The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-03-26

A prrr with swords WIS fought, AZ
the ~. oucn race course, near iarls,
on the nth. between >ignor PM, ltal-
ian champion. and NJ. ThomegueN,
French amnteur. Five hundred aston
ished spectators witnessed the hghI
In the sixth attack Nj. Thomeguex was
slightly wounded In the lip.
OK the 18th the river steamer sunol,
bound from san Francisco 10 Vallejo.
Cal, collidcd in san Francisco bay with
the bark Olympia, bound IN from ihlla-
delphia. The Sunol turned bottom mp
and sank. The crew and passengers
were picked up by boats from the
Olympia and other vessels nearat hand.
lisa saloon brawl in Carson. New, on
the night of the 18th. Dick bradford,
Montana miner, VINO backed fltzsim-
mons. was fatally shot by stranger
named Smith, who took the Corbett
side. smith was arrested and jailed
amid threats of lynching.
WILLIAM f. ADAMS. the author, wide
IN known by his non de plume Oliver
optic" was reported. on the 18th, To DO
very III at his residence in Dorchester,
Mass. and his physicians expressed the
opinion that he could live but short
! time.
WASHINGTON IIEssING resigned the
postmastership at Chicago. on the lsth'
t. devote all his time 10 his candidacy
for mayor OF that city.
TIE much advertised pugilistic en-
counter between Coroctt and fltzsim-
mons came off AT Carson. New, ON 81
patricks day. and il would seem that
the good cid saint frowned upon the
| dissertation of his particular day, as
the colors of the Emerald i>le.worn ny
Corbctt. went down before those of his
Cornish adversary.
SECRETARY BLISS, on the 18th, sent
letter To Commissioners LamoreuN OF
the general land Office, whose action in
the Chicago lake front case was an
nulled and severely censured, Offering
to Mr.. Lamoreux an opportunity to de
fend himself.
The admirals of the combined fleets
in Cretan waters on the 18th, made a
formal proclamation of the intention OF
the powers to confer upon the island
an autonomous government, subject 10
the suzerainty of the sultan.
Ir transpires that the steamer Vile
de st. Nazaire. which left New York
March for the West Indies. was
wrecked the following day off the Caro-
lima coast. and. as far as i known. only
four of the 80 persons who took passage
on her survive.
A FIvE-YEAR-OiD son of a. j. kaza
beer. living near Marshall. Okla, was
killed, on the 18th. by horse drag
cling big log over him. The boy wa:
watching his father work. the horse
being lassoed 70 the log.
The United States weather bureau
on the 18th. gave out the startling in
formation that 500 square miles of thu
state OF Arkansas was under water anC
that the Mississippi river would con
tinue 10 rise.
( ForR rescue steamers including TIVE
, government boats. arrived at Memphis
Tenn. on the 18th. from the overho wee
: country north of that city. landing 40
refugees and 1000 heal of stock 20 b(
f cared for 10y the already over taxe'
e Bluff city.
; THE Austrian government. on tn
D 18th. made protest TO the port
; against the outrages committed by Mos
e lens in the vilayet of uscob. in Euro
, pean Turkey.
, THE gunboats Wheeling and Ma
c rietta were launched successfully a
the yards of the Union iron works, "a
4 Francisco. on the 18th.
: RUSSIAN steamer conveying ba
a talon OF troops To Crete passed throug
+ the Dardanelles on the 18th.