The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-23

SENATOR CHANDLER. on the 18th. In
PRODUCED his bills empowering the sec
| rotary of the navy To take possession
| Of the armor plants of the Bethlehem
and the Carnegie companies, and hold
and operate them at will. provision for
ample compensation being made.
OK the advice of her physician thai
il was the devil in her, and IL would
have to be whipped out" Mrs. Logan.
of indianapolis. Ind, beat her l9-year-
| old daughter Nellie, who had been
subject to hysteria for four years. 50
badly that she had to be sent to the
hospital.
A DEED has been placed on file in
Kansas City, kas, conveying to Will
lam j. Isaac, of Kansas City, Mo-.
nearly one-half of the city of Argen-
| tine, "a manufacturing suburb. over
one million dollars worth OF property
il in yolved.
SEVERAL thousand razor-back hogs,
imported into Iowa from Texas during
the past year. ave died from what
was supposed to be. hog cholera A
post-mortem examination Of some of
them disclosed the fact that, instead
of cholera, a kidney worm killed the
hogs.
A MYSTERIOUS Jail delivery occurred
in Memphis. Tenn, on the night of the
18th. j. ii. Morris, alias j. A. Thur
man. alias j. NJ. Thomas, under indict-
ment for forgery in Chicago, Louis
Vile and Memphis, passed to liberty
through four doors, all of which were
found to be securely locked after the
escape was discovered.
In view of the very satisfactory tests
of American armor plate heretofore
sent to Russia. the Russian govern
mcnt has asked the Carnegie and Beth
lehem companies to submit proposals
for furnishing armor plate for two
large b~attleships.
THE London Globe. St James Ga
! zette and Pail Mall Gazette all ridicule
the idea of the United States bimetal-
lie commission, appointed by the presi-
dent. having any practical result.
Ir is reported that Il. V. Powderly,
former general master workman of the
Knights Of Labor, will be appointed
commissioner Of immigration to sue
coed Herman Stump. of Maryland.
THE president has sent a message to
congress urging suitable provision for
adequate representation of the United
States at the Paris exposition.
A DISPATCH from Essen-on-the-Ruhr
announces that ten persons were killed.
on the 14th. by an explosion Of fire
damp in the O~berhausen pit.
The New York Central Railroad Co.
has arranged for the sale of 500. 600. 00O
of BIZ per cent. i0o-year gold bonds. and
the New York < Harlem for s12, 600. 900
of the same class of bonds.
WHILE tapping IA blast at the Repub-
lican iron works in Pittsburgh. Pa.
about three o'clock on the morning of
the 18th. the molten metal boiled over
into a pit of water, causing an explo-
sion. Five men were badly burned,
two of whom will probably die.
FATHER PHILIP B~EREsFoRp, rector of
st. .Ioseph's Catholic parish. in Read
ing. Pa. was found dead in bed in the
parsonage adjoining the church on the
18th. Death was due To suffocation
from Illuminating gas. His age was
about so years.
SECRETARY BLISS of the interior de-
partment has held up an order issued
by the authority Of his predecessor
comforting As. 900 acres of land upon the
state university of Missouri as an addi-
tion to its endowment fund.
Mr.. WILLIAM +. RYAN, of the Dis
trict of Columbia. who for a long time
occupied a confidential position in tho
pension bureau. has been retained az
confidential clerk to Commissioner
Evans.