The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-05-19

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Wood the latter makes this gratifying
statement concerning Santiago: The
city continues extremely healthy"
The Iowa state board of control an-
nounced. on the sth. they would ask
the legislature AT it's January session
for an appropriation 10 establish a
binding Irvine factory in the state
prison
Mai. l.. Overman. United States
army. retired. was instantly killed. on
the sth. by falling from staging on
which he was at work NJ his summer
home in Nantucket. Mass
The commissioner of accounts of
New York city made a report 10 Mayor
Nan Wyck, on the 9th, in which he
stated that Jacob Worth, while coun-
~ clerk OF Kings county. received
Slll.6 47 in excess of theamount earned
br the men engaged in the work.
Worth is now in France.
Late advices say that everything is
cuiet ut Apia pending the arrival OF
the Samoan commission.
Mai. John y. Logan, assistant adJu-
:ant general. U. ;. v. now in Washing
ton city on leave of absence. has been
ordered to Atlanta. Ca. for duty as
nGiutant general OF the department. OF
the gulf.
Col. j. NJ. Bacon. Eighth United
States cavalry. and Col. Henry Carroll,
seventh United States cavalry. have been
l,laced on the retired list upon their
own request, after more than 80 years
service.
The municipal council of New York
CITY passed an ordinance, on the 9th.
Jxing the price Of gas at - cents per
1000 cubic feet. the same standard to
exist as that now prevailing.
Rev. DR.. Rose +. Aslopp, Of Brook
lvn. recently elected general mission
cry secretary of the Episcopal church
10 America, has declined the position.
Our troops in Alaska are clamoring
;.r canned roast beef.
Rioters attempted TO blow up a
West Duluth (Minn.) street car with
dynamite. There were ten passengers
in the car. and they all received slight
bruises The car was thrown violently
on its side and its trucks blown to
pieces. No arrests were made.
Gen. Maxine Gomez Is trying to
persuade Gov.-Gen. Brooke that Gu
Ian standing army Of 5000 men IS a
necessary adjunct 10 the proper gov
eminent Of the island.
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn, in
charge Of Alaskan affairs. Issued. on
the 9Th. an order creating the military
district OF North Alaska, which is tc
ircudc all that portion of the terri.
tory north of the siNty-first parallel.
Gen. samuel y. Smith. who corr
handed the Ninetv-third Ohio in III,
civil war. and who is sometimes know
rs the father of the national guar,
svstem. died. at Dayton. O.. aged 81.
The Life Assurance Go. Of America
for which n receiver was asked in ;
suit filed in the circuit court, at In
danapolis. has left that city and In
diana. The Life Assurance Co. @
America has been established abou
two years and cid rather a large bust
ness.
The new Ward liner Havana. Capt
Stevens. arrived at New York quaran
tine from Havana. after Il record pas
sage of two DAYS and twenty hours
| the fastest time ever made betwee'
| Havana and New York. The lIavan
| had 80 cabin passengers and 1885 so
! diers. on board. Among tie numbe
were ~ prisoners. under guard. 70
| Governors island.
Mr.. Coningsby Ralph Disrael
nephew and heir OF Lord Beaconsfielt
end member Of parliament from III
Atricham division Of Cheshire. wa
thrown from his bicycle at High "
con.be, on the 9th. lie struck on hI
head and was very badly injured.
The eleventh annual convention {
the Woman's Home and Foreign Mi
sionary society of the General Syno
Of the English Lutheran Church of u
United States convened at Baltimor
Md. on the 9th.
The Beaver Creek and Black Wat'
Co.. OF Petersburg. w. Va, has i
r,ased the wages Of it's men ten p'
| cent. and the Davis Coal and Coke G
advanced it's wage schedule Is cen
Ter mine.
Funeral services over the remains
Mrs. William c. Whitney were held
New York city. on the 9th. in the c
thedral Of the Incarnation. Garde
CITY. l.. /. The services We're prece
ed by private ceremony ut Mr.. VIII
ncy's home. Wheatley Hills. conducts
by Rev Dr. w. :. RainsforG, rector
st. Georges church, OF which Mr
Whitney was commitment. The
!. was n full choral service, and Il
floral offerings were remarkable 4
: their beauty and great in number. III
interment was az Douglasston.
The Civic Federation of Chicago
preparing a call for national confe
; ence on trusts. state officers and pc
sons interested in economies and $
: cial science will be invited.
a seat on the New York stock c
change was sold. on the 10th. for siI
600. the highest price ever paid.