The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-03-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The jury in the Ratliffe-Jackson kill
ing case of Kosciusko. Miss. brought
in n verdict. on the 10th. of not guilty.
THE miners employed at the Ander-
son mines at Clinton. Ind. agreed. on
the 10Th. to 60 TO work at thirty eight
cents ton for run-of-the-mine coal.
which is equivalent to fifty cents ton
for screened coal. or reduction of
twenty cents from the scale for the
year which ends May l.
WHILE a number Of workmen were
engaged in excavating at Thorn. West
Prussia. on the Goth, an embankment
fell. burying FIVE of them underneath
hundreds of tons of earth.
Ex-EMPREss FREDERICK left London.
on the 10th. for Germany.
SENATOR BorLAxGER-BU BURNETT has
been appointed to the newly-created
position Of minister of the colonies in
the French cabinet
LOUIS kossorTH. the Hungarian pa
triot. died at Turin on the Goth
THIETEES county prisoners At Grip
pie Creek. Col. broke Jail. on the night
Of the 10th. and gained their liberty.
friends on the outside having knocked
the locks of and opened the doors.
THE arrest Of w. f. barrow. alias
w. r. shaw. at Sioux City. la. Mon
day. for making counterfeit silver coin.
was reported TO the treasury depart
ment on the Goth A large assortment
of tools, files, lathes. etc, was cap
tured.
IScEyDrAEIEs attempted TO burn the
business portion Of Clinton. la, on the
morning Of the Goth. An alarm called
the depart ment to the residence part
Of the city. and Immediately after two
fires were discovered in the business
district. This necessitated a division
Of the department. and. with high
wind prevailing. the fires were only
subdued after much hard work.
The dwelling of the chief Of the
Cherokee nation at Tahlequah. /. II.
was burned on the night of the 18th.
The structure was two-story frame
Nothing was saved. Chief Harris had
narrow escape. barely escaping with
his babe. in his night clothes His
hands were badly burned
Ir was reported in Athens. on the
2lst. that an earthquake had occurred
at Tarissa. near the Gulf Of Salorica
destroying many houses Particulars
were not obtainab
THIRTEEN persons were injured in
the wild rush of 900 men. women
and children. from the Mixed Ale
fats. big six-story doublc-decked
tenement house in New York. on the
alst- The panic was caused by fire
which destroyed the upper portion OF
the building.
The fourstory public school build
ing in south Evanston. IL miles north
Of Chicago. was completely destroyed
by fire on the aist: loss, $4,000
Several pupils were severely injured
by Jumping from the third and fourth
story windows
on the ,lst it was given out that
senator Colquitt's bowels were par
alyzed, and his physicians reluctantly
admitted that his death was but a mat
ter Of hours The absent members 81
the senator's family were autographed
for.
THE eighth annual convention OF the
Michigan Christian Enceavor union
met in Detroit. on the 2lst, about
1900 delegates being present.
TnE residence of Eli Clark. miles
south Of Hartford City. Ind. was de-
stroycd by an explosion Of natural gas.
on the 2i>t. and an infant child was 80
badly burned that il died. six other
persons were seriously burned.
on March 10. at n. m. James Mel
Vile. aged 80, a Storage passenger on
the steamer Anchoria. en- route to New
York. and an American citizen. In a
moment Of temporary insanity stab
bed Charles Macllehom, also n steer
age passenger. causing a slight flesh
wound, and then jumped overheard