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

FIRE COMMISSIONERS MUSTER. Of Brook
lyn. says that the fact seems To be set
tied that the fire. which destroyed the
Tabernacle. the Hotel Regent aud two
blocks OF dwellings w1s 50 ed by the
contact between an organ stop and u
badly insulated clectric-power wire in
side the organ.
"pl>k" Wnso~. one Of the Glen
dale (No) train robbers. who subse-
qucntly 10 that crime participated in
the murder of Detective Harvey. OF
Syracuse. y. y. was clectrocutcd in
the pcnitcntiary NJ Auburn. \. v, on
the l4th. Charles Wilson. his brother.
is yet 10 lie tried for the crime.
THn Louisiana general Assem- bly,. on
the i4th, elected senator Don Caffrey
for the long term rs United States
senator, beginning March 5. 1894.
THIRTY workmen engaged in
tunneling the East river AT New York
had narrow escape from death by
asphyxiation. on the night OF the iith.
by the fumes resulting from the blast
| ing operations Two of them when
found by day men we're unconscious
and many were unable to help them.
selves.
III is feared that four Harvard stu
dents lost their lives, on the 18th, bY
the capsizing Of their sail boat in Bos
ton harbor. evidences of the disaste.
but no trace of the missing men hav-
ing been found up 10 the 18th.
lr was officially announced, on the
18th, that cholera existed in seven gov
ernmcnts in the south of Russia.
| PAwTUckEr. Il. l.. was visited, or
the 10th. by most destructive confla-
grafton. confined chiefly to the coal
and lumber yard district The flame :
ragged on both sides of the river. being
carried across the stream by "A burn
ing schooner. The fire departments
OF surrounding towns assisted in get
ting the mastery overy the flames
Loss estimated at over 100000
| NoTwITH>TaNDING the general pa
ralv>is in industrial affairs through
out the United States during the nine
months of the fiscal year ended Mare h
81. the balance sheet in the annual re-
port OF the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Co. Of Pittsburgh. Pa !.
discloses net profits amounting To s,.-
go >O9.ll.
The Denver (Coll manufacturers
exchange has decided to hold an indus
trial exposition during the meeting of
the national convention of repu blican
clubs in that city. June 20 70 20, in
elusive.
MIR. w. II. EDWARDS. United States
consul-general at Berlin. died in that
city. on the 10th. after a long and
painful illness, the basis OF which was
inflammation of the lungs.
| IL consequence Of the coal strikes in
| the United States. several Scotch coal
mine owners were asked, on the 10th.
To tender a number of shiploads of Goa
to New York
The enforcement ~ an autonomous
customs tariff against spain 10y Ger.
many began at miGni Int Of the 18th.
ADyIcEs reached London. IN the 10th
that the vach. Nalkyrie had been
wrecked off the coast of Africa, all
hands being lost.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake we're
experienced in the Annandale and
Eskdale hills. near Dumfrie>. Scot
land. on the 18th. The vibrations
travelled northward
Mr. WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT has
rented Lord Lovetfs deer forest al
Branden, Scotland, and will soon visit
that place with a hunting party.
BARON ROBERT OrrENHrIM. the Par
financier. has ordered built in France
a racing yacht to cost 5000 francs
The boat is intended TO compete with
the Vigilant and other yachts of that
class.