The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-06-16
CURE NT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

II Ills Hittts VA WV AtAAN Va '''> 'T
ropped 10 the floor dead. Mr.. Vcddcr
vas in the southern navy during the
ivil war. and was OH board the Ala
'ama ia her encounter with the Kear-
arge-
Mrs. ELIZABETH CHAIN. a we'll \
nown teacher. who a also identified
'i,n missionary ork has been obiigeo
o leave her p ace as an instructor in
ne WILSON Industrial school for girls
Ne York city. after ten years of
vice, because il is said she Is IL enc
her Of Thecsophical society in P.rook-
lyn.
REV. DIR. JAMES Econ Of the Second
church in Albany, \. ".
In his morning sermon, or the 4th. re-
his allegiance TO the Presby-
terinr denomination because of the de-
cision Of the general assembly in the
Briggs csse.
Ixa osarr~l with his trainer ut the
race track in Vienna, on the 4th,
the Austrian Count Zedenko-kin-
sky. who was on horseback. rode the
trainer down and trampled him. and
then turning his horse repeated the
barbaritv. The trainer was very Sc
riouslv injured. The count was not
arrested.
Tur impression tina: the nolle pros
ing of the eases against ii. {. Prick
and other officials of the Carnegie
Steel Co. at Homestead. Pa. would
carry with it the quashing of the
h. -, - mi S-
take. according To the district attorney,
who says that each case will be dis
posed of regardless of any connection
with the eases against the employers.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT. in his sermon on
the Briggs ease at Plymouth church.
BROOKLYN. ON the 4th. endeavorcd to
prove that DIR. Briggs and not the
general assembly, during the last two
wears. had defended the true Christian
faith: that it was not DIR. Briggs who
was heretical, but that the stand taken
hv the assembly was one which was
the result of infidelity.
The last survey has been made
from Rochester to Wilman. Mimi. q
distance of i3s miles. for a new rail
road intended to secure direct Chi
cago line for fifteen cities Of southern
Minnesota
THE close of the foot race from Her
lin to Vienna. on the 4th. was attended
with evidences of much public interest
though all Of the competitors complain
of the loneliness and monotony of the
| journey.
THERE were severe runs on severa
Chicago savings banks. on the 9Th. but
none OF the national banks were at
I fected.
A JURY having been secured, the tria
of Miss Lizzie Borden for the allegec
murder of her father and step-mothel
! i'm August last was begun at New Bed
ford. Mass. on the 9th. by a forma
statement OF the case upon which tn
prosecution relies for conviction. A
the close of the opening speech cour
was adjourned to allow the jury Z
visit the scene of the tragedy at Fal
River.
IS the second race. on the 9Th. be
tween the prince Of Wales cutter tn
britannia and the lverna. Calluna
Samantha and the Valkyrie. the latte
again won. beating the Britannia
which crossed the line second. by
minutes and 20 seconds. On the 18th
over the same course. the Nalkyri
beat the britannia by l minute.
PAUL TOMBSTONE. the mind-readcr
who. on the 4th. went with party q
five into the Big Wind cave az He
Springs, $. d., to find a pin that ha
been secreted by a member OF the CON
mittee. expecting to be gone twelve O
thirteen hours. had not returned up I
the 9th. and great solicitude for tn
safety of the party was felt.
w. DAYTON was. on the 5th. appoin
ed postmaster Of New York city.
The Kansas Grain 4 Land Co. wit
Offices at Hutchinson. Kas., failed on I'll
) 5th.
BY the arrival at San Francisco. Q
, the 9Th. Of the steamer Gaelic. fro
Hong Kong and Yokohama. via Hon
} lulu. information is received that Mi
, ister Blount has come heartily to a
prove Of the revolution and probab
, justifies nearly all of the acts Of h
predecessor. ex-Minister Stevens.
connection Herewith lie will not r
: store the monarchy, and the possibili
n OF his Recommending annexation is al
y limited at.
4 on the 9th the directors Of Il
5 Whisky trust filed an $4,000, 900 MOI
$ gage with the recorder Of Peoria cou
!. ~, Ill. 1t is whispered that the bono
e to secure which the mortgage was gi
en-. had already been sold at very IL
figure to intimate friends of the dire
;. tors.
e PREPARATION. pccuniary and by APP
n ogy. has been asked Of the departing
e OF state by the British ambassador
n Washington for the action OF the ca
i tain Of night inspectors in New Orlcal
q on May 2. in arrcsting First Mate X.
Il Macli of the steamship Nigrctia a
N locking him up in the city Jail withc
proper cause.
The Russian cxtradition trea
IN which has been the subject Of negot
I. ton between the contracting part
ID for more than six years, which has bt
IS amended again and again, and VIII
w. was threatened with defeat in rs fiji
re stages. has at last been formally p
n. claimed and will henccforth be the
NJ Of the land until il is superseded by