The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-10-01
TOPICS.
IHE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENE RAJ.

painful w ntaft
turbance was 50 distinct that ii was
everywhere noticeable. and in many
places great blocks of o fell from
the mountains.
GEORGE WALpRoN, who claimed to be
a survivor of the charge at Balaklava,
died at Montreal from a blow delivered
by his wife, who used "A cane.
A SEVERE earthquake shock occurred
at Tashkaent. on the night OF the 18th,
and the disturbance was felt through
out the whole of Tlrkestan- Several
monuments OF antiquity were dam
aged.
Ir is estimated that the business re-
vival has added at least sla. 600, 600 to
the value of the Gould securities.
The wife of Hon. Norman j.. Colman
died in 1T. Louis on the 18th. Mr.. Col
man, il will be remembered. was the
first secretary Of agriculture. and Mrs
Colman was a woman of many virtues
APACHE KID. murderer. sheep thief,
cattle and horse-thief, and probably
the worst Indian that ever lived in the
southwest, has been gathered to his
red-sxinned fathers. This event oc-
Cured in southern California last July.
TmE town OF Baire. Santiago de Cuba
province. has been bombarded with
two dynamite cannon and utterly de-
stroved 10y Gen. Calixto Garcia
TnE Mississippi state board of health
has ordered tropical fruit excluded
from the state. Also newspapers I'M
less fumigated.
The steam sealing bark Hope. with
Lieut.. X. L. Peary and party on board,
returned to sydney. C. L.. on the Goth,
from north Greenland. All on board
were well. The Hope brought a party
of Eskimos with their dogs. sledges
and canoes. and was freighted with
the great Cape York m~eteorite, the
largest in the world.
The University Of Illinois in Chicago
fled a petition in the Globe savings
bank receivership case, on the goth.
asking that It's claim 1898, 5oo) against
President Charles w. s~palding. re
I Gently convicted OF ENLIGHTENMENT, be
madea preferred lien on all the assets
: of the bank.
The rumor hat John Cudahy. the
well-known packer and board OF trade
man of Chicago, was about to embara
! in the beet sugar industry at Los An
geles, Cal, is denied by Mr.. C%udahy.
c On the Goth silver scored a further
" sharp recovery in London OF ga u
c 27l.d. The price in New York rose
lEc over the quotations Of the 18th. u
5gsc.
A Oh the Goth the president appointed
Archibald J. Simpson. OF Arizona, min
! lister to Ecuador.
STRONG earthquake shocks occurred
at Lima. Peru. on the 10th.
UNITED STATES MINISTER WOODROW
had an extended con ference in Madrid
on the 2uth. with the duke of Tetuan
: Spanish minister Of foreign affairs !
is reported that Mr.. Woodford gave tn
duke some plain talk-that war !
!. Cuba must cease. The duke of Tetuan
!. according to the dispatch. while pro
:. testing against alleged American pre-
tensions said that he would reply o.
fcially to the United States ministe
when the Spanish court returns I
& Madrid.
ID EPISCOPAL BIsHoP ROWE. Of So
b. Francisco. who has just returned ther'
from. corroborates the stories OF Klor
&c dike's~ richness. and says there will M
be so much suffering at Dawson rs Ia,
o. been asserted.
Ir is reported that Prince Alexand'
of Teck is negotiating for the haI
70 Of Miss Goelet, OF New York.
c. UNITED STATES JUDGE FOSTER, at L
on peka, has rendered a decision declarir
the Kansas City Live Stock Exchani
Mt illegal under the antitrust law.
LIEUT.. Moss, of the regular arm
OF who led n bicycle corps from Fort NJ
ed soula to st. Louis, recommends the U
of the bicycle in the army.
"a The graduates Of the deaf. dun
=. and blind asylum Mt Berkely. Ga
:. have organized a novel society.
purpose is to interest wealthy poop
's and. if possible, the federal and sta
81 Governments. in establishing scholi
ne ships for the blind and deaf instit
tons.
" from Constantinople sa
" Ali Ferrouch Bey has been nominal
the new Turkish minister to Washir
Us ton. Rifaat Bey's name having be
90 withdrawn.
ABOUT as. 900 miners resumed VIC
/, IN the DltuuliuDus todi httNs - T,
-" central states on the 2isI-
On the 2lst the president appoint
pre- WIN. X. Herzog, Of Illinois. consul
- Zitlau. Germany.
THERE was an earthquake at Tris
Italy. on the 2lst. MT 3 p. IN.
FRANCIS ii. WILSON was, on the u
appointed postmaster at Brooklyn,
Y.
LIeuT f-osts we're reported, on
TO cad. as far south as tho vicinity
oru Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.
'.ea The works of the Youngstown
ue- Bridge Co. were destroyed by fire
the a3d. Loss estimated mt 500.
'ist partially covered by insurance. J
hund red hands were thrown ou'
-. employment
!" The U.ited States gunboat Hell
So" concluded her trial trip. on the
nes which demonstrated the fact that
1s-knot requirement could be m
'"y tanned, and that. under favorable
Jun stances, the speed could be increa
- The machinery was found to be in