The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-04-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

made $50, 900 Immediately availa ble, Is
TO be sent to Greytown as soon as pos
sible, on United States war vessel, &c
emphasize the concern Of this govern
ment in the enterprise.
FIVE men were killed and five in.
jured, on the ist, under falling walls
caused by an explosion in Loring 4
Jones leather factory in Woburn,
Mass
WHILE stepping from one car TO an.
other of his train on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Lamont. Pa, on the
night OF the Slst, the coupling broke.
and Brakeman John Shipley fell be.
tween the cars and was ground 70
pieces. The crew picked his body up
and started TO town. They had gone
but short distance when Conductor
Barger, of the same train. met his
death in exactly the same manner.
THE drivers and conductors of the
Anacostia street railway of Washing
ton city, struck, on the I'd. for an in
crease in wages. The drivers received
sl.24 a day and the conductors sl.O6
for about sixteen hours work. Travel
on the line was completely stopped.
Two MEN were arrested in Jersey
City. y. j., on the I'd. who it is al
legged. had for nearly two years
been robbing the United States Ex-
press Co. 1t is roughly estimated that
the amount stolen by them will reach
ST., 600
WM. SrEESsrRASD. the originator Of
. l. - ~ b.,
collapse of which he failed for over
81, 900, 900, died in Liverpool on the I'd.
The Illinois supreme court, in an
opinion fled on the I'd. decided the
democratic apportionnent of 1902 To
be constitutional.
DAVID NJ. STONE. the venera BILE ex-
editor of the New York Journal Of
Commerce. died at his home in Brook
lyn on the I'd.
LETTERS have been received at the
Spanish legation in Washington re-
Gently. from ex-confederate soldiers in
the south offering their services TO as
sist Spain in suppressing the rebellion
in Cuba.
THE New York Marine Journal has
compiled record of fires in American
cotton on shipboard during the season
just closed, which extends from Octo-
Der % last 10 March %. This record
shows that forty-tive conflagra tions
have taken place, as contrasted with
only eight of any note in the previous
seasons 1t is probable that this sea-
sons losses through fire in cargoes of
American cotton will largely exceed
million dollars
THE hope of speedy conclusion OF
peace between China and Japan is
weakened somewhat by the Japanese
demand for the cession of portion of
Manchuria. war indemnity of 70o,-
100000 yen. and that. pending full pay
ment of this indemnity, Pekin be occu-
pied by the Japanese troops.
ONE HUNDRED pounds of giant pow
der exploded in the Ohio mine of the
Mescal Mining and Milling Co., at
Prescott, Ariz., on the I'd. Five men
were working in the drift where the
powder was stored. Three men were
seriously injured, James Newlin, the
foreman of the mine. being the most
seriously hurt
THE British steamer Ethelred. while
on her way from Boston to Port An
tonic. Jamaica, by way of the wind
ward channel, and when off Cape
Maysi. Cuba, was fired upon by a Span
ish gunboat. The Ethelred stopped
and was boarded and examined by Off
GERS of the gunboat, after which she
proceeded on her voyage.
Hon. VIM. l.. WILSON. of West vir-
GINA. assumed the Office of postmaster
general on the Sd. The oath of office
was administered by Chief-J Justice
Melville w. Fuller.
REV. DR. PAsToRFIELD, a retired
Methodist minister of Philade phia,
dropped dead in the post office of that
city on the Sd. Cause, heart trouble
WHILE Mrs. Thomas Jones, of New
Castle, Col, was preparing her ballot
at a polling place. on the LIST, she
tainted and fell, striking her head
heavily against the floor. She died in
a $ port tim having ruptured blood
vessel
THE removal Of young Lieut.. Ybarra
from command Of the Spanish gunboat
Condo de Venadito. which fred upon
the American steamer Alliance, is re-
garded in Santiago de Cuba as not be-
ing in any way due to the Alliance af-
fair He was only in command q uring
the temporary absence of the captain.
MAJ. ANDREW JACKSON HAMIL ron,
aged So, who was major of the Twelfth
Kentucky cavalry, and who planned
and superintended the famous tunnel
escape from Libby prison, in which 100
Union soldiers effected their freedom,
was assassinated in Reedyvillc, Ky,
on the I'd, by Sam Spencer.
FREDERICK w. GRIFFIN. assistant
cashier OF the Northwestern national
bank OF Chicago, was, on the Cd,
taken into custody at the instance Of
Bank Examiner John c. McKeon. BY a
United States deputy marshal, short
age Of $4,000 having been discovered
in his accounts.
IT was stated in Washington. on the
Sd, that no contest OF the will of the
late Fred Douglass will occur. Mrs
Douglass will accept the personal es-
tate given her and her dover right OF
one-third Of the profits accruing fro
n N m nj NON ~, hn rail ,-..al ..et.t..