The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-08-13
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Personal AND GENERAL.

I grain SO fast that IL can not bc handled.
The levee is piled high with sacks OF
wheat. and more is constantly arriv-
ing.
Mr. LEON GoDcHAU. the owner OF
seven sugar plantations in Louisiana.
and the largest sugar producer in the
United States, has advanced the wages
of all field labor l6is per cent. com
meneing on the LIST.
MAYOR STRONG OF New York has APP
pointed Col. George Moore Smith. of
the Sixty-ninth regiment. to succeed
Col. +. ID. Grant as police commissioner.
The new commissioner was sworn in
on the I'd.
THE recent hot winds have ruined
many thousand acres of promising cor"
in central and eastern kansas. Hun
dreds of fields which promised Il yield
of 50 bushels az acre have been parched
by the intense heat.
OFFICERS of the steamer Miowera,
just arrived at Vancouver. Il. c.. say
that Honolulu harbor is dotted with
British. japanese and United States
warships, and that IA condition of un-
rest p~ervades the people of the city.
SENATOR JONI L. MORGAN. senior
member of the foreign affairs commit
tee on the democratic side. is going TO
Hawaii for the purpose of making a
personal examination of the conditions
OF those islands.
THE crews of the 40 ~life-saving sta
tions of the United States government.
stretching along the New Jersey coast
from Sandy Hook to Cape May. went
on duty, on the LIST. after being out of
service since Nav 81.
An extensive robbery of art works
and other articles of great value took
place at the Vaud cannonal museum in
Lausanne. Switzerland, on the I'd.
THE Chinese water course, COM
monty known as the West river, has
finally been opened to trade and com
merce as far westward as Woo-Chang-
Flu. popularity known as Ny-Chan,
which has been made a treaty port.
REV. HENRY DAY, ID. d., widely
known throughout the Baptist church
as preacher and editor. died. on the I'd.
of paralysis. at his home in ~Indianapo-
lis, Ind. He was born at Westfeld,
Mass. in 1918.
IN the I'd Acting Postmaster-General
Merritt appointed J. +. Green. a colored
politician of Cleveland, o.. as United
States postage stamp agent Green
Immediately qualified.
The Hammond Edge Tool Co, at
Ogontz, a suburb of Philadelphia, re
sumed operations. on the Cd. after a
shutdown of two months. About one
hundred hands are employed.
A SMALL tornado passed through the
northern part of Greene county, la, on
the I'd, sweeping ava barns, houses
and stacks OF grain. Several persons
are reported slightly injured.
Two MEN. known as Henry Duff and
y. III. Edgar. whom the police believe
TO nave been noted crooks. fought a
duel in a small room in a Denver Coll
lodging house on the 2d. Duff was
instantly killed and Edgar was fatally
wounded.
BALI Bros, of Muncie, Ind, among
the largest fruit jar manufacturers in
the world. are preparing 10 introduce
machines for blowing fruit jars.
IT was announced. on the 80, that
the rising of natives in Be~chlanaland
lad collapsed and that Chiefs Toto and
Lukajaulos. who had a thousand fol-
lowers. had surrendered to the British.
Work was resumed. on the "a. at
the bohemian branch of Wheaton 4
Co.'S glass works. Melville. y. j.
In the race for the queens cup at
E.sr.a ILL., - tEt.1s ~ a -.
prince OF Wales yacht Britannia. with
his royal highness on board. beat En-
peror Williams yacht Meteor on time
allowance.
EVERETT RUGGrEs. OF Stockton, CAL,
has just discovered that the lad- whom
he recently welded is an heiress. The
bride has been notified that She is en-
titled TO "A one-seventh interest in n
$500 900 estate in New York.
THE Rome (Ga.,) cotton factory has
obtained a government contract for
1900, 600 yards of heavy duck for mail
sacks, the contract price of which is
$3.50. 600.
The first importation of Mexican
cattle under the Dinglcy tariff law was
made through the customhouse at
Nogales. Ariz., on the Sd. Six hum
dred and forty head of steers, the prop
erty of 4. ;. Newman. were brought in,
the duty being ST. 96. o5 ove. the duties
fixed by the Wilson law.
FIRE broke out in Il. 4. Bells store
at Lewisburg, w. Va, on the sd, de-
stroying STATIONS hotel. two banks,
two drug stores and ten other build.
ings. Loss about $40. 600: insurance.
$1,000. The fire was incendiary. and
the result of a second attempt within .
week. :.
The steamer Noyo sailed from San
Francisco. on the 9TH, with l4o pas
sengers for Dyea, Alaska. OF the pas
sengers booked. ten are women. who
will make the journey over the Chill
koot pass to the klondiise gold fields.
TuE Chicago agent Of the Travclers'
Insurance Co. Of Hartford. Conn. has
received instructions from the home
Office not To insure any person going to
the klondiIse region. II Is a risk that
the company does not desire " take.