The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-01-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


The Buffalo N. ~ sash and door
plant and planning mill of the c. j.
Hamilton Co, employing $50 men, were
practically destroyed by fire. on the
night of the I'd, together with an inn
mense stock of made-up lumber Loss.
1920. 900. with s70,0QO insurance, prin-
cipally in New York companies.
THIRTY persons are known to have
been killed and probably $50 injured
in London, Ont. on the Sd, by the Civ
ing way of a portion of the floor of the
city hall during an after-election meet
ing. at which the successful candidate
for mayor, DIR. John ID. Wilson, was
addressing :, 900 of his partisans.
The supreme court OF Pennsylvania.
on the Sd. affirmed the judgment OF
the common pleas court of Pittsburgh
in the damage suit for false arrest of
Pitcher Mark Baldwin against Chris
o der Abe, owner of the st. Louis
base ball club, awarding damages At
81, 500.
A LARGE number of eastern cotton
mills and other industrial plants an
III NakC8 Ou lhG
Sd, of about ten per cent. In most
cases the cut was acquiesced in by the
employees, but in a few strikes were
talked Of.
The steamship La B~retagne. from
Havre, brought $500. 900 gold. on the
Sd. consigned TO Muller. Schall & Co.,
of New York, in transit To Cuba 1t
was stated that the mex steamer would
carry a similar consignment
The Canadian Pacific railroad earn
ings for the week ending December IL
were s797, 600, against for the same pc
riod last year, S6al, 900; increase, $685.
Oo0.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt, issued on the Sd. showed that
at the close Of business Dece Der 81,
1891. the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted TO $3.50, Ill. 567.a decrease for
the month of SO. ia. s99, due princi-
pally to an increase in tie cash, ac-
counted for by the sale Of the Union
Pacific railroad.
AGENTS of the Spanish government
have recently purchased over 1000
head of horses in Texas for the use Of
the Spanish army in Cuta.
JAMES K. EckELs, ex-cornptroller of
the currency, began his duties as pres
ident Of the Commercial national bank
of Chicago on the 81.
The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. sailing from New York for Eu-
of silver.
Two young and apparently %inexperi-
enced men boarded the Port Arthur ex-
press on the Kansas City. Pittsburg
& Gulf road, as it was pulling out of
Kansas City, Mo. on the evening of
the 4th. and entering the Express
car. bound and. gagged the messenger
and ritied the local safe before the
train stopped at Air Line Junction,
where they quitted ii and made their
escape.
CAPT. RosENDAHL. commander OF the
German war ship Friedrich Karl, has
been appointed commander OF the Ger
man forces ashore at k,ao-Chau bay.
The president and members of his
cabinet have subscribed 81, 600 to the
Cuban relief fund.
STOCKTON. Cal, suffered from a 5 500.
900 fire early on the morning OF the
4th.
On the 4th the mercury registered 81
degrees below zero at Saranac lake: 25
below at Mountain View, and 20 below
in Malone. n. Y.
WIN. CARSON. the millionaire lumber
man Of Eau Claire. Wis, died. on the
4th, after an Illness Of several days.
aged so.
GEORGE BAKER and his wife. who
lived about three miles west OF Fair
bury, Neb., were murdered on the 4th.
They were found lying lead in the din
ing room OF their home. Zach had
received a charge of birdshot in the
head. The shot had been fired through
. window as the couple sat at break
fast.
LADY ANNE COVENTRY, third daugn-
ter Of the earl OF Coventry. vas mar
ried in London, on the Attn, To Prince
Dhulep Singh. son Of the late mahara-
jah Of Lahore.
JosErn Letter is said to have closed
contracts for thc greater part. IL not
all. of his $, $50. 900 bushels Of wheat in
TIL Chicago elevators. The buyers are
among the heaviest exporters OF wheat
In this country. and the price is said to
be satisfactory l. ~I.eiter.