The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-12-01
The News Condensed.
Impotan, Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

ki.Ol6.4l7. POI. against t932, SIS, III the
previous week The decrease. compared
with the corresponding week in 1892,
was 90
FIRE destroyed the Chesapeake, Ohio
& Southwestern freight depot at
Owensboro, Ky. the loss being $3.50. 600
Chicago was burned by supposed in
ccndiary fire, the loss being 600. 900
A RIO gold strike was reported in
Dona Anna county. y. NJ.
Dox CARLOS DrAz. consul for Spain in
Baltimore. committed suicide by jump
Ing from the fourth-story window Of
his residence
EXTRA tariff on the Keystone limiteo
train between New York and Chicago
has been reduced from IS To e..
TWELVE Illicit stills in Randolph
county, Ala. and two moonshiners were
captured by United States marshals
after a fight in which one man was
killed and two fatally injured.
The annual report of Gov. William
C. Renfrow. of Oklahoma estimates
the total population OF the territory at
ISL 1904. and that of the Cherokee strip
Mt i0O.0o
ONE man was mortally hurt and half
a dozen seriously injured by an explo-
sion of powder at Coalfeld. la
JUDGE HARDY. of Boston. decided in
the case of Simon Levy against Simon
Miller that a man cannot lawfully mar
~ his half niece in Massachusetts,
WILLIAM SToMBAuGH, of Decatur,
Mich. who has married three wives in
four years, was sentenced to seven
years in the Jackson prison.
The entire business portion Of Grand
Ridge. Ill. was destroyed by fire
JONI RUTHERFORD was hanged at
Trenton. Ga lie was among the con-
victs who killed two guards in trying
10 escape prison at Coal City in 1891
The employees of the Lehigh Valley
road went on a strike, efforts for ad-
justment of differences having been un-
successful. and all freight traffic was
suspended.
LIVE twin babies were found packed
In a valise by depot policeman at
East ST. Louis. Ill
HARRY C. REEB. who disappeared
from Columbus. o.. four years ago, has
returned and will marry his divorced
wife
On her official trip near Boston the
cruiser Columbia averaged 22.Sl knots
IN hour. surprising all previous records
REpoRrs from Duluth. Mimi. say the
output OF iron whereabouts is 20 per
cent greater this than last year.
A LARGE number Of guests enjoyed
the thirty eighth annual game dinner
of Landlord Drake of the Pacific hotel
in Chicago.
lT was said in Chicago that by means
of counterfeit tickets east bound roads
had been swindled out Of si0o. 900.
SEwED in the clothing of Mrs. John
Knaefsey, whose body was being pre-
pared for a pauper's grave in Chicago.
was found 81 400 in bills
FURTHER particulars OF the recent
flood in the 0kayama district o. japan
show that GA persons were drowned.
3.207 houses washed away. 6.s42 houses
nearly or quite destroyed. ~. 500 build
ings partly wrecked and 1919 acres of
land more or less inundated
OFFICIAL announcement wns made at
San Francisco that all Chinese were
ready TO register in compliance with |
the law
THE four-story brick building Of the |
Western Storage company at Kansas
City was destroyed by fire, the loss be-
ing $500. 600.
w. o. WHITAKER his wife and |
young daughter were killed by a pas
senger train at Coal Valley. la
Two rorSG men went over the Horse |
shoe rapids Of Niagara falls
On the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day |
ton road the United States Express |
Office at Troy, q, was robbed Of s25,-
900.
THE visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat.
20. 154.0o0 bushels; corn. 1890, 900 |
bushels; oats 4.s7l,00 bushels: rye,
5e5.ooo bushels: barley, 3,e47, 900
bushels.
THE Erie canal men say that the sea-
SON now closing has been the most
profitable during the last fourteen
years.
JAMES DAY. farmer OF Fountain
Green, Ill. has fallen heir to over e.
0oo.o 900 worth of property in the heart
of Boston.
A GANG Of counterfeiters that had
flooded St Joseph. Mo-. with excellent
specimens of counterfeit half dollars
and dollars were captured.
The knights o. Labor annual meet
Ing in Philadelphia ended in a row.
during which Grand Master Powderly
was accused of being thief and a for
ger.
The National grange in session at
syracuse. y. T.. adopted resolution
In favor of granting 10 women the
same privileges Mt the ballot box rs are
granted To men.
ADoLPH NEssE. and Herman Bachel
We're killed by the cars near Tarentum,
Pa They Were skilled glass decorators
and leave large families
CHARLES DAVIS and Leonard For
sythe. aged 20 anG - years respective
~, rival lovers. fought duel near Ma
polcon, o.. with swords and both were
probably fatally injured
BONNEVILLE, Ala. thriving suburb
of birmingham, Ala. had an $500, 600
FIRE