The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has de-
clined 10 be the Conservative candidate
Cor the Central district of Birmingham.
against the son OF john Bright, in ths
coming election.
The British cruiser Rapid. ~ 1870 tons
and mounting twelve guns. sailed from
Auckland for Samoa on the "a.
A LARGE number Of arrests Of Russian
Nihiiisfs have been made al Wilma.
a NEAT syndicate. to be known as the
American Neat Company, has been orr
ganized in the Quaker City with capital
~ S25,e0o0o. Philadelphia and New York
capitalists are largely interested in the
undertaking.
THE coffin of The late Crown Prince Ru-
dolph Of Austria will shortly be placed
between the tonbs 81 Empress Maria
Theresa and Emperor Maximillan u
Mexico.
THE King Of the Netherlands j. mad.
The parneli Commission resumed il
sitting, on the "a. after an adjournment
Of three weeks. Sir Charles Russell. ~
the Parnellite counsel, opened the case
for the defense.
ALEXANDER McCrE. Of Brooklyn, y. ~.
ex- Assistant Treasurer ~ the United
States. WHO Tttt4AtN NNAANAtA - 'AtNh~ ~
apoplexs. died on the ~.
| III transpires that the bombs. In the
manufacture Of which the Zurich students
were implicated. Were intended 10 BE- used
IN the occasion Of the Cars visit 70 Ber-
lin. Thirteen more ar. ests have been
made III Zurich. and three o. the leaders
among the bomb manufacturers have es-
capped.
PRor. SWIFT. ~ Warner Observatory.
Rochester. y. VI. has received notice
| from the Lick Observatory. az san Fran
cisco. Of tile discovery, by Prof. Barnard,
Of 4 new comet.
1 QEEEx NIcroRrA left Biarritz. France,
on tile 81. on her home ward journey.
| RAINS. which have been Of great benefit
I TO the crops. have fallen throughout New
South Wales.
The handicap for Earl Spcncer's plate
! ~ 10 sovereiyns for thtee-year-old was
won b. Poem. on the ~. at the Northamp-
ton spring meeting.
A TICKET composed entirely Of ladies',
placed in the field at Cottonwood, Kas-,
on the LIST. by the disreputable classes as
an insult 70 the sex. was taken up by the
better class Of citizens and triumphantly
elected. IL was an All FOOLS Day joke,
but the .other fell wsr furnished the vic-
Tins.
IT has now been definitely settled thai
the visit ~ the German Emperor 70 his
maternal grandmother l. TO take place al
the end 81 June. when Queen Victoria y
at COwes. A feet Of eight German iron
ciads will accompany him.
n replying 20 the birthday congratnla'
lions offered him By the Manufacturers
Association. on the lst. Prince Bismarck
said he believed peace would continue
and that in consequence German TRADE
would increase.
TREMENDOUS slide 81 earth and rocl
occurred III Second avenue, neal
Tenth street. in Pittsburgh Pa, on the 81
The slip carried away q large portion q
Bluff street AZ the top OF the hill, render
ing the street impossible and damaginl
some 81 the property along that thorough
fare.
REPRESENTATIVE CAMPBELL has intro
duced into the Pennsv lvania Legislator
an act which provides that all persons
firms, associations or corporations EN-
ploying foreign born. unnaturalized per
sons shall be taxed az tine rate 81 ffteel
cents day for each day each such persvl
may be employed.
THE letter from Henry NJ. Stanley. III
African explorer. 70 Sir Francis de Win
4 ton. relates terrible tale Of suffering an
\ death. with gauut famine for "A daily com
|. panion aud native tribes for constant A.
!. sailants. Much the larger part OF III
I. complement OF 90 men persisted on Tia
route.
Two COLOSSAL. busts az Prince Bismarc
ard Count Won Moltke were unyaiied d
y Stuttgart. on the lst. On the occasion .
h the birthday or the German Chancelo.
e Enormous crowds az people filed IN
Il streets. and the utmost enthusiasm pre-
"a vailed.
,e The Government ~ New Zealand ha
placed the steamship Hnemor, veSs,
~ 5i2 toms. AZ the disposal ~ Admir-
Il Kimberly Ia consequence ~ the loss \
7 the American men-of-war Al Samoa dur
p ing the recent hurricane there.
y CHAs. HAFFnACER, Davenport In,
\. aloon-keeper, against whom tempo
y rary injunction prohibiting him from sell
:. in2 liquor was issued d few months ags
h1s been fined 800 for violating the IN
N junction.
n THE village ~ Violin. nine miles east (
v Taukt0n. Dag. was almost entirely wipe
\, out " fire IA the night Of the "a. Bl
N three buildings remain.
n KrMpR~ have reached Rome ~ ihe deaf
~ III NAiE anhh NA AUA r@lhlA Af'H W'itfi'
received Ill battle with the dcrvifh Ne
tema
\ Mns MCKEE. the President lauynte
= left Washington. on the sa, IA com "a
w with Senator Davis family, for d week
n. visit ia Florida.
NJ GENERAL HorLANcrn's sclf-impos
M exile ia Belgium viii not put a stop ~ Il
~ proceedings against him bv the Frcn
Government.