The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-11-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
Jonn McCuLLouou, the tragsdian, dis
- bic home = Philadelphia. Pa, on a
oeh.
fuR Balkaa conference - Constantiz
opls he's approved The principle q rstuI
. The stains quo anita
ALBERT EDwARD. PRzxcs o. wALR
1nghnd's future King. celebrated n
forty fourth birthday on the eth.
TINE total imports Of merchandise at a
port OF New York for the week snde
che III were valued q $5,706,2 03, exclusiv
Of dry goods
LIEUTENANT GREELy l. 10 lecture befol
the Scotch Geographical Society ON d
10th, and viii return to the United STATE
about Christmas
THE Taber divorce case It Boston Va
closed on the 9th BY tho court granting
decree 70 Mr.. Tabef and Diminishing th
eross-bil Of Mrs. raber.
PRINcR ALEXANDER Il seeking advice Z
% how be shall arrange matters with ii
Porte In the event OF the conference Of Cd
powers proving abortive.
THE monument Of Washington erecte
In Milwaukee by Miss Lizzie Plankingtol
It cost OF 81. 900, and presented to tn
city, was unveiled on the It'll.
A sEvERE cyclone devastated portion
Of Illinois on the afternoon and night o
the 9th. accompanied by serious destruc
tion Of property and loss Of life.
PREssURE Il being brought to bear o.
the President in favor Of . recommenda-
tion in his message to convert the Agricul
tural Bureau into an executive department
The total imports Of dry goods It TIL
port Of New York during the seven days
ended the 9th were valued at $l,ls6, 473
and the amount thrown on the market a
S,l2s,979.
All four Of the defendants in the Stead.
Armstrong trial ct London were found
guilty, and Stead, editor OF the Pail Nal
Gazette, was sentenced to three months
imprisonment.
LUDWIG HANSEN, the head Of an old
Danish banking firm at Copenhagen, has
confessed 70 having unlawfully disposed
Of moneys intrusted to his keeping to the
amount Of I, 100000 kroners.
A STRANGE disease has broken out among
mich cows in the vicinity Of Evansville,
Ind, which in every case has proved fatal.
The disease attacks the eyes and from there
eats until Il reaches the brain.
THE steamer Algoma, Of the Canadian
Pacific line, struck . reef during fog sf
Isle Royale, Lake Superior, on the morning
Of the 9Th, and went down with all on
board, some thirty -seven persons.
The Russian harvest Of 1855 Is above the
average for winter wheat, but below for
spring wheat, the latter owing to drought.
The total wheat crop win aggregate a.
100000 quarters, or IS, 900 900 bushels.
TIE agreement providing for the recip-
rocal crossing Of the international boun-
dairy line By the troops Of the United
States and the Republic Of Mexico In the
pursuit Of hostile indians has been extepd-
ID until November, 1885.
LOUIS REL, who was 70 have bsen
hanged st Regina, n. w. r., on the 10th,
was again respited until the 10th inst.
Preparations ere being made for his exc
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the warrant had not arrived.
INDTcrMExfs have been found by the
Grand Jury In the Superior Criminal
Court at Boston, Mass, against A. J. Mel
len, Of Baltimore, Nd, and Mrs. Emma
Of Boston, Tor conspiring to kill
the wife Of the SON Of MeIlen.
TIE issue Of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ending Novem-
Der 7th was $7e6,0l7; during the corre-
spending week last year, $396,996. The
shipment Of fractional silver coin during
the week ended November eth was $685.
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TIE twelfth annual convention Of the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Associa:
tion began At Chicago on the 10th. Be-
tween 400 and 500 delegates were present,
large contingents having arrived from
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, wash
tngton and Cincinnati.
IT Il understood that the Secretaries Of
War and Of the Navy viii recommend in
their annual reports that provision be
made at the coming session Of Congress
Cor assistant Secretaries Of War and OF the
Navy. These are the only two Cabinet Of.
6cers Who are not already provided with
assistants.
UnITRD STATES MARsHALL J. w.
George arrested Mayor weisbach, Dolph
Hanna, Probate Judge wickersham and
twenty i've others It Tacoma, w. f., on
The Oh, charged with being implicated In
the recent expulsion Of the Chinese from
that city. The prisoners were taken 70
IxDfAs COMMISSIONER ATKINS tels.
graphed the Secretary Of the Interior
from Muskogee, !. r., on the eth, that he
had found q large number Of squatters In
his progress through the Territory whom
he believed 70 b "boomers." He e.
pressed the opinion that military force
must be employed 70 expel them.
CAPTAIN BEARDsLEE, commanding the
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