The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-12-17


Tmr plate glass factory at Elwsod.
Ind, employing 500 hands, ciosed
down. on the eth. because of the re-
fusa of the polishers 10 accept the
change To payment by piece work ln-
stead of by the week.
on the eth Emperor William ordered
the number of volunteers for the china
expedtion To be increased to | 900 men.
THE London Chronicle. commenting
on Ambassador Hays happy talk at
the Omar khayam club on the great
Persian poet, remarks that the United
states has assuredly never, not except
inc Mr. Lowell, been represented 10y a
stronger, more charming and more cul
tured personality than Mr.. Hay
Nor later than January l. ls9s. every
wire mill in the United States may be
controlled. IL not owned. by one com
pauy. with n capitalization OF sl2a.-
600. 600 The mills for producing the
rods from which wire and wire nalis
are made are also TO be taken into the
trust.
PRESIDENT SIMON SAM of lIayti, in
proclamation. says that iaytis gov
eminent had determined to resist Ter
many to the end but that expected
support was withheld. and for that
reason submission was the only course
left.
A PARIS dispatch says that the re-
opening of the Dreyfus case is rem
dered improbable. ii not impossible,
bv reason of the alleged connection of
the wife of Maj. Esterhazy with the
chief of the general staff of the French
army.
Jomy HARLoNG. the aged farmer who
was tortured and robbed of $500 by
three masked men at Greentown, o.,
died on the sth. llarlong was 81 years
old. His principal wound was deep
cut on the head, made by an iron
wedge.
THERE will be attached To the PEN
sion appropriation bill an amendment
which provides that no woman who
hereafter marries an old soldier will,
in the event of the soldiers death, be
en- titled to a widows pension.
THAT Germany anticipates trouble
at no distant date with Russia is mani
fest from the orders that have been is
sued by the war department at Berlin
for the immediate rearmament Of all
the forts along the Russian from tier.
EDWIN G. NoURsE. engineer in charge
of the construction of the new railroad
bridge being built between Davenport,
la, and Rock Island, Ill, was instant
ly killed, on the sth, by the fall of a
derrick.
BEFORE sailing for Europe. on the
sth, and encountering the perils of a
globe-trotter. George w. Wander bilt
took out 81. 900. 900. insurance on his
life. The policy is the largest ever is
sued by any company in the world.
JOIN ScHwISNES, aged, out of work
and respondent, jumped from the high
bridge to the frozen surface of the Lin
coin park (Chicago) lagoon, on the sth,
and broke his way through to death in
the cold waters.
HARRY ii. ADAMS. ex-treasurer OF
Kings county. y. Y..died in Brookly L
on the 9th. An indictment for misap-
preparation of funds was hanging over
Mr.. Adams head and bis bondsmen are
| being sued in civil action to recover
| $50. 900.
| THOMAS O'NEILL and John OBrien
two longshoremen, were run down by
an Illinois Central train in Chicago
on the 9th. and fatally injured.
| REAR-ADMIRAL JOSE III +. GREEN, U
S. y. (retired), died at his home IL
Brookline. Mass, on the 9th, from Z
complication Of diseases.
| JAMES HASTE. for many years
captain of the Thames Rowing club,
died in London, on the 9th.