The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-06-20

Tur English Government has prohib
strl thc RAINING ~ twenty-five lobster
factories built or in course u construc-
ton ia Nowiounalan and by natives
1mr base price for pudding during
tl.r next scale year IN thc mills ~ Pitts
burrh ana ali Western and southern
po.nts Mil be 81. 10 on y fwo-ccnt card,
the same a. this years scale. This fig
urc was decided upon finally at y session
Of iAc convention /. Tho Amalgamated
Association In Pittsburgh o. tho 9th.
~ g. estimated tina; ire highwaymcn
who robbed the mall-ear on the North
crn Pacific road ~ New Salem, y. r..
got away with about $1,000 contained
in registered packages. Al last ac-
counts they we're making FOR the Black
Hills. pursued by cavalry and citizens.
Tur class-day exercises at Nassar
College began on the 10th. and the
days programme included the interest
ing ceremony of planting the class tree
on the lawn. The twenty-fifth ami
vcrsary ofthe Institution was celebrated
on the 18th.
4 Carers OF Republican senators,
held on the evening Of the 10th. chose
T. X. Valentine. Of Nebraska. as the
successor Of >ergcant-at-Arms Cana
day. whose resignation, previously ten
dcrcd. takes place on the soth.
THE president Of the senate laid be-
fore that body. on the 10th. a petition
Of the West Africa Steamship Company
or New Orleans. asking an appropria-
ton of S5oO.00o to establish a line of
mail steamers between New Orleans
and tho west coast Of Africa.
Tnr Michigan State soldiers Homo
j. in financial straits. II has developed
tina there is shortage q $4,000. and
the members Of the board OF mana
gers have given their individual notes
10 tide the institution over until the
next meeting
MICHAEL. Co~IiN. a san Francisco
soap-maker, shot. and, Il is believed.
mortaliy wounded lis wife on the 10th.
They have been married. for about seven
years, but We're never happy together.
AMI the shooting was the elimination Of
jealousy and domestic troubles. conlin
surrendered 70 the police.
A COMMITTEE Of New York financicrs
and capitalists visited Washington. on
thc 18th. to urge upon the senate COM
mittec on M necessity OF de-
tending the Mississippi valley from
overflow. They will also have an a.
teryiew with the President on the sub
iect.
The Florida State Democratic con
vention will meet al Ocala. August b.
Ox the llth the Lord Provost and the
Town Council presented Mr. Henry NJ.
Stanley with the freedom Of the city OF
Edinburgh.
Two slight shocks OF earthquake were
felt al san Diego. Cal. on the 18th.
WARRANTS for the arrest OF the
spectators Of the McBridc-Laruc fight.
in san Francisco. in which the former
received injuries resulting in his death.
were issued on the 18th.
The unrestricted sale OF liquor in the
town Of Ellsworth. Me-. during the visit
Of a circus. on the 10th. resulted in a
| disgracefnl riot between local toughs
and the circus people.
CHARLES Cr.AHK.agcd twenty-six. was
drowned at Portsmouth. n. H.. on the
10th. BY the capsizing Of a small ski y.
file leaves . wife and child.
The Reformed Presbyterian Synod.
in session in New York, on the II tn.
voted-i22 to 1--for union with the
| other branches Of the denomination
Hon. Tno>. G. PL>TT was blackballed
by the Harlan IN. I'D Republican Club
on the nth.
The House Of Representatives on the
18th. agreed TO the conference report on
the Senate Pension bill: Yeas, 14j'
nays. 81.