The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS N BRIEF.


~ the $tn over lO.0O0 herman Amer
can residents Of San Francisco cele
brated the anniversary IL the founding
Of the first German colony In America
| AT the close Of business on The sth
the treasury department had rcdeemcs
SIS. s52, 100 four-and-a-half per cent
bonds, leaving outstanding ~. So, COO
| The collectors from inter nal revcnu>
for july and August aggregated So
l35, lSS, an increase over The correspond
ing months Of last year a s63a. s,7.
| Col SAvAGE. Of POe bio. Col. fell
dead, on the stA, while visiting TIN
Walker art gallery n Liverpool, I'm
gland.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to buy UP al
tho rice mills OF the south and throw
them into = pool. The Standard oil
Co and English capitalists are supposed
- be bchind the enterprise. Between
81, 100000 and Ss,000.000 will be re-
quired- and the working capital will be
! g. 00o. OO0
| TINE will of the late ]. H. Emmett,
the actor. leaves all his real and per
scnal property 10 his son. Joseph Kline
Emmett, Jr-, and the latter's wife,
Daisy May Emmett On the death 81
one the other takes all the property.
The son Is made sole executor.
DURING the progress of funeral nj
Altoona, Ia. ON the 5th. q stampede OF
horses occurred, and when the result
ant panic had subsidized il was found
TINT Edward Drestell had been trampled
TO death and four others fatally injured
Drsox HARRIS. colored, about e years
OF age, was arrested in Topeka, Has,
on the 9Th, for the murder Of Lee An
drews at Durant, Miss, September 10.
Harris does not deny the charge, but
says the killing was accidental.
TIE treasury department has decided
that the Hamburg Phosphate 60. Of
Florida can import mining engine
and . chemist for work connected with
the company.
NEARLY 200 acres of ground in the
northwestern portion Of Carbonate.
Pa, under which Coal Brook colliery of
the Delaware & Hudson Co. Is tun-
neled- are in state of turbulence, and
there is danger Of one Of the most ex-
tensive collapses in the history Of the
coal regions. The 200 mine workers
have been ordered out and the COM
pany is awaiting results The ground
Is heaving like q constant earthquake.
KING KARL |. Of Wurtemburg died
at Stuttgart on the 9th. The heir to
the throne is Prince Wilhelm. who will
be Wilhelm III. lie is nephew Of the |
late king, being the son Of his sister |
and his cousin Frederick.
JUDGE CoFFEY. Of San Francisco, has |
been asked by the public administra-
tor to make his final settlement as ad- |
Of the estate of Mrs. Hop
He states that the es-
tate in California is valued at s.. 00O. 600
and brings in "a rental OF SIS, 200 per
CANros PEDRO. Admiral Jorge
brother-in-law. is en- route To
with important documents.
y Is alleged that grounds exist for
criminal charges against several polit-
cal refugees now stopping at the
American legation in Chill, but that
Minister Egan has never been officially
lotified Of the fact
PROF. JONI l.. LINCOLN. the oldest
instructor and member Of Browns
faculty. at Providence. II. L.. /,
nce 1874. is dying OF Bright's disease
md other organic troubles. i,
DANIEL. the 15-ycar-old son of Rev.
!. L. Chicoat. Of Orbisonia. Pa, fell
rom a hickory tree. on the 9th. a dis
ance OF 80 feet and was instantly
Iilled. Learning Of the fatality his
mother became frenzied with grief and
Is believed her mind is permanently
Undermined.
The Spanish government is nc1oti-
ting treaty Of commerce with Por-
ugal. In tlris connection It is init
mated that no future Spanish treaty
vill contain the favored-nation clause.
GOLD closed at a47 in Buenos Ayres
n the 9Th.
FIVE men were run down, on the
IN, by a train on the Pennsylvania
abroad. AZ a sharp curve inthe Union
unncl. between Pennsylvania avenue
nd Fulton station. baltimore, Nd.
'wo Of them wore instantly killed and
he Others were fatally injured. They
'ere employed as underwriters in the
nnncl.
Dr. Wi.LIAMW. LOCKWOOD, formerly :
Stamford, Conn. was found. on the
forming Of the 9th, choled to death on
road near Berkly. Robbery is sup
osed 10 have been the motive for tile
lurder, as the deceased was thought 10
ave some money. No trace OF the
lurderers could be found. /.
IL a confession made TO newspaper
on the 9TH. nj. +.
roml,our, assistant treasurer OF the J
lister County IN. W savings bank,
lid that THE bank was rotten 20 the
ore. and has been robbed from the
me i was Incorporated forty years
90"
a VALPARAISO dispatch says u "A
vidcnt that there is now a disposition !,
y the part Of the authorities or Chilli 4
, observe the usual courtesies toward z
nited States Minister Egan. Visitors 7
} the legation are no longer troubled Z
Y the police.
The second ecnmcnical Methodist con- =
'rerce began is sessions In Washing 2
IN city on the eth. There were 800 "
lcmbcrs in attendance, representing p
II the various Ira chae ~ tLa Rt.st.. ~