The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-05-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Secretaries
Gresham and Can Isle and Capt. K. ID.
Evans arrived at Norfolk, Va. on the
lighthouse tender Maple on the morn
ing OF the 18th. The party were trans
ferred to the violet and proceeded to
Cuirituck sound. where the presidential
party intended 10 spend three days
shooting snipe
On the 18th Paul Ewing. aged Is. son
of DR. NJ. J. Ewing, of Findlay. O..
committed suicide by taking forty
grains of morphine lie was in love
with young girl who would not re-
ciprocate his affections and ended his
trou ble>.
THE barrelhouse at Emery's refinery
in Bradford Pa. took fire. on the 18TH.
presumably by spontaneous combus-
ton. and was destroyed. The loading
racks and five oil tank cars standing
on side track Of the Buffalo Roches-
ter 4 Pittsburgh road were also
burned. A tank exploded during the
progress Of the fire and scores of per-
sons were injured.
THIRTY FIVE firemen were badly
burned al bradford. Pa. on the night
of the 18th. by the bursting of a 4. 100
gallon tank ear of benzine, and in the
wild rush 10 get away from the flames
hundreds of people were knocked down
and trampled upon.
SCORES Of birds warbled. on the 18th.
while Rev. DR.. Robbins. Of the Lincoln
Park Baptist church. Cincinnati,
preached his sermon on spring. He
had asked the congregation to bring
their feathered pets. and the walls and
pulpits were covered with cages con-
tanning canaries and mocking birds.
ATLANTA. Ga, has a murder mystery.
Early on the morning of the 18th. in
her little home in the suburbs. the
dead body of Mrs. Mary Lilly. one Of
the best-known women of the city, was
found. She was lying on the floor of
her kitchen and resting against her
neck was a pair Of tongs, with which
She had been strangled.
IRA DAVIS, the l9-year-old son OF
Gen. W. l.. Davis. of Cedar Rapids. Ia.
was drowned in the Cedar river at the
palisades on the 18th.
AN electric storm Of cyclonic charac.
ter passed over the eastern part OF
otter Tail county. Mimi, on the night
Of the 18th. Near IIenning section
Of the Northern Pacific track -ras
lifted bodily into the air and scattered
over the surrounding country.
THE receivers OF the Union Pacific
road are taking steps to put an end t.
the movement of industrials over the
lines in their charge. This end may
be peaccablv accomplished but IL re
sistance is made it will be met with
bullets. and possibilities Of sericus re
suits exist.
A NINE explosion occurred, on the
\ 18th, in West Bear Ridge colliery. neal
Ashland, Pa. by which one man
named Harkenstcin, was instantly
\ killed and three others were seriously
Injured.
REPRESENTATIVE LEVI I. GRIFFIN, o
4 Michigan. recently afflicted with tota
deafness. has received no encourage
mcnt from New York specialists whom
he has consulted.
THE international miners congress
opened in Berlin on the l4th.
JonS Y. MckASE. now in Sing Sing
under sentence Of the New York courts
has been ba fled in his efforts to secur
release on a writ Of habeas corpus, tn
supreme court OF the United States. OIL
the 18th, affirming the Judgment O
Judge Lacombe in refusing to issue
writ against Warden Durstbn. Of SIM
Sing.
DrRING the consideration of distric
bill in the house. on the 14th. consider
able excitement was caused by a colore'
man in the public gallery, who arose am
addressed the speaker saying that il tn
Coxey bill was not passed by May "a
the White House, treasury and capito
would be destroyed by thunder ant
lightning
SENIOR WANNA DE LIMA. the Bra
lillian minister at Lisbon. On the lsth
received instructions from his govern
ment at Rio de .!aneiro 10 sever all dip
lomatic relations with the govern
ment Of Portugal and withdraw from
Lisbon with his staff