The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-04-03

On the 23i General Graham expected 70
reach Tamai within a few hours, and pro-
posed TO give Osman Digna battle as soon
as possible Tue latter had $4,000 men.
GOVERNOR SroxFMAx OF California has
refused 10 sign the bill amending the Con-
stitution. whereby the railroads would BE-
taxed two and half per cent of their
gross earnings, instead Of being taxed on
their property in the ordinary manner.
OK the Esd Joseph Goss, the pugilst,
died OF Bright's disease at his club h usc,
"Saraccn's Head" Boston. Mass He was
born in wolverhampton. England, in 1885.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE glass-works OF Francis Storms,
Broc klyn. n. <, were damaged by fire on
the 18th 70 the extent of $4,000
A PARTY Of robbers entered Donaldson &
Co.'S bank at Columbus, o., on the 10th,
and stole $500.
Ar Allegripus. Pa. freight train was
wrecked on the 10Th. One man killed and
several seriously injured,
Jos. SKELrAS and George K Osborn are
under arrest at Chicago, charged with
manufacturing and passing counterfeit
silver coin.
On the 10th the residence Of Lieutenant
Thomas w. Fitch General Sherman's son
in-law,) at Cote Brilliante, suburb Of st.
Louis, No., was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000; insured.
AT Newton, Mass, on the Goth, Sam
Glass was killed by boiler explosion.
The execution OF Stephen Jones. a me-
gro murderer, took place at San Francis
CO, Cal on the 10th.
ST. JosErH's Academy at Emittsburg,
Md, burned on the 10th. Loss, 5000.
OK The goth two people were burned to
death in boarding house fire at Bridge
port, Conn.
OK the 10th A. Silvas and NJ. Martinez
were executed at Los Angeles, Cal The
former murdered q man for brushing up
against him.
EARLY the morning OF the 10th the ORR
entail Hotel at Seattle, w. T., was destroy
ed by fire. One man named Mike TobIn
was burned 70 death and number fatally
and seriously injured.
The hotel, store, butcher shop aud few
small buildings comprising about half the
business part OF the town Of Mecosta,
Mich. burned the night OF tho 10th. Loss,
$1,000; insurance, 5000.
In Crescent Township, Pottawattomle
County, Ia, on the night Of the 18th, lit
tie girl named Myrtle Perry was burned
70 death by her clothes taking fire from
some burning brush, near which she was
playing.
OK the evening Of the alst Chicago was
visited by disastrous confagration in
the burning OF the Langham Hotel. Sew
eral lives we're lost.
Or the 2lst the Continental Sugar Re-
finery storehouse at South Boston with
10000 barrels OF sugar burned.
AT Lockport. y. ", on the 2ist, an en-
CINE and fifteen freight cars were wrecked
and set on fire by q collision.
A PORTION OF the State Capitol building
at Trenton, n. j., was destroyed by fire on
the 2lst- The chancery records were de-
stroyed.
AT Girardville, Pa, skating rink was
blown up by dynamite on the night Of the
2lst. No one was hurt.
OK the ed Fritz SCHNEIDER. OF Allegheny
City, Pa. was found in an clubhouse in a
badly mashed condition
AT lthica, Mich, ON the 23d. two young
children were literally roasted alive
THos- J. NEvIS, ex-Mayor Of Adrian,
Mich, pleaded guilty TO forgery and was
sentenced to ten years In prison.
A GERMAN hermit named Robt. Maui,
was creanated in a dilapidated building
which burned near Blairsville, Pa, on the
23d.
AFTER being ice bound In Lake Mich l.
gan for four weeks the propeller Michigan
sank. She was valued at Sl65, 200.
OK the 23d Charles Mexicat, aged twelve
years, was shot by his nephew, Dan, aged
ten years, ut Carlton, Mich, and probably
fatally wounded. Result Of quarrel
AT Charleston, w. Va, on the 23d, an
explosion in q wholesale grocery killed
one man, set fire TO the bsilding, which
communicated to The Hale House, both Of
which were destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
on the night OF the 22d Albert Gamble,
a boy or fifteen. living at Moultville, Pa,
committed suicide by hanging.
PosrMAsrER A. A. KENDALL at st. Paul,
Neb., has been arrested by Inspector Steen
on the charge OF defalcation, amounting
TO between 81 600 and 5000. Kendall Is a
brother Of the ex-Commissioner Of Public
Lands and Buildings Of Nebraska
MISCELLANEOUS.
OK the 22d the Fourth Italian hotilla for
the Red Sea was about to start.
VERY heavy snow drifts were reported
| In some OF the Eastern and Middle States
on the 2lst.
The French forces remain practically in
a state OF siege at Kee Lung.
The extension paper Of Oliver Bros. a.
Phillips, OF Pittsburgh, Pa, has been
signed by all the creditors, and they will
resume.
THE Prime Minister OF leussia Is re-
ported to have resigned.
The rumor that China has made OVER
lures for peace are discreditcd In Paris.
BY the shutting down of nail mills ut