The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-27

atoms. on the nth. by the explosion oi
"a powder mill at the Scrvian village OF
knjgujcvalcs. There was not u trace
OF the mill left.
CmIFF Khama. who Is assisting tho
British South Africa Co s forces against
the Matabcles. arrived Mt Tati, on the
18th. with 800 followers.
Tux treasury department has issued
an advance statement of the exports
for the nine months Of the present
year. During that period the value OF
imports was e625. ss5. 62S; Of domestic
exports. ASST. o4i, 46a; of foreign exports,
tl6,l22. I'll. a total of exports OF $685.
l64iss. The excess Of imports over
exports for the nine months was s22,
22l ,4i0.
OK May last the well-kno wn Wall
street New York; firm Of Patton 4
Co failed. with liabilities of t7ss. 900
and assets Of Gil 900. On the 18th Will
liam l.. Patton. member of the firm.
was lodged in Jail charged with the
hypot hccation of 500, 900 worth of Sc
curities held by the firm and also
with appropriating to his own personal
account $3.50. 900 of the actual $3.50, 900
lost To creditors.
1T is understood that the treasury
department will take steps TO restrict
the payment of gold over the counters
Of the sub-trcasury at New York with
IA view to building up the gold reserve.
which had been invaded. up to the
18th, to the extent Of SIS. 200, 900, leav-
ing it in round figures at SIS, 0OO.0 900.
BENJAMIN DETTz, a grocer Of Dayton,
o.. returned from the Worlds fair on
the 18th and discovered that nearly
$4,000 in money and notes. which he
had drawn from the bank and hid in n
stove. had been stolen.
Mrs TIMOTHY DONOVAN, of Morris
River. Pa, died at Jackson. Mich, on
the 18th. She is the thirteenth victim
Of the recent wreck. 1t is believed her
spine was dislocated in the crash.
EDw ARD THOMPSON was killed. and
several others were injured, three of
them probably fatally. by the collapse
of a'span of the new wagon bridge over
the Des Moines river at Ottumwa. Ia.
on the 18th.
PRESIDENT DOLE of Hawaii returned
to Honolulu from his six weeks noun
tain trip, on the 18th, greatly recuper
ated in health.
Mrs. Roscoe CoSKLING died, on the
18th, at her home in Utica. n. y.
SENIOR DEL VALE. the new leader OF
the radical party in Argentina. made
il a condition precedent to accepting
the leadership that the party should
"A bandon viole mt methods.
ABLUE book just issued in London
detailing the condition of farm labor
ers in thirteen counties of Ireland, says
that their position is better now than
at any former time.
ORA RICHARDS of Galveston. Ind.
was arrested. on the 10th, charged
with attempting to wreck a Panhandle
passenger train by throwing switch
at Galveston just before fast passen-
ger train was due.
THERE we're thirty-one new cases
and one death from yellow fever in
brunswick. Ga, on the 10Th. Twenty
six of these cases were colored and five
white
THE battle monument at Trenton,
y. j., was dedicated. on the 10th, with
impressive pomp and splendor.
The great cotton mill in Shanghai
has been destroyed by fire. Loss.
100000; no insurance.
The paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the 10Th were 307.4i1.
ANDREW DvRsk and John McManus
were smothered to death by a cavern
while digging "A trench in the Carnagie
10th.