The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-08-06
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

III W. I'LL run 81 80
Ia Cincinnati and died from his in
juries.
In New York city . 800 garment work
ers struck for higher wages.
The secretary of the treasury has
definitely decided that the Dingley
tariff act became effective at midnight
On the Esd.
4 cyclone eight miles south OF Leb-
anon. Ind. tore down fences. killed
stock and did great damage TO crops.
One-half the business portion of the
village of Ashley, Mich, was destroyed
by fire.
In Franklin. Kearney and other por-
tons of Nebraska great damage was
done by wind and hailstorm.
The president has decided TO detail
an army officer and a company of sol
diers from the regular army for ser
vice in Alaska.
The Avery plow factory at Louisville,
Ky. resumed operations after three
years shutdown. giving employment
TO 1000 men.
Pasquelle Dadario was hanged in Phil
ndelphia for the murder Of Modestino
MOTTO. a threc-year-old child.
In runaway at Chicopce.. Mass,
Mrs Mary =. Knapp was killed and her
daughter. Mrs. +. 4. futile was fatal
is injured.
Government assay bars were quoted
at 80 cents in New York. which made
the silver in standard silver dollar
worth 45.62 cents.
During a sun dance OF the Ponca
Indians at Guthrie, O. r.. White Fcath-
er. noted Indian from Nebraska, fell
dead in n fit.
Coal mine owners met in Pittsburgh
20 try and arrange for uniform scale
of prices. and labor leaders met in
Wheeling. w. V, TO consider ways and
means TO bring to a settlement the
miners strike.
In an interview in Washington Comp
iroller Eckles said he regarded the
fnacial outlook as being OF 4 most en-
couraging nature.
President Mckinley has appointed
Moses i. Handy. of Chicago. special
commissioner of the United States for
the Paris exposition Of 1900.
Fire at Yonkers. ~ ". destroyed two
large factory buildings. the loss being
100000
a rich gold find is reported in Mime
sofa within 80 miles of Duluth.
The reports as to the condition of
crops throughout the country were al.
favorable.
For the fifth time in five years Muir
dock, Ill. was visited by a fire that de-
stroycd most of the business portion of
the village.
The merchants of Boston gave ban
quet TO Secretary Of the Treasury Ly-
man J. Gage ut the Hotel Tuillcries
and in his address Mr.. Gage said that
the country was on the way TO better
times. and he counseled patience and
the exercise of judgment.
A number of finely-executed silver
certificates of the new issue, raised
from the denomination Of two TO five
dollars. were discovered in New York.
James Mingle. horse trader in
Springfield. Ill. killed Mary Briscoe.
aged 10. with whom he had been living.
and her infant child by chopping their
heads to pieces with Ratchet.
Nathan James. farm hand. shot and
fatally wounded Martha Miner, do
nestle. and then killed himself in
Bridgewater. Mich.
The Algonquin Wooden Mills com
pany of Passaic. n j.. gave notice that
wages in their mills would be increased
from 10 10 IL per cent
The president announced the follow
Ing recess appointments: T. V. Pow
DERBY OF Pennsylvania, commissioner
general Of immigration, and Robert j.
Tracewell. Of Indiana. comptroller OF
the treasury.
White men named Crownover and
Beach were iynched by a mob near Lit
tie Rock. Ark. for horse stealing.
In an interview in Paris Marquis Ito,
former prime minister OF Japan. said
that there was no danger OF war be-
tween his country and the United
States over the Hawaiian question.
In state convention in Baltimore the
Maryland democrats nominated Thonna.
A. Smith for comptroller and adopted
n platform that declares for bimetal.
ism. bur is silent a. to the question oil
@'rntio."
Mrs. Mary r. Lease. the pcpulist ora.
tor. has been selected az queen Of the
fail festivities, n harvest demon stra ton
mt Topeka. Ean.
in the stock brokerage Office OF c. r
Irice & Co.. 10 Waco, Tex. II +. Kiveti
anal w. w. Kivett were shot aud killed
by W. Lambden. n member ~ the firm.
in wreck on the Central Pacific rail
way near Reno. New. six Indians were
Killed and nine other persons were seri-
ously injured.
The handsome Carrara marble bust
OF President Mckinley that is 10 be
placed in the state capitol at Column
bus. o.. arrived In New York from
Naples.