The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-03-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

OK the 9Th the associated banks of
New York city held SIS. as, 925 in excess
of the requirements of the 25-per-cent-
rule.
HAVING gracefully and deservedly
won her first case in st Louis law
court. il may be said more truthtully
than ever that Miss Daisy Barbee Is in
very truth daisy
SECRETARY or THE INTERIOR CoRNE-
LIus y. BLISS has retained as private
secretary Mr. Price Lane, who had
acted in that capacity for Mr. Francis
AUDITOR FRANK BoR-T and ex-rreas-
urer L. ii. Sawvel pleaded guilty at
Butler. Ind. on the sth. TO embezzle-
ment Of county funds. and were SEN
fenced 10 five years each by Judge
Adair. This makes three of the De-
I kalb county officials who have pleaded
guilty Ia embezzlement of a portion Of
the $50 600 which had been stolen during
the past few years.
JONI d. HART. previously convicted
Of aiding in the fitting out Of a tilibus-
tering expedition on the steamer Lau-
rada. was sentenced. on the 9Th, by
Judge Butler. in Philadelphia. 70 two
wears imprisonment and To pay fine
of $500 and costs of prosecution. He
was released on $1,000 bonds pending
an appeal.
EN-SEcRETARY CARLISLE has made no
definite plans for the future. lie will
remain in Washington for some time
yet
A DISPATCH from Colon. on the sth,
said report had reached that place
from Panama that Nice-President
Ezeta died in the latter city on that
date.
The old employees OF the Globe ship
building Co. Of Cleveland. o.. who had
been on strike for two weeks. began
to assemble at the ward gate. on the
9th. and stood patiently waiting for the
whistle To blow. All expected 10 60 70
work. but only as many as the work
warranted were taken in. In all about
400 out of the $50 strikers were en-
ployed.
Mrs. RICARDO RUIZ. widow of the man
alleged to have been murdered recently
: in the dungeon of the Guanab acoa Jail
: in Cuba. arrived at New York. on tn,
sth, from Havana. Mrs. Ruiz will z,
10 Washington 20 lay before the de
partment OF state her claims. as th'
: wife Of a murdered American citizen
r against the government Of Spain.
GES. w. W. THOMAS. OF Portland. Me.
who was twice the diplomatic repre-
sentative of the United States AT stock
2 holm. was said. on the sth. to have
! been assured that he would Dc sent bacl
to Sweden.
THF foreign ambassadors. ministers
secretaries and attaches were receives
! !. al the departing mt Of state by Secretary
u Sherman AT II a. IN. OF the 10th. and tn
president received them at the execu
!, tive mansion at noon of the same day
y PoS. THOMAS F. BAYARD, Unite
= States ambassador. and Mrs. Bayar
are arranging 10 make a tour of Italy
= and will probably start from LondoI
for Florence on March 20.
! The special Pullman train conveyin
!, the members Of the French opera con
: pany from New Orleans to San Frar
cisco. was wrecked, at midnight Of III
4 sth. at Casa Grande. Ariz. All Of th
/, passengers on the train were badl
I, shaken up and frightened. and tram
i stealing ride between the baggag
cars was killed.
EDWARD j. RUSSELL, alias MEREDITH
% charged with matchmaking ex-Corpori
y ton Counsel Almet r. jerks. of Brool
~ lyn. out of 81 800. by representing hir
m self as the agent of a press association
~ and demanding that sum for the su
q preston of story. was on the -
I. sentenced To ten years in Sing sir
a prison.
On the 9th senator Allison. charms
of the republican caucus, appointed u
!. following steering committee: sen
"a tors Allison. Hale. Aldrich, Cullor
81 Davis, Sewall and Carter. by the a
:, ton Of the caucus Mr.. Allison W
= made chairman OF the committee.
he AT the annual meeting of the Nj
IA sour Pacific Railway Co. held in
a. Louis on the 9th. the old board of I
IN rectors was reelected. The arrans
ments for the extension of the lr'
Mountain bonds was affirmed.
M Ir is authoritatively stated that {
ID. works OF the Maryland Steel Co.
"a Sparrow's Point, Md. will start up
~ its departments in few weeks, tn
DR.. giving employment TO over 1000 me
w. SECRETARY SHERMAN, on the 10th.
Ia ceived cablegram from Consul y
IN Carr at Cienfuegos. Cuba. stating I'll
W. Antonio suarez del Nillar had be
liberated.