus became opera
tive.
BY the falling of section of the old
wall in the ancient town of Fee. Mo
rocco. on the 18th. $50 workmen wers
killed.