The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-10-11

Tnr ssringency IA tho money market n
New York City, on the 30th, Was marked
and al one time call loans we're made q
the rate Of thirty per cent. per annum.
In fact all day the ruling rate Was ten
per cent, and tho demand grew more
urgent In the last few minutes, when the
highest rate was recorded. AZ the close
the stringency continued, and tho lowest
Offer vas At ffteen per cent
H.xRI RocnEvoRT has quarreled with
Boulanger. and will 60 70 Egypt aud pass
the winter there unless he Is granted am
nesty by the French Government.
nine Of tho ten delegates on tho part Of
the United States 70 the Three Americas
Congress assembled at tho State Depart.
ment. on the lst. and received their in
structions from Secretary Blaine. Tho
proceedings were conducted In secret
THE gold fund balance In tho treasury
| increased nearly niue million. during
| tho month OF September, aud, on the LIST.
amounted to $3.50. l96. lsa.
| liz the New York State Democratic con-
| venxion held az Syracuse. on the lst .
resolution was adopted authorizing tho
| State committee, In its discretion. to dis
| pense with the State convention next year
i in view Of the fact that there will be bat
one vacancy On tnc 0tttE AAtANt%
| DETAILS Of the riot at NavassA on tho
2lth ult.. have come to hand in the shape
Of a report Of Superintendent Smith. of
the Nayassa Phos phate Company. Sew
eral men were brutality murdered by the
negro rioters, and all the whites would
have doubtless been murdered but for
the timely arrival Of the British man-of-
war Forward
| NJ. ZAxKoFF. the leader Of III, Russian
party in Bulgaria. has issued a manifesto
declaring that the Bul ,rians will at no
very distant day drive Prince Ferdinand
from The throne and from <ns country.
The Chicago, Burlington & Qaincy rail-
road statement for August shows an in
crease in the net earnin g OF So. 1S0
Mosr OF the schools in Austrian Silesia
have been closed in consequences az a
disease Of the eye which has become Cpl
demic throughout the country.
DURING prayer-mesting in the Pres
byterian Church at Moss Point, Miss, on
the night OF the II. shot was fred from
the outside through tho open front door,
instantly killing ID an &. McKinp is, mortal :
IL wounding his little daughter and seri-
ously wounding Henry Blumer.
AT meeting OF tho New York Bald
ing Material Exchange, on the 81, tbs
trades union boycott against the firm G.
Peck, Martin & Cc., was discussed ard
denounced as un american.
The eighth session OF the General An
nunl Conference Of the Methodist Episco-
pal church met at Lockport. N. ". on
the 81, for q seven days session. There
were three hundred ministers aud dele
gates present Bishop Fitzgerald Of
Minneapolis presided.
The strike OF the Rotterdam dock EN-.
ployes is ended. The result Is a CONF
promise by which the men agree TO ac-
cept five pence per hour on week days
and seven and half pence for Sunday
work. The minimum OF days work Is
to be four hours. All the men resumed
work on the 81. A dock employees uniol
IS being formed
By the capsizing OF boat Ia the river
Rhine at the village OF Rses, G,rmlny,
on the 81. five persons were drowned.
THE National Civil-Service Reform
League held business meeting in Phila
delphia on the III
JUDGE PExDLErox, at Findlay. O.. has
decided that tho Standard Oil Company
eau not control tho surface Of its leased
lands.
SECRETARY BLAINE was unanimously
chosen president Of the Three Americas
International Congress on the "a.
MRs. AUGUSTUS PHrLLIPs. Of Norwalk
Conn, who was visiting on the Pacific
coast committed suicide by drowning. OF
the "a, because of desertion by her hus
band, we'll known New York comedian
The anti Mahonc conference held
Richmond. Va. on the "a. nftsr denounc
ing the great Readjnster to their heart
content recommended no particular