The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE first announcement on author
ity that the Maine was destroyed by
external explosion, and that the court
of inquiry SO finds, has been received
at Havana. 1t was in the form of in
structions from Washington to Capt.
Sigsbee that he is To be returned 10
active duty.
Dr. GEORGE CLINTON HUBBARD, assist
ant surgeon United States navy, com
mitted suicide at 1t. Elizabeth 5 insane
asylum, Washington. ID. c.. on the goth.
by strangling himself with the cord of
his dres sing gown. DIR. Hubbard was
- years old.
The Sons of Veterans of Philadelphia
have organized a regiment of infantry,
200 strong. Seventy-four per cent. of
the members have served in the state
national guard and hold honorable dis
charges. They are ready for service if
needed.
The Bethlehem Pa.) Iron Co, 5 ord
nance works are running night and
day, and Sundays, on guns. carriages
and armor for the government The
plant is keeping over 1000 hands busy.
Coal diggers in Mercer, Lawrence
| and Butler counties, Ohio, threaten n
strike, to commence April /. Several
| thousand men will be involved.
THE steamer Lain, sailing from New
York for Europe. on the elst, took out
| 2O0,00 ounces of silver.
GEN. BJoRNsTJERSA, the former
| Swedish minister of war, died in Stock
holm on the 2lst.
AT Butte, Mont, the Hale house. a
three-story building. used as board
ing and lodging house for men in the
employ of the Anaconda copper mine
was entirely destroyed by fire early on
the morning of the 2lst. Three hun
dred persons Were in the building. o.
these many were sent to the hospitals
injured, and 20 were. missing. anumber
of whom were thought to be dead in
the ruins.
| Mr.. WILLIAM PISKERroS. of the Pin
kerton's National Detective agency, de
nounces as grossly malicious and
tending to create an unjusti fable preju
dice" the statements that employees o.
the agency are ferreting out the secret
|
nishing the information to the Spanish
Ar Wellsville, O.. while returning
home from church. on the night of tn,
Goth. Oliver Reed asked Sarah Walton
TO marry him, and upon her refusal h,
drew a revolver and shot her through
the heart. He then turned the weapon
on himself and blew out his brains
dying in short time.
ETHAN ALLEN llITcHcocK, the new
United States ambassador to Russia
had an audience with the Gear, at st
Petersburg, on the 2lst, and presented
his credentials.
Az explosion occurred. on the 22d. a
the works Of the United States Smoke
less Powder Co., near San Rafael. Cal
Z. A. jerks, one of the head employees
and laborer named Jensen wer
killed.
Mrs. MARGARET ScoTr, sister of Gov
Bradley of Kentucky, died. on the I'D
at Somerset. Ky. The governor did no
change his plans for attending tn
launching of the battleship Kentucky
THE statement Of the condition of tn
treasury, issued on the 22d. showed
Available cash balance, S225, l76, g2a
gold reserve, Sill, -75, 900.
SENATOR HALE, of Maine. is rcporte'
as saying on the I'D: The country /
on the verge of war. | fear nothin
can prevent hostilitics.
1T was reported in Key West, Fla
on the ed. that the officers of tn
Maine in Havana had been ordcre
home.
THE General Transatlantic Co. 5 mai
steamer Vile de ZONE was wrecke
off Port Mahon, Balcaric islands, in tn
Mediterranean, on the ED.
THE supreme court of Montana ha
handed down a decision affirming til
sentence of John r. Bloor, convicted {
secrcting and thus defeating the pa
sage of what was known as the count
, salary reduction bill, while he was Sc,
: rotary of the state senate.
: THE activity at the Charleston
, (Mass.) navy yard continues Order
were issued, on the ed. for the emplo,
nent OF AZ men in the engineering d,
partmcnt, on the gunboat Machias.
making necessary repairs.