The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-11-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Nsi.t.l4lNN > iONI nuns ~ ~" ~ - y
y. ". were destroyed by fire early on
the morning of the cath: loss. 100000.
Alfred Steele and William Connell were
injured. the former slightly. the latter
seriously. The fire is supposed To have
been caused by an explosion OF Hour
dust.
Tny lawyers who defended Cream
deny the statement in the London
News to the effect that he had con-
fesscd TO having murdered the Glover,
Marsh and Shrivell girls
JAMES G. BLAINE. Mrs. Blaine and
Miss Alice Blaine left New York Tor
Washington. on the cath. They were
accompanied by Mrs. Damrosch. Mr.
Blaine's daughter. TO the train
MAYOR GRANT of New York has de-
clned the offer Of $4,000 per annum.
made some time ago, to assume the pres
idency of a distilling company in Louis
Vile.
TuF new German military bill does
not 90 as far rs was expected in adding
| to the effective strength of the army.
Ir is estimated that the loss by the
| fire in the Kleine Grasbrools quarter OF
Hamburg, on the 2sd. amounts to a.ooo.-
600 marks The policies on the ware
houses and goods were mostly issued
| bv British insurance companies
CHARLOTTE EDGES. the Swedish auth
Dress and wife Of Cajancllo. died in Rome
on the 2ith-
THERE were eight new cases and four
deaths from cholera in Vienna on the
a5th. Great anxiety prevails and the
authorities are adopting the most
stringent methods to prevent the dis
ease from spreading.
THERE were seven fresh cases OF
cholera and one death in Hamburg on
the a5th.
THE Norwegian steamer Normand.
2,44i tons. from Nagasaki. Japan. for
Singapore, was wrecked off the coast
: of Token. during the late storm, and
,, il is believed that only two OF those on
board survived.
THE secret service division of the
treasury department has discovered a
, counterfeit Of the new issue OF two
, dollar silver certificates. 1856, check let
+, ter Il. a235. W. $. Rosecrans. register
, James HYATT. treasurer. The differ
: encc between this note and the gcnu
inc. which will result in the detection
of the counterfeit at a glance. is thai
z the upper loop of the - in James
$ in the signature james Hyatt points
o directly between the ID. c. after Wash
i. ington in the genuine. while III th'
c counterfeit il is about one-eighth OF M
inch TO the left. immediately under thu
letter sd"
q ~ IL. MaEsr,lav oddrpSSas
y an assemblage in the St Louis exposi
ton music hall that filed every possible
e inch of seating and standing room, aii'
I, which ovcrnowed into the vestibule
and out into the street Thousand
were compelled to go home disappoini
cd in their expectation of hearing al
!, rectly from the father of the tariff bill
= ARTICLES of incorporation have bee
. fled by the Swansea Steel and Ii
u Plate Co.: capital. 500 900 The inco'
porators are: Walter X. howard. l..
Shirley and Jesse +. Roberts Th
IN principal stockholders are Welsh cap
e. talists. The plant will be located
< st. Paul Park. a suburb of St Pau
10 Mimi. The mills will not employ le'
e. than 800 men. Work on the building
d. will be begun early in January and II
tn mills will be in operation by June |.
JrpGr BLoDGETT. of the Unite
States district court for the northci
lst district of Illinois. on the 25th co
nv fr,ned the statement published that
nd had rendered his resignation To q
ty- president on the 18th. to take effect
MS first Monday in December. The Jud
in has occupied seat on the distr
en- bench TWENTY-FIVE years
GEN. BoorH has appealed to I
members of the Salvation Army
'e., coo. 600 to enable him to continue
nas Darkest England work. He 81
ten that unless this sum is received bei'
SUI Christmas he will be placed in pc
avs ton of extreme difficulty. and
be- further development of his scheme
on be impossible.
AT Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 20
Thomas Hughes and Mike McCicil
"a charged with robbing five post offi'
s were found guilty as indicted on
- the counts, except as to Hughes. '
RI. was found not guilty as to the cha
I. of robbing Plcasantville post Office
~ ALI. the Philadelphia & Reading c
49,. and Iron Co 5 collieries have been :
any down indefinitely and work has b
begun al overhauling the Maha
,cen Plane machinery. II will be seve
= n weeks before all the mines arc in o.
OF alton again.
Rar. Boris GODDARD and John Glasin
ring printers. were asphy by odor
. ~. fuel gas which escaped from jc'
ate. their room at 40i Forty-sixth str
ed Is Chicago. on the night of the 25th
,ota- LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. fo
erly Miss jerome. of New York. '
had been seriously i'll for several d
ELITE was reported better. ON the goth.
LOT not yet out Of danger.
the WARREN a. WATHors. well kn'
on OF in Washington commercial circles q
iund real estate and note broker. was
the rested. on the 2Gth. on warrant CHI
, ana ing him with forgery.
cna'i 1T is reported that owing to the
oe. turbanccs and unsettled state of
'a' Oh country. the French government
tends increasing the military fore
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