The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-04-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

THE United States battleship Nassa.
ehusett>- which left Cramps shipvard
recently for her builders trial trip. re-
turned 70 her dock on the ed. The
results were even better than those ac-
eomrli>hed with the Indiana
A DEFICIENCY in the pay appropria-
ton for the present fiscal year i con-
fronting the war department. The
amount lacking Is estimated at about
$4,000
Nh JoSEs. OF Virginia. offered in
the house- on the ed. a bill appro-
priating 5000 for the erection of a
monument TO the memoir OF Jane,
Monroe the author Of the Monroe doc
trine- az fredericksburg. Va
o. the z3d the house committee on
election ~ president. etc. through
NJ John h Coriiss. 90 Michigan. IA
vorably reported bill 70 provide for
the election u nited States senators
by the people
The centrists in the German reichs-
tag have decided tosupport the govern
ment's sugar bill on the basis Of raising
the premium about two marks.
DISPATCH from Havana. on the
STA saic. Two political prisoner.
who are now confined in the Cabana.
fortress viii b. shot this week
fiEE in the Atlantic refinery al Pitts
burgh. Pa on the ed. caused a los, az
slvc.cah The IRE started from sons.
unknown cause in the warehouse and
before il had become known il hs1
enveiOPed the warehouse and sp-esd
20 the tanks
IHE IRE which occurred in Colon. on
the Ssd. destroyed 20 houses. The
government authorities and the PAN
anna Railroad Co. distributed food. pra,
CURED from Panama. 70 the sufferers
Col CHARLES H. BrEHIrR. Of t,ettvs-
burg Pa. died. On the @sth. aged .
lie was vice-pre>ident Of the Gettvs-
burg Battlefield Memorial association 4
and prominent trustee ~ gettysburg
college. lie commanded the One Hun
dred and >ixty-hfth PENNSYLVANIA vol
unt-ers during the war for the sun
preston Of the rebellion.
DISPATCH from Montreal. Can.
says that the management Of the
eentrai Vermont railway will soon be
transferred - Montreal and that that
-"ai will become practically a portion \
~ the Grand Trunk system.
1HE formal unveiiing and transfer
y the city ~ New York hv the Gran.
Monument association OF the Gran,
statue j. st for April IS. cen.
Grants grandson T.. : Grant. the ION
Of Col. Fred Grant. will unveiI The
statue
tx USTrED STATES COMMISSIONERS
R"EEKT fHAEI~o~. ~ Alfalfa. Ala. W..
sentenced in the r nited states CONT 4,
birmingham. on the efth. to th-e.
years al hard labor ia the Brooxivn
- - penitentiary. an - rav tne
~ siu1 and co~ts On each ~ is iua;c,-
ments for presenting falls. accounts.
Ar Brooklyn. ~ y. on the 44th. Il !
discovered a. an autopsy that the /
Death q Lizzie Switzerland. aged nine
'ears- was due 70 mineral poisoning.
rs result ~ eating April foal- candy.
y DISPATCH from Athens To the Lon .
ION Times. ca the cath. reported the /,
'rnrTsal u the murders II Christian,
r n. island Of Crete. and the exist [,
nee ~ a panic there.
sKSATog DAVIS. of Minnesota. hav- ,
M authorized the withdrawal IF hi y
lame the Minnesota publican state !
~nventi0n unanimously declared for 4
Mckinley a. presidential candidate. 7
IHE New York Republican statccon- /,
ention. on the esth. declared for Levi
:. Morton a. the choice ~ the Empire I
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