The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-24

TuE Michigan Salt association has
advanced the price Of salt within the
state ten cents a barrel. the second adj
vance within 90 days. To outside
agencies the latest advance Is fve
cents salt 10 now qouted at 90 cents
barrel.
A CONSPIRACY To smuggle large guam
titles OF phenacetinc. in which several
prominent druggists OF New York city
are said To be involved. has been nipped
by the seizure. on the l4th. OF 40C
ounces OF the drug in IIohoken. n. j.
TnE king of Siam is Fraace's guest
on the 18th he was taken To St QUEEN
tin and, with President Faure. re-
viewed 70, 1000 troops of all arms. The
king was visibly impressed with the
sight
CARLorrA. the insane ex-empress of
Mexico is SO dangerously i'll at Brus-
sells that her death is feared at any mo
mcnt
The long-overdue steamer Excelsior
which left ST. Michaels, Alaska. for
San Francisco early in August. but was
compelled to put back to Unalaska for
repairs, after having broken two blades
of her propeller, arrived at San Fran
cisco. on the 18th. with 6S passengers
and large amount in gold.
A DISPATCH from Madrid. dated the
18th. said: The war department is
concentrating 5000 troops with the in
tention of Immediately dispatching
them as rein torcements 10 the Spanish
army in Cuba"
MAJ. Moses T.. HANDY. the special
commissioner of the United States to
the Paris exposition of 1900, arrived in
Paris, on the 18th. and had a long in
terview with VI. Boucher, the minister
of commerce and industry.
PLANS for eight big railroad bridges
to be built on the line of the Nippon
railway of Japan. have been completed
in the Office of J. A. l.. Waddell. of
Kansas City. Mo. under whose direc-
ton the structures are to be built
THE cage in which ten men were
being lowered into shaft No. of the
Alden Coal Co.'S mine at Nanticoke.
Pa. ON the 18th. suddenly dropped 10
the bottom Of the shaft. Eight of the
men were severely injured. and the in
juries of four may prove fatal.
ABNER GLE the millionaire lumber
man. died at his home in La Crosse,
Wis. on the 18th. lie had been en-
gagged in the lumber business since
ISL. and ranked among the wealth
lest and most influential business men
in the northwest.
MEL GOODMAN. an employee of the
Phoenix iron works of Phn nixville.
Pa. has just received word that by the
death of his sister he becomes sole heir
TO an estate of $500. 600 in >taffordshire.
England.
On the 10th Secretary Gage left
Washington for Chicago, to remain
until about Octobe- 10.
IT is said that the biscuit war has
ended in consolidation of companies
with a combined capital of $50. 900, 600.
COMMISSIONERS McNEELY met the
chiefs and headsmen of the Shoshones
and BannoclSs at Ross Fork. Idaho. on
the 18th. when the minor details of
the agreement for the sale of the
lower end of the Fort Hall reservation
were completed.
Two STEAMERS. the Tzarvitch and
Malpitka. collided. on the 10th. in the
River volga. near Astrakhan. The
former sank. Her passengers. panic
stricken. jumped into the river. Many
reached the shore, but 40 were
! drowned.
THOMAS A. AND WILLIAM Il. JACKSON
ex-confederate soldiers, and brothers
who got separated in the battle o
| Chickamauga and have not met since
each believing the other dead will have
a reunion in Nashville. Tenn, soon.