The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-05-10
PERSONAL AMp GENERAL


cent. on tiye-penny nails and larger sizes
and thirty Ave per cent. on all sizes under
five-pcnny. Work will be resumed AZ
once.
Mn. BrcKI~GHAM. the secretary OF the
American delegates 20 the samoan con-
ference. arrived al Berlin, on the 18th.
Tur Marquis OF Londonderry, ia an
address al banquet al the College OK
Physicians, Dublin, on the ssth. an
nounced his resignation ~ the ofiice OF
Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland.
Tnr National lGermanl Gazette, IN an
article on the samoan question, favors
Herr von Bars proposal - restore the
triparfite control and 20 appoint nom'
inal King OF samoa with an outsider as
umpire.
PRor. c. v. RILEY. the Government en-
tomologist. announces that one brood OF
the seventeen- wear locust or grasshopper
will make its appearance this year.
BlsuoP GnEooRy THrRsTo~ BEDELL has
finally given up his charge at the head OF
the Episcopal church in Ohio, on account
Of his long illness.
FIRE. on the asth. in Bishops Bros sash
and blind factory at New London. Conn,
DESTROYED the entire plant, together with
the lumber aud coal yard connected. a
store house was also burned. Loss, ~bc
600.
The Green Brier mountains, near Brer
White Sulphur Springs, Va. were mass
OF fire on the 2sth. Millions OF feet q
valuable hard timber were consumed,
with tens of thousand Of rails and other
property.
OK the 2sth fire on the farm OF Sven
Moe, near Wahpeton, OAK, caused the
death of his two young children. aged SIX
aud three years.
SENATOR AND Mrs. Dox CAMERON, with
their daughter Martha, sailed. on the lst,
on the City of New York. for Europe
where they will remain until October.
liz the municipal elections at 81. Queen
France. on the 2sth. General Boulanger,
NJ. Laguerre. NJ. Deroulede and Senator
Naquet, although not standing as candi :
dates. almost defeated the candidates ~
the Radicals.
MRs. SUSAN BIvKLEy. aged seventy
nine, was burned 70 death at Xenia. O..
on the 3oth.
DURING the display Of fireworks on
the Lake Front at Chicago. on the night
! Of the 31th. attended by Que hundred
| thousand people. an accident in the ar
| rangements Of the fireworks caused
| panic. in which over fifty people were
| seriously hurt, a number perhaps fatal
| ". aud fully one thousan receiving pain
| full injuries.
| HARRY STREET. an attache OF wild
| west troupe. went up in "A balloon Al
| Bonneville, Ind, on the Dth. The bali
loon burst. and Street fell three hundred
feet, landing on roof, and then falling
10 the ground. receivin fatal injuries.
W. ID. KELLY, q hard citizen, living az
Black Diamond. mining town near Sc
attic, w. T., shot and fatally wounded
on the night of the 3)th, while crawling
into the window Of a cabin Of two saloon
keepers.
on the Goth wire cable was passed
around the steamer City Of Nashua, which
with the steamer Daniel Gage had dritted
upon Pawtucket dam, at Lowell. Mass,
and the vessel was pulled up stream witt
windlass. but the cable parted aud sh'
was swept back aud her keel and plankint
crushed in by the stones Of the dan
and the iron dashboard bars. She hlles
and sank in few minutes, and will be
total loss.
DrRrxc the parade. on the 30th. Polic'
Inspector Conklin, Of New York city. fel
from his horse at Fifth avenue and Tn II
face was also badly bruised. He was re
moved 10 the New YORK Hospital.
SHARP shocks Of earthquake were fel
in Switzerland on the 3oth.
FRANK IRVING, manager OF the theat
rical troupe playing the Dark Side OF
Great City. died on the 18th, at cincin
. natl. Of euro-pneumonia-
HESEr RocHEFoRr has applied to tn
I f..r Pa 4
enable him 10 attend the funeral OF hi
eldest son. who committed suicide at Bona
Algeria.
) AT the Newmarket (England) sprin
meeting, on the 30th, the race for tn
: Hastings plate. one mile, was won y
2 Abington's Freemason.
Z. LORD DrxRAvEx, the owner Of the yacf
valkyrie, IS much disconnected with ID
! arrangements thus far entered into ~
competition for the Americas cup, aud
, is not probable that he will compete
I. the cup is 70 be held subject to the fu
terms OF 1857.
THIRrY-rwo thieves we're arrested du
ing the Centennial parade in New Iol
I City, on the 3Oth, while engaged in plyin
: their nefarious vocation. They con
o prised pretty nearly all the remnant I
. their class which had escaped lnspect
g Byrne's drag-net previous 70 the centel
2 NAL.
The fire in Aurora mine, near Ironwoo
i Wis. was extinguished, on the 30th, will
y loss Of $4,000.
q The CHIEF officer and a sailor Of q
y American bark Bounding Billow we
4 drowned at Yokohama, japan, April
n by the cap,izing OF boat.
MANY lives were lost and twenty Jun
were wrecked on the west coast OF Jap
y on April II.
d The accident on the Tien Tsin g. II
* Kn (china) railroad, March 25th, IN viii
70 twelve native passengers and two firem
10 were crushed or burned 70 death, y
D. caused by collision due to misund'
standing Of orders.
THE Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania
n the 10Th, affirmed the Judgment
= guilty OF murder In the first degree In
~ case OF the murderer Of Paymasscr
~ Clurc.
ce THE centennial anniversary o. the
az auguration Of Washington a. Presid
e. OF the United States was very genera
celebrated by the people OF the vari
cities ~ the country.
HERR KoLIscH, the famous pa
n OF Vienna. died on the 3Oth.
~ GENERAL BorLASGER has LETT the ~
~ Bristol. Ia London, and taken up MS r