The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-08-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.



| for their lives.
The Navy Department has received in
formation that the repairs 20 the Monoca-
cy will DO completed at Yokohama tho
latter part OF this month. Sne Will thcn
be put on river service.
LEAVE has been granted to Lieutenant-
1 Commander VIM. p. Randall. OF the
navy, for six months with permission 70
leave the United States.
The anti-slavery conference at Luz
ccrne, Switzerland, has been abandoned.
The cricket match at Cambridge, En-
I gland, was finished on the 10th, tho Cam
bridge eleven making total OF IA in
their second inning. The Americans won
the game in one inning by u rams.
IT is again asserted that Emperor Will.
lam will visit Spain shortly.
| LAWYER DIcKESsoS. counsel for the
embarrassed firm OF Brown, Steese a
CLARK. OF Boston, fled a petition Of in
solvency in behalf Of his clients, on the
10th. The petition is voluntary as 70
Messrs. Steese and Clark. and involuntary
as TO Mr.. Brown.
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the
18th. The children were gotten out Safe
ly. Two firemen were injured by falling
timbers. A lack Of water hindered the
efforts at saving The building; loss, about
$4,000.
In view OF the Russian military move.
ments on the Armenian frontier, the
Porte has issued orders to expedite the
construction OF the new Notifications at
Erzerouu. A large force Of men are al
ready engaged in construct ne redoubts.
Two indictments have been found
~
second street Railway Company Of New
York. One is for forgery in tho first de-
gree, and the other for uttering forged
papers. Allen wanted 10 plead guilty.
but the law requires trial on indict-
ment for forgery in the first degree.
FRED II. ScHARr. the abscondiny car
rage dealer OF Rockville, Conn. was arr
rested IN Montreal. Can. on the 18th. for
forgery. The First National Bank OF
Rockville has number OF notes with in
dorsements said to have been forged BY
Scharf.
AT mass-meetng held in Springfield,
o., on the 18th. to select delegates 70 the
Republican Senatorial convention. ex-
Mayor Snyder denounced the work OF the
convention. claiming il was run by Gen.
eral Bushnell, who wants % be the next
United States Senator, and other bosses.
RECEIVER W. GRAY OF the North River
Sugar Refinery Comrany applied 70
Judge Ingraham. OF New York City. on
the 18th. to restrain the Sugar Refinery
Trust from declaring or paying any fur
Their dividend. A temporary injunction
was granted.
MINISTER REID has informed the State
Department that the general conference
on weights aud measures will meet at
Sevres. near Paris. September "a.
| m. MARsHALL's residence. store aud
warehouse, at Keifer. o.. were destroyed
BY fire, on the 18th, together with their
contents, including the United States
mail and township records.
The National Journeymen Tailors'
convention assembled at Columbus. o..
on the 18th. President Frederick Jensen,
81 New York City, called the meeting Il
order. The financial report showed tota
expenses for the year, so.52s y. and q
total balance in tho treasury OF Is o>9.0s
The gross earnings OF the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railway for July were
ISIS. 800 decrease from the same mont
last year Of $40. .39.
The Shah will attend the Austrian
military maneuvers ia Galicia.
A SPECIAL committee Of the New York
from Southern cotton exchanges, on tie
18th. aud, after discussing the matter,
agreed to allow the substitution Of cotton
baeging for lnte bagging.
The French press Is in perfect fer
ment over the new-sealed friendship be-
tween England and Germany, and th'
Opposition papers are charging the gov
eminent with having driven Eaglaus
/ into the arms OF Germany By her foolish
! and irritating policy.
The body OF woman killed by train,
on the night % the 18th. near Greenwood
Cemetery. Brooklyn. was Identified a.
that 81 Mrs. George Thompson. ot No. 40
West Thirty-seconl street. New York.
1T was reported that Truckee, Cal, wa
partially destroyed by cenfiagration oi
the night q the l2th. Owing to inter
ruption os telegrapiic communication /
was impossible 60 obtain details.
GOVERNOR FORAKER Of Olio refused L
honor the reauisition Of Governor Low
rs OF Mississippi for the extraditipn b
: Superb ierdent Richard Carroll OF III,
7 Queen & Crescent railroad. over who's,
line the party travelled 70 the Sullivan
: Kilrain fighting grounds.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER SMITH, OF De-
Moines, H., has issued a circular fixin.
department headquarters az Milwaukee
thus practically abandoning the boycott
OF the Iowa department on the q. A. X
encampment. Large delegations % sol
diers from Iowa will attend the encamp
menf.
PRESIDENT HAnRrsoS will visit Indian
4. apolis on the 22l, TO remain two or tire
days. The occasion for his return will
the cornerstone laying Of the soldiers
, monument. and the visit will also affor
/ the President an opportunity 70 atten
\ the reunion OF his old regiment the Ses
I entieth Indiana. the date Of which ha
! been changed TO suit the Presidents col
venience.
' BOARDS OF officers OF the army, col
sisting Of Lieutenant Colonel Anthor
Heger. Captain John o. skinner al
: Captain J. q. Merritt, OF the medical q
\ partment have been appointed 70 me-
| at West Point on the 18th, TO exatnil
: candidates for admission 10 the Militia
: Academy.
r THE state Department has received
e official invitation for tho United States
participate in the New Zealand and Sou
Seas exhibition to be held the CONT
i winter. On account OF the absence ~ 4
\. appropriation for this purpose the invit
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