The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-12-06
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.


o., one Of the largest independent com
panies in the Ohio field. sold out on Ia
I'D TO the Standard Oil Company 10
500. 600
THE schooner G. II. Church. which lcf
baltimore October - with 1884 tons o
coal for Boston, was on the I'D given Il,
for lost Captain J. T. Gallagher wa'
accompanied BY his wife and child.
A RAnip dog was killed on the ed Al
Marion. Ind, who In the past six days
had bitten ten persons.
NEAR Catasauqua. Pa, William BOYD
and Frank Burger were killed on the
I'D by premature explosion OF blast
In stone quarry.
FAmRANKs a Co.'S general store and
stock al St Johnsbury. VT. were dam
aged by fire on the 22d to the extent Of
500. 900.
WALTER Il. PREY. half-idiot. killed
the three-year-old son Of Philip Fisher
on the ed at Weymouth. Mass, by
burying him alive in yard.
TERRIFIC snow-storm ragged on the
ssd in the neighborhood Of Missoula.
Mont. Railroad traffic was blocked and
four serious wrecks were reported on the
Nortnern racine
EXPORTS from the United States for
the year ended October. 1889. were Sos
46s,7 1872. against S6ss. 42s.s44 in lsss: ana
imports sos. 4is,777. against s722. 979. e45
In 1855.
STEPHEN PETrus. a prominent New
York business man, was shot and killed
on the ED in Fulton street by Hannah
Southworth. woman about thirty
years OF age. She claimed Pettus had
wronged her.
skIFF in which were three unknown
men capsized in the Ohio river near the
Point bridge at Pittsburgh on tho a2d
and the men We're drowned.
JAMES SMITH, New York letter-car-
rier, driven desperate BY his wife's de-
sertion. shot his two little children "a
tally on the 22d and then shot himself.
but he was not seriously hurt.
Mr>. ANNA PEoBAsco. aged ninety i
years, mother OF Henry Probasco. the
Cincinnati millionaire. fell down a eel
iarway at her home in Charlottesville.
Ind, on the 22d. and was killed.
JOSEPH A. SMIriI. awaiting trial at
Elkton. Ky, for the murder OF Town
Marshall Williams, was taken from the
jail on the Esd by a mob and hanged.
NINE men lost their lives on the 23d
an fire in the 81. Lawrence mine al
Su'te' Mont, and dozen Others were
Injured, four probably fatally.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the Esd aggregated ST.
229'605. 2d9 against si,2l0. 6ss, 404 the
previous week As compared with the
corresponding week Of 1858 the increase
amounted 10 1915
ANNIE MCDOWELL and Mary Mullar-
key, both sixteen years Of are. were
killed BY the cars on the esd at Cincin-
natl. \
SANGER & WELLS. New York coffee
dealers, failed on the I'D for $500 200. \
The work OF the Chippewa Commits ,
sioners was finished on the a3d. the sir- r.
natures Of every tribe on the rescrya-
lions in Minnesota having been secured. y
ms secures the opening OF about three ?
million acres Of land in Northern Min g
nesota. In
JoHS y. DRAKE, OF the Grand Pacific
Hotel Chicago. gave his thirty-fourth 4
annual game dinner on the Esd. b
ROBERT BLAND. who attempted TO y
commit an assault on Miss Annie Gee
aged sixteen years. was taken from the p
Prince George County lva) iail On the Il
I'D BY forty men and hanged
HE livery stable Of Frizzell. Power, =
4 johnson at Vienna. ILL.,. was burned q
IN the 25d. and twenty-ouc horses were II
rematcd. ~
IN his annual report on tho a3d First
assistant POstmaster-t;cncral j. DC
-larkson showed that 2.5.0 fourth-class 81
'ost-oiiiccs were established during the
ast fiscal year and l.las post-oflices y
sere discontinued. making the total T.
lumber Of post-ofiiccs July /. lssa.
e'o'' Of which number 2.6ss were y;
residential Offices The number OF %
'ieces Of mail matter handled bv W
arrriers during the year was 3.0S5'- DO
o5,5lo, an Increase Of nearly ass 600
lcccs The amount received for local Sa
ostage was over ~. 500. 600. an increase Of
'r the year Of nearly So. 600. 900. nj!
sroREHorSE of Sharpless Bros. drv-
GODS dealers in Philadelphia. was de- fc
royed by fire on the Esd. Loss. sl65.- got
y. 10,
-7T -"T - WV IN lIJn IllAWdtII. L.
an say that the farmers OF that OF
'cinity We're burning corn for fuel find
z y cheaper than coal. 000
DISPATCHES Of the I'D say that van on
Issel. the San Francisco acronaut. nct
terrible fate in Honolulu harbor re- dea
'ntiy' being devoured BY sharks al he def
'o.ppcd into the bay from parachute. has
AT Lake City, Fla. the west wing ~ 7
u. iiarts cotton warehouse Was age
'rncd on the I'D, causing a loss OF at q
ohe sloo.VoO. dea
= FIRE on the osth in the wholesale mu
ocery house Of Janncy & Andrews. M =
liladelphia. caused loss OF $3.50. 900. az :
le fireman was killed. cat.
HE stud barn Of T. G. Webster q a. trv,
Orchard Hill Farm, Kan. vas al y
Dyed by lire on the gath, and four sidi
ted stations were burned 70 death. to q
mi Slou.vVv stca
ihE north-bound passenger train On a
Missouri, Kansas 4 Texas railroad Jac
! held up on the 24,h nj Pryor Creek. som
~ ana me express and mail cars hon
4 ropDeu. cans