The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the 18th. said: There has been a great
decrease in the virulence of the plague.
Only $50 eases and 1874 deaths from the
disease occurred last week in this city
compared with 800 eases and 323 deaths
during the preceding week.
ARLINGTON HOLLAND was taking a
loaded shotgun from a closet, at New
London. Ia. on the 9th, when it
was accidentally discharged. the load
entering the left side of his daughter,
Clara. a beautiful young woman of Is,
MORALLY %wounding her.
A DISPATCH from Cumberland, Md.
on the night of the 9th. said that the
body of Gen. Fullerton, who went to
his death in the railroad disaster at
Oakland. Md. had been found eight
miles below the scene of the accident
by Dalton Hornell. the famous decr
hunter. The body was almost entirely
nude and badly disfigured.
Miss ALICE A. HOLMES. of Jersey City,
y. j., who has been blind from the day
of her birth, has just fallen heir to
$500, 900. left to her by "A brother. Will
lam j. Holmes. Of Downieville. Sierra
county. Cal. Miss Holmes is now in
her seventy-seventh year. She will de-
vote the inheritance TO philanthropy.
THREE thousand irregular Greek
troops crossed the frontier and invaded
Turkish territory. on the 10th. and in
several engagements.with Ottoman gar
risons either put the latter to flight or
silenced their fire. An advance of the
Greek army was expected and a declar-
alton of wal thought to be inevitA-
BILE.
THE British channel squadron has
been ordered to the island of Malta,
where it will remain as long as the
eastern crisis lasts.
WHILE mass was being said in q
church near Castres, in the department
Of Tara, France. on the 18th. the root
collapsed. Seven women and one man
were killed and 80 persons were seri-
ously injured.
BY a decree transmitted to the state
department by United States Consul
Wicsike at Managua. the N%icaraguan
government has reduced the duty on
bicycles to . 2-l00 cents per pound. or
about s.. 13 for a machine. as packed,
- siaN county, Oiu uhtN "oo
about ten cents per pound.
Gov. PINGREE of Michigan has re-
fused TO recognize the requisition upon
him. issued by Gov. Black of New
York. for Sheriff Edward r. Ferguson
of Lenawee county, Mich.
Two L held up the cashier of the
Yonkers On. W savings bank. on the
18TH, and secured 81, 400, mostly in bills,
and made good their escape.
THE Consolidated Steel and Wire Co.,
of Cleveland, o., obtained an injunc-
ton in the United States district court.
on the 10th. restraining their striking
employees from interfering in any way
with the employment of new workmen.
The Illinois steel works at South Chi
cago resumed operations on the 12th.
About 100 rail tinishers, whose striking
involved $500 men, were not re-em-
ployed. The fnishers were not up
held by the officials of their union.
F.J. MARTIN. vice-president Of the
Union Stock Yards Co. of Chicago, and
confidential legal advisor to +. ID. Ar
mour, the millionaire packer. died at
his home in that city on the 18th.
ACCORDING to advices brought by the
Oriental steamer Gaelic, which arrived
at San Francisco on the 18th. natives
in the vicinity Of lchang, China. are
dying By thousands of starvation.
JOSH GONZALES CARLOS, charged with
being IN insurgent incendiary. was
shot at Cabanas fortress, Cuba, ci the
eth.
A DISPATCH from Washington says
The sweeping order of PresidentC levc'
land cffccting a consolidation OF pen
sion agencies will be revoked bv Presi
dent Mckinley, if present plans ar,
carried out.
AT Wilson. ILL.,, a small town on Oh,
Chicago 4 Eastern Illinois railroad, ,
posse of twenty-five citizens fought
pitched battle, on the night of the 18th
with three robbers who had beer
caught in the act of robbing a bank.