The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-02-26

| ARcnpucmEss MARIE vALvErH.
daughter Of the emperor Of Austria
and wife Of Archduke Francis salvador
Of Austria and Tuscany. il danger-
onsly III with pneumonia.
| " Is reported that King Milan has
been offered Inducements to become n
Russian subject and will accept them.
| The thermometer registered >, de-
grees below zero AZ Lydenvillc, w., on
the nth.
TnE total loss by the great fire in
New Orleans on the night Of the 18th.
will not exceed 81. $40. 900. with insur-
ance covered mostly by foreign COM
panies Local companies will lose
about $780, 900.
The bill for consolidation Of New
York, brooklyn and other municipali-
ties bordering on New York harbor.
has beep laid on the table by the New
York state assembly.
SIR AUGUkrUs JERNINGHAM. Baron
Stafford. died in London. on the 18th.
Of softening Of the brain. at the age Of
~ years.
LATE news from Brazil by way Of
London indicates that serious move
ments OF q revolutionary character are
taking place there.
The Pennsylvania railroad depot at
North Elizabeth. n. j.. caught fire
from spark from a locomotive. on the
18th, and was destroyed; loss, $1,000
Mrs +. II. SQUIRE died at Clyde. O..
on the 18th. aged % years Mrs. Squire
was the mother of United States Sena-
tor Watson c. Squire. Of Seattle, Wash.
LEE A. BAssErT. child. was choked
to death Mt kcokuk. la. on the 18th.
while eating an apple. A piece lodged
in the little ones throat and death en-
sued before 1t could be removed.
OSE of the largest timber land sales
ever made in California has just been
closed, Is. 900 acres or thirty miles
square OF sugar pine timber in Siskiyou
and Shasta counties being sold to Mil
Ter 4 Brewster. Of Green Bay. Wis.
and Tatum & Rowen. Of San Francisco
The average price was SIS per acre.
JEFFERSON BARRACKS at 81. Louis is
to be reconstructed as a military post
capable of accommodating full rcgi-
ment, or twelve troops Of cavalry. Or
ders have been received from Quarter
master General Batcheller to begin the
expenditure Of the $50. 900 already ap-
propriated for this purpose.
BETWEEN fifteen and twenty wolves
have made their appearance in West
Seneca, = suburb Of Buffalo. n. ".
and women and children are afraid to
go out Of doors. They appear in the
village at night and escape TO the
woods about mile away. Several old
hunters are following the trail well
armed.
DIPHTHERIA is raging in Pleasant
view, q suburb. Of Blackriver Falls.
Wis Several deaths have occurred
from the disease. The school has been
closed. and the citizens are greatly
alarmed. Efforts are being made to
check the progress Of the disease.
The United Workmen of Canada. in
session at Ottawa, have discussed at
great length proposal to secede from
the supreme court Of the United States.
The feeling Of the convention was OPP
posed to any such severance, and the
proposition was rejected.
THE dry goods store Of the f. NJ. Nc
Gillin Co. at Cleveland. O.. was burned
on the night Of the 18th, involving a
loss Of at least S6O0.00O; probably COW
cred by insurance. The building was
five-story brick block on the corner Of
Superior and Seneca streets, and ex-
tending back to Long street
OK the morning Of the 10th a sudden
darkness overspread st. Louis about
$50. and the city at once became dark
as midnight, causing an almost COM
plete suspension Of business for time.