The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-07-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


On the 18th n cyclone passed over the
outskirts of the city of Paris, France.
using the loss of about twenty lives
and injuring about ninety persons.
THE library building of the Iowa
State university was struck by light
ming. at an early hour on the 10Th, and
DESTROYED by fire. 1t was "A two-story
brick structure. with the library on the
second floor. The loss is 500, 900. OF
this $4,000 was in books, Sl7. 900 in APP
paratus belonging to the physical lab
oratory. and SIS, 600 on the buildingN
JAPAN has followed her protest
against the annexation of Hawaii by
another protest against the pending
tariff bill.
About six hundred Chicagoans will
attend the sixteenth international
Christian Endeavor convention which
opens at San Francisco July I.
On the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held SIS, $50, $50 in excess
Of the requirements of the IS per cent.
rule.
THE weekly statement OF the New
York city associated banks for the week
ended on the 10th showed the fol-
lowing changes: Reserve. increase,
S7s9, AS; loans, increase, 81, s22, 100,
specie. increase, sTs2, 400; legal tender,
increase, 81. sol. 500; deposits, increase,
s. All, 100; circulation. decrease, $685.
500.
ACCORDING TO Chicago brokers and
commission men. a glucose trust has
been formed. Its existence was sus-
pected two or three weeks ago, when
the price of the. long sweetening' took
an upward turn on totally inactive
market.
LOUIS SYckMILLER was instantly
killed and Albert Syckmiller, Charles
Faile and George Schneider were ia
tally injured by an Erie express near
Mansfield. o., on the 2lst. The men
were waiting for n freight train ana
laid down to sleep on the track.
The proposition to close the New
York stock exchange on Saturday pre-
ceding the Fourth Of July was voted
affirmatively by the members on the
I'D.
JUNE ~ will live in the memory of
/ IslglSnlltn anu Nl>lADl~ W
by the reason of the magnificent spec
tacle presented by the parade escorting
Queen Victoria 20 St Pauls cathedral
to render service in commcmoration OF
the sixticth anniversary of her Access
sion to the throne.
A DISPATCH from ~. Petersburg,
dated June q. says: The River kur
has overilowed its banks near the rail-
road depot Of Nawthig, in the Tiflis
district. Nineteen men. belonging to
the Mini Novgorod dragons, were
drowned.
FROM Chicago TO Pittsburgh. Pa. in
9 hours and - minutes by rail is the
latest record-bcating time of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Go.
.. II. ANDERSON. Of the Arapahoc
Wheel club. Denver. Col. has lowered
the road record for 100 miles from r:3l
to G:30:SO. The former record was
made by A. l.. liachenberger last year.
The Hungarian crop prospects are
very unpromising. The yield Of wheat
and rye will be much below the aver
age.
ROWAN CATHOLIC priests in Chicago
observed the Jubilee day of Englands
queen by celebrating dead masses foi
the spiritual repose of Irishmen whose
deaths were charged against English
misrule in the Emerald isle.
CAPT. BoYCoTT is dead lie WA
about % years of age, and became ia
nous through being the first man sub
jected TO the boycott in ireland. hi
advice as to the treatment of others be
ing first applied TO himself.
PRINCE RUPERT OF Bavaria, who woul,
be prince of Wales now and future lSinS
Of England and emperor of india If hi
stuart ancestors had conducted thei
royal affairs more wisely than they did
rode in the Victorian jubilee parade a
the representative OF his mother. Prin
cess Ludwig.
WHAT have you got so many Amer
lean flags for?" asked Julian Ralph o
Londoner on the day CT the grea
jubilee procession. oh" he replied
! II fancy it must be because we are al
, one people"
[ BEloIr wis., college has conferrc
) The degree Of doctor OF law upon Ly
D man I. Gage, secretary Of the treasury
( in recognition of his high attainment
: in literature and in the sciences q
finances and social and political ccs
Monies, and his useful public service.