The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-07-12

SECRETARY BLAINE and Walker Blain
have gone 20 Bar Harbor. Me-, where thu
former will remain until September
President Harrison contemplates paying
the Secretary visit some time IN July.
NAVAL CADET HERnERr l.. DRAPER. OF
Ellsworth. kas.. who was recently admit
ted 10 permanent duty AS an Ensign. hal
been made a Second Lieutenant and as
signed 10 duty in the Marine Corps.
ACTIVE operations commenced at the
Norfolk Navy Yard az the beginning OF
the new fiscal year. and several hundred
mechanics and laborers were put 10 work
The working force Is to be Increased q
1850 men.
! W. J. LEFcHMAN. aged seventy years
died AZ his home in Centerpoinf. Ind. on
the lst.. from the effect Of snake bite
His body became much swollen. involving
the lungs. For many years he was d
I practicIng physician.
! FIVE weeks ago DIR. Knowles, Indiana
State Veterinary Surgeon, killed two
/ horses belonging to a man named Eads,
! al Carlisle. Eads himself was suffering
] with clanders. and word has been re.
| ceived that he had died from the disease.
/ DANIEL AJArvEfS. twenty-three years
| old. who is police officer in New York
| City, attempted TO end his life while on his
way 10 his post OF duty by shroting him
/ SELF in the right side. He was removed
70 the hospital prisoner. He is believed
10 be out OF his mind. and will probably
die.
| THE official vote Of the recent election
in Pennsylvania as received and COM
putcd is as follows: For the prohibition
amendment. 2a6,7l7: against. 49, CA; ma
jority against. l>s.02.. For the suffrage
amendment abolishing the poll-tax quail.
ifcation. l>3 81; against 40. 1923: majority
against 23j,952.
PASSENGER train on the Norfolk &
Western railroad went through washed
out culyert, near Roanoke, Va. at 1:n
a. M. on the ID. The entire train. con-
sisiing Of locomotive, baggage, express.
smoker passenger and two Pullman
cars. was piled up in heap Of wreckags
which Immediately caught fire from a
gasoline lamp and burned. together with
large number 81 dead aud wounded
passengers and train hands pinioned il
the debris.
]. {. CHANEy. OF Indiana. was. on the
I'll. appointed assistant attorney in the
Department OF Justice, in the place Of 4.
J. May. resigned.
THE German officers in the service Of
China are about 70 resign.
AT lis own request. Colonel John q.
Parke. os the Engineer Corps. superin-
tendent OF thu West Point Military Acad-
envy, was, on the "a, placed on the retired
list of the army. Colonel Parke Lad
served forty years as an army officer.
The members Of the Cherokee Indian
Commission left Washington for their
homes on the "a. They will 90 to the
Cherokee country about the 2jth
Mr.. THOMAS J. MORGAN, OF Rhode
Island. the new Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs, arrived in Washington. on the
"a. % take charge Of the Indian Office.
A DESTRUCTIVE water-spout broke over
Altoona. Pa, aud vicinity, on the night OF
the ~. AMI several persons were pros
trated by lightning during the storm.
Ell Mix. the coroner who has been in
vestigaiing the fatality which occurred on
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad few miles north Of New hrv-
en-. Conn. on the 10Th. handed his report
to states a ttorney Doolittle on the ~.
He finds that the accident was caused by
the criminal carelessness Of Thomas
Shields. a section boss.
The Chautauqua (N. w Assembly
opened its sixteenth annual session on
the I'll
TnE tcnth annual meeting Of the
League o. American Wheelmen was be-
gun az Hagerstown Md. on the %.
THOMAS MCBRIDE and Alex. Hart were
instantly killed and several other per-
sons were injured by the bursting Of an
immense steam bleaching vat in the
Lyons iIa.) paper mill on the "a.
FouR business blocks at HALEY, Idaho.
were destroyed BY fire, on the ID causing
loss Of 100000.
TIE Norwegian ministry resigned on
tue 81.