The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-28


near Newtonbrook. Ont. Vim. Holmes
at work in well 6fty feet below the
surface, signaled that he was ia
trouble, and man named Sharp de.
scended To assist him. lie did not re-
turn. and after water was used To dis.
sipate the gas the two bodies were
brought up. Holmes was dead and
sharp can not recover.
JOSEPH LoHMANS, the organist for st.
Paufs church and bookkecper Of the
sun Mutual Insurance Co. Of Cincin-
natl. Is in deep trouble The company
charges him with shortage Of 81, 900.
Lohmann has been the secretary Of the
company for about twenty years. and
in German circles was one Of the best
known insurance men in the city.
OK the 18th Worlds Fair Commits
sioner Turnbull, of Florida. stated in
the national commission that he
thought Agricultural building was
in imminent danger of being set on
fire A pipe was found running to the
roof which was so hot that il could not
be touched. and the gallery around the
pipe seemed To be charred.
A BosroN dispatch of the 18th an
nounced the shutting down for the
month of August of the Amoskeag cot
ton mill. This is the largest cotton
mill in the United States, and probabl
in the world. II employees 5000 opera
tives. uses 5000. 900 pounds Of cotton
week. and pays SEES, 200 a month in
wages.
An open cable car on the Walnut
Hills line. Cincinnati.runnin down Gil
bert avenue. on the 10Th. jumped the
track. The gripman, John Dieterlich,
was thrown to the ground and fatally
injured, and several passengers were
hurt.
On the night OF the 18th every store
in the town of Susanville. Cal. was de-
stroyed by fire. Five blocks were
burned. causing a loss of $3.50. 900, one
fourth covered by insurance. In all
sixty buildings were burned.
The case of the Plankinton bank di-
rectors. recently indicted by the grand
jury for accepting money knowing the
bank to be insolvent. was called in the
criminal court at Milwaukee on the
18th. but was continued to the Septem-
Der term.
THE Boston Post announces that
Mayor Matthews of that city is in the
field as a candidate tor governor of
Massachusetts
Mrs. Co~..AD FERNHAM. of Tona-
wanda =. ". has fallen heir to about
a. 600. 900 by the death of an uncle in
Irsia.
CoI- c. JONES. JR.. historian of Geor-
gia, died at Augusta. on the 10Th, OF
Bright's disease. aged So.
MAGGIE PIxIER and Emma Pixler.
her cousin. each aged 5, were run down
and instantly killed. on the Goth. by a
car on the West End Electric line in
Pittsburgh. Pa.
The special convention of the state
officers of Colombia at the Worlds fair
and the dedication Of the Colon bian
pavilion took place on the GOTH
WILLIAM BRUoS. of New York city.
ias been appointed receiver for the
Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western rail- /
-oad for Indiana.
The American Bar association will
meet. August 30 and 81. in Milwaukee.
EXECUTIONS of opponents of the gov
are said to occur almost daily
n Honduras.
SYKES, ALIIs 4 MooREHousE's large
voolen mill at Reynoldsville. Pa. was
destroyed. on the 10th. by fire caused
" nail passing through the picking
Machine. Loss on the mill. about $50
90: insurance. $4,000. The residences
4 John Richards and William Burke,
djoining the mill. were burned: loss,
bout $40. 600.