The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-05-17
CURRENT TOPICS.


CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Corxr ToLsroi. Russian Minister 81 tne
Interior, died on the stn.
Tpr Paris Exposition was formally
opened By President Carnot on the o'n-
Tuy President on the .th. appointed
Frank w. Palmer,o OF Chlcago,to DC fupnc
Printer.
GENERAL RouLA~GER was elected 70 q
seat in the Municipal Council Of iaris on
the 18th.
THE Centennial fair in New York City
in aid Of the Hahnemann Hospital closed
on the 4th. The receipts amounted 70
about $4,000.
AN examination OF the pension rolls at
Washington dlscloses the fact that there
are SIS pensioners drawing pensions Tor
total blindness.
THEo. ROOSEVELT. 81 New YORK. ana
Frank Thompson. % South Carolina, have
been appointed members OF the CIVIL
Service Commission.
ST. MAnK's Reformed Church. three
miles southeast Of Gettysburg, Ia, ceie-
brated the centennial OF the congrega-
tons formation on the 9Th.
TWENTY-FIVE acres OF small buildings
at Morclani. suburb OF Chicago. was
swept by fire, on the sth. and seventy
i've families rendered homeless.
Tux French American residents OF Bal
timore. Md. on the 9Th. celebrated the
one hunlredth anniversary OF the re-
nnion OF the States-General az Ner'
sailles, in i'ss.
A suB-coMMIrrEE Of the samoan con-
ference has been directed 70 devise ana
report 70 the conference means by which
order may be established in Samoa To-
rether with adequate guarantees for
maintaining it.
THE Swiss Government has issued an
order Of expulsion from the country 81
Herr Lutz, az accomplice OF Herr
Wohlremuth. the Mulhouse police in
spector who was recently expelled Tor
bribing Swiss.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF the Scotch Irish
citizens OF the United States met at Col
umbia. Tenn. on the sth, aud organized
the Scofch-Irish Association. Ex-Goy-
ernor Proctor Knott. OF Kentucky, deliy-
cred the opening address.
The Interior Department, on the sth,
instructed Inspector Picker, at Oklahoma
CITY. Okla. to notify settlers that sales Of
town lots by town-site companies or other
private individuals or organizations are
worthless under the law.
HrxRv GEORGE consoles himself for the
Indifference OF the masses in the United
States by the attention which he has re-
ceiyed in Great Britain, where the halls
have proved to small TO hold the audi
ences that nightly flock to hear him.
THE Department OF State has been in.
formed by our Minister at Paris that thu
French Government, in reply to request
had cheerfully granted permission for IN
thirty marines sent out for that purpos'
70 guard the American section OF the ex'
hibition.
FoRrY-srx Of the striking street-cal
drivers Of Rochester, n. T.. united in
petition, on the sth, to be taken back int
the employ OF the company. thus prac
tically ending one Of the longest an'
most expensive strikes in the history Q
that city.
THE Commandant Of the Boston Nav
Yard has been directed to fire Nationa
salute at sunrise, on June Il. the anniver
sary OF the battle OF Bunker Hill, and
should he consider il proper and expe
dent. 70 direct the marines to take par
in the parade.
Ina w. HoPKrxs. Of Maiden. Mass
whose coat. containing personal docu
ments, was found in the railroad wreck .
Hamilton, Ont. il safe at home. He 10
tended taking the ill-fated train az Chica
20. but missed 1t. His trunk, however
went forward.
THE Massachusetts, House Of Repre-
sentatives, on the 81. passed 70 be er
crossed the Senate bill providing th'
safe deposit, loan and trust companies I
that state shall not invest in farm NOR
cages on land outside of New Englan
and New York.
The body o. NJ. r. SLIDER. who hired
small boat al Portland. Ore. aud vel
out ia il. was found. on the 9th. hangln
- the mast 81 the boat with a bullet no
IN the uttN. ~ - ruHIv~ru tuhA 'ttv'
was killed bv smugglers or pirates, b
the affair j. mystery.
The body Of Thomas Downs, prom
nent Democratic politician, who had bee
mysteriously missing for more than
week. was found floating in the lake
Cleveland. o.. on the sth. Inability
procure employment Il supposed To ha
caused him 10 commit suicide.
IT Il expected that the President W
soon be called upon "a decide dispu
between the Interior Department and u
Civil-Service Commission as 10 which
entitled 10 dispense the patronage Of q
Census Bureau. numbering three thousal
clerks, besides local superintendent.
THE naval review at Spi.head has be
fixed for July p. The Queen will VII
the maneuyers If the fleet from the de
Of the royal yacht Victoria and Abe
and the Emperor OF Germany and
brother. Prince Henry. will witness
scene from his imperial yacht Hone
xoliern.
The new steel steamship Manito
which is being constructed at CIV
Sound, Ont. for the Canadian Paci
was launched. on the 9TH, and will
ready 70 sail in six weeks. She u