The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-09-15

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EMPLOYEES OF the chicago ~ Eastern
Illinois Railroad Co. have accepted a
reduction Of 10 per cent. in wages
THE details of a. conference held at
the treasury department on tie I'd
have leaked out. 1t has settled the
members Of congress down TO the firm
belief that the president intends to
make an issue of the repeal of the tax
on state banks.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the Sd
stated that the condition of the treas
ury for several days had been causing
alarm Several weeks ago il was an
nounced that the best opinion of tinan-
cicrs and statesmen in Washington was
to the effect that deficit was inevita-
Bile and that the government would be
forced to borrow money or issue notes
to meet its obligations.
EDWARD WAITE. Of Boston, aged 49,.
was drowned in the Presumscot river
at Deering, Me. on the 4th. Mrs. Mary
Curran. quite elderly. who saw the ac-
cident. dropped dead from excitement.
THE bark SYRIA Capt. Pettingall.
nine DAYS from Tampa. Fla. arrived at
Baltimore. Nd. on the 4th, with Capt.
Thaddeus Babbidge, of Camden, Me-.
and crew Of the abandoned schooner
William Smith.
Four women have recently been muir
dercd and mutilated in Oostburg. a
small village on the island of Dads.
Netherlands. All were of the poorest
class The murders were committed
at night. and the bodies were dissected
in the manner pursued by Jack the
Ripper. Up to the 4th no arrests had
been made.
A coLoRED boy. named Smith. aged
IL years. was struck 10y an outgoing
passenger train at crossing in Knox
Vile. Tenn. on the 5th. and literally
ground 10 pieces This is the thir-
tecnth victim of East Tennessee engine
No pa in the last five years
OK the 9Th the Hawaiian sealing
steamer Alexander. Capt. Mclean. ar
rived at San Francisco from the Japan
sealing grounds with a catch of little
over 5000 skins. Capt. Mclean denies
having been in Bchring sea.
Al PANIC and rush in which thirty or
forty persons were thrown down and
trampled. was caused by fire in the
Eden theater at Ostend. Belgium. on
the night of the 4th Many of tho vic
Tins were taken to the hospital
Az explosion Of gas occurred in one
Of the mines at Shelbournc. II miles
south of Terrc lIaute. Ind. on the 9th
in which thirseen men were injured
, several of whom are in a precariou:
condition.
. ON the 9th the great Midland rail
way Of England issued an order to la,
r off thirty daily passenger trains on apc
! after the 10th. owing to the scarcity o
fuel caused by the miners strike.
THE earl Of Aberdeen sailed from Liv
c erpool for America on the eth.
{. OK August 4 the village OF IIonton
E lSri Japan. was destroyed by fire: OF
, 9th IIakozakizi. containing sixt,
e houses. was burned. and on the 1911
: the village Of Ivanolsami. ia Tam bi
l province. was destroyed with a loss o
! sixty-four lives.
TnE delegates OF the pan-Americai
medical congress at Washington wer
rendered reception by Prcsiden
Cleveland ~ the White House on til
I 9th.
BARrHoLpr. the sculptor. wants +
(. build an American Pantheon Of marbl
or brass around the statue Of Iibcrt
in New York harbor. commonwealth
the deeds Of brave Americans.
In. JAMES JOHNSTON. who has recent
d " returned from a two years trip /
g Africa. says he does not believe Emi
q Pasha is dead
l. CHINESE pirates seized a steamer O
e the Chinese coast. killed eighteen pei
|. som, stole $4,000 and carried off tw
4 American women.
: Gov MCKINLEY Of Ohio addresse
n the old soldiers at indianapolis, Ind
n on the 9Th lie did not refer 10 pol
tics.