The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-03-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Mr.. and Mrs Nicholas LongwOrth
have returned 10 Washington from their
brief honeymoon trip 70 Cuba. ani are
a. home IL the LongworIh residence or
Eighteenth street
September 1893 has been fixed as the
date for the celebration Of he cen
teEary Of the discovery OF Pixies Peak.
il Colorado by Capt Zebulon NJ. Pike
IL will be largely a military affair.
BY the breaking away OF the ice from
the mainland. 500 Finnish fishermen.
with their families and horses. were
driven BY a storm into the Baltic sea
ard II was feared they were all doome.
to perish.
BY the damaging by fire Of the gen
eral Office building CT the Seaboari Air
Line railway 81 Portsmouth Va. 2
large quantity Of valuable records and
official papers were destroyed.
William LedUc. the farmer who on
October IS last. shot and killed his
brother-in-law. Mayor Charles Nickel.
cashier OF the bank al Chenoa. H., and
Hush Jones. depositor has been sent
10 prison for life.
Tacloban. he capital Of the Philip
pine island OF Leyte, has been de-
stroyed BY FIRE II was situated in az
important hemp district
Augustin Nable. ordinary seaman.
Wa lost overheard from the transport
I.awton. en- route TO san Francisco.
~hile assisting n taking deep sea
sounding
Henry l. Whitbeck. a physician and
dentist Of Buffalo. \. Y. killed his in
valid wife by striking her on the tenn
pies with a hammer. and blew of the
top Of his own head it'll rifle.
The village OF Tavernola. built on the
perpendicular cliffs above Lake leo. in
the province OF Brescia Italy was al
mos entirely destroyed by the rocks
suddenly giving way ard pluuging into
the lake Only one life was lost. the
inhabitants being warned BY a loud
roaring. fed
The postmaster general decides that
the book Patriotic Studies" issued by
the International Reform bureau is not
a public document. and is not. under
the law. entitled 10 tranam 'ssion
through the mails unler frank Of a
member Of congress
King Edward Of Great Britain re-
ceived cordial popular greeting in
Paris. exchanged visits with President
Fallieres. with whom he held an ex-
tended conversation. ard entertained
former President I.ouhet az dinner. The
king projected 10 Biarritz. where he
will remain tire rest Of the month.
Lieut. Ger John II. SchOield I. S.
A. retired The last OF the prominent
civil war commanders. aied at & Au-
surrlne. Fla. from an attack q cerebral
hemorrhage His wife and young Gsugh-
ter wers with his
The Berlin Taesblatt Says that En-
peror William and King Edward VII
probably meet a. Breslau during the
army maneuve-s IN siiesia IN Septem
Der
Emperor Nicholas IS reported 70 have
parGared ex-L.eut Schmidt. who com
manded the cruiser O1chakon during
the mntiny az Sebasi0pol. and who
was sentenced 70 death by couri-mar-
tial
The storm hat SEent the Society ISL
ards early in February is thought 20
have cost tho lives Of 10000 persons
and an aggregate loss OF 5000 600. II
IS feared tina, famine wiz follow Tor
two or three years as the breadfruit-
cocoanut. banana and plaintzin groves
are ruined.
The death lis; by the tornado a.
Meridian. Miss. IS placed al "a with
&C injured and money loss ~ about
s1.250.000 Mary poor people are home
less and viii be deprived OF employ
ment.
Alfred Won Stei-er Of Wilton. X. D..
Is reported 10 have been killed by
Yaqui Indians in the mountains of So
ncra Mexico. where he had gone for
fis health
The state primary Bill met defeat IL
tile Iowa senate This ends tic fght
on mis- subject tor this legislature
saAne J Humphries. Douglass +
Smith Charles Aacustus seton and
charies 7. c y. cc.mey. indicted in
ronncctit- win NvgTcik 4 Western
sf5p'.c'o tCad forgery nere arraigned
before Reccrt, Cor in XIV York. and
81 pleaded gaisy but C0mey They
Ssle rsnanded o-s month for sentence.