The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-01-22

pGoooNAl AND GENERAL.
TN british sssansr Hylloa castls, CAP
tain Colvin, fron New York. January IN
Tor Ronen. France. fouadcrsd nfsosn nile,
south Of Fire Island Lyht On ~ llth
One boat, u charge u Ne iirst matt. viii
crew q nine mon, eRecood : landing
fhs second boas. Win crew q Zen men
ender command Of the Captain. LEFT ~
steamer - the same time. when last seer
~ bot thrss % ~ oazs lad been broken
D osswAnr Com. q Nsw Orleans, fel
under passenger trein q b. Paul. MIMI,
= TIE l2eh. and was klllsd.
TuR British Parliament was formally
opened on the 18th. The Queen win Walt
Parliament in few days.
FIRR at Chicago on The 18th destroyed
the warehouse Of Frederick 9. Mckinney o..
involving lose a $3no.ooO.
MINNIE Dlsux.R. who had lain In Z
trance It her home In Nebraska since o.
tober 18th last, has recovered conscious
ness.
Nh Roman b. RoosEvRLr, OF New
York. was rendered the Assistant Treas
nrership Of the United States in that city.
but declined
A cURRExf Of lava has made it, way
two and quarter miles down the noun
tain aide from the volcano Of colima In
Mexico.
The Texas Land Board has decided
against Governor Ireland's recommended
ton to reduce the price Of leased lands to
four cents per acre.
A STAGE running between Chadron and
Fort Robinson, Neb-, was robbed on the
l2th Of 5000 intended for the payment OF
troops 1t the fort.
An Indian farmer named Henry Brown
shot and fatally wounded his servant girl
on the night Of the 18th, by mistake. think
ing burglars were in the house.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS decides against
the Northern Pacific Railroad on an enor-
nous claim Of land grant IN Washington
Territory.
THE Senate Committee on Indian At
fairs on the isth reported favorably Sem
ator Dawes bill to divide portion Of the
OF the Sioux Nation OF Indians
in Dakota into separate reservations, and to
secure the REIMBURSEMENT Of the Indian
title to the remainder.
WEsLEY HAxBy was shot and killed
near Wilmington, Del, by Isaac Talley on
he 18th. Both were well known farmers.
FIFTEEN persons lost their lives in .
burning spinning-min at Ak IL Chapelle,
on the 18th.
CHARLES HASFoRT, q well known farm
r, was killed in . peculiar manner near
New Philadelphia. o., on the 12th. He
was standing by his wagon, when the
cam became frightened and started to
I'm. The lines caught about Hanfort's
eet, and he was dragged to death.
W. McLoSEY, aged sixty, . wealthy
armer, vas found dead in his sleigh by
he roadside, near Akron, O., on the 18th.
The body was frozen stif, and il il sup
'osed McLonsy wss overcome by the cold
Ehile driving.
TIE three-masted schooner T. b. with
rspoon went ashore on Macomet Rip, on
hs Massachusetts, coast, and i've Of her
rev were lost
An insane Bohemian named Sapour,
onfned in the jail ct Schuyler, Neb.,
truck Sheriff Degman on the head with
cantling on the 18th, killing him.
THE body Of Edward Heller, member
{ the arm Of Heller Brothers, manufac-
urers. Of Newark, N. j., who had been
Missing since January ID. was found on the
2th hanging 20 . tree in the woods In
)range mountains. The body was greatly
liscolored and frozen ~ hard a. . marble.
{ IL supposed that Mr. Heller hanged him.
elf in . AZ Of insanity brought on by dis
ase. He leaves . wife and four children.
Hon. JoHx SHERMAN was reelected to
he United States Senate in joint session
Il the Ohio Legislature on the 18th.
A NATIONAL convention Of journeymen
,akers began it, sessions at Pittsburgh,
Pa-, on the 18th.
A NETTING was held ct Cincinnati, O.,
N the 13th Of the Western Nail Associa-
ion.
A HAL1-nrLLzoE-DoLLAR IRE occurred q
Can, on the 18th.
CBARLEs BRADLAUou wss sworn in and
COX his seat in the British House Of Com
mons on the 18th.
KEESE, the actor, arrived It his home In
Brooklyn, N. r., on the 13th and il said to
y improving rapidly.
TIE Earl Of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant
4 Ireland, viii soon resign.
A STATE Pharmaceutical Association OF
indiana has been organized and incorpo-
ated.
DISASTROUS cyclone passed over the
middle counties Of England on the 18th.
The reported seizure ~ Samoa by repre-
entafives Of Germany has been fully con-
lrmed.
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