The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-11-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


! signed. Henjamin ). Coppock, OF Obi
! succeeds him.
CAPTAIN WIssMAxx's forces in Fam
bar have overtaken and defeated Bush,
/, and his followers. killing and woundin
= upward of 800 Of them. The loss 70 Ia
l Germans was seven killed.
The marriage OF the Duke OF Spart
% the Princess Sophie OF Germany IA
soiemnized at Athens, on the 9th. 4
the presence OF q magnificent Assem-
plage 81 royalty and citizens OF scarccl
less note.
NM HEWITT was fatally injured a
GAINESVILLE, o., on the 25th. by the pre
mature explosion OF cannon that wa,
being fired at a political meeting. Roll
arms were blown of and both ewes do
stroyed, and he was so badly hurt tha
recovery Is impossible. A subscription
was raised for his wife and two chill
dren.
GEORGE A. HALsEy. OF Newark. N II
mas declined the appointment rendered
MIN by the President TO the vacancy in
the Cherokee Commission caused by the
death Of General Hartranft.
IN speech at Chester. England. on
the 10th. Mr.. Gladstone said the system
OF government in America combined
that love Of freedom and respect for the
law, which formed the surest elements
OF national greatness. The revolution.
airy statesmen OF America. he declared.
were the greatest Of any epoch.
The position OF the French in NADIA
gascar has again become critical. and
the Hovas are preparing to rcpudiate
the French protectorate.
A MAN sat down on the West shore
railroad track at Canajoharie. n. ". on
.hc .stn. as an express train came thun-
uerng along The wheels took his head
on clean without mutilating it or the
body.
CHRISTOPHER GEIGER. for many years
leading iron-maker. died al Lancaster
a. on the 2sth, aged eighty-one years.
a RAILWAY accident occurred az Hal
as, near Agra. British India. On the
sth, in which ifteen persons were
Tiled.
HE British ship Bolan, from Calcutta
or Liverpool. has foundered an sea ana
er crew Of thirty-three persons were
rowned
IN the case Of Farmer Gallagher On
'ial at Maryboro. Ireland. for partiei-
sting in the killing OF Police INSPECTOR I
arun' tne jury was unable to agree I
nd were discharged
ZACH. TAYLOR. convicted 81 mur. I
r in the first degree and sentenced v i
hanged. has been refused a new trial
the supreme Court Of PENNSYLVANIA. g
sylor was convicted of the murder 81 =
over McCausland in Green County. a
o years ago. I,
EMPEROR WILLIAM OF Germanv bas d
Inferred the Order of the Black EaoIe
on the King of Greece. hi
Kate FIELD. the lecturer. is in Wash Ii
rton She is there to engage in the tn
Dhcation Of weekly newspaper. 10
called Kate Fields Washington. The al
= number will be issued early in Ian Y
~, and II Will be neither political nor iv
'gious' put rather an independent
srary Sheet tn
LETTER from Chairman Cooley 10 re
Interstate Commerce Commission. NJ
tiyed at Washington from his homo cil
Ann Arbor. Mich. states that he il
AMY recovering from his late illness.
tnat ne expects within short time
eturn 70 his official duties al Wash he
ton.
mas been decided 20 hold a winter ba,
nival, with ice palace and winter ~,
rts. as at Montreal and st. paul. IN III
rquette. Mich. the coming winter. NJ,
DwAED !. EBDEET. aged cirhty-nine. M
nentically - record as the man who :
y me first house in Chicago. fellinto of
pen Fireplace at his home in Har- IA
= County, o., on the 2gNi. and was ia
ned 70 death. ,I
TREASURY warrant for S2o3 vas to,
ed. on the 2oth. in favor az IIonnr. M
ernier, Of Company Il. First Wiscon- til,
asairy being the amount due hip, Viii
\ portion u the reward offered ~ IN
government Of the United states IL ri.
ior the capture Of JEFF Davis. Nv
fiN" SECRETARY BACHELOR MAJ r
uea that Chinese laundrymen ara Cha
rers within the meaning Of the chi- tary
Restrictive act. and are. thcrofar. Den
ipi'ed from landing in the United 3lst
IS no matter whether they hava can,
here before or not. n,
H LEVIN HALL. and his sister sarab Bur,
poth prominent society people ~ caus
crsct County. Nd. were convic,aa tersl
cendiarism on the 10Th. shor
~ failure Of IIcston 4 Erbcn 49,, ton.
'rs q Philadelphia. with liabilities year
tween S5O0.000 and 500 900. was., the :
ced on the Goth. On
y New York Giants won their sixtb al :
by score OF 3 TO and the worlds the
pionship for 1859 from the BROOKLYN pedii
'grooms on the 10Th. CLAIM
RAILWAY mail car was robbed M kcc
en-, Germany, on the 10Th. 81 let In
M packages containing the aggrc- elab,
sum 81 10000 marks. ucati
IEAvy snow storm. the frst az tba whic
?, visited Denver. Col. on the aeth solut
iEE men were killed BY the explo- Tn
y an Ola and defective locomotive has a
Pierce coal mines. near scranton ter +
~ 1hc z'th. tours
street railway lines in Nashville poke
aoout nifty miles in all--were. can b
le 18th. consolidated under opo Court
cement with capital stock u AL ri
=. The cars are 70 BE- operated ~ Balti,
icity. Nv t.,a,