The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-06-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The volume of business transacted
Al the port of Philadelphia during the
past six months has been phenome-
nally large. the exports of petroleum
during that time having reached 81
1873. O93 gallons in excess of the corre-
spending period of last year; the corn
exports are 10, 900, 600 bushels and
wheat shipments 1000, 900 bushels
greater than during the first six months
OF 1896.
UPoS the conviction of Leslie c. Bon
ner at Toledo, O., of perjury on the
5th. his aged father attempted 10 com
nit suicide with knife and the son
tried tojump from the courtroom win
dow, so feet from the ground. Both
were prevented by bystanders-
By the falling of freight elevator
in the New York-cty post office, on the
9TH. six menwere more or less serious
~ hurt. Fourwere postal employees and
the other two were engaged by the con-
tractor incharge of the alterations now
going onin the federal building
The Universe. mill of the Pottstown
Iron Co., the Valley mill of the elias
mill. all of Pottstown. Pa. will start
operations during the present week.
JONI ANDERSON and Andrew Johnson
were drowned in the lake near Gothen-
berg Neb., on the 9TH, while fishing.
HEAVY floods are reported from va
rious parts of Switzerland, which have
caused considerable damage TO crops.
I,.I
the American seal commissioner, at
peterhof on the eth.
BY an explosion of gas ia the Black
Diamond mine of the Brown Coal Co..
two miles south OF Monongahela. Pa,
on the 9TH. several men were injured.
but none fatally. The gas is said to
have been ignitcd by an open lamp.
and the escape of the 300 miners was
remarkable.
When the trial of ex-State Treasurer
BARLEY was resumed. before Judge
Baker, at Omaha, Neb, on the sth,
County Attorney Baldridge made the
statement that an effort had been made
to tampcr with the jury. At the direc-
tion of the court an information was
filed charging one Wright with at
tempting to bride jurors.
THE board of directors of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Co., on
the sth, declared a quarterly dividend
of one per cent on preferred stock,
payable July /. This is the first divi-
dend the company has paid in several
years.
EVAN, better known as "Ephr Nor
ris, ex-champion oarsman of the United
States. died. on the eth, at his home in
Allegheny. Pa, of consumption. Nor
ris was defeated by Edward lIanlan ON
June 20. 1879. and then retired.
THE Renwick building at Davenport,
la. occupied by the Davenport Furni-
ture and Carpet Co.. was burned. on the
sth, an explosion being the cause.
Damage To the building. $40, fully
insured The stock was valued at S20,-
600. and is a total loss
THE official copy OF Consul-General
Lees report on the Ruiz case was filed
at the state department on the sth. II
is announced that President Mckinley
viii call upon Spain for full and com
| plete reparation for the death of DIR.
Ruiz.
SOLDIERS at Fort sheridan. Chicago,
took a few shots, on the Sth, at Casimir
Zeglen's bullet-proof cloth with their
improved army revolvers and were un.
able to pierce the tough fabric invent
ed by the Rcsurrectionist brother.
The sth inst. was the coolest June
day in New York on record. and i,
came to a fitting end. At night huge
black cloud blew over Norton's Point,
Coney Island and for half minute
there was snow.