The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-03-22
NEWS IN BRIEF


street, Chicago, on the nth, eight
persons were instantly killed. AZ were
injured and several are missing. A
quarrel between the police and ire
men as to whose duty it was to dig
the victims from the ruins caused an
abrupt suspension of the search.
Lord Pauncefote, the British am
bassador at Washington. has been APP
pointed . member of the privy coun-
| Gil.
a serious cave-in of the Spencer
mine workings occurred at Dunmcrc.
Pa, on the 18th, causing a surface dis
turbancc of over seven hundred feet
long and 100 feet in width. Four
residences were so badly wrecked as
20 render them untenable.
Gen. Bruce A. Milton arrived 1t
Rockville. Orange River colony, on
the nth. and found the place COM
pletely deserted. The houses were
open and many Of them contained no
furniture.
John +. Upton. the alleged default
ing treasurer and secretary of the In
ternational Swtchmen's Union of
North America. was arraigned at Buff
falo, n. ~. on the l2th. The charge
was changed TO that OF grand larceny,
first degree. Upton pleaded not
guilty. waived examination and was
held for the grand Jury.
The estate of Sir Francis Cook 1.-THE
husband of Tennessee Claflin), who
died in London. February Il. was
sworn 10 on the 18th. 1t il valued
at 100000 (Ss.)o0.c 00).
The directors of the suspended First
national bank of Niles, Mich, on the
18th. fled a. declaration agains.
Charles A. Johnson. the missing cash
Ter OF the bank. alleging that forgerles
amounting to 100000 against leading
citizens of the county had been com
mitted by him.
At Madrid. on the 18th, while the
officials engaged in collecting the oc-
troi were assaulting a workman who
had attempted TO evade the tax,
large crowd gathered, angrily protest
ing, and the affair eliminated in a
riot. The gendarmes finally dispersed
the mob.
Four hundred men and boys had a
pitched battle, on the 18th. in which
over thousand shots were exchanged
with three burglars, who were hiding
in a patch of woods, three miles west
of Pennington, Mich. After a des-
perate resistance the men surrend-
cred All three we're badly wounded.
Gen. and former President Benja-
min Harrison, died, on the 18th. at
his home in Indianapolis, Ind. In
spite of the warning bulletins of his
physicians, people generally. the coun-
try over. had hoped that he would
win in his brave battle against dis
ease. and the final announcement of
his death came as a shock. Mr.. Har-
rison's deathbed was surrounded by
relatives and friends. although neither
Mrs Mckee. his daughter. nor Col
Russell Harrison, his son, arrived in
time to see him alive.
view of the lockers strike at Mar
settles. have decided TO import Arab
laborcrs to replace the native work
mer.
Nine bargcloads of steel rails and
2.134.000 bushels Of coal were shipped
south from Pittsburgh, Pa. on the
18th. Ten million bushels Of coal and
$4,000 tons Of rails still awaited boats
to carry them south.
The British admiralty court, on the
l2th. awarded the German steamer
Valencia $1,000 for her services to the
Cunard liner Carinthia which, while
en- route from New Orleans to south
Africa. with 1.40o mules for the Brit
ish army.w wrecked on the Haytien
coast last May.
NJ. Bogoliepoff. Russian minister of
public instruction. who. while holding
reception. February 81, was shot by
Peter Karpovich, formerly a student
at the University of Moscow. died, on
the 18th. of his wound
On the 18th II. G. Dun e. Co. report
ed: Failures for the week were 600
in the United States. aginst 1870 last
year. and SO in Canada. against % last
year."
OH I<uWiu oduuueTs, pTesluenL OF
the Chronological society, and dentist
20 King Edward and Queen Alexandra,
died in London on the 18th.
Lieutenant-Comman William
Braunersreuther has been relieved
from duty as captain of the port Of
Manila, he having been condemned by
o medical survey and ordered to the
Yokohama hospital. He is succeeded
by Lieut.. w. j. Sears.
Answering a question in the British
house of commons, on the 14th, Lord
Cranborne. under secretary for the
foreign Office, said no steps had been
taken by his maiesty's government TO
revise the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, but
the government would be ready 10
consider in friendly way any pro
posals made toward that object by the
United States.
The trial Of the most prominent
rebel in the colony of Natal, South
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