The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

OF NdRlndN, Mich. he II very young
for the position-sl years old. The
bond as receiver is fixed at $4,000
EpHEM PASTA, the Turkish com
mander. has disbanded and sent to
their homes most of the Albanians in
his army.
An explosion, evidently caused by
chemicals used in the preparation of
| pepsin, shattered the upper part of
Armour & Co.'S pepsin factory, at Chi
cago, on the cath, and the blaze which
followed practically consumed the
building; loss, S75.
Mr.. RICHARD NJ. ScRUGGs, the
wealthy st. Louis merchant, who was
arrested in New York city on his ar
rival on the St Paul charged with
smuggling, and on whose person and
that of Mr.. T. 5. Langhorne was found
about S., 900 worth of dutiable goods.
was on the cath, held by the United
States commissioner for the grand
jury. He gave bond. His trial will
come off about the 10th of June.
ANDREW BRYAN, n well-to-do farmer.
aged So, the father of 33 children. IS
of whom are boys. and who married
his seventh wife last February, is
missing from Fowler. Ind. He left
home with several hundred dollars in
his pocket to purchase stock.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the gath,
showed: Available cash balance. S23l,-
$4,000; gold reserve, sl44, 7o4, $40.
TOTAL gold shipments from New
York, on the 18th. were 81, 100000.
An Athens dispatch says: The in
tentions of the sultan are greatly dis
trusted here. and it is believed that he
is avoiding negotiations for peace
through the powers because he wants
Edhem Pasha to march to Athens.
By the caving of a trench at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the cath, three work
men were instantly killed and fourth
was fatally injured. The dead are A.
Dennis. A. Brown, James Christie. .Fa-
tally injured. Michael Sheehy.
The Odessky ListocIS of Odessa, an
nounces the coming arrival there of
one of the Wander bits. who. according
to that newspaper. is about to start
big naphtha works at BulSu, Russian
Transcaucasia.
BANK EXAMINER CALDWELL has dis
covered a further shortage of $50, 900 in
the accounts of the wrecked State ma
tional bank of Logansport. Ind.
On the 2ith w. +. NJ ittman. a dane
ing teacher. shot himself in the CORR
dor of the thirteenth story of the Chi
cago chamber of commerce building
and then threw himself To the court
below, narrowly missing pedestrians
in the crowded lobby. II is thought he
was dead before he struck the pave
ment.
The examination of Herr Won Tausch.
the former chief of the secret political
police. who is charged with four-fold
perjury and treason. was continued in
Berlin on the 25th. Won Tausch wept
during the course Of the proceedings.
T. 5. MALoNEY. of Tennessee, son-in-
law of Senator Mills, of Texas, and for
20 years clerk in the post Office de-
partEent in Washington. expired from
heart disease, on the 25th, while driv-
ing to the Office.
THE secretary of war has awarded
the contract for building six locks and
dams in the Monongahela river to
James McCarron, of Philadelphia, at an
aggregate cost of 1922, Isl.
DURING a display of fireworks at
Nantes, France, on the evening of the
cath, four persons were killed and a
score of others were injured by the ex-
plosion of bomb.
JoHS c. MILESTONE, late secretary OF
he
ed, on the 2ath, on a charge of cmbez-
Element of water-works money. The
arrest was on warrant swora out by
\ President Herman, of the board of
affairs.
A DISPATCH was received from Prov
incetown, Mass, on the 25th. announc-
ing the arrival there of the Province
town fishing schooner Joseph X. John
son with the loss Of rs of her crew.
THE Indiana supreme court decided
that the fact that n candidate for an
office offered bride or reward TO a
voter disqualified him and made him
ineligible to Office. The decision was
based upon the state constitution.
ELISHA DYER, Of Providence, was in
augurated, on the 2jth. governor.
captain general and communicating
chief of the state Of Rhode Island and
Providence plantations for the year en-
suing
| In is understood in Madrid that
Senior Sagasta, the liberal leader. win
soon publish an important political
statement in which he will announce
his unaltcrablc opposition to the sale
of Cuba, and his unyielding support of
the maintenance of the integrity OF
| Spanish territory.
The first vote in the senate on the
tariff bill occurred, on the Goth. on
Senator Vests amendment to reduce
the rate on borax to three cents per
pound. The amendment was defeated:
Yeas, 20: nays, 81