The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-08-18

A PRESUMABLY incendiary nre n
stroyed the entire block Of fifteen
buildings near the Butler-street wharf
known as ''Flatiron Point" The
buildings destroyed were tcnanted by
poor people, who lost most Of their
house hold effects.
On the Sth Howard w. Grcar. ex-tel-
egraph operator from III Dorado: Ar
thur Hansehcr, express mcssenge, and
Jack Beck. clerk ut the Occidental l'.,tcl,
We're arrested at Wichita. kas.. for the
robbery of the United States express
wagon on the streets of that city on the
night of July 20. and 81, 900 of the stolen
money was recovered.
= TIE British wheat crop. says7 the
Mark Lane Express Of the sth. is now
estimated at 1000. 900 quarters. This
leaves al.Ooc.0oO to be imported. de-
Quoting the stock left over from 1892,
there will he needed 10000, 900 quar-
ters. 1t is not easy 10 see where this
supply is to come from. 1t will absorb
all the good crops of Russia. India and
southern Europe TO fill the require
ments-
THE Cadwallader Milling Co.'S hoile.
at Fostoria. O.. exploded, on the sth,
instantly killing q. c. Davis, secretary
of the company. and fatally injnring
Fred G. Mercedes, book-kcepcr, Calvin
Robbins, James Long and James a.
OS the sth Fred a. Hoffman jumped
from the roof of his uncle's house in
Pittsburgh. Pa, and died almost in
stantly. He was native of Butler, and
had just left Dixmont insane asylum.
after eight months treatment. lie
leaves a widow and two children.
TIE gold in the national treasury.
on the 9th. was So. l5.,s54 above the
500. 900. 900 gold reese rye
The Lin en- Steel Co., one Of the
largest manufacturing concerns in
Pittsburgh IA. suspended opera tions
on the 9th. All the employees, about
500, were discharged.
\ HEAVY earthquake shock was felt
in San Francisco shortly after O clock
on the morning Of the 9th. Two shocks
were experienced at san Diego on the
Sth.
The convicts in the Kentucky state
prison at Frankfort another made at
tempt To blow upthe penitentiary with
on the night of the sth,
but were foiled by the timely discovery
of their plan by Warden Norman. The
principals were the Reeves brothers
and man named Willard. serving
terms of thirty years each. From
the quantity of dynamite, nitro-glycer-
inc. and other combustibles found in
their possession they evidently intend
ed to make a death struggle for liberty
after blowing up the prison walls.
WM. BOWERS, one of the best-known
newspaper men in Boston. died, on the
9th, aged So.
\ HEAVY rain. iusuring a full crop of
corn. fell all over the eastern part of
Kansas and western Missouri on the
10Th
1RE Safe Deposit. Trust and Bank
ing %. of Nashville, Tenn. with a
capital stock Of $780, 900. did not open
on the morning Of the 10th. but posted
"a notice on its doors stating that be-
cause of inability to- realize on collat-
eral the directors had concluded to sus-
pend.
THE Bank of England advanced its
rate of discount, on the 10th, from 3 to
per cent.
TIE steamship Orizaba. which ar
rived al New York from Havana on
the 9th, brought $4,000 in Spanish
gold.
SECRETARY CARLISLE is credited with
advising the anti-silver men to insist
on the unconditional repeal of the pur-
chase clause of the sherman law, and
to reach vote on the subject as soon
as possible