The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

In the Department OF Carcnte lnfe-
rieure. France. NJ. Duport tBoulangist)
was elected 10 the Chamber Of Deputies,
on the 9Th. BY majority Of a,4is.
THE Welsh troops that had been sta
toned at Suakim. left for Cairo, on the
eth, to join General Grenfell.
IT is said in Berlin that it has been abb
soluely proven that the Samoan rebels
were led by an American.
The Senate, on the eth, passed again the
bill which passed both House and Senate
at the last session, establishing the Lin
coin land district of New Mexico The
bill. after its former passage, reached the
President too late for consideration.
GOVERNOR BEAVER OF Pennsylvania, on
the Eth. signed the warrant for the execu-
ton OF Mrs Sarah J. WHEELING. Of Phila-
delphia. convicted Of the poisoning OF her
husband and two children. and set the
27th day Of March next for the hanging.
THE German corvette Schwalbe went
aground on a reef of Zanzibar, on the
eth, but was foated by the aid OF an En-
glish gunboat-
FEVER is raging among the Germans in
Zanzibar with many fatalities
BARON Won SELLER, Austrian Ambas-
sador at Rio de Janciro, Brazil. has been
transferred to Berne, Switzerland. He
will be succeeded by Count Won Welzer-
schelmb.
The reports concerning the condition
Of the King Of Holland have been greatly
exaggerated. The King, though i'll, trans
acts business daily.
DWIGHT l.. MOODY. the evangelist. -
engaged in series Of meetings in San
Francisco which will last at least thirty
days.
ADvrcEs from Mandalay. Burmah, state
that in battle fought between British
forces and tribe known a. the karens,
the British loss was five, and that "f the
Karens two hundred.
FIRE is raging in the Norrie iron mine
in Michigan. No lives are endangered,
but the monetary loss Is heavy.
| PHILIP SARvER, aged seventy-nine, an
| old time railroad man, shot himself with
| a revolver in Cincinnati saloon on the
sth. He leaves family. No cause Is as
signed for the suicide.
The will of the late Captain VIM. >.
Adams, Of Kingston, Mass, gives $1,000
70 the Boston Marine Society and Stp,W
to the Boston Pilot Society.
THE ice outside Of the sea walls a.
Odessa, Russia. is seven feet thick, and
extends ten miles ont to sea.
OK the eth, Hon. James w. Goldsmith
% Atlanta, Ca, committed suicide y,
taking poison. Cause financial troubles
HENDERSON BRrcE, fourteen years old
murdered william Gladder, n boy 2
twelve years, in the woods near " inns
boro, y. G.. on the eth.
HARRY O.. CRoUBArGH, secretary an
ook-keeper for Hopkinson, Parsons 4
..I .Is.s N
has absconded with $1,000.
The advisability Of annexation wa
voted on ia Windsor, Ont. on the eth, anc
contrary 70 expectations, annexation wa
defeated.
JACOB BIRD, who ten years ago was sen
10 the penitentiary for life from Dakot
I County, Mimi, has been pardoned, II "
coming known by the dcath-bed COMES
sion Of his brother that the latter was til
real murderer.
, PRINCE HENRY Of Battenberg has bee
t, appointed Governor Of the Isle OF Wigh
? vice viscount Evcrslcy, deceased.
NJ. GExoUILLE. formerly Governor (
Senegal, Africa. has been found guilty I
manslaughter and fined 900 francs. TIL
charge was based On the fact Tint \
Genouille sent four negroes ~ the Aka
\, tras Islands, where they died from staryt
i tion.
Y THE checkers contest between Barke
7 the American champion, and smith, u
J English champion, AZ London, was con
\ cludcd on the Eth. The score ~ game
stood Barker, d; Smith, I; drawn, %.
" AT meeting ~ ZOO Panama can
n shareholders at Versatile France,
u Martineau, engineer Of the canal con
j. pany. announced that portion ~ u
n capital required for new com pony III
at already been found.
le THE State Assembly knights ot lab
D. convened at Charleston, w. VA, "a Il
q sth, seyenty-six delegates being ~ atten'
ance.