The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-03-16

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
France has just suffered the worst
mining calamity in her history. Ot
800 men and boys who went into the
network Of coal mines centering al
Courrieres. loo lost their lives as the
result Of an explosion and the conse-
quent accumulation Of afterdamp. SIX
thousand fathers. mothers, wives and
children are bereaved.
The anthracite mine operators have
replied 10 the demands of the miners,
refusing all OF them, and Offering
as a counter proposition a continuance
OF the terms Of the anthracite coal
strike commissions award for further
term OF three years
Gen. Joseph s. Gage died at San Jose,
Cal. as the result q a paralytic stroke,
aged 81 years He was native oil
Maine and had a good war record
The Chinese eniperor's Illness is not
very serious tie is able 10 attend per
tormances in the palace theater.
The Mount Hamilton stage was held
ND AZ Grand View. Cal Daniel How
ard and wife. Of Brocton. Mass, and
other eastern tourists occupied the We
hicle The amount Of booty secured
was not large.
Two persons were killed and 10 in
iured In a wreck Of two freight trains
AM fast passenger train on the Balti-
more & Ohio failroad near Bloom
dale, o.
Later reports Of the casualties at the
battle with the Moros at Mt Dajo, on
the island OF Jolo, place the Moro loss
at about 900. many of whom were wom-
en- and children, who accompanied the
male members Of the band into the for
tilted crater of Mt. Dajo-
Thomas r. McKenna. managing ed
itor Of the Rocky Mountain News and
Denver tColl Times, died in Denver
Of Bright's disease. aged IS years
Two Burlington passenger trains col
lided head-on. on a curve in deep cut
two miles west of Akron. Col One
man was killed and four injured. The
messengers escaped with a severe jolt
ing
The Carson building. the largest II
Amarillo. Tex. was destroyed by IRE
loss. slOO.O00
Bishop Potter. Of New York. is tC
succeed Bishop Leonard. in charge Of
the American Episcopal churches II
Europe.
Cant. Ward. with a detachment Of
40 artillerymen. Is going to Pekin th'
end OF the month TO guard the British
legation there.
Owing TO he failure Of the whea
and barley harvest terrible iamlh'
Is imminent in Morocco.
A London Daily Mail correspondent a
Algeciras says that France has beef
ccerced BY the neutral powers int
making concessions on the police qles
ton
Emperor william OF Germany. II \
announced. will. during the summer
gazette his brother, Prince Henry o
Prussia as commander-in-chief OF tn
entire German feet in active service.
In a race riot at Wilmer. Ala. A. J
Ellis. an aged white man. was FATAL
wounded and several Others more o
less hurt. Four negroes were arrested
The three Missouri convicts foun
guilty OF killing Guard Clay during tn
attempt TO escape, some weeks age
we're sentenced to be hanged April 2
but an appeal to the supreme court Wi
act as a stay until next fall at least.
The New Jersey court Of pardons ha
commuted the sentence OF Mrs. Toll'
who was condemned to death for KILN
Jos. Sonta. in defense Of her honor. {
seven years and six months imprison
ment
The Washington Post has II figure
out that Secretary Taft Is TO succee
Justice Brown. resigned. on the benc
OF the supreme cour; Of the Unite
States. and that in the event Of the r.
tirerient Of Chief Justice Fuller durin
the present administration he Is to ste
up.
BY the collapse Of gallery stagin
In Earl's mine at Raibl. In the distriC
Of Jarvis. Austria, 40 miners and a
engineer were killed.
Viewers 81 Fall River, Bedford. Law
ton and Lowell. Mass, and Balti
Conn have organized the NatiOnI
Federation OF Weavers.