The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-06-14

WEEKLY COURIER.
c. DoA~r. Publishers.
JASPER. INDIANA.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
CRisroRAL FEn>ASrEz. the Cuban kid
naper. was executed az Joyellanos on
the 9Th.
Mns. Jonx A. LOGAN will open school
for Young ladies ia New York or Chicago
shortly.
ALI the London papers. OF the 81. con-
tanned leaders deploring the disaster al
Johnstown, Pa, and sympathizing with
America.
THE Standard OH Company has bought
ten acres ~ ground just east ~ Terre
Hautc. Ind. on which they will erect an
immense oil-tank.
AT Taneytcwn, Nd. Mrs. Charles Nc
Fadden and Miss Maggie Moore were
drowned. on the LIST. while attempting u
ford a stream during the tiood.
MISS CLARA BARTON went 20 Harris
burg. Pa. on the I'll, TO supervise the
work Of the Red Cross Society in re-
lieving the distress at Johnstown.
THE President did not attend church.
on the 81, but was busy all day arranging
with Governor Beaver by telegraph for
the relief % the stricken districts in
Pennsylvania.
TEN mines. employ ing six thousand men.
will be Indefinitely shut down on account
OF the floods in the Conemaugh valley,
the pumps being under water and the
pits mostly flooded.
THE President. on thu 81. appointed
Chas. l.. Knapp. os New York. Consul
General Of the United States at Montreal,
and Alex. J. Reed. OF Wisconsin, United
States Consul at Dublin.
The citizens committee at Minneap-
oils. Mimi. on the 5th. voted to send zoos
barrels OF -four TO the Jonnstown suffer-
ers. The order was divided among all
the mills 50 as to hasten shipment
OK the 1st the United States revenue
cutter Richard Rush. under orders To-
proceed TO Behring sea TO protect the
seal fisheries from illegal sealers, left
o.. ~. It.ts..I far Tia \ArtI
The Times counsel. assisted by the
counsel for Mr.. Parnell. began. on the 81.
an inspection Of the private letters ~ the
latter. The correspondence covers a Pc
Rod Of six years, and comprises 5000 let
tiers.
Tx public debt statement for May
showed decrease in the debt for the
month OF 500 .s...so; decrease since
juno 30. lsss So. So. l05.4). The total
debt less cash in the treasury, was 81
o.. 902. 55l.19.
In the Joint session OF the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, on the 9Th. David G.
Goodell, Republican. was elected Cover
nor Of the State, receiving l6s votes TO
lis for Charles Amsden. Democrat The
inauguration took place on the 9Th.
OxE Of the heaviest losers BY the re-
cent foods in Maryland is the Reading
Railroad Company. They owned and
controlled the Susquehanna & Tidewater
canal. which is nearly obliterated. The
company paid So, 900 for the canal.
IT was recently announced that sick
ness prevented King Kalakaua OF Hawaii
from going TO the Paris Exposition. II Is
learned from good authority that His
Majesty. although desiring 10 pay visit
TO the exposition. lacked the necessary
funds.
The National capital had stream half
a mile wide flowing through its heart on
the I'd, caused by big rise in the Po-
tomac. Immense damage was done 70
Government property, and it was feared
that the famous Long bridge would sue
cumb.
The silver miners in the Ural mount
aims OF Russia. struck. on the 80, and set
on FIRE the houses of the managers in
Ekaterinburg. The factories adjoining
were also set on FIRE. and seven persons.
who were in the building, We're burned t.
death.
COUNSEL for kemmler, the condemned
murderer, will appeal on habeas corpus
proceedings, in Buffalo. y. ". for re-
view OF the verdict, on the ground that
death by electricity i cruel anG unusual
punishment, and therefore unconstitu-
tional.
IT was expected. on the 81, that the pro-
tocol TO be drawn up BY the samoan con-
ference would be signed by the repre-
sentatives Of the three governments con
cerned on the sth. The commissioners
were then preparing to take their de-
parture from Berlin.
.
FARMERS. living in the country border
ing on the conemaugh Valley. who load :
ed wagons with provisions for the desti-
tute survivors Of the food, had 70 fight
their way into the stricken cities against
the thieving Huns who tried to capture
their precious freight.
JUSTICE GhAY, ~ the United States Su-
preme Court and Miss Jeanette Mat
thews, daughter ~ the late Justice Mat
vharu urar. tx.rwtaI 81. 1.~s.laf. :