The Jasper weekly courier., 1892-07-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
IIE<EY J. BERG. a collector and trust
cd clerk for the Lafayette bank Of St
Louis. has mysteriously disappeared
and is being eagerly sought for by the
local detective department on a charge
of embezzlement II j. said he has left
the city. leaving behind him shortage
OF $1,000
OSE Of the biggest jail deliveries that
ever occurred in Colorado took place on
the lst, when fifteen prisoners escaped
from the Lake county Jail at LeadviIle-
Among the prisoners are some despcr-
ate characters. and large posse OF OH
Gers went in pursuit
The net cash balance in the United
States treasury ON the lst. exclusive Of
the 100000. 900 gold reserve. was t16.-
esa ST.. q decrease during the month Of
June u s6>;. 400.
JoHS A. LOGAN son Of the late Cen
Logan. was riding a pony ON the fair
grounds track At Youngstown o. on
the Ist. when the animal baked,
throwing him against the fence. break
ing his right arm and bruising him Sc
verely-
MASON. Neh.. was visited by cyclone.
on the evening of the 1st. which left
ruin and destruction in its wake Near
lyevery residence in the town was more
or less damaged. II is hard TO state the
damage. but careful estimates place it
at between s,5.0o0 and so. 200. Several
persons were injured
Doc THAYER. an old-timc circus man.
who was a clown under Dan Rice and
who drove stage coaches in Indiana
when the west was an unexplcred coun-
try. died at his home in Chicago on the
night of the Goth. He was born At
Waddington. y. ". in 1880.
A NETTING Of anarchists IN the fau-
bourg St Denis Of Paris on the I'd.
adopted resolution to blow mp the
Montbrison prison and rescue Ra-
vachol, their late leader. now under
sentence Of death
AT Pittsburgh. Pa. James Riley com.
mitt@d suicide in the county Jail. on the
3d. by strangling himself with silk
neclxtie The officials are very much
mysrified as 10 his identity and the rea1
son FOR the act
| JAMES DoBsoS. convicted Of murder
and under sentence of death. who es
capped from the Prairie county lArk.
| jail recently. was captured. on the Sd
| in the swamps Of st. Francois count,
by a posse assisted by pack Of bIoos
hounds loaned to the Prairie count,
officials BY the penitentiary authori
/ ties
| EDWARD AND GEORGE ScHMIT. ages
respectively IS and II years; William
Harrison, aged /. years and Peter Le'
Tuily. aged 20 years. were drowned. oI
the sd. by the swamping Of ferry
boat near the Spring Gardens OF tn
foot Of Hanover street baltimore. Md
NrSK miles south Of Hope. Ark. on tn
sth- Dave Simmons and son met .Iohl
Simmons and son and tightensued. Al
parties were armed with shotguns an
pistols John Simmons was Instant,
killed and his son was fatally wounded
AT the residence of Cyrus w. Ficls
az Dobbs Ferry. y. ~. on the mornin
wu~ still alive but sinking very fast
I THE largest crowd Of people tha
ever visited Bsufton. o.. witnessed
on the evening Of the 4th. the pars
|, chute leap Of Miss Dc<sa Garrett. I
. Cincinnati She made the ascension I
1000 feet and was carried by the win
half mile from where she started
The descent was one Of tho most horr
. bic ever witnessed. as she fell in a stor
| quarry ia about twenty feet Of wats
and was dead when taken out
Al OrEEAroR HAYES. Engineer kell
and Fireman Brown. who arc charge
with being the cause Of the recent raj
: road accident in Harrisburg. Ia. "a,
bai:. on the sth. for their appearance
1 Ghe september term Of court in IIarri
Z burg.
4 THE village 81 Churchill. Queen Anr
! county. Md. was struck bv clou
; burst. on the night Of the "a. and man
4 houses i'm the town were badly dan
! aged. No one was seriously hurt. b,
. the loss 20 property was heavy.
! AxrHo~Y CRAro. an Austrian. who
4 wife was insane. and whom he had
n few days before brought home from n
A insane asylum at Independence, wa
e Together with hin wife. found dead
y their home al Du hnqnc. Ia. on the eve
4 ing of the 18th. Craig had killed h
r wife and committed xnicide because Ii
q was untrnrnble with his LIES partn,
In an insane asylum