The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-01-08

TnF steamer Kaiser Wilhelm H..
from bremen, which arrived ~ New
York on the Goth. brought 800 Italian
men. women and children, destined for
he Sunnyside colony in Chieot county,
Ark. which was established by tho
late Austin Curbin.
TnE second day OF the tariff hear
ings before the committee on ways
and means OF the house of representa-
tiyes opened, on the 2sth, with the dis
cussion Of schedule |, cotton manufac-
lures.
COY. MORTON OF New York has ap
pointed Col Ashley w. Cole, former
New York city newspaper man, To DC
his private secretary, and also 10 De
secretary OF the state railroad commits
sion. The salary is $1,000 per year, and
is one Of the best IN the state service.
EUGENE ToMPKINs, proprietor OF the
Roston theater; Col. Mapleson, late I'M
presario of the Imperial opera COM
pauy, and all who took part IN the
Mapleson benefit at the theater sun
day, the 2Tth, have been summoned 10
the superior court, charged with vio-
lating the Sunday concert law.
FIRE swept through the dynamo
building of the Newark IN. D. Electric
Light, Heat aud Power Co., on the
ni.rht of the goth, and Newark was
plunged ia total darkness The pow
erhouse was totally destroyed, ana IL,
as it is feared, none of the machinery
can be repaired, the loss will reach
81 200.
Miss LOUISE EUGENIE BoNAPARrE,
ONLY daughter OF the late Col jerome
Napoleon Bonaparte, and Count de
Moltke-Huitieldt, of Denmark, were
married at st. Paul's Roman Catholic
church, Washington, on the .9th,
Cardinal Gibbons officiating.
CHEF HAzEN of the secret service
has issued a circular warning against
a new counterfeit $40 national bank
note on the Union national bank OF
| Detroit, Mich. The note is the proi-
net Of the same hand that produced
the recent counterfeit on the National
Rank Of Commerce of New York. One
distingui shable feature is that the
back of the note Is upside down.
Two MEN, one OF whom was masked,
armed with pistols, entered the Glou
cester City IN. J.) station of the Read
inc road on the evening of the goth
and. under threats of instant death
compelled Thomas Randolph. the sta
tion master, to open the safe. lhey
secured $4,000, and escaped.
THE celebrated Thistle shaft mine
: formerly known as the Feather Fork
al Gibsonville, Cal. which is owned
bva syndicate of Scotch capitalist
and valued at millions, is filing NJ
with water, and may have TO be aban
aoned The water vein was struck I
n short time ago. aud the influx was s.
sudden that the miners narrowly es
capped with their lives.
WHEN called upon to surrender tn
county books and funds IN his posses
sion Henry F. Strauss, county clerk o
Langdale county, Wis. committed sui
!. eide by taking poison. lie lefta lette
: admitting that he was defaulter I
= the amount of 80, 700. He was ~ year
a old.
Mrs. NErrE r. CRAVEN, the claim
ant to the estate Of the late Senate
= Fnir. is seriously i'll in San Francisco
Her sickness has been of long stand
:. ing. and apparently battles the skill Q
her physicians. 1t is said that he
N nalady is such that she may die at an
IL time.
A. THE Bankers Exchange bank @
10 Minneapolis. MINI. suspended pay
T. ment on the aOth. 1t is a small cor
$ Germ. and its officers claim that the
.e have money to pay every depositor an
a. stakeholder.