The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-05-10

ment Of ''ferry carr across the Missis
sippi river at that place, in which pas
sengers and teams can be carried across
-Clock-work has been succel sun,
applied as motor TO sewing machine'
by mechanician Of Vienna. n can b
wound up In q few minutes, and II viii
run for several hours, its speed being
meanwhile fully under the control d
the operator.
Iron Is quoted at its lowest figures
IN the American market. Since Janua-
ry,. '13, the decline In prices has been
as follows: On pig-iron so per cent. on
refined bar 53 per cent. on Bessemer
steel rails GO per cent. on best iron
rails 90 per cent.
A Los Angeles paper states that the
genuine smyrna fig commerce has been
introduced at Pasadena, CAL, where il
Is almost perpetually in fruit. Last year
y fruifed from June to January, and
this year has already started fruiting
and will probably ripen from May-day
to Christmas.
A new style of paddle-wheel has
been invented and placed on the steamer
Massachusetts at New York. 1t was
tested and on the first trip the steamer
made nearly % miles an hour, with less
power than is usually applied. Tho
wheel works by pressure instead of i'm
pact. The blades are twice the size of
ordinary blades, but the wheels contain
only half the usual number.
AS showing the cost of labor in
Europe, the rate Of wages paid on GER
tain railroad works Of the same class.
was: In Portugal, S1.45 week; in
Ireland, 1920; in France, 81. 80, and in
England, $3.50. Nevertheless. il was
found that over the whole works the
same amount Of earth had been moved
for the same amount Of money.
A Hartford Conn company has
recently finished machine for printing
the ends Of heads Of thread-spools. The
machine is automatic, taking up the
spools one by one, and printing or en-
bossing the two heads simultaneously,
either with or without ink, and drop
ping them into q receptacle, at the rate
Of 100 per minute. The same machine
can be instantly adapted to spools from
two and a half inches TO half an inch
long. The machine prints directly on
the wood, obviating the necessity of |
printing, cutting and cumming labels,
and attaching them to the spools.
Haps and Mishaps.
AT Catasauqua, Pa, tight-rope
performer fell from q rope distance of
90 feet to the ground and was fatally in
jur ed.
Albert Walker, aged IL, while play
ing game of baseball at Cleveland, o.,
stood too close to the batter and received
fatal blow on the temple.
Killed by lightning: Harry X.
House, at Newburg, O.-John Chattle.
near Newcomerstown, O.-Mrs. Jane
Blue, near Bunker Hill, Ind.-A son of
VIM. Corners, aged Is, near Frances
nile, Ind.-Celinda Croxell, aged l6,
,ear Drury's Landing, Iowa.-Mrs.
Maggie Mcconnell, at Evart, Mich.
AT Maysville, KY, 3-year-old
'hild fell into the fire and was immediate
y burned to death.-A5-year-old daugh-
er Of j. b. Buckley, living near Bloom
ngton, o., was burned TO death by her
lothes taking fire from burning log J
leap.-Mrs. Hinkle was fatally burned
i Botkin, o., while engaged in boiling
arnish.
Shooting casualties: James G.
'ard, young lawyer at Gallatin, Tenn,
accidentally killed himself with pis. ,
ol.-At New Orleans, Philip Badger,
ged s,was killed by his brother, aged Z,
nth shotgun. They didn't know il
5as loaded.--At La Crosse, Wis, Mr.. =
!. Werner, a tobacconist, accidentally !.
hot and killed himself while target 7
hooting with revolver.-Thomas Du- !
al, OF Burlington, Iowa, fatally shot
imself while out cunning. At Daven-
ort, Iowa, Johnnie Dougherty shot
imself through the forehead while hunt
lg squirrels with a revolver.
-Curiosities Of suicide: Sidney An g
rews, . well-to-do young farmer living =
ear Wilmington, d., shot himself II
trough the heart with revolver. He o
It written statement, saying that he q
3mmitted the deed from no ill-will to- s.
ard his wife or father, but from causes
nown only to himsclf.-Peyton Chris o
ian, aged j5, son-in-law TO old Simon u
cnton, Of renown in Ohio's early his a
'ry, committed suicide at his home in 81
ADDISON County, o., by taking NOR n
hine. Mr.. Chrisman was about to lose II
IS sight, and seemed to think death a
referable to spending the balance ofhis Is
atural life in darkncss.-Afiss Florence n
owen, aged 10 years, daughter Of
wcll-to-do farmer living near
PIPER Sandusky, Ohio, commit
q suicide by shooting herself
it'll shotgun. No reason given
man aged about 30 leaped from the
w suspension bridge at Niagara into
9 river. An envelope in the poke, Of
> coat was addressed 20 Edward M.
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