The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


fenced all of the "a TO Jail for three
days. but later ordered them released
on the aid.
A MEETING of over 5000 people held
in Athens on the 22d, adopted an adj
dress to King George. urging him and
the government TO reject the proposed
peace treaty between Greece and Tur-
key and To resume hostilities inter
rupted by the truce.
A. X SMITH. a young lawyer OF some
standing in Omaha, Neb.. confessed. on
the Esd. that he was bicycle thief and
forger. Since January l last he has
shipped 227 stolen bicycles TO auction
dealers in Chicago. ST. Louis and Kan
sas City.
| FIVE children were drowned in the
harbor at Toronto. Ont, on the 22d. by
the capsizing of float ON which. in
company with ten others. they were
attempting To cross from the mainland
to the breakwater, where they intended
to go bathing. The other children
were rescued by boatmen. Three of
the bodies of the drowned were re-
covered.
Work was resumed in all depart
ments OF the Britton tin-plate mill at
Cleveland, o.. on the esd, the strikers
accepting the terms of the company
and going back to work. Work was
, also resumed in all departments Of the
Union Falls mill at Cleveland.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Madrid, on
the Esd said: There is no dou bt the
Spanish government will be willing To
extend the commercial treaty with the
United States
A HAVANA dispatch, on the Esd. said:
Spanish troops recently captured a
Cuban hospital in Matanzas province
with 90 inmates. The troops fired the
buildings, first placing all the dis
abled men in their cots and burning
them alive. The others, IL in number
were tied =. trees anG shot to death,
their bodies being left there.
FRANK WEBER. of Buffalo. and War
rem Bush and Charles Glasuld. o. Chi
cago. lost control of the boat in which
they were sailing on the Niagara river,
on the 22d and were carried down and
over the Horseshoe fall in sight of
thousands of Mortified psvple.
A PARTY of eight men and women
left West Superior. Wis. on the Goth,
in a small sailboat to go after berries
along the south side of Lake Superior
intending to return on the 22d. Moth
ing had been heard of them. when. on
the cath, the captain OF the steamer
Gilbert reported passing capsized sail
boat few miles out, and it is supposed !
that all were drowned.
ARTICLES of incorporation were fled |
in Denver, Col, on the cath, for the !
Wheat Belt railroad. which will con-
meet with the Denver & Rio Grande !
near its intersection with Saguache |
county. and extend in a westerly di- !
rection about 80 miles. 1t will enable
the farmers of the richest wheat rails
ing portion of Colorado to find . ready |
market for their products
CONSUL GBIMKE at Santo Domingo in
forms the state department of the COM
pletion of a railroad from Puerto Plata
to Santiago. about 40 miles. over two
mountain ranges American and Brit
ish capital is invested in the road. and
several American engineers have been
engaged in its building.
A HUGE derrick spoon. weighing
/ 900 pounds and con taiuing half ton
of salt, fell 70 the deck of the steamer
which was loading at an
Illinois Central pier in Chicago On the
Esd. Andrew Kruper, laborer, was
instantly killed.
w. r. O'HEARS, cashier of the Jack !
son County bank. of Black River, Wis,
who was arrested on the charge of re- |
was insolvent. was bound over, on the |
23d. to the fall term of the circuit court. |
The jackson County bank, which was
closed in September last. was reorgan-
lied and re-opened on the Esd.
A DISPATCH from St Petersburg says
that the cars decision to meet Presi-
dent Faure at Cronstadt was reached
against enormous pressure upon the
part of the German party. The dis
patch adds the officers of the French
squadron at Cronstadt were enter
tanned. on the sd. by their Russian
colleagues.
TaE body of Aaron c. Coon, De-
troit (Mich.) board of trade operator
who disappeared several days ago. was
found. ON the ED. on Belle isle.
Around his neck a handkerchief had
been knotted and then twisted with
lead pencil until the victim strangled
to death.
An imperial trade was issued on the
cath, committing the sentence of death
to be imposed upon the nine Turks
who were engaged in the massacre of
Armenians at Tokat in March last. to
penal servitude for life in Tripoli and
Barbary.
FIeARo says che French government
must fix a maximum price for bread or
reduce the customs duties. and warns
Premier Meline that it is inadmissible
for him to allow himself to be titled
the dear bread minister
A DISPATCH from Christiania, Nor
way. says that Walter Wellman has
been there ~ discuss projected polar
expedition with DIR. Nansen. who thinks
his idea good one. Mr.. Wellman ex-
poets to make his start next summer.
The steamer Rosalie departed from
Seattle, WASH. on the a5th. for Ska
quay with 100 passengers and full