The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-12-04

WEEKLY COURIER.
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JASPER. INDIANA.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere
0vvrcrAL and press telsgrams between
Calcutta and Burmah hsve been soopped
fbr some unknown reason.
CANADA. Il b tAoughl yin excel al ths
British dependencies h her exhibit q -
london colonial exhibition.
I'm failures In The United states during
ne seven days ended the se<h numbered
~; during the ysar W % date. s.ssi.
An improvement In the Bessemer steel
process Il announced which Il to make 4
the cQsal az crecible sts>l and materially
reduce the coz.
~ PARxfLL has isrued . manifesto -
We electors. signed By several Irish men-
oers OF Prliamenk severely d~nounciag
phs Liber2 party.
IT Il runaored that the Duke q Ca
NauSht h TO be made chief Of Her Maj
0sty's forces, vice the Duke Of CAmbztdge,
who viii shortly retire.
Nrss HELEN TAYLOR wanted % b elect
"a 20 me Briti<h Parliament from West
Camkerwell, hut was refused recognition
by the returning Officer.
TIE Servisns have raised the siege OF
'Widdin, ard At lest accsants General
Leschjany ~as marching with his army
to the assistance Of King Milan-
WILLIE DESMOND blew IN his thumb and
finger wRh dynamite. Ut Williamson
Mich, aRd the fright oaused the boys
grandmcfher to fall desl fron hsasf dis
ease.
The Dnglish Admirsley authorities have
asked DE Treasury - sanction the ap-
pointmeat Of . high official and assist
ants - superintend she Government dock
yards
SrcxRrARY MAxrrNG 'lns directed the
dismissal Of H. X Gessaway, assistant
chief OF the Int.rrAl Revenue and Ner-
camille Marine divisions 70 take~effect No
vember 3oth.
Poar1oxs Of Ne~ Fofk city were inun-
dated BY high tide on the I'D, and much
damage was dons y vsRroad and wharf
property, and passenger 1a<ic was con-
siderably ineonvsnisncsd.
A DISPATCH from Coohtovn, Queens
land, says the geographical expedition
which was reported 70 have been massa.
cred in New Guinea hos arrived at Cook.
l. town. An the msmbsrs are well.
The Car Of RnsGia has aordered the re-
mcval Of the initials Of Prince Alexander
/ from the epaulets II the officers Of ths
thirteenth Rife Battalion, Of which Prince
Alexander was heserary Colonel.
DRxcroR-GExERALJ JOIN w. GLENN Of
. the North, Central and South American
Exposition At Ns~ orlsans has resigned
and ex-Director -Generalt6amuel n. Burke
has been appointed 70 the position
SAMUEL JKxxEEos, who set the type fol
the first printed copy Of 'The Star Span
gled Banner - who vas one Of Thu
ssOld Defenders = 1914, died At Baltimore
Nd, on the I'D, agsd eighty -eight-
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over the
Philippine Islands en the 11st- Eight thou
sand buildings, including numerous
churches and schoolhousss, were destroy.
Cd and Twenty -tws parsons were killed
TUnKrsH troops and ba<teries Of artillery
continue 70 arrive at 6alonita, and til
authorities maintain the greatest secrecy
in regard 20 the nunsrica1 strength Of TIL
forces and material concentrated at tha'
point.
M. MARTIN, editor Of . provincial news
paper Of Copenhagen, Denmark, has beef
sentenced 70 four months Imprisonment
on . charge Of inciting Ne people TO tax
up arms and drive out the obnoxiou
Estrupp.
a DECISION OF the Jntte0 STATES Supfem'
cCourt il to the effect that Neither poles
officer nor private citizsr can lawfully
arrest, without wnsrantcr order Of mill
..tary authority, deserter from the Unitet
States army.
INDICTMENTS were found .cn the I'D b,
che United States Grand Jury in New FOR
against Ferdinand Ward, William s. War
ner and ,. Henry Work for conspiracy
defraud the creditors and stockholders 0
the Marine National Bank.
THE Excise Commisszonersheve recent
had their eyes opened - the fact that tn
rice liquor sold BY the Chinese In New
York is alcoholic, and they ere beginning
TO inquire II the slant-eyed Eongolian
havabesn evading be iavfnl payments o
taxes.
THE Servians ore becemiGg -somewhs
discouraged over the rscsst snoosssful re-
sistance TO their advance ~ The Bulgarl
ans. Me latter are corresPondinsly Ttimu