The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-01-12

OK the "a IL. 900 people In auditlou
to the 20. 900 living in i.cAyenworth,
Kas., celebrated the formal opening Of
the new steel drawbridge across the
Missouri river at that point. The pa
rade was over mile long.
EXPRESS FREDERICK, mother OF En-
peror William. gave an audience, on
the I'd 10 Hon. Theo. Runyon. the
American ambassador. AZ Berlin, and
Mrs. Runyon.
OK the I'd the Roumanian senate rat
flied the Roumania-German CONNER
cial treaty. already ratified by the Ger
man reichstag.
The Standard Plate Glass Co. 81
Butler. Pa. reduced the wages OF all
employees - per cent. on the I'd.
The New York Legislature met on
the I'd.
THE net balance in the treasury, on
on the I'd. as shown by the public debt
statement. was seu,3'5,555.
On the I'd II. l.. Marbach. of the Mar
bach Machine Co.. Cleveland, O.. was
arrested, charged with arson. Fire oc-
Cured in the building occupied by the
machine company at an early hour in
the morning. The police say waste
was placed about the room under drip
pans. and claim there was "A deliberate
attempt by Marbach TO burn the build
ing.
MRs. AUGUSTA SCHMIDT. indicted for
murder in the first degree, for killing
her tenant. Oscar Walton. October 20
last, was denied bail on habeas corpus
proceedings at KoSomo, Ind, on the I'd.
She will appeal to the supreme court.
The murdercss is wealthy German
lady A. years old and the daughter OF a
baroness.
TIN court-martial at Mare Island,
Cal, in the case OF Richard Ashbridge,
passed assistant surgeon of the United
States navy. il is understood has recon-
mended his dismissal from the service.
The charges against him were forging
the signature of the secretary of the
navy to telegraphic message.
In the case of McAfee and Parkers,
| the two negroes under sentence to be
hanged at indianapolis. Ind, on the
| 5th, for the murder of Charles Eyster,
| the supreme court, on the I'd, reversed
the decision of the trial court and
granted new trial for the men.
Ii seems proba able that superiDtend-
ent Byrnes' suggestion that the mem
bcrs Of the police and other public de-
partmcnts of New York city give one
half of one per cent. of all salaries to a
fund for the unemployed will be acted
upon.
| ORLANDO II. POTTER. the multi-mil-
lionaire and ex-congressman. died sud-
denly. on the night of the I'd. on the
street in New York. from apoplexy.
BY break in the ice on the River
Spree, at Cottbus. Brandenburg. on the
Sd. twenty-five of large party OF
| youthful skaters fell into the water
anj despite the heroic efforts Of res
| were drowned.
| GEN. JcHs l.. STEVENSON died at his
residence in Boston on the Sd.
The steamer Egyptian Monarch, OF
the Wilson line, arrived at New York
on the Sd. ten days overdue. having
been twenty-four days out from Lon
don.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE. accompanied
by Mrs Carnegie. left New York fol
Alexandria. Egypt, on the 4th, on the
| steamer Columbia
The venerable Elizabeth Pea body
died, on the 4th, at her home in ia
maica Plain, Mass. in her ninety
fourth year
HARRY KENNEDY, the well-knowr
| ventriloquist. died, at midnight of thu
I'd. at his home in Brooklyn.
A LoSG-DIsTANcE telephone is about
to be put in operation between Berlil
and Stockholm. Sweden.