The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-09-18
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEH.


the 9Th. with 500 delegates present
Thomas Bert. NJ. r.. prominent labo
leader. was chosen president
The freeman's Journal Of Dubli,
says that the wheat crops in West Clar
and other western districts Of Irclans
are owing 70 the recent severe rains
"only ut for litter" The potato bligh,
Is general. one-third OF the CROP beina
aiready gone, while the barley and oats
are rot;ing.
| HARRY TUMDESBAcK and Robert
Saikenburg are tempting fate by en-.
deavoring 10 sail from New York "a
Boston in q fiat-bottomed boat seven
feet long. They left Roclxaway beach
on the afternoon Of the 9th. Both arc
robust young men. expert swimmers,
and have records as lifc-savers at Rock
away and Asbury Park.
MINISTER EeAS. on the 9Th. received
a dispatch from the state department
instructing him 10 treat the Junta de
Gobierno as the government de facto
OF Chill Members Of the provisional
government were much pleased ON be-
ing informed. unofiicially. Of the fact.
AN anti-Semitic crusade Is being
preached by FL Constitutional in q uate-
mala. The Jews are charged with be-
ing largely responsible for q uatemala's
financial trou bic, and the paper in
question winds up with an editorial by
saying: There is q law against dan
gerous foreigners why Is IL not en-
forced against che JeWs?"
DIR. HoIsT, Prussian magistrate.
fell over precipicc. in the Alps. on the
eth. and was killed
PEOPLE at Norristown, Pa. are
alarmed at the rapid spread OF con-
tagious skin disease called italian
itch" occasioncd BY the presence Of q |
minute parasite. transmissible from one
person TO another. The disorder is A.
lecting all classes alike. and the best
families and most refined people are
among the sufferers
The Maryland peach crop has proved
he most remarkable in the history OF
he state. One million three hundred
thousand baskets had passed through
he baltimore market up to the 9th,
md still the supply is tremendous.
The packing houses are working night
md day. but still much Of the crop must
x wasted.
The German authorities have cap
ured eight anarchists at Stuttgart. ,
nd have caused them to be taken TO
'erlin for trial. The spread Of anarch- !
I'M in the German countries Is creating
Q little anxiety. and the officers have
cen requested to make special investi- !.
alton as 10 the extent OF the evil and ).
neither any concerted motive ami :
'ates the anarchists
The interstate exposition opened at :.
oledo, O.. on the eth. Thisis the success
'r Of the old Tri-state Fair association. I
nich had been in existence for twenty I
re- years.
The correspondent at Vienna Of the Y
aris Figaro telegraphs that Austria y
III reply to the Turco-Iussian con-
ntion b. annexing Bosnia To her do n
inions. III
EMIL TREATED. Of Berlin. who lost II
veral million mn rks i'm corn specula- Fl
m In 1859. and recently failed for TO-
marks. committed suicide on the m
The stock OF the Hamburg-Ar aerican I'll
eamship Co has advanced seven XII
ints since the removal of the prohibi-
q on American pork. lT,
The Bosnians and IIerzcgovinians are ~
q 70 be perfectly satisfied with Ans =,
an rule, and would gladly hail the
nplete annexation Of the provinces
the Austrian empire.
iAyoH Brown Of New Castle. Pa. =,
J. y. Leslie, editor OF the Sunday M
iphic Of that city. on the street and ~
ockcd him down for scurrilous pub u
'tion about the mayors pastor, con- u
ned through a period Of ten months. y
the sth ne published confession -.
asked forgiveness Of the people and -
81 the victim Of his wrath. lhaving -
sady asked Gods forgiveness, for ~
sin against the laws Of tie III
imonwealth and city ordinances. He -
scted himself to be duly fined. and N.
ceded Mr. Leslie's right TO proceed Y.
inst him Under the law.
HE correspondent Of the London 81
ndard at Moscow. commenting on oe
demands that come from all points 40
measures to relieve distress. saws Il "a
lain that the distress Is greater and ~
e widespread than was at first sun ~
ed, and that the worst Is yet to s"'
le.
HE prospect Is good for an excellent w
on crop in Egypt str
DIN HENRY WEBSTER. n tough negro. no
shot and killed at Columbus. o.. Tie
lie resisting arrest on the sth. lie oot
drunk and tried TO kill the officer Fir
} was going to arrest him. pic
STRIKE Of the conductors on the
atur division Of the Louisville 4 orr
hville railroad occurred. on tho 9th. sci
ng To the company's declining TO re- ms
ate man who was discharged for III,
lsing 70 take out his train. pal
7 the close Of business. on the Sth. MI
treasury department had extended l
050, 35r four-aud-a-half per cent. wa
DIS and redeemed s99ss. $50. III
nE first carload Of this years raj "a,
was shipped from Fresno. Cal. for
he 9TH, for New York. y.r
AMEs BoyD and J. G. Elsass OF 7
ynesburg. stark county. o.. were for
hyxiatcd Ia q room in the hotel ste
'erson In Toledo on the morning Of NJ,
9Th. Boyd was dead when found. I
ElsasS will probably recover. or
ovis LAt'rI, the German charged L