The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

prove. The company say the unset
tied state Of finance in the country Is
the cause of dullness In the stove pusi-
ness Five hundred men are thrown
out of employment
Mrs. BANCROFT. the wcll-known
actress. was thrown from a cab in Lon
don. on the 10th, and run over, receiv-
ing injuries that necessitated her re-
moval To hospital.
| A LARGELY-ATTENDED meeting was
held Mt the Grand Pacific hotel in Chr
cago. on the 10th. by the show-bill
printers and photographers of the United
States to organize IA national protective
association.
SECRETARY HERBERT has directed
court-martial to assemble at Mare ISL
and. Cal, on the 2sth. for the trial OF
Paymaster j. c. sullivan, charged with
embezzlement.
JUICE CHmsMAN in his charge to the
grand jury at Jackson, Miss, on the
10th, gave the big gamblers something
TO think about lie charged the jury
that it should carefully investigate
the gambling evil in the city, and that
instead of throwing its time away on
negro crap-shooters it should confine
its attention to the class of gamblers
who termed themselves reputable;
that they were nuisance an entitled
to no sympathy.
ENLISTED men in the navy will now
I have the privilege of purchasing their
discharge. Secretary Herbert has is
, sued an order establishing rules and
regulations for the purchase OF dis
charges as authorized by the last naval
appropriation bill. No man is to be
allowed to purchase hisdischarge while
in debt to the government or until ne
: has served three months.
FIRE started in a boarding house al
Eureka, one of the largest mining
y camps of Utah. on the 10th. The
boarding house loss is -. 00O dozen
dwelling houses and several business
houses were consumed. The total loss
. will reach to nearly $40, 900. hundred
/, persons are left homeless
= ABOUT 5000 strangers visited the 10
Z cality of the Iowa storms path on ths
- 9th. All went prepared to see 1niser,
= and devastation. but none expected u
witness the woeful scenes that me
their sight upon their arrival there
n The list of dead number ninety-five
ir two more Of the wounded having passe'
~ away. The manned number los. Tn
TO physicians say ten OF them can no
~ live.
te THE Coraopolis Oil Refining CO.
Mt works - Coraopolis. Pa together wit
severn l.. ,;xs Of crude and refined oil
were nnpletely destroyed by fire o
a the l(.h. The loss is about sa0,O00t
n on which there is but $4,000 insurance
RI AN explosion of fire damp took place
e on the 18th. in mine No. OF the Yves
ng Virginia Central railroad property q
Ne Cumberland, Md. Ninety miners wer
" at work in the various drifts at u
time. They made wild dash for IN
shaft. and all succeeded In escapin
- but two. who are supposed to hay
=. been burned to death.
Of CHOLERA has reappeared in Moscow
ed Kieff and northeast Hungary. In Mo
"a COW the outbreak is most seriou
rs There we're thirty-two cases and elevs
,ed deaths in the convict forwarding prise
at that city between the LIST and llth
THE trustees of Lane seminary. ne
adj Cincinnati. requested Prof. Henry
ta- Smith To continue his relations wi
her the seminary for one year, but to s.
ent pend his work as teacher pending Z
her hearing of hisappeal To the general
on. sembly. Prof smith rendered his r.
ige ignation. The trustees at first refus
lea To accept it. but he insisted, and II "
ost then accepted. !.
For the third time within II
years. the village of Fairville. subj
of 81. John. y. H.. was. on the 10th,
-, most destroyed by fire.
a.. THREE cases Of typhus fever ha
been discovered in Philadelphia.an
persons suffering from the disease hs
been sent to the municipal hospit
All three Of the unfortunates are irnl
~ grants. recently arrived from Euro
Tuy German navy department
sent dispatch to the China station
nev. derinQ the war ship Wolf to proceed
,oan once to bangkok to protect Germ
ting subjects and interests in the Siam
the capital in the event of an outbreak
and hostilities between the French and
A Siamese.
a to The advance guard OF the return
the Behring sea commissioners arrived
Ger Washington. on the ilth' y" WV
pre- sons Of Maj. +. w. Halford andJ. =
ley Brown.
DIR. J. Ii. HrBBELT.. of the Amer
.. ON National Red Cross. passed thro
irlia- Chicago. on the 12th. with corp
ftice. trained nurses and a supply OF surg
1 sill dressings for the wounded OF the /
It OF eroy Ia tornado.
the ATa meeting Of the Boston chan
other of commerce on the 12th IL was IN
n the mously resolved 10 petition cong
there for an immediate and unconditiona
e be- peal Of the silver-purchasing clau
4. the sherman act.
OcTAvIA ALLEN, aged 81. a ono
con nous actress. who at different
ua..' was leading lady for Booth. la
'oueh and Kccnc. died at Fort Lee. \. )
WY the nth. Of heart trouble.
-, az The South Dakota building a
rie'en Worlds fair was dedicated on the
wers Many members Of the national
= anu mission. upon invitation Of Gov.
W.. don, were present.
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