The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-02-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HE three-year-old daughter Of vii.
liam Wilson. of Garfield. o.. while
playing with sulphur matches. ate off
the heads and died from the effects
OF the poison within two hours of
the occurrence
1EN- NEYLER's latest proclamations
nave evoked a storm of Indignation in
the eastern press. A general demand
mas gone forth from the leading Goa 4
cities for the recognition Of the insur-
gents as belligerents.
Miss CATHERINE MARTIN Wrsrox
FULLER daughter of Chief-Justice Ful-
Ter OF the United States supreme court
and Mr. Theodore Smith Beecher 81
young Buffalo lawyer. were married AZ
Washington on the 18th.
Az examination of the steamship St.
Paul In dry dock at Newport News
Va, demonstrated that the big vessel
was practically uninjured by her re-
cent mishap
MRS SUSAN MASLEY. wife of Hon.
Joseph Manley. of Augusta. Me-. died.
on the 18th. after an illness OF two
weeks Of pneumonia.
". 2. EMERY. of Topeka. Kas.. has
patented paper brick which may
WORK revolution in the pavement of
streets and walks. 1t is made of straw
and wood pulp. 1t is made the same
a. brick. and at one-third the cost
ne inventor says, with the wheat
straw that annually goes to waste in
Kansas he can pave the streets of
every town in New England.
At ten o'clock on the morning az
the 18th three men. one Of whom was
masked. entered the Marlet-street
oank OF San Francisco. closed the
outer door Of the bank. forced the
cashier and boolSceper into steel
vault, and escaped with tray con- !,
tanning large quantity of gold and |
one tray Of silver.
lEEf had touch OF winter in the |
cast and northeast on the 18th. Ev \
way OF example the thermometer at \
>aranac Lake, y. T.. recorded 40 below
zero.
HE Vulcan coal mine. located in the
hog BACK just below the town of New
castle. Col, was completely wrecked
ana set on fire by terrific gas explo-
'ion, on the 18th. and IL was believed
nat % workmen in the mine were
instantly killed.
HE four-year-old son of John Ire
and was burned to death in the flames
which destroyed his fathers home in
Munger. o.. on the 18th.
Mrs. MARTIN r. CONWAY, whose hus-
band was the first representative in
congress from Kansas diad a, u. |
lome of her daughter in Lawrence,
>as.. on the 18th. at very great age.
MATA>zAs intelligence. on the 18th.
nnounccd the appearance near Qua
nutas- Of new band of filibusters, led
y Capt Jones. an American.
BILL NyEwas stricken with paralysis
I his home at Buck Shoals. eight miles
rom Asheville. n. c.. on the night Of
he 18th. and his condition was such
nat his physicians feared he could not
ecoyer.
LIE president. on the 18th. approved !
ne bill abclishing the post of chap i
'in and professor Mt tie West Point (.
Military academy and providing that !
regularly ordained clergyman be Cd I
omitted 10 serve aa chaplain in a civil
IN capacity for term Of four Years. >
PRIVATE WILLIAM H. LAWS, who /
aimed uncnviablc notoriciy for insub- il
rdination during the great strike at :
homestead, Pa. was reported. on the /,
tn 70 bc dying in a Baltimore tMd.)
oepital from "a bullet wound in The 5,
odomen. received during al altcrca- 4
on with a acknowledges. s