The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-12-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
PERSONA. AND GENERAL.

moment.
Mn ArGrsr BELMONT. the well
known New York banker. died. at Al
early hour on the morning OF tho alth
OF pneumonia, in tho seventy fourtl
year Of his age.
M FIFTEEN Wholesale liquor dealers d
the First and Second wards Of Pitts
burgh. Pa. were arrested. on the cath
charged with selling liquor without
Licenses.
Ink Anna pit Of tho nrilcx Mining
Company at Tschansch. Austria. col.
lapsei. on the cath. owing to the mine
being flooded. Twenty men were
killed.
A MEETING OF tho local branch OF tho
Clan-na-Gael. Mt which SO persons
were present. was held. on the evening
OF the Esd. IN the upper story OF Mousse
in OIneyvillc. K l., in which there
We're several cases o. scarlet fever. IL
Is feared that tho disease was carried
| all over the city. There was already
an epidemic OF tho disease in one Of
| the public schools
| Dn A. NJ. TURNER. OF Falkville. an
ex-member OF the Alabama Legislature.
chokcd his wife and his little daughter
to death on tho cath. The doctor had
twice been in an insane asylum. The
child raised an alarm before being
killed. and when citizens rushed in
they found tho doctor in a wild frenzy.
lie declared that his wife had tried TO
kill him and that he acted in self-de-
Tense throughout
NOTWITHSTANDING reports to the con-
trary, T. 4. Barnum is still very sick
man. and his condition cxci,es the
alarm Of his family.
TnE Russian Government has forbid
den the newspapers to publish petition
drawn mp by the Jews, asking that they
be placed en- a civil equality with other
classes in Russia.
The brooklyn n. Y. census returns
which were taken by the police were
completed on the a4th. They show
total population of s55,945 The Federal
cnumerators made the total SOS. 900.
THE buildings or tho Chattanooga
Medicine Company OF St Elmo. a sub
urb OF Chattanooga, Tenn, were totally
destroyed by fire on the cath. Loss,
so. 900; insurance. SIT
MrcnAEi. HALEY. aged sixteen wears.
% Ncwbnrs, ~. ". has for several
years past been an inveterate cigar
ctte-smoker, and finally his mind has
given way and he is to be sent to an in
stituticn in the hope Of curing him.
RUSSIA has made Odessa free port
IL Is expected that the already large
commence Of that port will be greatly
increased by this step
Dn FnIrz BAUM Of Kansas CITY.
Mo. has received from Berlin some OF
Dr. Koch's consumption virus and. on
the 2ith. inocnlated > r. Austin. OF |
kansas City. kas., man in an advanced
stage Of consumption. Much interest
IS felt in tho result
The Knights OF Labor officials and
Manager Lynch OF the Frick Coke Com !
pany met at scottdale. Pa. on the |
.ith. and failed to agree Oh tie one
third shutdown trouble. A notice was
served on the company threatening
strike in six days il the matter was no; !
settled
II II CEocKEi,. president OF the Board |
"a Public Works and Of the Crocker
rrackcr Manufacturing Company OF Dem
yer, Col. j. missing and no trace or Ms
whereabouts can he found. His friends |
Iear that he may have been fouily dealt
With
cAELo DrEoT. aged thirty-four ami
Joseph Diego, aged forty. were killed.
Ind Rafclio Eoato and Carmen Pnrod |
~erc seriously INJURED BY the explosion
a q dynamite cartridge in New York
-ity. on tho 9th. where they were en-
tagged in blasting.
FIRE occurred in the apartments of
Mrs l!adlcy. in New York City. on III
18th. An Investigation was made. and
I was learned that Michael Iadley had
CT fire 70 the bed because his wife
would not ret up Mrs.. IIadlcv. on dis-
ovcring tho smoke, rot up and escaped
,eing burnes
Ink most important Judgment ever
'iven in Manitoba was delivered by
ndgc kiliam. on the cath. at Winnipeg,
gainst the celebrated appeal OF the Ro-
nan Catholics against an act passed by
he last Legislature abolishing separate
chools. Tho case will 10 appealed 70
England.
THE dissccting-room OF the Chicago
icdical College caught fire on the cath.
nj before tho flames were extinguished
wo corpses were crcmated. Several
Their corpscs which had been conveyed
here for dissection were removed.
InE Supreme Court OF Montana. on
be .sth, handed down decision in the
amous Davis will case. affirming the
uling Of the lower court, leaving John
y Davis administrators Of the estate.
> no constitutional points are involved,
he case can not be appealed.
SIMON and julius Krojanker. who
ere arrested on their arrival in New
'orx from England. some time ago. on
cmand by the German Government
Gro delivered over 10 the officers OF
nc Scrvia. on the aath. TO be returned
their native country. They arc
Iantcd for swindling banks in Germany
ut OF ITO. 600 francs.
TnE War Department is giving every
ssistancc in IL. power TO General Miles.
= addition to the military force in his \
ivisloa, ten troops or cavalry. sta
oncd in Arizona. New Mexico and
cxas, and largo fcrrc from Fort
LEY, including two light batteries OF |,