The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-08-28
CURRENT TOPICS.


the count Of the vote on the PROPOSE
ton 20 limit the working day % nine
hours on the nth. The union has a
membership Of a9.sis. and la.s,5 votes
were east $40 for and $3.50 against
the proposition This lacks So Of the
required two-thirds majority.
Az aeronaut who made his ascent
before an immense crowd al Maccratta.
Italy. on the 10th. fell from his balloon
at a dizzy height into the Adriatic sea
JAMES IiUELEY was arrested at
Bridgcton. Conn. on the nth. charged
with attempting TO bride Alderman
Wood during the recent police troubles
The galvanixing shop Of the Britton
Iron and Steel works AZ Cleveland. o..
were totally destroyed by fire on the
18th. Loss. SO. 600; fully insured.
THE British bank Of Australia at
Melbourne has suspended. The liza
bilities are Ss0o.o00, Of which half Is
held in England.
A CANADIAN steamer has brought
news confirming the reports of great
distress among the people OF Labrador
and the northwest coast of Newfound-
land on account Of grip. diphthcria
and starvation.
ONE of the worst fires that has ever
visited the mines Of Colorado is now in
progress>at the Louisville mine on Iron
Hill. near Leadville. The fire broke
out in the 50o-foot lead as the result Of
The upsetting of lamp, on the 18th,
and Mt last accounts was still raging.
The farmers Of vigo county. Ind.
backed by the Farmers Alliance. are
protesting against the assessment of
Axtell. the $1,000 stallion. at 5000
by the county board Of review, and
have appointed a committee TO 60 to
Indianapolis to ask the state board of
tax commissioners 10 raise the assess
ment-
ANDREW O. OPPNAS. president Of the
Oppman brewing Co. at Cleveland. O..
had an alteration with one Of his hos
tiers. Fred Seigel. on the night Of the
10th. After knocking Seigel down. the
latter said when taken TO the hospital.
Oppman beat him severely. Seigel died
on the 18th. and OppmaD was held un-
der the charge of murder.
The members Of the travelling foreign
committee Of the Chicago Columbian
fair commission. who are at present in
Austria with the object Of bringing to
the attention of the Austrians the adj
van.ages Of exhibiting at the fair, have
met with fiattering success
OK the morning Of the 18th John
Fits. aged 50 years. a well-known Da-
viess county tKy.) farmer. was shot and
instantly killed by neighbor. Norton
lakewood Trouble had existed for a
long time between the two families
ROBERT GLASS. Of jefferson county.
Ind. is losing his entire family with
the dreadful milk disease. Four chill
dren are dead and his wife and last
child Were reported dying on the night
Of the 18th.
ADvIcEs from British Columbia state
that the proposed Peace River 4 Hud-
sons Bay railway is to be built The
road is planned to extend from Port
symptom on the Pacific to Hudson's BAY
connecting there with a line Of steam
ers- This route. IL is claimed. will make
the distance between Europe and Asia
shorter by 1854 miles than the Cana
dian Pacific. and 2.G7G miles shorter
than the Central Pacific and SAN Fran
cisco route.
VIZ. BRIcKrrI- Of New York. has
brought suit against the city Of Balti-
more. Md. for Sl00.co damages for the
alleged infringement of a patent for
| fccd-water heaters for steam fre-cn-
gines invented by him.
| 4 EoAT containing q party - four
artists. slsctching on the Ohio river OPP
,osite Cincinnati. on the 18th. cap
sized near the Kentucky shore and
1 three Of the party were drowned
| THE Damon iron works AZ Boston were
burned on the 18th. Loss. 500. 900:
partially insured. kcndall's machine
works. on the next corner. were also
| burned: loss. $50. 900.
4 ALFRED Sruo~Is. a Peivian senator.
who is large cloth manufacturer at
ve-viers, will be named by the Belgian
government commissioner TO the Chi.
cago exhibition.
BY the sudden collapse Of a stone
bridge over the st. Mark river. in
Hayti. eighty Of the throng 81 persons
watching the raging torrent below,
were drowned.
A FARMER named Anon Tyler. living
near San Mateo. Cal. in a fit Of mao
drunkenness, beat his wife over the head
with pick-handle. and then scriousl,
injured his S-ycar-old son with the same
weapon. The womans skull Is frac
tured and she cannot recover. Th'
boy rnay survive.
POLICEMAN THrRsroy. of Exeter. y
H.. while protecting the foreman ~ ;
bricix-yard from an attack ~ four Ital
ians. On the 10th. received a blow
which fractured his skull. The Ital
ians fled 10 the woods pursued by citi
zcns and police
| CHARLES LAwErScE, ex-assistan
cashier Of the Keystone bank of rhila
dclphia. was. on the 18th. sentenced 4
seven years imprisonment for malin'
false entries and for conspiracy.
THE Cologne Gazette is leading
campaign Of Catholic communities il
, Germany who protest against til
holy coat" exhibition az Trcvcs as
fraud
THE Dablin Trecmans Journal o
| the igs.l Publishes volnminous con
. tributipr .roin tlr. Parneli. in which h
: resumes Ms attack on Mr.. John Dillo
: and tbs ssas~ ~ bis opponents.
Jonx toNwAy. the steamship fire
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