The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
PERSONAL ANo GENERAL.

MIS-. DELL RArmRux. wealth
widow Of Buffalo. n. ~. has nystcr
ously disappeared from Chica 70. wher
she was visiting friends
| IN view Of the failure Of the Tenncs
see Legislature 70 settle the convic
question serious trouble Is feared a
| Briccville.
| Mrs. ELIZABETH BORDEN RIpDi.r. :,
descendant " distinguished family
died IN Philadelphia. on the 10th, are.
" years
Six sailors Of the schooner Winches
ter. charged with mutiny on the hirl
seas, We're arranged before Commits
sioner Halle. Of Boston. on the I'D. and
held IN $500 each for the United States
district court.
vorcHkE for So. &a in favor 81
Phwbe Couzins for salary from April
70 April IS as secretary Of the board
Of lady managers ~ the Norlds
fair exposition was received nj the
treasury department on the 2ist Ii
was approved by Bertha II. NJ Palmer
as president of the board OF lady mana
gers This voucher will be paid and
will close Miss Couzins' connection with
the Worlds fair
The treasury department has pre-
pared statement which shows that
the customs receipts at the port OF New
York for the first nineteen days Of Sep
TENDER, 1891, have fallen of nearly So
0oo,O00 as compared with the corre-
spending days Of September, 1890. The
Int.
riod Of September. 1891. named aggrc-
gated ~, 53i.7s7.
PREPARATIONS for the great ecumen-
ical conference Of Methodism. which is
TO open in Washington. October :. are
approaching completion. and all indica-
tons point To the greatest gathering Of
religious brain-force ever seen in this or
any other country.
SAMUEL THORNTON and Eva Jewell
disappeared August 20 from coney
Island beach and were mourned as
drowned. A Telegram from Jackson
vile, Fla. on the 2lst states they are
there safe and asked money on which
TO return home. IL was thought posi-
BILE that the message was the scheme Of
some designing person 70 make raise
on the alst Ex-Congressman W. c.
Whitthorne Of the Seventh Tennessee
district died at his home in Columbia,
Temp. aged Gd years Mr. Whitthorne
had been in bad health for several
years
ALLERToS went another mile in 2:09i.
At Independence. Ia. on the alst. thus
putting an end to all disputes as to the
stallion championship. The quarters
were rated at 1914. i:o4lzs. l:s7i 4. 2:0ai4.
FRED kANMERER. wife murderer
overcome with remorse and goaded on
by the certainty that he would be
hanged. took his own life in the county
Jail 1T Cleveland. O.. on the 2lst
THE crisis in the Italian cabinet is in |
'reasing in consequence Of difference
4 opinion in the ministry. on levylng |
rcsh taxes made necessary by the in
'reased cost of the army and navy.
Miss ELIZA BUTLER. the youngest
laughter Of United States senator M. |
). Butler. Of South Carolina. died Of |
nervous prostration at the Highlands,
n North Carolina. on the aist after a !
cry short illness.
WILLIAM s. HIceIxs. who caused the
eath Of Aunt Title" Hunter. I'm aged
Iegress. by setting her clothes on fire
With lighted match in Milwaukee
aloon. September. IL, was, on the I'D.
ED for murder.
The banking fraternity Of London
as been startled by the announcement.
iade public on the 2ls.. that the Lon
on x Westminster bank had been
obbed Of a large parcel Of bills re-
iitted from country banks. aggregate
~ over million dollars No clew to
be thieves
TnE trial Of the IIopkins-Scnrlcs
ill case was begun a. salem. Mass.
a the 2ad. All OF the contestants were
resent personally or represented by
istinguished counsel
The correspondent Of the London
tandard at ST Petersburg SAYS that
ie Russian government has accepted
~ a. the price for the new loan Of
;, 0co. 600 rublcs.
a FALSE report that Carl Schurz had
cen bequeathed $1,000. 900 on the
cath Of his mother. was promptly de-
led by Mr.. Schurz- His mother died
fteen years ago. I,
TnE 81 Paul tNiinn., schools have
cen closed on accountof the excessive
rat L,
THREE men committed suicide in the
lcvelandl %. Jail within week recent
I.
JAMES III. MFAD. well-lsnown
anlser OF Shehoygan. Wis. fell dead
ON heart disease while walking on
lc street on the I'D.
THr hank Of England shipped $780,
" in gold to the L nited States on the
III.
Ma NJ. NJ. EsTEE. Of San Francisco.
no was the chairman or the Chicago ,
invention which nominated Gen. IIar-
son for the presidency. aud subsc-
nently one Of the delcyatcs on the ,
irt Of the United states 10 the PAN .
incrican congress: who is u lawyer IL /,
and IL some respects the
'remost republican on the Pacific
'ast. j. 70 be given place in the cab-
4.
THnEE boys. ranging in age from II /
! II years. were killed at the Chicago
eek yards. on the I'D. while stealing
ride on a Pittsburgh. Fort Wnvn.. a. 4 .