The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-09


MxE- EoVrA~cFn. widow ~ Gen.
Bculanger. who j. residing AZ Yer
/ sailles on being informed OF her hnS-
hands suicide AZ Erusse.s, fainte,i.
Since then she has heen in q state oi
deepest detection. AMI is apparently
overcome with grief.
rRoF. RESFEo. white teacher o. q
coiorsd normal school az Huntsville.
Ala. attempted. ON the LIST. 20 chastisc
Ehenezer Kahn. a eolorcd pupil. Kahn
seized . three-inch steel chi>el and i'm
bcdded IL in Rcnfro's brain. killing
him
THE comptroller Of the currency is
sued statement. on the LIST. showing
that on that date. the total amount of
national bank notes outstanding aggre-
gated Si7l.st7.sIs. a decrease for the
month Of September Of SG.9i..1s9
EIGHT miners were killed nj the
Ahorgwn6 colliery, near Bridgend.
Wales, on the ist, BY the over-winding
Of the pit gear.
a SOLDIERS monument was unveiled
az Pott>ville. Pa. ON the Isl. in the
presence of a vast assemblage.
CAPT. CHARLES II. WAHRESs. Four
teenth infantry. has been placed on the
retired list Of the army
The strike II miners in the Pitts
b1rgh Pa.l district is more general
than was expected. Ten thousand
miners are idle. and work At all the
railroad mines has ceased
The adhesion Of the AuStraiasinn
colonies 10 the universal postal union.
which has been for years anxiously
sought by the commercial nations Of
the world went into effect on the LIST
HoS. HARVEY NJ. wArrERsoS died in
Louisville ny. on the night Of the
ist- He was born in Bedford county.
Tenn. November %. ISL In 1889 he
succeeded James X. Polk in the TWEEN
ty-sixth congress and was the only sur
wing member Of that body. He served
in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty
eighth congresses, and in 1888 was sent
by President Tyler To South America
on an important diplomatic mission. lie
declined Office at the hands Of Presi-
dents Pierce. buchanan and johnson.
lie was a strong Union man during the
late war
THE city Of Halifax. ~ s., was re-
ported on the morning Of the I'd. to be
in the embrace Of a mighty confiagra-
ton which threatened the destruction
81 the city and all the shipping in the
docks. A hundred casks Of kerosene
stored in one % the warehouses on the
docks added largely to the spread Of the
fire among the shipping.
THE fifth annual Corn-Palace festival
opened M Sioux City. Ia. on the list.
with great ceremony. The weather
was not OF the best. but nevertheless
the city was thronged with people. The
Mexican National band is there. and
will give two concerts daily during the
carnival
while home at noon. on the 1st. acct
dentally shot and instantly killed him.
self He was in the back yard shooting
sparrows with target rife. when tie
gun was caught somewhere in his cloth
Ing and the load was discharged through
his heart
THE condition Of the cotton crop for
the seven days ended the lst was some
what improved. in most sections, over
the preceding week. though in parts OF
Arkansas and South Carolina the situa-
ton was more gloomy than a. any time
this season Nearly all reports esti-
mate quite falling on from the yield
Of last year.
SIR JoHS THOMPSON. minister Of jus
tice. and Hon c. f. Foster. minister Of
cnstoms- will represent the Dominion
At the reciprocity confer
ence 70 be held at Washington on the
18th inst