The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-03-22

the first National Bank Of La Porte. Ind.
dropped dead OF apoplcxy. on the It'll, the
fifth anniversary OF the death Of his pre-
decessor.
RFPonrs that the Lower California gold
mining boom was started in the interest
OF land companies are in circulation in
Los Angeles, and the excitement j. some-
what checked.
AT the annual dinner Of the Cornish
men residing in London, on the 9th. the
health OF the Prince and Princess OF Wales
las the Duke and Duchess OF Cornwall
was drunk standing.
SCHUYLER Moses. the oldest Free Ma
son in the State OF New York. and the
Oldest pioneer OF Rochester. died, on the
18th. aged ninety. He had been Mason
sixty-eight years.
QUEEN VICTORIA will shortly 90 TO San
Sebastian to pay visit to the cemetery
where lie the British soldiers who fell in
,he Pen'nsular war in the British conquest
Of that place IN isls.
The Amer 81 Afghanistan denies that
he has any designs against Russia. lie
declares that his enemies. wishing 20 en-
broil England. Afghanistau and Russia,
originated tie report.
News has been received from man
formerly 81 Waterbury,, Conn, who. for
twenty-onc years, has been supposed 70
be dead. but who Is now wealthy resi-
dent OF Victoria Australia.
MICHAEL DoxEGHEY aud his wife, pas
sengers on steamer from America. were
arrested on their arrival al Queenstown.
on the 10th, for having revolvers and am
munition in their bagrage.
Iris reported that the secrets OF the
Patriotic League were betrayed 70 the
French Government by a leading officer
Of the organization. The name OF the
traitor has not as yet been divulged.
FIVE Anarchists have been arrested at
Aix-la- Chappelle, Prussia. Sufficient ev-
idence 70 convict them Of participation in
several Anarchist plots against high gov
crnment officials has been obtained.
The Mexican Government has amended
the concession granted 70 Captain J. b.
Eads for ship railroad. by guaranteeing
earnings 10 the extent ~ five per cent. in
tcrest on sixty million dollars q stock.
OWING TO the illness Of Mrs. Townshend
and her daughter, il was determined %
postpone the taking 81 the remains of
Representative Townshend to Illinois,
His funeral took place in Washington on
the 18th.
TRAIN wREcKERs tore up the track Of
the Transcaspian railway in Russia, cans-
ing frightful accident TO passenger
killed and injured. The wrcckers were
captured.
JUSTICE STANLEY Matthews illness has
taken so serious a turn that II is not at all
unlikely that President Harrison will have
a place on the Supreme Bench 10 fill be-
fore the adjournment Of the extra session
OF the Senate.
LoRp COMPTON tGladstonian) was elect
ed 70 Parliament from the Barnsley div
sion OF Yorkshire, England. on the 18th,
receiving 6,232 votes against 37sl cast for
II. G. Vernon Wentworth, the Conserv-
ative candidate.
THE Sihilist committee ~ st. Peters
burg has issued a secret circular an
nouncing that the apparent inactivity Of
the Nihilisi leaders j. merely a blind. in
tended % lull the authorities into false
sense OF security.
THE British vessel Colorado, go tons
burden. has passed through the Panama
canal from Aspinwall To Chagrea. dis
tancc Of fifteen miles. This j. the first
foreign vessel that has made the passage
through the canal.
Az immense meeting ~ farmers was
held ia Lima, o.. on the 9th. In opposition
to Chicago dressed beef. Resolutions
looking 70 united action for the purpose of
driving all trusts and monopelies from
the State were adopted.
LETTERS have been discoyered among
the papers 81 the late Premier ~ Cash
mere revealing the design 81 ths Mahara-
jah q Bengal 20 poison the British resi-
dents and revolt against the authority Of
the Indian Government
A MEMORIAL service In honor OF the late
Emperor William l. was held in the Gar
rison Church. Berlin. on the 10th. The
Kaiser caused the statue 81 the Queen in
the Thurgarten 70 be decorated with fiow-
ers, Ia accordance with his grandfather's
custom.
ADMIRAL JoHS LEE DAVIS. aged sixty
four. retired naval officer, died al The
Ebbitt House, Washington. on the 18TH
Of pneumonia. Admiral Davis entered
the navy In 1871. and was in command ~
the Asiatic squadron when he was retired
two years ago.
The first sign ~ the inevitable return Of
Queen Natalie "a Belgrade as the result If
her late husbands GeScrtion ~ the throne
aud her sons accession thereto X visi-
BILE IN the report that meeting Is being
arranged between the mother and sou
ON tie frontier.
ARRANGEMENTS nre making for meet
ing between Ex-Quecn Natalie and her
son. King Alexander ~ Servia. The arr
raugement ~ made al the request III tho
boy-King, who Is extremely anxious %
see biz mother. and will take place on tho
fervian frontier.
in Hartford Comm police cour.
Alex. n ur aud Amos Il. Rislcy, engi-
neefs Az Tie lnts Park Central Hotel,
chnrred with mauslaugnter Ia causing the
explosion o. the boiler BY negligence.
were, on the 18th. held for the Superior
Ccart IN bonds 81 si,5oo each.