The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-04-25

Tnr maple-sngar crop Of verrsont
which has Just boon harvested, amounts
70 about 1900. 900 pounds. which A. be-
low the quantity usually obtained.
\. 4. GopKf>. managing editor OF the
New York Evening Post. was arrested.
on the 18th. on the complaint 81 Peter
Mitchell. a lawyer, ON q warrant charg-
ing him with criminal libel. Godkin
was arraigncd in court and gave $500
bail 10 appear for examination.
GOVERNOR JACKSON Of Maryland. on
the 18th. formally removed state Treas
urer Archer for malfeasancc In Office
and repeated appropriations 20 his own
use OF the funds and securities Of the
state. Edwin II. Brown. Of Queen
Anne County. was appointed Treasurer.
LAWRENCE NA~pfNAEk. a lawyer who
fed from saltwater. MINI. about two
years age. after uttcring a large amount
or paper with the forged Endorsement Of
Dr. &. u. Bull. his father-in-law. j. now
residing and practicing his profession AZ
Wellington, Australia
DEVELOPMENT show the census frauds
in Lyon County, Kas.. for the purpose OF
raising salaries Of the county officials,
TO date back as far as January. lss',
and many heretofore highly honored
citizens are implicated. The testimony
shows that Deputy County Clerk Har-
rison was aware OF the frauds being per-
petrated. Several criminal prosecutions
are probable.
Rrronr reached Milwaukee, Wis,
on the night Of the 18th. that the pro-
peller City Of New York had foundcred
near Nanitowoc. on Lake Michigan.
She was known 10 have had at least
twenty pe-sons on board.
Psor. Brooks. the director o. Smith
Observatory. al Geneva, \. T.. has been
awarded the medal of the ASTRONOMERS
Society Of the Pacific for his discovery
OF the comet now visible in the eastern
heavens. This medal is the first one
awarded by the above society.
Miss ALICE ELLIOT. Of Ottawa. On..,
aged twenty-three. while suffering from
demcntia. swallowed a small penknife
with the blades open. SO far she has
experienced no unpleasant results. but
her physician is watching the case with
| great anxiety.
TIE Iowa State Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 18th. Besides the in
terest attaching TO the deadlock and the
election Of a United States Senator. the
session was uneventful.
WHILE Aeronaut f. +. Craig was max
ing a balloon ascension at Topeka kas..
on the 18th. he fell forty feet sustain
ing probably fatal injuries.
IL his address at the banquet in Min
ncapolis. on the evening OF the 10th,
Henry Willard promised in behalf OF the
Edison Company to have the same cleo
trical exhibition that was at the Paris
Exhibition taken to the Minneapolis
Exposition which opens in August
When Commando McCalla, Of the
United States ship Enterprise appeared
az the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on the
10th, Commandant Braine furnished him
with a copy Of the charges against him
and deprived him Of his sword.
TIKI colored convention at Richmond,
Va. adjourned on the 10th. after adopting
resolutions indorsing the Republican
party. denouncing the Democratic party
and Governor McKinny. and electing
state executive committee.
THE bark Sarah. Captain Hale, from
Fayal. Islands Of Azores. was quar-
antined at Boston. on the 10th. with
several cases Of smallpox among her
passengers.
THE Republican members Of the
ways and means committee struck of
the entire duty on sugar the last thing
before presenting their Tariff bill to the
House on the 10th. In lieu Of duty the
bill provides for a bounty OF two cents
per pound on all domestic sugars