The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-02-21

Br the bursting OF water pipe o.
Franklin Avenue hill. In Cleveland. O.
early on the morning Of the lith, sew
eral hundred feet OF the hill wa,
washed into the river. The one-stor,
frame house of Mrs. Mary Ravcv. arc1
Co. was washed into the river and Mr..
Ravcv WAS drowned.
STERLING ELLIOTT. OF Massachusetts
was elected president OF the League of
American Mheelmen at Baltimore
Md. on the 18th. and Louisville. Nv,
was chosen a the place for holding the
next annual meet
THREE men were killed and three
serious ly.inj ured in a collision between
an ea>t-bonnd stock train and a west.
bound freight. four miles east of Fair.
port. y. y, on the i2th. Several
horses were also killed.
THE town of Waterloo. Ind. on the
LIKE shore railroad. was nearly de-.
Stroyed by ire On the 18th. The total
loss was placed 1T SlO.an1.
t"rNr WILHELM voS BISMARCK. rov-
error Of the province ~ East Prussia.
amt youngest son Of thc aged cN-chan.
ceiior. was on the 18th. reported - tx.
dying AZ kocnigshury.
FnE treasury gold reserve al tbs
close o. business. On the 18th, stood
a sol. ~ii.1-9. gain for the dav a..
Sla.!ri .a.d. being The second DAYS r..
ccipt> ~ gold from the new bond ;s~ne.
TnE board OF directors Of the Ma
tsonal Association OF General >ecre,a-
ric> % the Y. NJ c. a. decided. On the
tft' f.s ..t4U
The organization to meet in Cleveland.
-. jane ; 10 .. about five hundred
general secretaries. representing the
nifed states and Canada. will at
tend.
1T 1890 p m. on the 10th. the cal.
enaar " the New Work state assembly
was suspended in order that the clerk
might read 70 the house the mennra-
bic speech Of Abraham Lincoln On the
battle field OF Gettysbary. and the
house then took recess ont OF ress..t
10 the great statcsman's birthAav
anniversary.
The famous negro jockey. Isaae
Murphy who was known from the Al
lantic 10 the Pacific. and who had rid.
den 20 victory some Of the most famous
horses in America. died on the iath. at
Lexington. Ky. lie left about one
thousand dollars to his
" idow.
Ii HrSs CHANG and Shas Yu Lien
have been appointed delegates To rep
resent the emperor of China AT the
coronation Of Emperor Nicholas III. OF
Russia al Moscow
n> the 18TH. railroad employees at
opvka- kas., discovered that Joseph
Love. q Shawnee county farmer. had.
r. save passenger fares. PACKED MI,
hrec children. aged seven. nine and
-l~ven years in box for shipment bv
reight TO Guthrie. Okla. Love pleaded
n ~erty and a stranger advanced him
money t. buy tickets for his little ones.
The American line steamer Pari,
rem New York February ;. sunk the
ncal steamer Her Majesty while dock
her az southampton. on the 18th.
l. the Paris swung around her rns,de-
truck the smaller vessel. sending her
q the bottom.
\ REPORT from brisbane. Quccnslani.
m The 18th sail. IA passenger steamer
apsized in the brisbane river. ~
Queensland. and ~ Of the persons who
Tere on board of her were drowned. r
ApvIcE- from Corea. on the 18th.
aid that the Cvrean rebels had over
owered and killed small party o.
a panese soldiers who were guarding
le telegraphic lines
JAoKsoS and Walling. the alleged {
lurderers Of Pearl Bryan. were IN /
icted by the grand jury al Newport,
~, on the 18th.