The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-16

The national LlIt steamer tItitetN
from Liverpool. ran into and badly
wrecked the british schooner Hramhall,
Of Tompkinsvillc. while steaming up
New York harhor on tho 9Th. The
Bramhall's crew were taken aboard The
Helvctia. The iramhall did not sink.
EXTENDED interviews with lawyers
and Judges Of New York develop a very
general opinion against the abolition 81
cauital punishment
Tmr Class-makers' combination ~
Berlin has broken up. and the trade Is
SYSTEMATICALLY because OF imports
from America. The price Of bottles
a however. raised ten per cent. ON
the 5th. through = coalition OF manu-
facturcrs.
TnE tailor at Midietown. y. ". on
the sth. permitted a party OF relatives
and friends 10 visit and talk privately
with a prisoner held on a serious charge.
Next morning when the obliging official
went 70 feed his charge he found the
wife Of the prisoner, who was n OF
the party Of visitors. dressed in the
prisoners clothes, occupying his cell.
All the parties to the escape were sub
S~equently arrested.
1'nr insane asylum at Tongue Pointe,
nine miles east Of Montreal. Can. cost
ing 81. 49,. 900 and containing 1900 pa
| ticnts. was totally destroyed by fire, on
the 9th. and a large number, variously
| estimated at from lOO 70 200. OF the in
mates persisted ~miscrably in the flames,
| together with several OF the Sisters in
charge.
on the recommendation of District
Attorney Fellows, Of New York. Judge
| Cowing in General Sessions, on the 9th.
dismissed the indictment for bribery
| against ~ex-Alderman James Pearson, OF
| the Board Of Aldermen for 1854.
Tux Slater Educational Fund, estab-
lished ten years ago by John +. Slater,
OF Norwich. Conn. providing for the in
| PRODUCTION Of industrial training in the
| schools of the South. last year expended
So. 600 in the work.
Fifry-Two Anarchists were arrested
in Barcelona on the 9th. Documents
seized in their residences revealed plans
TO destroy railways with dynamite and
10 set fire 10 factories.
WE~Lr-IyFoEMEp horticulturists esti-
mate that the peach crop OF Michigan
will this year scarcely amount to .
tenth OF the normal yield.
TIE overseers Of Harvard College
spent about two hours. on the 9th, de-
batting the subject Of amending the
rules SO as TO shorten the time requisite
for graduation. No action was taken.
TmE new United States cruiser Phila-
I-1-lt. ...I, - ~.r.n-tnL1n lua.naafn1
trial trip. on the eth. over a course out
to sea bearing e-ast-southeast from Cape
Henlopcn and return. six miles.
TmE five convicts in Dannemora On.
Y.) State prison who recently protected
the warden from a murderous assault
by a fellow-convict. were, on the 9TH,
pardoned by the Governor.
THE Indiana block-coal miners and
operators have agreed on seventy-fve
cents. summer and winter. as the yearly
mining scale. and work has been re-
sumed.
The people OF the District Of Colum-
bia are making a concerted effort TO
secure representation in Congress. They
ask for one Senator and one Represents
ative.
The Canadian duty on pork was, on
the 9th. increased to two cents per
pound, or about sixty per cent ad va
loren.
JUICE EDWARD r. HEAD. who had
held the Office Of Superior Court Judge
OF san Mateo County, Cal. since 1879,
died at his residence in Redwood City,
on the 9Th. Of pneumonia. Although
totally blind. Judge Head was recog'
nized as one OF the ablest ~jur:sts Of the
State.