The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-26

WEEKLY COURIER.
G. DOA>Il, Publisher.
JASPER. INDIANA.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ex-SENAroR PLArr's son has entered
General Tracy's law firm In New York
City.
THE Bank OF France, on the sist, de-
clarcd dividend Of forty francs per
share.
SECRETARY NOBLE. on the 18th, received
and accepted the resignation 81 General
Franz Sigel, pension agent in New York
City.
Mrs. RUSSELL HARRISON has recovered
from her indisposition. and Mrs. Scott
Lord is the latest occupant OF the White
House on the sick-list-
THE colored people o. Washington and
the District OF Columbia, on the 18th,
celebrated the twenty seventh anniyer-
sary Of their emancipation.
CLAUS SrREcKELs, when asked. on the
18th, II he had joined the Sugar Trust as
reported in New York. replied: II am
not in the trust and never will be at any
price"
OK the 18TH. Secretary Window directed
that Mrs. Kate Flynn and her three infant
children, and Mrs. Margaret Cassidy,
paupers. be returned from Philadelphia
to ireland.
PRESIDENT HARRISON. on the 18th. in
formed prominent applicant for a con-
sulship that he would not be able 70 con-
slider any applications for consulships for
three or four weeks.
BISHOP O'HARA has issued circular
letter ordering special services in all the
Catholic churches of the Scranton tPa.)
diocese on April 30. to commemorate the
centennial Of washington's inauguration.
IT is stated on the highest authority
that the President contemplates taking
the whole south front, first floor, Of the
State Department for executive business
offices, and establishing routine Office
hours.
MARY ANDERSON arrived in London on
the 18th. She declined TO comment on
the criticisms OF the newspapers In re-
gard 70 the state OF her health. but laugh
ingly remarked; DO look like giving
up YETI"
THE secret order Of the Golden Field
was formed at Los Angeles. Cal, recently
with the object Of seizing Lower Cali
fornia, making II an independent repub-
lie and then seeking admission 70 the
United States.
THE opening Of the Centennial Loan
Exhibition Of Historical Paintings and
Relics at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, on the evening OF the 18th,
was graced by the presence Of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland.
THE American bark c. d. Bryant. which
was seized by the Hawaiian Government
for smuggling sixty tins Of opium into
Honolulu, was condemned on the trial
and ordered confiscatcd. The case Is now
awaiting decision on an appeal.
o. the nth, Assistant Secretary Bussey.
of the Interior Department, rendered
three decisions in pension cases in which
the question OF Zine OF duty" was in
vvlved. He followed the principles laid
down in the case OF Brokenshaw.
NAN Pc Ike. Chinaman, sold about
seven hundred bogus passports to New
Haven tConn.) Celestials who have
friends In China DESTROYS OF coming to
America. He charged one dollar each,
and having thoroughly worked his field
suddenly departed.
THE Cherokee Commission met at the
Interior Department, on the 18th, and had
. conference with Secretary Noble in re :
gard 10 their duties. He explained the
Cherokee treaties to the commissioners,
aud also handed them printed instruc-
lions for their guidance.
THE Secretary Of State has been in
formed by cable 81 the death, at Breslau,
Prussia, on the 18TH Of Consul Dithmar,
the United States representative there.
Mr.. Dithmar was appointed 70 the posi-
ton by President Hayes in lsss, and had
held the office ever since.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WASAMAKER.
Secretary Rusk, Assistant Postmasters-
General Garrison and Hazen and Rail-
way Mail Superintendent Bell attended a
reception 10 the Postmaster-General ten
dered by the Union League Of PhiIadcl-
phia on the night OF the 18th.
THE London Chronicle says that one OF
the charges brought against General Bou :
LANCER is that he collected money for his
propaganda while in America As one Of
the French representatives 70 the Crnten-
NAL. The Chronicles correspondent in
Paris says the charge can be proved.
.
A FIvE-yEAR-oLD BOY named Tobias
Ripper died, on the evening Of the lth,
II his parents residence, Ia New York
City, from the effects OF beating re-
ceived at the hands of three older boys.