The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


North sydney, G. h., on the Goth, and
left for the United States on the eth.
The trip was ~singularly free from ac-
cidents. and was successful in every.
thing except the accomplishment OF
the principal object of the trip. which
was to bring back a Acton mcteorite
previously discovered at Melville bay.
MOUNT HoLYoKE college, at South
Hadley. Mass, the pioneer institution
for the higher education of woman,
received a severe blow in the burning.
ON the 27th, of the main building, with
a probable loss of over $50, 00O.
A PLAYHOUSE in the course of cree
ton in New York city, and which had
already gone up two stories, fell, on
the goth, killing three men outright.
The big wooden elephant which vas
built some years ago for use as a hotel
at Couey Island. n. ", was burned TO
the ground on the night of the 27th.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says that
everywhere throughout Thibet the
revolt against the Chinese government
is spreading.
AS result of the gales on the French
coast the steamer Magdalen ~foundered
on the eth, near Bayonne and the crew
were drowned.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN EZRA CLARK died
at Hartford, Conn.,, on the Goth. aged
So years. after a long illness.
JOHN BOYD THACHER has declined
the democratic nomination for gov
ernor of New York.
THE Indian bureau was advised. on
the 2sth, by Agent Teter. that the Sho-
shone Indians who were hunting in
Jackson's Hole, Wyo., were returning
To their reservation under escort of
the Indian police.
THE United Association Of Journey
men Plumbers, Gas Filters. Steam Fit
tiers and Steam Filters Helpers opened
their seventh convention at the Build-
ers' and Traders exchange in Milwau~
kee on the 2sth. The convention rep
resented both the United States and
Canada.
On the 2sth the comptroller of the
currency declared a second dividend
of ten per cent. in favor of the credi-
tors Of the Wichita national bank of
Wichita, Kas.
LAZABD FREREs, of New York city.
received 81, 900, 900 from Europe. on
the 2sth, which was deposited in the
s~ub-treasury in exchange for green
backs.
NEARLY the entire business portion
of DEsh-.iie, a s.nall town near Shep-
herd, Mich, was destroyed by fire on
the night of the 2sth.
An embankment of earth on Fifth
avenue. New York city. on the 2sth.
caved in, killing Patrick Quinn and
injuring Andrew Reilly and John New
man, laborers, who were digging a
trench.
The cruiser Cincinnati reported at
Ponta Delgado. island of San Miguel.
Azores, on the 2sth. and left there for
Gibraltar on her way to join the squad
ron in the Mediterranean for duty in
Turkish waters.
ALL the railroad telegraph operators
on the Pacific division of the Canadian
Pacific railroad went on strike. on the
10Th, in obedience to orders from Il. III
Pierson. chairman of the grievance
committee at Montreal. Trains were
running as usual on the Pacific divi.
sion, aud it was not thought any seri.
Gus stoppage of traffic would result.
IT was announced in Paris, on the
2ath. upon semi official authority tina
foreign diplomats at Coustantinopls
were unanimous in their support OF
the attitude taken by NJ. Cambon, the
French ambassador to the porte
which they believe is likely to reduce
the acuteness Of the situation there.
THE net gold in the treasury at the
close of business on the Goth wa,
S122, 063, 6i3. The days Withdrawals a
New York we're $3.50, 800. There wa,
deposited in exchange for currency al
New York on that day $500, 900 in gold
FIRE, on the morning of the Goth, de
stroyed nine business houses in Cadil
lac, Mich, among them the telephon,
exchange, causing a loss of $50, 900
partly covered by insurance. Tn,
cause Of the fire is unknown.
DURING the performance in the Pco
pies Palace variety theater in Aber
deem, Scotland, on the night of tn,
a0th, a fire broke out and the audi
ence was thrown into n panic an,
made a rush for the exits. 1t is states
that at least forty persons were in
jured, four Of them fatally, while
number of others who are known 4
have been in the theater when tn
fire started were reported TO be miss
ing.
Is Alexandria. the Virginia subur'
of Washington, just across the Potc
mac river. the damage done ty TIN
storm, on the 30th, is estimated at no
less than 500, OOO. and at least tw
: lives are known to have been los,
/ Nearly 200 houses were badly dan
: aged by the tornado in its course.
4 ONE of the worst wrecks that eve
occurred in that section happened o
! the Lehigh Valley railroad a shor
: distance east of Batavia, N. ", on tn
30th. As a result one man was killc
and another probably fatally injured