The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-06-11

NEAoER hut Trustworthy news received
shows that the extensive fires that have
ragged In Northern Wisconsin and Michi-
gan recently have done an inestimable
amount Of damage 70 timber.
The body Of Colonel q. H. Koch, OF Chi
cago, who died az New Brighton, 3. L., on
the 29sh, was incinerated ~ thu Mount o.
i've crematory q Fresh Pond. l.. l., on tho
LIST, in the presence Of number Of friends.
In the Maxwell trial AZ ST. Louis on the
lst, Judge Van Wagner instructed the
jury and counsel began their arguments.
Messrs. Bishop aud Fauntleroy spoke for
the State and defense respectively, the
former presenting a plain, unimpassioned,
logical statement OF the law and the facts,
the latter laying the foundation OF an APP
peal TO the sympathies Of the jury.
COLONEL BEE, Chinese Consul General
at San Francisco, has written the Troy
IN. " collar manufacturers Offering
to supply them with from ten to twenty
thousand Chinese to take the place Of the
striking finishers.
A BRITISH fleet Is concentrating In Can
adam waters. but il is said to have no con-
nection with the fisheries imbroglio.
JOHN KELLY, the Tammsny ch eftain
died on the afternoon Of the LIST in New
York.
ORDERS have been issued for the with
drawal Of troops stationed in the Cana
dian Northwest since the Riel rebellion.
KEoKuK. Ia, has been forbidden by in
junction to modest the Rock Island tracks
on the levee.
TURNER, BELurxEr & Co., extensive
grain dealers, with headquarters at
Nashua, Ia, have failed.
Mr.. GLADSTONE publicly acknowledges
the receipt OF the resolutions passed atthe
Irish Home-R Rule meeting at Chicago.
JUDGE HAWKINS, Of Scott County, No.,
has been appointed Second Assistant Sec
rotary OF the Interior.
The total exports Of produce from the
port Of New York during the week ended
the 10Th were valued at $6,I .666.
THE President has vetoed another PEN
sion bill upon the ground that it 10 not
based upon substantial merits.
w. N. GEORGE. OF Duke Centre, Pa, was
arrested on the lst on charge Of sys-
tematically robbing the National Transit
Pipe Line Company Of many thousand
barrels OF oil by means of an underground
connection with their pipe.
DIR. LILLY. OF O'Connor, Neb., fell from
his room window in the Arcade Hotel, at
Omaha, Neb., on the morning Of the lst,
to the sidewalk, distance Of sixty feet,
and was fatally injured. He was in his
night hirt and the accident is my stery.
A BRooKLYS dentist claims 10 have dis
covered 4. new an2sthetic which produces
something like natural sleep. without any
danger whatever to the patients.
A CRANK named Gaull made an abrupt
descent on Washington on the 1st, an
nounced himself the President Of the
United States, and proposed to run the
wedding, but landed in jail instead.
THE debate on the Home Rule bill was
opened in the House Of Commons on the
LIST by Joseph Chamberlain in violent at
tack on the measure.
THE Cabinet session on the LIST was de-
voted to consideration of the Canada n
fisheries question, the action Of Congress
in regard to the Geneva award and rail-
road matters.
President CLEVELAND and Miss Folsom
were married at little after seven O'Clock
on the evening Of the I'd, according to pro-
gramme. After the ceremonies the bridal
couple slipped away to Deer Park, Nd.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is going to Eu-
rope on q vacation, and will make short
lecfurng tour as side issue.
TWELVE deaths from cholera occurred In
Venice on the I'd.
QUEEN VICTORIA cabled her personal
con CALCULATIONS to the President on the
evening OF the I'd, conveying her best
wishes for his happiness.
THE Milwaukee and Chicago grand
juries are still indicting Anarchists.
TURKEY is becoming alarmed at thu
naval and military activity Of Russia.
THE steamer Siberian, seven days over
due, arrived at Halifax, N. s., on the I'd
THE Shah Of Persia has refused pro
posal from the Porte to join in universe
Musselman alliance.
| HKRa JOHANN MosT, the Anarchist, wa
sentenced by Recorder Smyth in New
York on the I'd to one year in the peniten
| tiary and to pay a fine of 500. Braunsweif
| and Schenck received lighter sentences.
| EUGENE DAVIS predicts storm Of ven
geance and reprisals II coercion Il again
| tried in Ireland.
| IT ID thought the Parnellites will proIonl
| the Home-Rule debate for the purpose o
giving Gladstone time to better his pssi
ton.
| THE French Chamber Of Deputies ha
| agreed to consider the repeal Of the law 0
1902 regulating the relations Of church an
| state.
| II has been decided by the committee 0
the Chamber Of Deputies having in charg
| the bill for the expulsion OF the Frenc
| Princes that the measure be compulsor.
| and not permissive.
| WILLIAM MCLEAN, the Monmouth Par
| IN. ~ bookmaker who was convicted re
Gently, was sentenced on the I'd to pay
fine OF $3.50 and the costs Of the prosecu
ton. Counsel for Mclean presented
writ OF error carrying the case TO th
State Supreme Court.
THE Maine Democratic State convention
IN session 1t Bangor on the ID, nominate
Colonel Clark 3. Edwards, Of Bethel, 10
Governor by exclamation.
RUNoRs are current Of the arrest Of som
subaltern officers In the south Of German
for high treason. IL Il stated that one BE-
comm tilted suicide in prison.
On. ,. MTLToN Browns, convicted I
San Francisco Of poisoning his wife In o.
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