The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-09-27
CURRENT TOPICS.


;uft IN tulumnu@. ~. on the lul n. AMI
were welcomed by Governor Foraker a,s "A
Mayor Bguck. TIE annual reports show
the order 20 be Ia prosperous conli-
tion-
A CONSCIENCE contribution OF 500 in
an envelope postmarked Chicago was re-
ceivei BY Secretary Nindom on the 10th.
Accompanying il was the following note;
This IS Cnklc Sans. Put Il 10 his
kredit"
JoHx PowERs. lineman employee! bv
the Brush Electric Light Company OF New
York City. was killed. on the 10th. while
engaged IN repairing an electric light
wire. when he accidentally touched a
''live" wire with his bare hands.
VAST change has been wrought in pub
lie opinion IN London in a few years in
regard % the proper relafio MS OF society
TO the individual Cardinal Manning las
recently pointed ont the justice o charg-
ing the support o. working people 20 the
properties they create and maintain in
the form Of higher wages. rather than
by taxing the general public for their
purport under the poor-laws.
IL Is officially confirmed that the inie-
pendence % Bulgaria will be shortly pro
claimed.
from Deer Park on the 18th. While he
refused 10 confirm or deny the report
that he had declined 70 accept the posi-
ton OF Commissioner OF Pensions. there
was no doubt felt that he had declined IL.
JrDGE SAWYER in the United State ;
Circuit Court AT San Francisco, on the
10th, rendered decision In the habeas
corpus case Of Deputy Marshal Nag!e.
and ordered that Nagle be discharged
from custody. A bill o. exceptions fled
ty counsel for the State was allowed by
the court, and, pending an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court. Magic was
ordered released on his own reco yuizau G .
with bond txel at 5000.
The stage between Forest Hill and Au-
burn. Cal. was stopped, on the 18th. by 4
masked man, who demanded the Wells
Fargo company treasure box. The box
was given IL him and. he escaped with il.
II j. not known how much 1t contained.
Tux schooner j. A. Parsons, from Ban
gor. Me-, FOR Bridgeport. Conn., collilei.
on on the 18th. with the schooner Steutt
Kenyon. on Cross Rip light-ship. aud
sunk her. Captain Ames. his wife and
the schooner Mary Y. Wellington and
taken 10 Cottage City.
The strike in the Puuxsutawney pad
section was settled on the 18th.
The school board election in New Ha-
overwhelming victory for the tree text
book candidates by majoriiies OF from
l 800 70 100.
The ship South America. Of Boston.
Captain Connolly. from Iloilo for New
York with sugar. was lost at Stuy's bav.
Cape Agnlhas. South .xr.ca. on the 18th
The crew is reported saved. The ship
was owned By Henry Hastings a. Co
was l. s62 tons register and was consil-
cred the finest wooden ship ahoat-
THE crew OF the Norwegian bark Eliza
Lines was Landed at Port Maitland. n. $.
on the 18th. by the brig z 18th Mary. The
Eliza Lines. which left Pensacola for
Buenos Ayres on August : encountered
terrible storm on September 10. She
soon began 70 leak. and all hands on
board abandoned her on the 18th. being
rescued BY the Edith Mary.
WMBUR +. MCCORMICK. OF Franklin.
Pa, son Of Judge X s. Mccormick.
shot himself, on the 18th. with re-
solver. Dependency was the cause.
WM. b. SITTER. OF the firm Of Sitter &
Co.. Of Philadelphia. dealers in glass.
was arrested, on the 18th. aud held in
1900 bail. charged with securing nearly
$1,000 worth of goods from three glass
firms BY false representations. and with
the intention Of defrauding them.
MRS. HE~RY CHAPMAN. Of Brooklyn.
distinguished herself al Long Beach. ~
". on the 18th. by plunging into the surf
aud rescuing drowning child OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Holden. who with two children we're
capsized near shore whl.e escaping in a
boat from the stranded steamer verte-
mus. All were rescued by summer board
ers.
THE cruiser Chicago finished her speed
trials at Newport. r. l., on the 18th. At
sixty revolutions she averaged Is $40
knots an hour for four hours. AT seven
" revolutions she made ut the rate Of 10
5-lO0 knots for one mile. The weather
conditions were somewhat untavorablc.
the wind being strong and the sea
choppy.
KEssLKR 4 SoS. hat manufacturers o!
Reading. Pa. who recently failed FOL
81. 900. settled with their creditors for
forty cents on the dollar. aud have re.
sumed operations under the name 81 this
Reading Hat Factory. They employ
seventy hands.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR OF Wales. In
his coming visit TO India, Is expected Il
arrive at Bombay on November ?. III
will visit Hyderabad. Trayancor and
Bangalore.
MIR. CAMPBELL's proposition 20 the
Wyoming Constitutional convention. on
the 18th. 10 submit the question 81 wom-
an suffrage 70 the people caused a lively
debate. The universal suffrage plank
will, It Is thought 80 into the constitu
ton.
The two hundred employees OF the Phil.
adelphia smelter at Pue bio. Col. struck
on the 1sth. for continuance Of eight
hour instead of twelve hour shifts. Th'
managers claim that when the eight
hour shift was introduced last June il
was with the understanding that the
twelve-h hour shift would be resumed Sep
TENDER Is.
wM. WATKINS. chief OF police 81 Par.
sons. Pa, a mining town three miles from
| wilkesbarre. while on the watch fol
burglars. on the 18th. fell asleep on III
edge Of the platform Of the Delaware 4
Hudson depot, aud was in5tautly kill-,
| BY fast freight train.
| HoS. JAMES McCALf.ux. Oldest Mason
| OF Tennessee and a member 81 the Con
/ fcderaie Congress. died at Pulaski, tina
State. on the 18th.
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