The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-07-20

pe0SONAB AMI 06We0Ss~
MANY shops in the market place Of
Athens. the Greek capital, we're destroyed
BY IRE. on the sth; loss, $4,000.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH or AUSTRIA
has conferred the Gordon OF Leopold on
the Italian Premier Crispi and Sigs.
Nagnanti Italian Minister of Finance,
and Grimaldi. Italian Minister Of Agri-
culture
The residence Of Joshua Hodgkins, at
Deer Lake. Mich. was burned ON the sth;
loss, 5000. Mrs. Hodgkins, sixty years
old. received dangerous injuries from the
flames.
GOVERNOR AYES Of Massachusetts, was
somewhat better on the 9TH
AT Bengal, shelby County. Ind, Jacob
Neelsker. IT., was killed BY his cousin,
Jacob Rapp, on the sth- The men quar-
relied over an old dispute, and in the night
that followed Meelsker was stabbed 10
his murderer is eighteen.
RECEIVER DwYER compromised, on the
10th. in the matter Of the Mormon church
property. papers having been fled in the
Territorial Supreme Court. The receiver
keeps what property he has seized and IL
paid SIS. 666
As the towboaf Dauntless. having two
| barges OF coal in TOW. was passing under
| the Smithfeld Street bridge 70 her landing
1 q the Pittsburgh (PA) wharf, on the 10TH
she struck the wharfboaf, ct which the
| packets Adam Jacobs and Scotia were
| living. The wharfboat and one barge Of
| coal were wrecked and sunk and the
| Jacobs and Scotia were considerably
| damaged
The European reports for July make
| the wheat crop late and unpromising
1 throughout Europe, Russia excepted
The rye crop will BE- short in Central Eu-
rope.
| EDWARD ALoxxo DKAcoxs Vas hanged
af Rochester, N. ~. on the 10th. for the
murder Of Mrs. Ada Stone, on August IL,
1855.
Corrox Is later this year than usual in
every state. The plant Is generally 10 .
vigorous condition and growing rapidly
THKRE is an increase Of four per cent
over last year in the area Of potatoes
planted in the United States the present
year.
The BARRIERS Union At Goshen, Ind.
on the 10th. declared a boycott agains
the publisher of the Daiiy Times and othe'
business firms, and II l. quite probable
that the matter will be investigated b!
the grand jury at the next sitting.
NEARLY one hundred tcwboats LEI
Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 10th. havin
about twelve million bushels OF coal 4
TOW for points down the Ohio river.
| THE suspension Of James n. Boyd,
New York City broker, vas announce
al the stock Exchange shortly after th
opening on the 10th. He had not been |
| active business for several months, an
no siynidcnnce Is attached 70 his fail
| ure. He was admitted TO the exchange
1sbS.
II A xUnBER Of prominent lows Gree
| hackers aud Democrats have come out &
Harrison and Morton, among them y
, L. 4. Train. editor Of tho Fort Dodf
: ! TIm>s. whose paper had been the Dem
, cratic organ for eighteen years.
: Eronr blocks Of buildings, includin
: he post -oflce and over twenty-five res
y dencss, among them that Of Joseph ~
? | Kenna. n. C.. were destroyed by Ore
0uisun. Cal, on tbs night Of the 9th
TIM Republican State committee
q New York, at ~ meeting on the 10Th, d
q cided % hold their State convention |
= Saratoga on August - next
i CouonRssMAS RANDALL Was confined
T. his room. on u 10th, from m attack
. hemorrhoids. Prompt medical sttentis
y prevented any serious results- His phi
stefan hes directed him 70 remain at hon
FOR several days.
= THE Pennsylvania Railroad Compar
announced, on he 10th. the reduction
i. rates on iron from Pittsburgh 70 Phil'
delphia 70 thirteen cents . hundred weigl
y for carload lots. and sixteen cents 4
!. less than that quantity. This q cut
nearly thirty per cent