The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-12-31
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

). ;. Spearriel, who, 1T was thought
either committed suicide or was muir
dered and thrown into the river.
They found nothing whatever. owing
To the murky condition OF the high
water.
The great jewelry establishment of
Mermod & Jaccard. OF st. Louis, was
destroyed by fire, on the
10Th. causing a loss variously estimated
MT from $3.50. 900 to $500, 900 and said To
have been fully covered oy insurance
SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD, liberal mem
Der OF the British parliament for York
city since 1885, died IN London on the
10th.
Asa result OF an explosion OF crude
oil vapor in one of the boilers at the
works of the Kansas City (Mo.) Gas
Co. on the goth, Frank Connor was SO
badly burned that he will probably
die. James Murphy. fireman. ana
James Miller. a steam filter. were also
seriously burned. Both will recover.
THE reported robbery of some s5,ooo
in Mexican money from the steamer
City of Washington during her last
trip from Vera Cruz to New York was
confirmed on the Goth. The City OF
Washington belongs To the New York
* Cuba Mail Steamship Co.
PETER y. MCMAHON, of Albany, \.
Y. crazed by cigarette smoking. com
mitted suicide at Syracuse on the 2Oth.
Mcmahon stood in front OF mirror
and fired bullet through his heart.
de was about 20 years old.
ONE person was probably iataiiv
hurt and six others were more or less
injured in the outskirts OF Philadel-
phia, on the Goth. in collision on the
marlborough, Wissahickon a. Mana
yunk electric road.
The Joint convention of miners and
operators met in Pittsburgh, Pa. on
the 2lst. To Tx a mining rate Tor the
wear 1895. There was large attend
ance.
The three windowglass factories at
Alexandria, Ind. will resume opera
tons January /. giving employment te
1900 men.
| The funeral of Washington Hest ng
of Chicago, took place on the I'D.
PHIIIp j. CARTER. the seaman who
on June 80, murdered Master-at- Arm
Kenney on board the battleship lndl
ana. in the navy yard at Brooklyn, wa
found guilty, on the goth, OF murder II
the first degree without capital pun
| ishment.
| SECRETARY ALGER has determined
after advising with the medical officer
Of the war department. and person
who have had much experience in are
tic regions, to make large use of cou
densed food preparations for the hlor
dixie relief expedition.
TIE state of Nebraska. by the atto'
! nev-general, has filed civil SUIT agalns
, ex-Treasurer BARLEY and his bonds
: men for $685., 900. This is the amour
: which hartley is charged with en-
! bezzling from the public school fund.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR BLISS Ina
. issued instructions that all boomers
who trespass upon the Wichita reese
walton before it Is opened to settlemeI
n are to be arrested
4 Ir is understood in Paris that the pr
IA liminary inquiry into the charges ma
d against Maj Walsi n Esterhazy has
/ suited in his committal for trial |
o court-martial.
o MORTIMER +. HUMPHREYS, who, Z
: years ago. had national reputau
as n billiardist, died on the street
New York city, on the 2lst. OF hea
n failure, aged 80 years. Humphreys I
g. Gently had been a sporting writer.
= An eight-pound dynamite cartrid
Y exploded in the rear OF the ArbucA
'e coffee building in Brooklyn on
* night of the 2lst Nearly 5,OOo par
- of glass in the neighborhood W.
Vi shattered. and that the explosion
not attended by loss of life is rema
able.
~ CuAs. SCHMIDT nailed revolver
=, an upright pillar in the store VIII
" he was employed at Davenport, la /.
81 the 2lst, pressed his head against
AZ muzzle and pulled the trigger. lie d
o. instantly. He was but is years Of a
~ and killed himself on account of l
affair.
The imperial japanese diet reope
on the 10th. The union of the IL
- chief political parties is complete,
- will certainly carry in the house
represe n tatives a vote OF no conhde
in the government.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Vienna
90 the 2lst, said: The Arabs along
Persian gulf, notably at Busrah.
nah aud FL Kalif, have revolted,
troops are on their way there"
,he ONE HUNDRED operatives employc
No.. the mills OF the Royal Weaving Co
as Pawtucket, II. L.. left work, on
nd 2ist, and joined the silk weavers,
ac. were discharged because they w
,rrv not teach a beginner.
n.r PRIVATE JONI w. III. DAVIS. Flo
ar. cavalry, stationed in Yellowstone I
!. was frozen To death, while carryin,
mail from the Lake hotel TO Tn
law station. Private George Murphy.
,las was with him, turned back and
that saved. although badly frozen.
,gar JoHS LAswELr, driller. was insta
most killed, and Horace Wathen, his a
hes, int. was badly injured by the e.
,any sion of dy namite cartridge at
sell Point, Ky. on the 2lst. The men
alue working on gas we'll on the pref
of Laswell at the time.