The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-05-04

made BY Mcssrs Bynum. Brown and pockery.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
MINISTER PHELPs Was q visitor on the
door OF the Senate. on the sd, and was in
troduced to the Senators by Mr.. Hawley.
THE British gunboat Falcon sailed from
Gibraltar, on the I'D, for Cape JUDY to
protect the Northwest African Company's
depot against the attacks Of the Sultan Of
Norocco's troops
A TERRIBLE explosion Of dynamite oc-
Cured in Thomas Nestor's lumber camp,
twenty miles from Baraga Mich, on the
ed, by which Billy Morrison and Paddy
Ratigan were instantly killed, and Peter
Somerville had leg blown OF. Several
other men were injured
THREE steamships landed asa immi-
grants 81 Castle Garden on the sd.
RID LEARY, . noted bank burglar, died
in New York hospital, on the Esd, from
conclusion Of the brain, caused by being
struck with . brick by thief named
Train in = drunken quarrel.
The town Of Erie, Pa, was flooded on
the sd with counterfeit silver dollars Of
1881. The coin is not stamped. but
nodded, and Is the best imitation ever
seen in silver. Rochester and Buffalo,
n. ", were dos ed with the same coin .
few days previously.
ANTHONY CoxsrocK gave himself up to
arrest, on the sd, in the Hemmens con-
spiracy case, and was released on 5000
bond
VIZ r. MCCULLOUGH, formerly chief
engineer OF the Mallory Steamship Line
Company, committed suicide near Bor-
dertown. N. j.. on the I'D
A STUDENT Of Lockport (Pa-) Academy
named Rowley was fatally stabbed in ;
quarrel over an all-night game Of cards
on the morning Of the I'D.
THE Eagle Consolidated Refining Com
pany Of Lima, O., commenced suit. on the
24th. against the New York Tribune Assoc
citation for libel, for alleged false repre-
sentation Of the business OF the company.
The remains OF the late Ex-Governor
Hoffman arrived In New York from En-
gland on the steamer Fulda on the 24th.
A REPORT IL going the rounds now that
Q number OF New York bankers, who be-
came piqued at the success their Jewish
rivals were having In their dealings with
the French Government and at the ex-
elusive privileges apparently enjoyed by
the Hebrew brokers, launched the Bou-
LANCER project and pitted il against the
Republic In the hope OF obtaining these
advantages for their own benefit
JOHN L. SULLIVAN arrived It Boston
from England, on the cath, per steamer
Catalonia.
THE House commerce, committee on the
24th, ordered . favorable report on the
bill authorizing the Kentucky Gas Com
pany 70 lay . conduit under the Ohio river
near Louisville.
ON the oath the Secretary Of the Treas
ury received proposals for the sale Of $O7,-
200 Of per cent bonds, At prices rang
ing from 125S to 127, and 100000 AZ per
cent bonds, q prices ranging from l07.6O
to 10a
An engineer Of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad was set upon BY three
unknown men in Cheyenne, Wyo., on the
24th, and terribly beaten.
ABOUT fifty New York commission mer-
chants met, on the Path, for the purpose OF
organizing the Wooden
Goods Association.
THE striking dint-glass workers Of the
East won two important victories on the
18th, the Gill q Company's works, at Phil
adelphia, and Dunningheimer's works, at
Brooklyn, starting up on the workmen's
scale.
HExRY l. MrGFoRD. OF Brooklyn. has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
lane Norsby for breach Of promise to
marry.
THE most destructive IRE that has vis-
tied st. Cloud. Mimi, for years, burned
the Manitoba coal sheds and loo tons Of
roal, together with six cars and . loading
apparatus, on the 24th.
LETTKRs from Cairo, Egypt under date
Of March 81, report Mr.. Robert Garrett
much improved in health.
GEORGE HoPLER, aged sixty-seven. an
sx-county official and prominent citizen
of Tim, O., dropped dead Of heart disease
On the cath.
OxE woman was burned to death, and
another woman and : man fatally injured,
In the burning Of . tenement house In
New York on the Gath.
THE President, ON the oath, pardoned
large number Of United States prisoners
In various portions Of the country.
THE House committee on Indian affairs,
on the 3lth, agreed 20 report with favora-
BILE recommendation . DILL to pay the
wahpeton and Sisseton Indians, in Da-
kota, $342, 900 In one installment, which II
now due 70 them in annual installments.
SECRETARY FAIRcHrLD accepted the fol-
lowing bonds offered on the 2ith: S3O,0O0
registered q. ct 124's; 100000 registered
u, IT 1851.
THE President on the 2sth vetoed bills
granting pensions 70 Chloe Quiggle,
widow Of Philip Quiggle; william H.
Brimmer, and William r. witt.
THE President returned TO the House
three private pension bills, accompanied
with veto messages. on the I'D.