The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-02-25


LoRp WILLIAM Ss.a,x was ,u,n-
.eneeu - Jug Lawrence, in the Gem
court. London. ON the
Io", 30 years penal servitude
oa Nc riea OF guilty to n charge
.sa against Sam Lewis. money
= .<sr> lie was taken 10 NORWOOD
I~sfahss prison.
TssS allowing up of the Maine created
the yreAtest CONSERVATION in Havana.
Windows in all parts of the city were
ynashed. and the frightened people at
irst believed the city was being bonn
barded
WILLIAM =. Moody, an employee OF the
firm of Dunlap Bros, was arrested IN
Chicago. on the 18th. on the charge of
embezzling SIS. 900 from the funds of
the Oak Park building and Loan asso-
citation.
TnE passenger and freight steamboat
Ericsson. which plies between Phila-
delphia and Baltimore, sank in the
Delaware river. off Wilmington, Del,
on the 10th. Sixty passengers were
rescued.
A rumrsrERING expedition, destined
for Cuba, was intercepted. on the 18TH,
by the authorities at Kingston, ia
maica. and quantity of arms and am
munition seized.
Mr. GLADSTONE left Cannes, France,
for England, on the 18th.
FIVE men. giving their names as R-A-
Williams Jas. Downey- Harry Church,
Charles Howard and Paddy Ryan, are
under arrest at Lafayette Ind, charged
with the Lebanon Qnd.) post office rob-
berry. large number OF pension
checks taken from one of the rified
pouches We're found in their possession
Howard has confessed.
The Compn gnie Generate Transat-
lantique line steamer Flachat, bound
from Marseilles for Colon, was totally
wrecked on Anaga point of the Canary
islands at one o'clock on the morning
of the 10th. Her captain. second OH
Ger. IL of her crew and one passenger
were saved. Thirty-eight of the crew
and 40 passengers were lost.
WHILE assisting TO serve luncheon at
her home in "A fashionable portion OF
Fort Scott kas.. on the 10th. Mrs. ;.
+. Letcher was arrested by "A deputy
United States marshal. charged with
sending obscene letters through the
mails assailing the character of Miss
Anna Guilford.
The feeling at Madrid over the bare
suggestion that the disaster To the
Maine might have been due TO Spanish
treachery. is one of the greatest indig-
nation at the thought that the Amer
leans should believe Spaniards SO lost tc
honor and hospitality as to be guilty OF
such baseness.
A TERRIBLE explosion of fire damp oc.
Cured in the Vereinigte Carolineng.
lueck colliery at IIammerly. Prussia,
on the 18th. Thirty-seven bodies were
recovered. In addition many miners
were seriously injured. 1t is believed
that 80 persons persisted.
OK the 18th Spain officially disclaimeo
N positive manner the reflections con
tanned in the DE LONE letter, and tho
state department declared the incident
satisfactorily closed.
THE statement Of the United State
! treasury. on the 18th, showed: Avail
able cash balance. S2l9, 262 .o37; gold re
serve. sl66,645,739.
The Russian auxiliary cruiser Tam
boff passed through the Bosporus, OF
, the 10th, with 1000 soldiers and l6 can
/, non. bound for Vladivostock.
: A SPECIAL from Juneau, Alaska. o
: the 18th. confirms the news Of the los
d of the Clara Nevada, and says: 'Th
cause of the disaster was doubtless tn
!. explosion of her boilers. OF the 5
;. people on board none are believed I
l. have been saved.