The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-11-02

CRIMINAL ExN BUrLxA having tezieo ~
nav hts taxes. will not BE- eligible 20 vote
e the coming election.
An agitation for an increase Of wages
has been started among the Clay Cross
coal miners o. England. Thousands
threaten 20 strike.
HON. RooER 3. Mus addressed large
audience a. Nswburg n. n, on The night
Of the s3l, devoting himself 70 cogcns
advocacy Of the House ~sri6 bill
THE Quarterraaster General Of ne
Army submitted his annual report 20 tne
Secretary Of War on the e3i.
TnE Comptroller OF the Currency. on the
ESD. declared dividend 20 the creditors
Of the insolvent Stafford National Bank
or Stafford Springs, Conn. which failed
last October. Of twenty-five per cent.
making In all 100 per cent. and interest
in full on claims amounting % <Sa'-
02o.
Tur governments Of Germany and En-
gland are negotiating for joint action IN
East Africa
SEVERAL thousand Yorkshire tEn.
gland) coal miners struck. on the I'D ana
coal advanced In price
sILvERrore- bearing rock, which expert.
say will assay the extraordinary amount
| Of $1,000 70 the ton. was struck ~ wotk'
| men An the Silver King mino At Wake
| field. wis.,. on the ISL
| The Wilmington (Del) Academy o.
| Music was destroyed BY hre on the nigh
| OF the 23d; loss. $4,000
By the falling OF scaflold at the new
soldiers' home building near Minnehaha
Falls. Nina. ON the cath, Henry Rietxeli,
workman. was so seriously injured tina
he died three hours afterward. Three
others were badly hurt, but are expected
| TO recover.
TIVE brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
cineers met ia open session at Richmond
Va. on the cath. The only question dis
| cussed was the insurance feature. severa
claims were allowed. aud tho forty.hve'
year restriction was established.
FIPrxKx THOUSAND colliers struck Tor
an advance In wages in Yorkshire, En'
gland. on the Gath.
NINE. PATTI will create the role Of
"JuIietS In Gounod's opera.
EnPERoR WILLrAx, on the 24th. invites
Prof. Bergman and DR.. Gerhordt to dine
at the palace.
FAfHKR KExxEDY, who was arrested II
August for holding meeting ri the Du
halsow branch Of tho National League
which had been suppressed, was released
from Cork jail on the cath, his sentence
having expired.
JupGE SAWYER. in the United States
Circuit Court At San Francisco, decided
on the 24th. that the ten Chinese saiior'
who shipped from there on the Panama
Line steamer Colima. and were refused
landing on their return. must be permit
ted to land, As they have not left tn
United States In the common acceptatioi
or that term. aud have been under Amer
l,can Jurisdiction as much as II they hat
remained on land
i MARY WILLIS, = servant In tho house Q
Mrs. Mary Berry, Of Washington, on "a
24th told the police strange story Of be
ing bound and gagged by five men, VIII
were apparently intent on robbing tn
house. There was no evidence TO supper
her story. and nothing was missing from
the house. The police believed her In
sane.
THE loss 10 the Pennsylvania rai!roa'
BY the freight collision near Tyrone, o.
the 2si will probably reach 500, 200.
Ed NORRIS says he II determined
have 5000 to pitch for the Alleghen
team next season.
| JOHN 4. HALLxR, Of Cincinnati, left hi
work. on the 24th, and going 70 bis home
cut his wife's throat from ear to ear Wit
: razor, with which he then cut his ow
throat, severing the jugular.
No oficial information had been re
ceived at the War Department. up 70 th
"a h, concerning the reported outbrea
among the Crow Indians.
GENERAL B. +. SP1SoLA was rcnominal
ed Tor Congress, on the cath, by the Tan
many Democracy OF New York.
SENATOR GIRsox, Of Louisiana. on Il
Gath, declined to be interviewed abo
the mysterious disappearance Of his =
from Yale College.