The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-02-03

JASPER INDIANA
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
TnR defalcations lof the late Norquay
Government In Manitoba q said 20 amount
% over go. OoQ
CANADIAN reports arc % the effect that
ths fisheries negotiations Of Washington
are proving failure.
o. behalf Of che United States Postmss-
tor-0eneral Dickinson has aligned : par.
Gels post convention with British Hon.
duraA
Uuox Pacific coal trains In Nebraska
have bssn stopped g several towns, and
eel taken from them by force to keep the
people from freezing.
II l. rumorsd that England intends 70
proclaim the National League in the
whole q County Donegal and parts Of
Counties Down and Armagh.
rnR Chinese Minister at Washington
will give ball on February 20 celebrate
The Chinese New Year. The ball will b
. superb affair. but not IS crowded as
that Of last season.
on ths ga the United states Supreme
Court, dismissed the write Of error in the
Maxwell case for want Of Jurisdiction.
and the famous st. Louis criminal Il now
In the shadow Of the gallows.
Nh SEvELLox A. BRowN, who has held
the position Of chief Of the State Depart
msnt for about fifteen years, win. L q
said. retire, and will b succeeded by Mr..
J. Fennsr Lee, Of Baltimore. Nd
The st. Paul (Mjnn-) ice carnival was
formally Inaugurated on the 18th by the
reception Of the Ice King and suite :
grand parade, etc The Ice Palace was
grandly illuminated in the evening.
TN Railroad Gasefte's record OF train
accidents in December. 1857, includes %
collisions, g dsraflments and other &C.
cidents: Z total OF IS2 accidents, in which
n psrsons were killed and 2ll injured.
Tnr mercury went sixty below at Neche.
forty miles an hour on the night Of the
-
with the wind blowing gale Il was drift
ing badly.
ALTHOUGH Speaker Carlisle il improv-
ing physically, it il not believed that he
win assume the duties Of his ONCE for sew
eral days, Il being his intention to 50 TO
Fortress Monroe for brief period Of rest
and recuperation-
Tnx Comptroller Of the Currency has
declared first dividend Of fifty per cent.
in favor Of the creditors Of the First Ma
tional Bank Of Cory. Pa, on claims
proved amounting to SIG, 90. This bank
failed October IL 1881.
JOIN McLArx, who left Can ton. O..
thirty-fve years ago TO 60 TO California,
and Who has been given up for dead BY
friends and relatives years ago, hes just
returned TO claim . farm valued ct SIS, 500,
TO which be had fallen heir.
THE late frontier incident near Metz
has two sides to IL The Germans claim
the arrest Of the French soldier was made
because he was illegally on German soil;
the soldier declares he was enticed across
the border and then arrested.
On the 23d the New England MIX Pro
ducsrs' Union. who supply the contractors
that supply the Boston market, met and
took steps which will probably lead tothe
formation Of . milk trust Delegates were
present representing fully : thousand pro
ducerx
a REPLY has been prepared by the Porte
% the recent demand Of Russia for arrears
Of the war indemnity. The government
states that the delay has been due to the
famine in the villayets, which has made
Il necessary to divert tithes from the in
demnity fund
THE claims Of Ishmael Pasha have been
settled BY the terms Of the settlements
he receives the Egyptian palaces that for
merIy belonged 20 him. property In Siam
boul valued at 100000, the communication
OF his civil allowances at fourteen years'
purchase and floo,ooo in cash for crops.
SATURDAY, the zfst was the coolest day
ever known ut Minneapolis. Mimi At !
= m thermometers showed 4S below, and
a standard Government Thermometer
showed 40 below, the lowest that can be
registered on il. At Chippewa Falls. Wis.
the mercury was 6 below on the night Of
the 10Th
VERY Rev. CHARLES A. vrssASL q. s.
r. Of the Commisariat OF the Holy Land.
i preparing . great pilgrimage Of Amer
lean Catholics to Palestine for the spring
II Isso. The pilgrims will 90 by way OF
Paris and Rome, and will probably get q
special audience from His Holiness, Pope
Leo Kill
Mn. Cox. National member Of Parlia
meuf Tor County Clare who was arrested