The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-03-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE monthly public debt statement
issued from the Treasury Department.
on tre LIST shows > decrease in the debt
during the month OF February amount
ing to IS. 159, 4s6; and for the seven
months Of the current fiscal year, So
o99. O91.
An important step toward guarding
the secrets Of the executive sessions Of
the Senate was taken, on the 1st, when
1 number Of workmen were employed
in carefully pointing up the cracks In
the walls surrounding the doors Of the
Senate galleries.
GovERxxExr receipts during Febru-
ary past aggregated go, $50, sls. against
so. 13s, 159 during February. 1889.
PENSIONS payments for the eight
months ended on the lst. amounted TO
ST.. ZIG. 4ss. against SIS, 7ss, ss7 for the
eight months Of the preceding fiscal
year
THE German chess player, Lasker, de-
feated the English chess champion,
Bird, u London on the 2sth.
SURPRISE was caused at St John n.
| B., on the 2sth. By the release Of Fred.
A. Walton. the Pacific Express embez-
| xler who absconded with SIS. 900 from
Dallas, Tex. II seems that the express
company comp omised on recovering all
Of the stolen money but 5000. and
further proceedings we're abandoned
THE Archbishop Of Paris has ISSUED .
pastoral letter forbidding the practice
Of cremation Of the dead by Catholics.
FRANCE will follow the initiative or
England in the Berlin labor conference.
The British steamship Quetta, which
sailed from Cooktown. Queensland. Fep-
ruary q. for London. foundered It sea
The vessel struck . rock in the Torres
straits and sank Immediately. One hun
dred and sixty-four persons persisted
Mrs. McGEEcoE. OF GAINESVILLE. O..
wife Of J.. 9. McGrcgor. reading clerk o.
the Ohio House Of Representatives. died.
on the ist. Of d~iphtheria- This was the
fifth death in the family. four children
and the mother dying within twelve
days. The father and several children
are also down. the father not expected
to live.
THE winter cropsi in the south Of Rus
STA have be N ruined by severe weather.
HUGH j. MCCORMICK wrested the
worlds championship for fast skating
from Alex Paulsen, At White Bear
Lake. Mimi, on the I'd, in . ten-milt
race for $500 . side.
--LATEST accounts from ex-Represent
alive Taulbce. OF Kentucky. who wa
shot In the head in front Of the Capito
81 Washington by Newspaper Core
spondent kincaid. represent him a. In
fair way TO cover
THE United States Treasury held, OF
the LIST, So, sJG.5s4 net cash. an incrcas'
Of about one million for the month 0
February. National Bank depositorie
held S33, 13s. 1874 OF Government funds,
decrease Of nearly five millions durinI
month.
LIEUTE~Axr CONVERSE, Y. :. ~, IL
charge of the torpedo boat Cushing .
Newport, X. l., pronounced her up 70 al
requirement Is and a success.
THE Chicago. Milwaukee 4 St Pau
Railroad Company announced. on tn
3d. a reduction from s-2-5o % SOS d
nrst-class tickets from san Francisco b
Chicago, and from si7.5O to $40 on sec
ond-class tickets
NIcE-PEEsIDESr MoRroS and part
took a trip to Fort sumter in arevcnu
cutter. on the "a, and subsequently Wis
tied the Charleston Magnolia gardens
leaving on the evening Of the same da
for Florida.
WILLIAM THrDcEoS, a coal operate
owning several mines In the vicinity Q
Charlcstown, w. Va, was caught in on
Of his coal tipples. On the "a, and >
badly injured that no died . couple Q
hours later.