The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-09-21

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

the disease are reported to have oc-
CURED during the week ended ON the
sth.
President Mitchell OF the United
Mine Workers of America, declared a
strike, on the 12th. in the anthracite
regions of Pennsylvania, which calls
$4,000 miners TO quit work on the
18th.
At a meeting convened by the lord
mayor of Liverpool, on the 18th, il
was decided to open a relief fund FOR
the sufferers from the Galveston dis
astcr, and ei.500 was immediately
subscribed. exclusively of over L 500
raised by the Cotton association.
AT the second days session of the
Sons Of Veterans national encamp
mcnt at Syracuse. n. y, on the 18th,
the matter of the location of the Sons
of Veterans university was taket up,
and by q vote of l42 to 10 the report
of the committee in favor of Mason
City was adopted.
Adit.-Gen. Corbin t~elegraphed TO
Gov. Savers. on the 18th, saying that
if the federal government could be of
any further service to the people Of
Texas in their present trouble, with
in the limits OF the statutes. TO tele-
graph him in what way.
The Transvaal republic will hence
forth be known as the Naal River col
ony.
The first appearance of Mr.. Ira ID.
Sankey, the evangelist. at Exeter
hall, London, on the 18th. was the
occasion of a tremendous ovation.
Thousands were unable TO obtain adj
mission.
Returns from all but SO small
towns in Maine give Hill (rep.) for
governor, a total vote OF 12,ii2; Lord
(dem.), 3o,3l3; republican plurality.
33.0s0.
The German papers. discussing Mr..
kruger's arrival at Lourenzo Mar
quez, interpret il as tantamount 10
the end OF the war.
The steamer City of Seattle arrived
at Seattle, Wash, on the 18th, from
Skagway. with III passengers and
S~650,0O0 in gold.
1t is reported from Norwich that
the Standard Oil Co. is trying u OBJ
tain control of the Cheshire salt
trade.
Latest estimates of the properly
losses by the great Texas storm. place
the aggregate amount at 100000
The total area involved in the an
thracite miners strike is 412 square
miles, with an annual output of 15,-
900, 900 tons, employing $4,000 miners
and breaker hands. Hundreds OF train
crews will be forced into idlencss.
The anthracite miners have issued
a statement of their grievances,
which, on its face. shows them to be
the victims of gross injustice at the
hands of the operators. Some of the
abuses complained of are violations
of the laws of Pennsylvania.
Owing to the utter impossibility OF
giving proper burial to the dead at
Galveston. hundreds of bodies have
been burned in pyres formed of the
debris of wrecked buildings. This
course was rendered necessary by
reason Of the rapid decomposition Of
the unrecognized remains.
Lord Roberts is making a @
trated movement on komatepoort,
and has left Pretoria in order to di-
rect it personally. Luxembourg was
apparently abandoned as soon as cap
tured. the British forces going In hot
pursuit of the remnant of the Boer
army, eastward toward the Portu-
guese frontier.
Fire, OF the 18th, destroyed the en-
tire plant owned by the McMorran
Milling CO., the Port Huron and
Northwestern Elevator Co. and d.. Nc
Moran & Co., at Port Huron. Mich.
The loss will reach s2o5,Oo0; covered
by insurance. One hundred and fifty
thousand bushels of grain is a total
loss.
Returns received from all but two
OF the SCI cities. towns and planta-
tons in Maine show the following
vote for governor: Hill (rep), 49,
156; Lord (dem.), 39,911; Rogers
(pro.). 3.107; Lermond (socialist),
ass; republican plurality, 33,245.
A conservative estimate places the
devastated district of Galveston at
1900 acres, which was swept almost
clean Of habitations, and the inan-
cial loss TO the city and surrounding
towns Is estimated at $40, 900. 900.
Apropos Of looting at Galveston
the best evidence tends to show that
between fifty and sixty men were
killed by the regulars and militia. un-
der the citizens committee. within As
hours. One sergeant in Capt. Raf-
ferty's Battery o, First artillery,
killed three men whom he caught in
the act of taking rings from the
bodies of women.
If Dom Paul Kruger leaves his
refuge at Lorenzo Marquee for Eu-
rope he will have % go without his
wife, as the latter has responded to d
request to join him that her health
would not permit it.
George l.. Gregory, superintendent
OF the San Jose correctional school,
at Havana, is dead of yellow fever.
He had been there since July IA, in
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