The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-08-09
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


that he expects 10 come up with fmin
about the end OF October or the Begin
ming of November.
Mrs. ALEXANDER SULLIVAN arrived on
the steamship City Of Berlin from Liver
pool on the 18Th She declined 20 be in
tervicwed-
News OF a decisive Engagement with
the deryishes in Egypt is expected very
soon. as the arrival OF Colonel Kitchener
at the front with reinforcement will I'M
doubtedly be the signal for aggressive
operations on the part o. tho British and
Egyptian troops.
The convicted jury-brlber, ex.State
Senator r. J. Creighton. who surrendered
10 the police OF San Francisco recently,
after being a fugitive from justice for q
year and a half. was, on the 2sth. sem
fenced to five years. imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
THE steamer colchester. on her way
from Baltimore to Deals Island. on the
18th, ran down a sail. oat near Fort Car
roll, Md There were five persons IN the
boat, three OF whom, Mary kolb. Mary
weiner and John Bitz, were drowned.
UP 70 the 10Th the War Department had
received no information Of reported In
dian troubles in Washington Territory.
A SERIOUS riot occurred among some
Italian iaborers engaged in laying a pipe
line near Lock No. 4 on the M~onongahela
river. about twenty-five miles south Of
Pittsburgh, Pa. One Italian was killed.
and another mortally wounded. while a
number Of others were severely hurt
GOVERNOR BEAVER OF Pennsylvania, on
the Goth, issued a requisifion for VIM II.
Houtz. under arrest at Dubuque. Ia, Tor
forgery committed at Lewistown. Pa
JOSEPH NJ. WALLACE. a lawyer, died At
his home in New York City. on the 18th.
from the effects OF a blow upon the head
with a hammer in the hands OF Frederick
Hopp. his landlord, in a dispute ABOUT
rent
LESS than a dozen members attended
the session OF the South Dakora Consti-
tutional convention on the 29th, and no
business was transacted
CHARLES STOCKTON. of Carroll County.
Ind. was, on the 10Th. lodged in Jail in
Logansport. charged with stealing a horse
valued at 800 belonging 70 William
Everman.
A cycLoSIc storm Of wind and rain AT
Boston, on the 29th. %uprooted orchards.
plow ed a furrvw fifteen feet wide a long
distance, and threw wafer out " the
Chicopee river fifteen feet high.
The Civil Service Commission have de-
cided to exempt from examination clerks
on steamboats, who also act In the capac-
ity OF postal CLERKS, tine practice. here
tofore prevailing, having been found i'm
practicable
PRoF. OLDERrEvE, who started from
Hull, Mass. on the night Of the 18th, to
walk on the water 10 Boston. arrived in
the latter city on the following morning.
after a severe experience in the fog. hav-
ing lost his way and gone Ashore first at
Long Island light.
THE President and Private Secretary
Halford returned from Deer Park 10
Washington on the 3lst-
THE annual convention of the Journey
Plumbers and steam and Gas Fit
ters' Association OF the United States
aud Canada was opened in Brooklyn on
the Goth. A large number OF delegates
from all parts Of the country We're pres
ent.
STEPHEN vi. DoRsEy. having purged
himself Of contempt OF court by appear
ing at the supplementary proceedings in
the matter % the Nevada Bank Of a
Francisco, the ex-senator was. on the
18th, spared the necessity OF appearing
before Judge O'Brien in the New York
CITY Supreme Court.
RAILWAY presidents and oficitls Of
Western roads declare that the forma-
ton OF a trust or some other method Of
cons olidafion is necessary to save their
properties from bankruptcy.
FoREsr fires are sweeping through Ada
County. destroying one of the finest tim
Der belts ia Idaho. The country is sodry
that the fires are spreading over a great
extern 81 country. Governor Snoup has
teIegraphel to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior asking aid in extinguiShing the fire.
AN unknown mildle-aged woman was
found dead. on the 3Dih, near the railroad
track ten miles east Of Goshen, Ind,
with her skull crushed. Her death was
evidently the work u a murderer.
GENERAL A. r. jones'. of Cincinnati, who
was brutality murdered by his coachman,
chas. Blythe. was buried with full mill :
tary honorS from the First Pre- s5yterian
Church o. Walnut Hills On the 30th. The
interment took place al Spring Grove
Cemetery.
INFORMATION has hcen received from
Massowah that the dervishes are slowly
but steadily advancing. The Egyptian
patrols engaged ia a skirmish with ths
dervish outposts, on the Both. during which
sixty dervishes were killed. Genera
Grenfell. commanding the Egyptian
forces, Is moving southwark.
The State Department has received
dispatch reporting the conviction by IN
Consular Court at Tamatave, Madagis'
car, % Captain Duverye. a French al
venturer. Of killing Victor T.. W. Stan
wood, the United States consular agen
al Audakabe, Madagascar.
THE Louisville. New Albany q Chi
cago and the Chicago & Eastern lllin"i
railroads. on the 30th. gave notice OF
reduction Ii passenger rates 70 meet "a
cut made by the Pennsylvania lines DC
tween Chicago and Indianapolis, Louis
willie and Cincinnati. (.
REPRESENTATIVE MCKINLEY was !
Washington, on the 3)th. looking ate
private bus He Is very confder
Of being chosen Speaker Or the nca
House when 1t meets. but says he "a
been paying no attention y public nj
fairs.
JOSHUA AxRr.ER, aged twelve year
was instan tly killed and two other your
men wers seriously injured BY the &
plosion 81 a boiler in tho mill o. Jol
Flanagan g. Bros, al M~anayunk, Pa, I
the 3Oth.
Tar greatest flood Plaindcld. n. J- y
ever known followed a heavy and unus
~ Inwn-nnur pf rain. on tile 10 III. ana