The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-01-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The newspapers OF Madrid puolish
dispat .hes from the United States re-
porting that the Cuban agitation here
is growing, and declaring that certain
American newspapers are publishing
false news in order to excite public
opinion.
LARGE quantities of provisions, prn-
cipally lard, hams and bacon, will be
shipped from New York city to Cuba,
for entry before January /. On that
date Gen. Weyler's order raising the
tariff on imports five per cent. goes
into effect
Ir transpires that Miss Mary Lord
| Drake, daughter of the governor of
1 Iowa, and George Sturdivant, of Cen
terville, la, were secretly married at
Denver. Col, nearly two months ago.
Hon. john RANDOLPH TUCKER, the
eminent jurist and dean OF the law
school of Wa hington and Lee uni
versity, is I, ,ically i'll at his home in
Lexington, Va. He is rs years of age.
Ex-CoSGREssMAN Roswell &. HoRR
died at Plain field. y. j.. on the 18th.
after an Illness of two weeks with
bronchitis and Bright's disease.
I. AELo and his wife, of sheffield, o.,
natives OF Finland, were awakened, al
three o'clock on the morning OF the
18th, by neighbors shouting that their
house WA, on fire. They escaped In
safety. but returned torcscue grand
child, when the floor gave way and all
three were precipitated into the cell
~. a. u -. ID.
FIVE persons were burned TO death
in their home, 5l4 East fifty-eighth
street, New York city, on the night Of
the GOTH The victims were Aaron
Goldsmith, IS years old, and his wife
ana three children. Goldsmith was IA
Wholesale liquor dealer.
The Madrid La Pas asserts that it
has been definitely proved that Japan
has landed men and munitions of war
upon the Philippine islands, and tina,
the Philippine rebels are commanded
by japanese officers.
THE Berliner bank (of Berlin) has
decided TO Increase its capital from
1900. 900 marks to 10000, 900 marks.
MIR. ". :. CARROLL, United States
. consul-general n Dresden. gave q
grand reception at his residence In
that city on the goth.
I THERE were 275 ships loading and
unloading at Hamburg on the 20ti
and 2,1-7 men were employed in the
: work.
OK the 10Th the associated banks o
A New York city held sJ3,2,4,1e5 in ex
a cess of the requirements of the 25-per
a cent. rule.
!, A BALLOT taken by the striking Ham
a burg lockers, on the 10th, at tiv
Z different meetings resulted in 1926
votes being cast in favor of a continu
ance of the strike and 1871 agains
"a the strike continuing.
/ PROPOSALS for the purchase O
IA s., $50, 600 first mortgage bonds Of til
D Central Pacific. Union Pacific an
o Kansas Pacific railroads, now const
a tuting part of the sinking fund of til
(, Central Pacific railroad, were receive
l. at the treasury department up to moo
of the 2lst Ten bids were received
j. Z. Morgan g. Co., New York, sent
~ guarantee of bid of at least par an
N interest, for the whole amount {
Al none.
!. FREDA ScHAEFER, of St Louis, age
=. 10, to shield her mother, confesse'
-. on the 2lst, that she stole an umbrel
,r from the Famous department stor
n and spent night in the matrons roo
IN at the Four Courts. The girl iusiste
that she and not her mother stole Il
umbrella. but the proprietors refus'
~ to prosecute.
~ OK the 2lst Mr.. Danford, of Obi
In introduced in the house n bill prepar
~ by the National Wool Growers ass
"a citation providing for duties on wo'
A. A duty Of l2 cents per pound is ask
v. for wool of the first class; eight cer
a. per pound for wool of the second ella
m. end other wool according to grade.
The senate committee on co
merce, on the 2ist, ordered favo
he BILE report on the bill appropriate
he S250OO0 for the stoppagc Of
US crevassc in the mouth Of the Miss
for sippi at Pas Loutre. Messrs. Caif,
wn and Nelson were appointed "A subcu
'ok mittee to draft the bill.
les john BURknARDT and George Rel
Dill bricklayers, employed on building
w. course of erection at the corner
eat Green and Bleeler streets, New "
city, were, on the ED, precipita
-. from the sixth floor through the bu
: ing to the cellar by the collapse c
20 scaffold. Burkhardt was killed |
Rsiss fatally injured.
~. THE Bank of Minnesota, at st. III
49,. closed it's doors on the 22d. Lack
49,, ready money was the cause. Great
element prevailed.
and FRANK ASHLEY was found guilt
the De'ro,.' M'cn' on 'ne s-u' ~ wy
9 OF der OF James Mhgee' weirnn'
local amateur athlete, on july
The jury was out about eighteen no