The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-11-01


THE United States steamer Nipsic va
given . trial trip ~ Honolulu. recently
with satisfactory results. The NipsI
and Alert are now In harbor at Hone
lulu.
THIRTEEN men, all sailors we're sci
fenced. on the elst, at Aachen for SNUG
Cling corn into Germany. Their opera
tons during the past year aggregate
hundreds Of tons OF grain.
CouNr OKuMA. the Japanese Foreig
Minister. was attacked by an assassin
Yokoh anna, on the Goth, and slight
wounded. Before the would be murders
could be arrested he stabbed himself I
the heart.
f. A. BURKE. ex-State Treasurer Q
Louisiana, sailed from Liverpool 70
New York. on the 81, on the steame
Teufonic, but upon the arrival Of the YES
sci at Queenstown no disembarked am
returned 10 London.
GERMANY has proclaimed protector
ate over the East coast OF Africa From
witoo to Kismaya. conditioned upon III,
consent OF the chiefs there 10 be given
The rights Of all foreigners are reserve.
under the proclamation.
SIR EDWARD WATKINS. who Is at thu
head OF the company organized to cree
q structure in London which shall out.
Eiffel Eiffel himself, has issued circu
lar Offering 80 guileas for designs for 1
tower 1850 fee. II height.
"A
CHoLERA is still making frightful ra-
wages In the valleys ot the Tigris ant
Euphrates. There have been seven thou
sand deaths within the past three months
and there are as yet no signs or The
abatement OF the scourge.
NEW YoRK won the second game OF the
worlds championship series from
Brooklyn, on the grounds Of the latter
club. on the 10th. by score OF TO >, out.
playing their opponents at every point
Sixteen thousand people witnessed the
game.
THE man Cole, the first OF the prison srs
tried at Marysboro. Ireland, for the kill
ing OF Inspector Martin, was, on the 22d,
found by the jury guilty u manslaugh-
ter. Father McFadden and the others
accused will probably receive the same
verdict
A SPECIAL term OF the Supreme Court
OF Montana will be held, on the 2sth. to
hear the Silver Bow County disputed
election case, on the decision OF which
depends the complexion Of the Legislat-
ure and the selection Of United States
Senators.
n. TRAsrwErLER, chief engineer OF the
Brunig railway, has applied for con-
cession from the Swiss Government for
an underground railway up the Jungfrau
mountain 1T is proposed 70 reach the
summit OF the mountain by means Of a
tubular tunnel.
The Brooklyns won the fourth game In
the worlds championship series from
the New York base ball team, on the 23d,
by q score OF 10 to :, in six innings, the
game being called on account OF dark
ness, thus scoring three out Of four
games played up u that date.
on the % l Mayor Grant Of New York
City issued an appeal to the citizens Of
that city for subscriptions to the Worlds
Fair fund, declaring that every days de-
lay endangered the success 90 the prof.
ecf, and pointing out the advantages to
accrue TO the-city from the exposition
TIE Oxford Copper Company obtained
an attschmen in the Supreme Court OF
New York City, on the 23d, against the
property In that State cf the Paris
Societe Des Metaux, which organized the
late corner in copper. on q claim for
$50. 900 for non-fuliilIment Of contract.
IT, Lto
the 23d, Hon. William +. Gladstone was
greeted by a house crowded almost to
suffocation. He spoke OF the struggle for
home rule In Ireland as being as deserv-
ing as the late strike Of the London dock
iaborers OF public sympathy and support.
MUNICH. Bavaria, has a Jack the Rip
per" mystery quite as profound as that OF
London. Two girls were
found In that city, on the morning OF the
2lst with their bodies mutilated In q
manner to lead to the suspicion that the
London fiend had started on his travels.
DURING the trial OF Father McFadden
In Maryboro. ireland. on the 23d, VIC
lent alteration between the crown attor-
ney and the counsel for the defense took |
place. which threatened 10 result in a |
general fight. After the excitement was
over, the Judge imposed heavy fines upon
Ihree Of the principal offenders.
FIVE pupils in a Japanese schoo. near a
emple In the province OF Kiangsu hid
themselves in collins upon which another
BOY placed the lids and informed the
eacher that they had gone 10 Heaven.
y hen the lids were removed all the boys
we're found to be dead from suffocation.
The sixth boy fed. but the teacher over.
ook him aud logged him 10 death.
The Nihilists are again active Ia st.
Petersburg, aud the city has been flooded
vith their revolutionary proclamations.
he police are entirely at q loss 70 cx-
lain how these documents are printed or
distributed. IL is asserted that the priut-
ng Is done in Paris under the protec ton
4 certain high government officials
ainted with revolutionary doctrines.
GOVERNOR FowLE OF North Carolina
'pened the Eleventh Annual Colored State
Fair at Raleigh, on the 23i, by a speech 10 a
argc audience Of negroes, In whose be-
lalf and protection, should ii be ncces-