The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-10

MISoRC kEirH's clipper fruit steamer
Foxhall from Port Limon. Costa Rica.
arrived at New Orleans on the night Of
the Sist. Among her passengers was
Francis ii. Weeks, the New York en-
bczzler. in charge Of Detectives Reilly
and Won Gcrichtcn.
A SERIOUS railroad collision occurred
on the Lambert Point branch of the
Norfolk 4 Western railway in Nor
folk. Va, on the 3ist. resulting in the
death Of two men and the dangerous
injury of five others.
TnE Chicago City Railway Co. trans
ported as 900. 900 passengers between
May | and October 81. This estimate
is based upon the eturns of cash fares
for the time, excluding all transfers.
policemen, firemen. employees and
others who rode free.
JAMES L. BRANNES. the leader Of the
mob that lynched Daniel Arata. the
Italian murderer. in Denver, Col. on
the night Of July 6. last. was indicted
by the grand jury on the list
HARRIET ANN. daughter of Thurlow
Weed. died in New York. after a lin
gering illness, of pleurisy, on the LIST,
aged "a.
THE public debt increased during
October So. 14l ,O59. OF.
TnE Elwooi lind window-glass fac
tory, employing 600 hands, vas discov-
cred to be burning on the morning
of the LIST. The immense plant was
situated outside the limits of water
works lines and could not be reached
by the department. In twenty minutes
the whole building was ablaze. The
plant is "A total wreck. and its employees
are thrown out of work at the begin
ming of winter. Loss. $50, 900; insur-
ance, 50, 1000.
CHAIRMAN PECK reports the Worlds
fair treasury in n healthy condition.
All obligations have been met and
there is IA cash balance on hand of So
800. 600. The gate receipts from now
IN and the salvage. it is figured, will
pay the current expenses until the
end. SO that the stockholders, who have
holdings representing 81. 900, 900. upon
which they scarcely expected to realize
anything. will be paid fifty cents on
the dollar.
SHORTLY after o'clock on the morn
ing Of the I'd "A fire broke out in the
house at No. l9Third street. New York.
A second alarm was sent out shortly
after the tiremen reached the scene.
Six firemen were overcome by gas and
dragged out of the place by their com
panlons
The public debt statement issued on
the list showed a net increase in the
debt during October of s.. l4l. 05s. OF.
Cash in the treasury. s7a9,447 Ola.
a FIGURING mill boiler exploded. on
the list. at Windfall. Ind, instantly
killing Lewis Mill. Everything was
wrecked.
TIE silver repeal bill was entered
upon the records at the White House.
on the I'd, and the official parchment
copy was sent to the state department
for filing with the archives of the gov
eminent.
AT congress of revolutionary So
~cialists held in BRUSSELS. on the LIST. it
was resolved to carry on an active prop
uganda to bring abouta strike among
the soldiers of Belgium and elsewhere.
TIE Viking started from Chicago,
on the I'd. for st. Paul. Mimi, to which
city it was presented before the close
of the Worlds fair.
TES THOUSAND persons witnessed the
unwilling of the statue of the late Sir
John Macdonald at Hamilton. Ont. on
the LIST.
Snow fell for an hour at ST. Paul,
Mimi, on the morning of the I'd. with
the thermometer at the freezing point.
The paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the I'd were s.632.