The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-06-09

q. DoANE. Publisher.
JASPER. INDIANA
Mrs. MARY NFvrNs- BLAINE and Dr
". II Bull were quietly married u
New York on the S0th.
on the eth the associated banks O
New York held $25, $50. 92j in excess O
the requirements OF the 25-per-cen'
rule.
GEN. ScnoFrFIp Of the United state
army has asked the secretary Of wa
for an additional number 81 officers Z
assist in guarding the Worlds fai
grounds and buildings.
Fully 1000 men have been throw
out Of employment on the Chicago
Milwaukee & 81 Paul road in the las
few DAYS. These discharges mean
saving OF 1000 day To the company
THE appeal of the prosecution fron
the verdict of the New York preshy
terry acquitting DIR. Briggs Of tn
charges against him was sustained b,
the general assembly, in session a
Washington, on the Slst.
MGR. PERsiCo. heretofore secretar'
TO the sacred congregation Of the pro
paganda. has been promoted to the OF
flee of project OF the sacred congregation
Of indulgences and holy relics, in place
of Cardinal Sepiacci. deceased.
COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS MILNE at Vic
toria. Il. c., has begun paying the
claims of sealing schooner owners. III
has announced officially that Behrini
sea will be closed until the LIST of May
1894. unless her majesty specially
orders otherwise.
A SWIMMING match has been ARA nget
between McCusker, the American
champion. and James Finney. of En-
gland. to swim one mile for Eiu0 and
the championship of the world. Thu
race is to take place at Blacxpool. En-
land, on the 18th.
MRS. JANE BAUMaAgpNER, who's,
funeral occurred from her sons house
in West Bridgewater, Pa. on the Goth
was born on Christmas, 1856. Within
the past wear she made the clothes in
which she was buried. having laid
them away for that occasion. Her mind
was clear to the last.
THERE are big bare spaces in Ma
chinerv hall at the Columbian EXPOSE
tion which will never be filed with
the exhibits for which the allotments
were made. Austria was given 1900
feet and Belgium nearly 10000. but
only an insignificant part of these sec
tions have been filed.
BECAUSE Of the foul condition of the
Nesuvius the navy department has
abandoned the intention of sending
her around from New York To the
mouth of the ST. Lawrence TO convoy
the Spanish caravels. and she has gone
from Charlestown. Mass. To the Ports
mouth navy yard to be docked.
ACCORDING TO advices received at the
state and treasury departments. liz
sealing vessels had left Victoria up &c
the 21th. This. coupled with the fact
that the sealers have so much the start
of the patrol fleet, is causing the adj
ministration considerable uneasineSs as
TO the outcome Of this years work.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has made q
decision repeating a former order con
STRUNG disability not of service ori
gin" so as to limit it to disa bilites pre-
venting the applicant from earning
support by manual labor. 1t is he
lieved this will reduce pension pay
ments from els, 900. 900 to &c, ZOO, 900.
PAUrrs MEYER. a converted jew anc
ex-Russian Talmudist. who asserted
that he was an eyewitness to the terri
bic massacre Of Jews in Russia. ha'
been arrested in Vienna al the Request
of the German supreme tribunal Al
Leipsic, with view 10 his extraditior
to Germany on "a charge at the tim,
not made known.
SEVERAL thousand persons attended
mass meeting in seattle, Wash. OF
the night Of the 18th. TO give public ex
preston of their desire for the enforce
ment Of the Geary law. The GROVE
was enthusiastic, but orderly. Presi
dent Cleveland was condemned in
series of resolutions for interfe rinl
with the carrying out Of the act.
Mrs. CARTER H. HARRISON died a
North Bend @. on the Goth. She marrie'
Carter u. Harrison. the youngest son o
President William Henry Harrison an
uncle TO ex-Prcsident benjamin Harri
son. in 1886, who died in 1889. leaving on
daughter, now the wife of Col ID. w
McClung. at who house Mrs. Harrison
has made her home for the last thirt
years.
1T il learned that the governor {
Angora, in Asintic Turkey, has al
vsed the Turkish government to a,
journ indefinitely the trials Of the Al
mcnians accused Of reasonable cor
spiracy and sedition. or else TO abar
don them entirely and release all tn
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