The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-08-13


ALL departments of the Cleveland
to) rolling mill opened on the si.
About :. 600 men were given work.
Two PERSONS were instantly killed
AID five were probably fatally Injured
In the wreck of the Fast Flyer or the
Kansas Pacific railway, ON the 81. by
going through a small bridge which
spans Comanche creek. between l;yers
and >trasburg. 40 miles east Of len
yer. Col.
NELSON DrSGIEY, father of Cong -ess-
man Nelson Dingley, Jr.. died ~ his
home in Lewiston. Me. on the Sd. aged
s. years. Death was due TO "A strore of
paralysis. MIR. Dingley had beer in
remarkable health up To the night OF
the SOth, when he was stricken with
paralysis. lie rallied. but a second
stroke followed. proving fatal.
The king of Siam, accompanies by
the crown prince Of Siam, Prince
Chowfa Maha N~ajiravudh. and by lord
Harris. one of her majesty's lor,ss In
waiting. made r surprise visit at suid-
night to an east end London) insiitu-
tion established for the shelter % the
homeless. His majesty was greatly in
terested in the 800 outcasts occupring
hunks in the building. and inqrired
closely into all the details of managing
such institutions.
A MCTAGGART. ex-state serator
from Montgomery county. Ia, and
prominent as n repu blican politician,
was shot and killed at McTaggart's
mill, near Liberty, kas., on the 4tA, By
Henry Sheesley. lessee of the mill
Plans have been perfected far a
railroad to the Grand Canyon Of the
Colorado. and construction is to D.gin
500 from a point on the Santa Ee Pa
citic at Flagstaff or Williams, Aris-
A STORM accompanied by a stri-jag
electric display awakened Madi.ss
wis., people about . n. m. on the 9TH
Over 800 telephones were burned out.
DURING the burning of a grain
elevator in Chicago, on the 9Th, a ter
rife explosion-whether of "A boiler or
mill dust is not known-occurred, as a
result of which five persons are
known 10 have been killed, and a large
number Of others severely injured by
flying debris. Several small fires were
started by burning embers scattered
for squares in all directions.
The London Evening News pub
fishes n letter from n Calcutta volua-
teer, reiterating the statement that
during the recent rioting there the ar
tillerv fired point blank at a mob of
) 1000 mill hands who were marching to
join the rioters with the result that
l, 500 Of the natives were killed.
LETTERS received in New York city
recently from Japan state that a strong
Anti-American feeling still exists in
that country, and that Americans are
being boycotted on all sides by tho
Japanese.
Ir is semi-officially announced in
Yokohama that Japan has suggested
that Belgium be selected TO act as ar
bItrator in the question in dispute be-
tween Hawaii and the japanese o
eminent.
RAINS fell. on the 4th. in Kansas.
Nebraska, Iowa. Illinois and parts of
Missouri The rainfall seemingly was
general throughout the corn belt. and
1t came in time to save the crop.
TIE latest official estimate of the
population Of the United States is ~
600, 06s. and the money in circulation is
placed at s22.53, per capita.
OK the 5th, Hugh White, a coal
miner. on a banter, made the perilous
leap from the summit Of the railroad
bridge at Clinton, Ind. to the water,
100 feet After the leap he swan $50
fee. ia his heavy clothing. climbed to
the top of the bridge again and repeat
ed the feat