The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-03-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


W. +. SIMMONS three story brick block
az Brandon. VT. containing -four stores,
Offices. lodge rooms and the Masonic Hall.
was burned on the 18TH. Total loss, about
SJp.0n.
THE Senate. in secret session on the
18th. confirmed the nominations Of John
A. Kasson. William Walter Phelps and
George II. Bates. commissioners TO Berlin
in the samoan conference.
Ex-PREsiDE~r CLEVELAND. in company
with his wife and mother -in-law; Ex-
Northumberland Dickinson and
Ex-Secretary Villas. left New York City
on their way 70 Cuba on the 18th
ArGrsT CRIcHsoS, a plastere-. fell down
the elevator shaft in the Metropolitan
block at Sioux City. la, from the seventh
story to the basement a distance of
seyenty-six feet. No bones were broken,
and he may recover
JUSTICE MATTHEWS. OF the United
States supreme Court, who has been i'll a
long time, was reported as being very
much better on the 18th.
on the 18th Captain Wissmaun left
Cairo. Egypt for Zanzibar.
The Berlin NolKs Zeitung has been sup
pressed by the German Government on
account OF its Socialistic tendencies.
Tux suspension Of Tavende a Co..
BANKERS OF Lemans, France. with liabili-
ties estimated at several million francs,
l. announced.
President HILGARpE ~ the Agricnl-
tural College ~ California j. mentioned
for Assistant Secretary OF Agriculture.
IT i reported that Count Herbert Bis
mark and Counselor Craul viii represent
Germany in the Samoan conference.
Mr.. SAMUEL CARTER HALL, the veteran
Publisher and author 81 London. died on
the 18th. lie was born at Tcpsham,
Devon. ID 1901.
The shortage 81 County Clerk Sullivan.
Of indianapolis. Ind, is Know 70 reach
$4,000.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA 81 Spain will
meet Queen Victoria at Saint Sebastian on
the a.th.
SIX men We're thrown out Of
employment by the closing Of the Cham
beers mine at Anaconda. Mont.
Mrs. moore. the deserted wife Of the
~ex-managing editor ~ the 81. Louis POST
Dispatch. j. teaching school at her old
home III Camden, MI
Mr.. Cyrus BrssEY was. on the 18th,
confirmed IS Assistant Secretary ~ the
Interior.
THE famous preacher and baseball
pitcher. Rev. William Merle smith. was
formally installed in the Central presby-
terian Church New York City. on the 18th.
on the 18th Musgrove's United States
Hotel. at Steubenviue, O., vas entirely
destroyed by fire. Loss. $4,000; insur-
ance. $4,000.
Mr. >. w. MASON, Of West Virginia. has
been selected by the President as Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue.
In. TyNER, 81 Indiana, is 20 be Assist
aut Acknowledgement for the Post-Dshce
Department.
GENERAL B~orLAxcER will pay a visit q
London ia June.
The funeral 81 the French Admiral Jau'
res took place in Paris on the 18th.
THE Secretary % the Treasury has IS
sued a circular 70 customs officers
!, instructing them to see that the pro-
/. visions Of the act -for the protection q
1 the salmon fisheries ia Alaska are strict
! liz observed.
. On. WM. GARRARD. the first mannfact
urer u steel tools in the United States
died ~ old age al New Brighton. Pa, 81
the 18th, aged eighty six years. HI frs
engaged in the steel business IN Cincin
; natl in $50.
The Drrbyshire tEngland) handicaI
steeplechase Of 800 sovereigns was VOL
is the bay mare Ringlet on the 18th.
xATuRAL-nAs well has been struck a
Thsston. 81. the how Of which exceed
that ~ tie famous Karge well al Findlay
Z The gas will be piped 70 Columbus
. An explosion Of dynamite occurred 4
: No. 2 tunnel 81 the Cumberland md.
1 Hydraulic Cement Company. on the 18th
Z fatally injuring Joseph Hammer r init
: and Joseph Wayman, and s%eriousl
wounding Noah Long and solomon Moore
AT the athletic tournament held in Wor
4 c%ester, Mass. on the 18th, AL Hosmer. tn
Boston oarsman. won the ten-mile pro
u fessipnal walk ia i:2s:il. beating .. n
n Foy. his closest competitor, by twenty
!. three seconds. The first prize was Si0o
u second, 40.
A new YoRx Cry confectioner IA
fashioned ia chocolate two venuses atte
ie the model OF Milo. each eight feet hig
a and weighing 1900 pounds; a pair of five
y fcct-high Etruscan vases. weighing y
N pounds each, and two other mammot
r. vases. one Of chocolate mi one 81 "pa~
II tillage," for exhibition at the Paris Expo
.y sitiOn.
The report of the loss OF the SPANS
steamer Remus az the Philippine Island
y on January ~. with forty-two 81 the Y
y people on board. has been confirmed. I'll
Y gun-boat Argus picked up the suryiyiu
~ officers and passengers.
q NJ. MEcHAx. formerly president ~ II
~ French Chamber or Commerce, has be,
u appointed %liqnidator ~ the affairs ~ Il
NJ Comtoir d'EScDmpte.
~ THE new mayor ~ Waterloo. Ia. T.
~ Knight 81 81. Crispin, and was elected 1
the Labor vote, aided by a f~actional figl
n ia the dominant party.
he EMPEROR Francis JosFrH granted
al audience 20 Ex-king Milan Of Scrv
"a CD the 10Th.
IN sin JULIAN PArNcEForE. the new Bri
~ ish Minister 70 the United States, will "a
for America on April ~.
IA Iris said the Chinese Minister ~ Was
w lngton spends more money for submarll
10 cable service than does the Government
the United states.