The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-09-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CRAzFp by the excessive use of liquor
Douglas Curtis. a switch thrower in the
employ Of the Western Indiana Rail-
road CO.. in Chicago, on the Goth muir
dered his 7-year-old daughter, desper-
atelv wounded his wife. and then blew
out his own whisky-soaked brains.
The business portion Of Winlock,
Wash. was destroyed by fire early on
the 22d. the losses aggregating $4,000.
Miss ALICE BuaBAGE. OF Washing
ton city. has returned from Leipsic,
where for the past three years she has
been pursuing her musical studies at
the royal conservatory. She brings
with her some of the most distin-
cuished honors ever conferred upon an
American girl studying abroad.
A scArFoID around the new Meth
odist Episcopal church at Sault ste.
Marie. Mich, gave way. on the 2lst.
while large stone was being carried
upon il by eight men. Amos Healy.
Finlander. was struck by the falling
stone and died in few minutes. All
the Others were more or less seriously
hurt.
Cor. AUGUSTUS q. PAINE. promi-
nent manufacturer of New York city,
has sent his check for 81. 900 to a news
paper there. to be used in relieving the
destitute unemployed.
THE price of silver advanced nearly
two cents an ounce on the 2ad.
THE Yacht Sylvic. with its owner, f.
+. Pratt, a prominent Boston real es-
tate dealer, and family party of
eleven aboard, was, on the I'D. two
E DAYS overdue from Newport Fears
a were felt that they had gone down
: The comptroller Of the currency has
: appointed n. +. Morris receiver OF the
First national bank of Marion. kas-
MINISTER BLoUNr arrived at Wash
! ington on the 22d and had pro
: tracted interview with Secretary
Gresham.
, PRINCE IsESBERG Won BIRsTEIN ant
Miss Florence Pullman, daughter Q
e George NJ. Pullman. the Chicago mil
lionaire OF palace-car fame, are said u
= he engaged. Miss Pullman has beef
!, staying of late at Elberon. \. j., wit
!, her mother. Prince Iscnberg Won Biz
4 stein is about 80 years old. lie is 9
I, very high rank. being the grcat-grca'
i grandson Of Marie Theresa. of Austria
! r. r. MITCHELL, a merchant of Rich
mond. Ky. and local consul OF IN
l.. A. w. arrived in Seattle. Wash. o
II the 2ist. on safety, having travele
re 3. 100 miles on his wheel since May u
,e Miss ANNE HOWARD. of New Ol
s. leans. will shortly become the bride
D. Carter Harrison. Chicago's mayor.
tn his life time her father. Charley" How
l. holder in III
nv Louisiana lottery. When he died
New York few years ago he left
fortune Of about $40. 100000. Mi
he Howard received fifth, but she hi
he given Ell 900, 900 TO charity.
ed RonrRr ISGLEs, marine superinte
he dent i'm Liverpool for the Cunal
ne Steamship Co., and eight friends we
~ returning. on the odd. in a sailbo
~ from fishing excursion up the Merse
'ei when sudden squall upset the DO
and all nine men sank before he
e. could reach them.
~ A NUMBER of Cherokee strip boone
~. camped in the Arkansas valley fla
~ were driven out. on he 22d. by the su
- den rise OF the river, losing th'
~ wagons. teams, tents, etc. and IT
oo. feared that several of them we
rhs drowned. A family who attempted
~ ford the Salt Fork are reported TO ha
been swept away.
THE imperial board Of health, on
the o2d. announced that there had been
ury far this summer only four cases
tua- cholera in Germany. Three of the p
owe sons attacked died
be- w. w. OoILvIE, the milling milli
ave airc Of Canada, estimates the yield
had wheat in Manitoba and the northw
rim this year at about twenty bushels
old. acre, or total yield OF about le'o
oun 600 bushels. The quality 81 the 81
ling he says, is the best ever grown in
northwest.