The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-05-07


TIE Lower Mississippi was reported on
= boom on the 37th.
n. ROCHE has bsen released from prison.
20 enable him 20 enter . contest for seat
in the French Chamber Of Deputies.
THE Senate committee On public lands
has unanimously voted % report adversely |
upon the nomination Of r. .. Dement, 70
b Surv cyor-G General Of Utah.
ILLINOIS Grand Lodge, A. q. U. w., b.
gan It's eleventh annual session at Chicago
on the 9th.
GroRor Z. GRAnAn. the wife-murderer,
was lynched q Springfield. No, on the
morning Of the 9Th He left written
confession saying that be alone was re-
sponsible for the killing Of Sarah Graham.
Ifb ohe general belief that . compre-
hensive wovement Il ON foot for the re-
duction Of hours q labor in New York,
and that the result win - : great strike.
Ex-SrArIsr1cIAx NTMxo urEes>hs Uoass
commerce committee 20 report favorably
resolution to appropriate 5000 TO aid him
in his work Of gathering staff sites regard
ing live stock.
LORD DurFERrx reports that all q quiet
Il Mandalay, but that the country IL in
tested with rebels, and that several deaths
from cholera had occurred among the
troops
ExrERoa WILLIAM has sent the Pope :
gold cross mounted with jewels, In token
Of German gratitude for bis services in ar
bisratinx the Caroline islands dispute
THR American vessel recently seized by
the Canadian authorities for an infraction
OF the q shery regulation has been released,
n. ~. &..&.
the Law win Be strictly enforced In every
case.
OWING to the absence Of witnesses the
military trial OF Captain Garvey, OF the
First Cavalry. which was to have taken
place a. Fort Leavenworth, has been post
poned.
TwELvE lives ware lost during the con.
nagration ct Liskow, in Galicia, on the
9th, and many persons were injured
The American Historical Association
was in session ct Washington on the 9Th.
THE Cleveland (O.) bench show opened
| on the 9th with nearly four hundred ami
!: mails on exhibition.
| THrRrY-xIxK stone cutters employed BY
| Mayer & Son, at New ark, n J., struck on
/! the 18th for . quart of beer per diem In
| stead Of pint The firm granted the in
| crease and the men resumed work.
| D. HANSON, . lawyer, and twice men,
| Der Of the Austrian Reichsrath, who was
lately accused Of embezzling, committed
| suicide on the 9th BY shooting.
| The dwelling Of Ephraim lawson At
| Erie, Pa, took fire on the evening Of the
| nth during the absence Of Lawson and his
wife. and one Of three children was burned
70 death and the others were badly burned
when rescured by the fremen, two Of
| whom received bad burns in their efforts.
Mrs. HADDocK. an aged lady, was found
| dead in her cistern at indianapolis, Ind,
on the 9th
THE National convention Of American
vine-grovers will open at the Agricultural
Department in Washington May L. and
continue four days. The Commits sioner
OF Agriculture is preparing an address for
the occasion on viticulture a. . National
| industry. There viii be large and va
vied exhibit Of vine produ CTS, especially
wines
l APrB1Ic meeting OF the citizens Of Ath'
ems on the 18th denounced the action Of
| the Powers in coercing Greece.
| THE recent Indian outrages were com
nitted in the most thickly settled portion
OF Pima County, Arizona.
| FRENCH advices from Athens are 70 ths
effect that Greece will not disarm unless
! the ultima,uas. is withdrawn
The body Of John Robinson, seventy
two years old, was found in the river .
Cincinnati on the 2sth- Foul play Is sus
pected-
JESSE CoLLISGs, OF ''three acres and I
| cow fame, publishes q second attack o.
! / Gladstone's Home Rule bill
III yAEHxK, the New York alderman, va
arraigned In court on the 18th and his tris
was set for May 10, peremptorily.
IL GENERAL Crook arrived at Omaha o.
! the 18th and assumed charge Of the de
partment Of the Platte.
CARDrxAL JAcoBISI was invested by tn
. Pope on the 18th with the order Of tn
: Golden Fleece, at the request Of the Quee
Regent Of Spain.
JAxrroR TrTUs OF the Methodist Inst
tute. Hackettstown, N. j., has been arrest
| ed for the murder Of Title Smith.
. AUo Tai Duck. the Chinaman who muI
dered Captain and Mrs. wicksrsham
sonoma County, Cal, and Ned 70 Chin
comm tilted suicide by hanging in jail
Hong Kong.
PHILADELPHIA dry goods merchan
4 have been swindled by manrepresentiI
= himself to be Ed Kinnane, Of Springhel
+ Ohio
~ THK Prince Of Wales has heen re-elect
n Grand Master Of the Free Masons IN r
= gland.
CENTRAL Crook says hunting AT ach
4 like chasing crows with cavalry
MISS ROSE CLEVELAND II now 1t her.
l. home in Holland Patent, n. r., and Is .
expected 70 return 70 w ashington un
y the latter part OF next week.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has written TO
u officers in charge OF the work on the n
= naval cruisers calling attention TO
DELAY In completing the Atlanta, and a.
ing that she be put in condition FOR
. Is soon a. possible
n BECK, q German pretender to the Dan
- throne. has arrived In Copenhagen.
ne claims direct descent from the House
re Oldenburg. He strikingly resembles
~ late Czar Alexander IL.
- The remains Of Wendell Phillips v
removed on the 18th from the family q
vrauud AZ II