The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-08-30


Tnr health o, the Pope Is excellent He
exercises in the Vatican garden an hour
each day.
Joux SlMoxEs. a ten-year-old boy OF
Dubuque, la. recently witnessed para
chute descent from balloon, ana Thought
he would initiate 1t. lie secured an nm
brella. aud going 20 the top 81 tho house,
spread his umbrella and made the leap.
landing on the ground with both arms
broken. his head badly cut aud otherwise
injured.
Tnr New England Cracker Bakery In
New York City caught firs in tho base
Ment on the 10th, hich quickly commute
Gated 10 the first floor. Oa the floor
above over sixty girls were at work.
They we're panic stricken, and for = time
| 1t was feared that they would perish.
The flames below were fortunately quick
" cxtlnguiShea aud the girls escaped
without injury.
THE Democratic State convention Of
New York will be he Ia at Syracuse on
September l.
BERT MILLER and John Olcott. ten
year old sous OF prominent men at fome-
roy. Ia. we're smothered 10 death in bin
OF fax Ia the elevator at that place on the
| 18th.
BIDS for the construction OF post
Office building at Bridgeport. Conn, were
opened at the Treasury Department on
the aO.h ID. J. Curtis. of Sprin gfield
Mass. was the lowest bidder at SOL. 200.
BOND offerings aud acceptances at the
treasury. on the c0:h, aggregated $1,000
as follows: 5000 registered 4s at rs,
and 50. 900 coupon as at 1865.
IT is understood that the report OF the
COURT OF inquiry which Investigated the
mishap to the cruiser Boston in New
port tR- ~ harbor. exoSerates Captain
O'Kane from all responsibility, the ves-
sci having struck sunken wreck not
down in the regular charts.
WM 7. HIGGINS, local Republican
politician. widely known on the Pacific
coast. died at San Francisco on the 2lst.
The first state nominating convention
81 North Dakota met in Fargo on the
slst. Judge Cochrane was elected tenn
porary chairman and II. A. Libby, tenn
porary secretary.
NUMEROUS severe hailstorms are re-
ported from different points in Austria
Many people have been killed aud much
damage has been done 70 property.
The Keystone Furnace Company OF
Reading. Pa. operating two large fur
naces with capacity OF 40 tons per
week. made an assignment on the alst.
DIR. +. PARSONS. sail % be the Oldest
practising dentist in the United States.
died AT his home in Savannah, Ga. on
the alst. Dr.. Parsons was born IN
Northampton. Mass. Ia 1898 was educate
ed in Cincinnati and Philadelphia. and
had prac,ised in savannah since 1913 H.
invented number OF instruments used
by dentists.
BoxD offerings and accrptancss NJ the
treasury. on the 2ist, aggregated >.3l.lpl.
as follows: $4,000 registered 4 AZ Is,
aud 1901, 100 registered 80 AZ sio6'..
The abandonment By the British Cow
eminent Of the Tithes X ecoyery bill Is
followed by wall Q. despair from the
clergy in Wales, who have been for years
Ia a condition bordering on restitution,
owing to their inability TO enforce the
payment Of their tithes.
WHILE speaking in a session 81 the
Grand Lodge !. .. o. +. nj Rome. Ga. On
the 2lst. Colonel Adolph Braadt fell dead
OF apoplcxy. He was prominent law
yer OF Atlanta AMI was we'll known
throughout the State of Georgia.
The creditors Of the LaMsy Company.
OF Lynn, Mass. dealers ia stoves. hard
ware. etc. on the 2lst accepted secured
| offer OF fifty cents on the dollar. payable
| in nine months.
| The Pope, on the 2lst received Able
| Won Schrader, hitherto professor Of
| theology in the Cologne Seminary, who
has been transferred 10 the Washington
University. His Holiness expressed him
self as gratifiei that Able Won Schrad-r
had accepted the post III America.
| ABorr 400 cigar makers are on strike ~
| Jack svnyille. Fla, for change in tho
| system 81 paying wages. Both sides are
1 firm. but the strikers are said u be with.
out funds.