The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-02-22

A NATURAL gas explosion wrecked
the city building AT Elwood. Ind. ON
the 18th, and caused several thousand
dollars damage besides seriously injur.
ing three persons.
ON the 18th the mayor of New York
officially announced the appointment
of William liookfield rs commissioners
of public works; Lee Phillips as secre-
tary OF the civil service board and its
executive officer, and Francis NJ. Scott,
aqueduct commissioner. as corportion
counsel. To succeed VIM. :. Clark.
SoME Of the striking glassworkers at
the buckeye works at Martins Ferry,
o.. threw a dynamite bomb. loaded
with Sings. into the Office of the plant.
on the lsth. wrecking hat portion of
the building. The works, which gave
employment TO 800 men, will be pcrma-
nently abandoned.
REV. FRANkIIN SrAULDING, head of
the Master Jarvis hall, the fashiona-
BILE military school for boys in Denver.
Col. was arrested, on the 18th, for cruel
ly beating two pupils. Spaulding is
the son of Bishop Spaulding. under
whose immediate control the Jarvis
hall is.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
l4th, said that the Japanese troops
were reported TO have arrived at "A
point five miles southeast of Che Foo.
On the l4th the president signed the
bill for a new 81, 900, 900 post office
building at Chicago.
JosEPH ELLIOTT, who had been con.
nected with the New York Herald
since il was founded in 1885. died, on
the night of the l4th. from pneumonia.
He was the first sporting editor of the
Herald, and a pioneer in the reporting
of sporting news.
The final preparations for the wed.
ding of Miss Anna could TO Count Cas-
t~ellane, of France. have been complet-
ed. The ceremony will be performed
quietly at the residence of the late Jay
Gould. on March 4. 10y Rev. DR.. John
Paxton. under whose religious auspices
the whole Gould family has been
brought up.
The Chinese emperor has recon
ferred upon Ii Hung Chang the yellow
jacket. the peacock feather and all the
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prived. His majesty has ordered Ii
Hung Chang to proceed Immediately
To Pekin, where he will be given an
audience by the emperor. TheIce he
will proceed with all haste to Japan to
arrange terms of peace.
III is reported that Admiral Ting.
the Chinese naval commander. and the
general commanding the Chinese
forces on the island OF Liu-kung-1ao,
in the harbor of Wei-IIai-Wei. have
suicide. Chagrin over the
repeated reverses of the Chinese forces
is supposed to have prompted the two
to kill themselves.
MExico's conditions have beer peace
accepted by Guatemala. who guar
antces their fulhllment. The condi- /.
tions will soon be published officially. !
sides have made concessions. The
question is at last AMIGA
settled upon an equitable basis be-
tween the two republics.
PRIVATE PATRICK V. PAGAN. of Troop
X. Sixth cavalry, Fort Leavenworth, |
met with instant death in Leaven-
Kas.. on the l4th. by falling
down the Home coal shaft. a distance
Of $50 feet. The man had beer drink.
ing, and it is not known whether his
death is u to accident or suicide.
SINCE making his declaration of abb
,olutism. the car has received almost
iaily nihilist proclamations and threat
letters. 1t is rumored that a pal
ace official has been arrested for plac-
ng in his maiesty's study printed pic
lures Of the assassination of Alexan-
Ter III.