The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-06-01
PERSONAL Afso GENERAL


PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE follow ing bonds were offered to the
Government on the 2lst; $ll4,oW reg
| istered IS, 1t 1861 TO i2s; 500 coupon
a. At 1a7: <67,5oO registered 4hs, 81 los TO
lOsh. Total. <1s1.6 The following were
accepted: 5000 registered 4s. at l26h:
| 500 coupon Is, at 1T; 800 registered
4ks. at los. Total. $, 700.
In the Southern Presbyterian General
| Assembly. II Baltimore, Nd, on the 2ist,
/ the temperance question was again dis
| cussed. In the case Of Rev. Mr.. Wood
| row. OF South Carolina, the convention
| decided to allow each Of the gentlemen
who will take part in the discussion four
1 hours.
| The River and Harbor bin was re-
| ported TO the Senate. and ordered printed
| and recommitted, on the list
GEoRGE THOMAS, peddler, shot and
killed Maggie Wise, divorced woman, IN
| Cincinnati, on the 2lst, and then shot him.
self through the temple and fell q corpse.
HENRY MrSxBRooK. the Cincinnati
l saloon keeper sentencedto the worknouse
for keeping open on Sunday, was released
BY Judge Robertson. on the 2lst. on the
i ground that the police court had no Juris-
diction In the case.
The Brooklyn Central Labor Union. IT
its meeting. on the 10th, lifted the boycott
on the boss brewers.
VIZ. KERR, Of Cockeysville, Nd, shot
and seriously wounded his wife. on the
21st. and then killed himself.
The claim Of Silas Gray, aprivate In the
Union army. who In 1868 was sentenced 70
death for desertion (the sentence after
ward being disapproved), for compensa-
ton for the time be was absent without
leave. was allowed BY Second Comptroller
Butler on the 21st
CoroxEr A. w. NoRRrs, Auditor General
OF Pennsylvania, died at his residence in
Philadelphia, on the 21st, Of nervous pros
trafion-
THE slate picker boys in the Henry Clay
colliery at shamokin, Pa. went on q
strike on the 2lst throwing 3,ooo men into
enforced idleness. The trouble was
caused by one OF the bosses kicking boy
CONSTABLE Porrs, Of Des Moines, Ia.
| was, on the I'D, sentenced 20 five months
imprisonment In the county jail and to
| nay fine Of 500 for bribery in connec-
. ton with liquor cases which be was pros
ecuting.
THE steamer City OF Berlin, which ar
| rived Oh Queenstown, on the 21st, from
: New York, was befoggsd ten hours, and
| the tender that went out to take on the
mails aud the passengers who desired e
! land at Queenstown was unable TO locate
her. The steamer, therefore, proceeded
10 Liverpool with her mails and passen'
! gers.
FIFTEEN acres Of land near Beloeil
Can. which had been plowed ready foI
! sowing, sunk forty feet recently.
THE House committee on Indian adairl
ordered favorable report on the bill y
: grant right Of way through the lndial
! Territory to the 81. Louis & San Fran
q cisco Railway Company on the I'D.
ri A BILL directed against Chinese immi
! grafton has passed the House Of Deputic
Of the colony Of New Zealand
~ Nh JOHN BRIGHT. the famous Englisl
2 political economist, Is soon TO be dubbe'
LII d. by the authorities Of the Universit
Z Of Cambridge.
= Quo wARRASro proceedings have bee
begun in the Supreme Court Of Oh:
against clubs Incorporated 70 evade III
q State Liquor law.
. FoUR hundred and nfty New Englan
+ Baptists, In attendance on the Bapti'
!. gathering in Washington, visited kicf
. mond, Va, on the nd, and were enteI
J tanned BY the young ladies Of the femn
institute.
The street-car drivers OF Rochester,
\. r., struck, on the 22d. for ten hours Vol
q IN twelve consecutive hours.
p II was reported, on the I'D, that gar
> or six American burglars had arrived
> Paris from London, and that the poll
were watching them day and night.
SAMUEL MARX, recent importatio
was arrested In Boston, on the I'D, charg
!. with forging draft IN Germany Tor @,o
q, marks.
y, Z, Tnr Riddlebsrger resolution 70 consid
the Fisheries treaty In open session ~
defeated on the I'D, By vote Of y
4 TIM old Congress Hall, West Philads
~ phia Of Centennial fame, was destroy
~ By IRE on the 22d.
"A on the 18th, Daniel w. Barnes, Of Chi
~ don. o., was acquitted Of having m,
~ ldered his first wife. On the 2lst he Y
arrested for deadly assault upon his q
A. ond wife, whom he married short a
n. after the death Of his first and who '
~ supposed TO be an accomplish In
~ alleged murder.
~ NO rain has fallen IN Algeria for the J
ID seven months, and the Arabs are maxi
u bootless search for pasturage and wat
II was reported from Milan, Italy.
the I'D, that Dom Pedro, Emperor Of y
'iic I'll, had suffered = relapse.
le- QuAx SICK, one Of the three hiehbind
the who murdered fellow highlander nan
me ~ Yut, at San Francisco, has been .
On fenced 20 : life term IN Ban Quen
the penitsntiary.
,ial TINS Emperor or brazil Was prcnoun,
a ~ nIfwhflv heffor On the VA