The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-09-17

II q now Ssnnitsly settled that Consul.
asnsral Porch did write the message %
Secretary Bayard concerning Mr.. seds'
wick.
PARxKLr, Il q reported, has come %
terms with the British Government, Ind !
thought In consequences that Parliament
win adjourn September Is.
0nrRxnAcK and other two dollar bills
In considerable quantities have been taken
up by the treasury q Washington ana 70
placed BY silver.
IT Il rumored thai Turkey Il making ~
tensive military preparations ON tne
Asiatic frontier in accordance with sne
advice Of two friendly powers.
THE British press. generally, axe q
gloomy view Of the situation In the haik-
ana, and express grave doubts whssesr
Bismarck's policy viii ensure tho peace o.
Europe.
M. AND MRS. FREDERIcK DOUGLASS
LETT Washington on the 9th for Boston
nom which port they will sail for Europe
On the 18th inst
THE Government inspector, after proper
Investigation. reports that there - no
| yellow fever At Biloxi. Miss
CoHx Z. soULE,o OF Illinois has success
| fully passed both the physical and mental
examin alton At Annapolis, Nd, and mas
been admitted asa naval cadet IN tne
Naval Academy
BRNsAxrx THAxrER, the Oldest mer-
chant or Boston. died on the 6th, aged
ninety -eight. Early In life ne was nm
pioyea on Z vessel bound for Mediterra'
mean ports. On areturn voyage the yes
Ell was captured in Chesapeake bay BY 81
English man-of-war Mr.. Thaxter va
kept : prisoner till after Psrry's victory
on Lake Erie.
FREsH shocks OF earthquake were felt .
Athens On the eth.
JOHN SCHMIDT, OF Newark. N. J.. while
intoxicated on the 7th. shot and killed nj
wife.
Henry SMITH, . German. nineteen year
old, killed an old farmer named Aorar
Peek. living near West Union, Ia, on ~
6th. With 4 club. He fatally injured MIS-
Peek: seriously wounded A. eonard wit
pistoi shots fred into the house. and at
tempted 10 IRE the house. The only req
SON given for the deed was . quarr'
about payment for work done
THE Piute Indians In Nevada are grow
ing ugly and an outbreak Is feared.
: PRINCE ALEXANDER started ON the y
, Cor the frontier.
Joax 7. OLIVER shot and fatally wound
ed his wife Il Buffalo. N r., on the tn.
! THE liabilities Of Leopold Z. Isaacs' u
Ascending Montreal tobacco merchan
exceed 100000 with practically no asset
I, WV. r. MORRISON was renominated Y
4 Congress bv the Eighteenth Illinois oil
trict convention.
, THE fourteenth Missouri district Repu'
4 licans, in convention, At Poplar BLU
= nominated DR.. H. G. Davidson Tor 20
gress.
= HON. r. r. BLAND was renomlnated Z
CONGRESS bv the Democratic convention
the Eleventh Missouri district.
A on the recent earthquak
: from Major Powell, Of Washington,
Z the geological branch Of the Brit
Y Science Association provoked . lively al
cussion.
AxpRxw CARxEGTE's offer Of $500 %
the founding Of . free library at Edi
T. burrh, Scotland, has heen accepted oy
Edinburgh Town Council.
A. THOMAS C.. MANNING, Of louisiana, ,
- received official notification OF his q
pointment as Envoy Extraordinary .
Minister Plenipotentiary Of the uni'
States to Mexico.
- CLINTON ". WHITE, Of Missouri, !
- passed the entrance examination Of
N Naval Academy At Annapolis.
A HENRY County CInd.) farmer y
had lost q lot Of hogs from what ne .
- posed to Be cholera. had . post-mort
held on the 9TH on the body Of arec
* victim. No trace Of cholera could
=. found, but instead, large numbers
~ trfchinae.
- TIM annual convention Of the Natio
Telephone Exchange Association be'
its sessions in st Louis on the 9TH, Pr
n dent c. N. Fay, Of Chicago, In the ch
be THE people Of Charleston, :. g., are
OF ting used to earthquakes, though the
at CURING shocks are lighter, and confde
md Il being gradually restored. The r
M committees are kept busy
Inc IN the first race between the Mayno
and Galatea at New York, on the TN,
-. Maviower took the leaf from the .
and was never headed throughout
race. and finished twelve minutes and
seconds ahead OF the Galnte,.
sryxx men were buried under fal
-. walls OF the Young Mems Christian A
citation building ut indianapolis, Ind
the 7th, Jour OF whom are thought q
fatally injured.
The assertions Of the British press
Austrian and Russian interests IN
p Balkans are conflicting are dispute
en- the North German G1zette.
Mn. SEXTON gave notice In the Br'
o. House OF Commons Of tho 9TH that
g. would question Sir Michael Hicks-B
tn's a. TO whether the British Government
ployed reporter 70 follow Mis
Davitt and take down his speeches.
n" Iris understood that At the Matt
convention Of the knights Of Lab
Richmond next month, changes In
present laws viii b made that will an
the practically TO . complete reorganIz'
Of OF the order.
5th PETER SULLrvAx.a stranger, SUPP
,ers. 20 Be a discharged brakeman Of the
der. sey Midland railway, jumped int
river ct Kansas City, No.. o. the 7th
also wal drowned.
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