The Jasper weekly courier., 1885-12-25

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DgLE0ArK CAISE.of Utah. In an elabor-
ats interview In New York, defends the
Mormons and says they are misundsr-
stood.
THE English royal family attended me-
mortal services a. Frogmore on the i&th,
in honor Of the Prince Consort.
SENATORS SHERMAN and Miller and 0ec-
rotary Endicott have offended the Painters
Union Of New York by stopping At the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, which is being boy
cotted.
MADJiD PAsnA. envoy OF the Porte, left
Constantinople on the l4th for Philippopo-
lis to confer with Prince Alexander.
PRINcKss LOUISE and the Marquis OF
Lorne are preparing an article for Good
Words on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Tar agricultural group in the French
Chamber Of Deputies have resolved 70 op-
pose the importation OF American salt
meat.
IT is officially announced that the Sails
bury Ministry viii take the earliest oppor- :
tunity to ascertain whether il enjoys the
confidence Of the House OF Commons.
Four persons were drowned at Nissig-
moo Bay, Lake champiain, at Philipsburg,
Quebec, on the 18th. Henry Burke and
Annie Scroggie, a teacher, while skating
broke through the ice, the latter being
saved. A blind man named Caderette and
two children while crossing the bay broke
through the ice, and all three were
drowned.
SENATOR EpNUxDs presided at = meet
ing Of the bar Of the United States Su-
preme Court on the 14th. called TO "ex-
press their profound regret at the loss they
have sustained in the death OF Hon. Rich
ard T. Merrick.n
THE Lower house OF the Hungarian Diet
has adopted a measure providing that the
duration OF each Parliament shall be five
years instead OF three, Is 1T present.
THE wrecking tug Winslow arrived at
Port Huron, Mich, on the 18th, with the
passengers and captain Of the steamer
Oconto, aground and frozen in near Chari-
~ Island. The tug was unable TO get
within three miles Of the propeller on ac-
count OF the ice. Two men were left on
board with the horses and cattle. 1t is
thought that the boat will 60 to pieces.
An attempt will be made 70 take OF the
cargo on the ice.
THE annual sale Of "old horse" began ct
the dead letter department Of the General
Post-office in Washington on the 18th.
The catalogue, covering eighty pages, was
not among the least interesting Of the pub.
docs.
DAkorA's nrst Legislature is now in ses-
sion at Huron.
Property to the value OF $4,000 was de-
stroyed by fire at st. Johnsbury, VT, on
the 18th.
FIRE in the Arlington cotton mills at
Wilmington, Del, on the 18th, caused .
loss Of $4,000 to 100000.
JULIAN ALVAREZ, the celebrated cigar
manufacturer, of Havana. Cuba, Is dead.
ELEVEN people were killed and several
fatally wocnded in railroad wreck near
Atlanta, Ca. on the 18TH.
CoLoSEL HExRY A. NEWMAN has ten
dered his resignation a. timber agent Of
the Land Department.
PRIxcE FERDISAxD, father OF the King
OF Portugal, died on the 18th Of facial
cancer.
J. B. wArHER q Co.'S distillery at
Louisville, KY, was partially burned on
the 18TH.
ACCORDING to Mr.. Healy, NJ. r., the Par
nellites will win three additional seats in
Ulster.
THE British ship Palgrave, 50 long miss
ing. arrived in q somewhat disabled con-
dition at Queenstown on the 18th.
An explosion Of gas at Terre Haute,
Ind, on the 18th, badly injured the City
Treasurer, and damaged the city building
to the extent Of $4,00e.
MRS. JosEPH HEIREicH, Of Muncie, Ind,
lost her life by fire on the 18th, q lamp fall
ing and spill.ng oil over her.
NEARLY . whole cargo of 400 bales Of
cotton was destroyed b. hre 1t Havre,
France, on the 18th.
ALL the students at the Victoria general
school at Montreal have left that institu-
tion because four of their number were ex-
PEELED.
MAYOR J. v. GurLLorrE, OF New Or
leans, La, indicted for extortion In ONCE,
has been completely vindicated.
A NAN named Onderdonk was arrested
and fined so at Paterson, N. j., on the
18th, for selling artificial eggs to produce
dealers.
FRANK DUNCAN. . miner, was found
dead near Lisbon, o., on the 18th. A com
panion named Jas. Burk Is suspected OF
numbering him.
HoS. N. NJ. BELL, Superintendent Of For
eign Mails, has ordered that st. Louis be
made an exchange office for European
mails.
Ar Dallas, N. c., on the 18th, lady had
her house chopped to pieces for refusing to
get out Of bed at late hour and furnish
two men water.
In : four-hour type-setting match In
New York on the 18th between VIM. G.
Barnes, Of the World, and Joseph McC Cam,
Of the Herald, the latter won by III ems,
the score being s,006 to 1895.
THR French troops In Tonquin have
cleared the Marble Mountains Of Black
Flags and established peace in that coun-
try.
A CREEK Indian, pursuing . band Of
horse thieves in the Indian Territory, was
turned upon and fatally shot.
THE Mexican Congress adjourned sine
die on the 10th.
A rEN-yEAR-oLD girls presence Of mind
prevented great railroad wreck at Yates
vile, Pa, where large cave-in had oc-
CURED over : sunken mine.
THE passport system has been abolishsd
In Peru.
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