The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the 9TH were 222. i16: on the sth
Sunday the paid admissions were
ss.045.
REPRESENTATIVE DooLrrrLE.o of Wash
ington. has introduced a joint resolu-
ton in congress providing for a COM
mission. consisting of three senators
and six representatives. to go over the
entire route of the Nicaragua canal
and make a thorough examination.
with a view of submitting to congress
a comprehensive report Of the existing
conditions and furnishing information
upon which future legislation may be
had
OSthe night of the sth Deputy United
States Marshal f. W. Goodner on re-
turning home from church at st. Paul.
Mimi, was met at his front door by n
burglar. Both fired. but the burglar
was not as good a marksman as the
deputy. and the crook dropped With a
bullet through his stomach. while the
officer was untouched. The burglars
wound will probably be fatal.
A rMo is current in san Francisco
to the effect that the territory of
Lower California has been purchased
from the republic of Mexico bv a syn
dictate Of American and English ca pi-
~talists. who propose to annex the
peninsula to the United States.
The news that the diplomatic corps
bad determined no longer to ignore the
dangerous state Of affairs in Rio de
Janeiro and had decided To land the
naval forces. spread with great rapid
ity through the city and produced al
most frantic JOY in all quarters Of the
panic-stricken place. The marines are
under orders for the protection only Of
persons of their respective nationali-
ties.
THE record of the yellow fever epi-
demic at brunswick. Ga. has disproved
the l~ong-accepted idea that the negro
was practically proof against the at
tacks OF the disease. the greater num-
Der of the cases there being those of
colored people. T~wenty-six of the
twenty-nine new cases reported on
the 9th being of the latter class.
HEEBERT v. Roor. president. in 1859.
of the Travellers Protective association
of the United States. died suddenly in
Wayne. Ind. on the 10th. Of heart
disease. aged 40 years.
The United States steamship Alert.
just returned from Behrfng sea. has
been X out Of commission at Mare
Island, Cal. to undergo repairs.
Mrs. JoHN RoE. living south of Guth-
rie. okla, was attacked. on the 9th.
by a dog and horribly and fatally torn.
Her husband. who attempted to rescue
her. was also severely bitten in n dozen
The fourth race in the contest be-
tween the champion English and
American yachts. the valkyrie and the
for the Americas cup. sailed
On the 18th. over a s0-mile course off
sandy Hook. y. j., Is miles 10 wind
ward or leeward and return. failed for
Of wind. The valkyrie led at the
but was soon overhauled by the
Yankee craft, which was well in the
cad when the race was abandoned.
Miss CLARA BARTON. presidentofth the
National Red Cross association. has is
'ued a second appeal in behalf Of the
sufferers from the great storm on the f.
o~utheastern coast She says there
Will be 20, o people to feed daily and
'lothe for eight months. and c.o0o cab
ms 10 rebuild. else the world will ring
With the humiiiating announcement
hat anime exists in America. (,
HENRY WuIrE. secretary of the (,
Jnited States embassy IN London. (,
for New York. on the nth. on 4,
he steamer Teutonic. on a leave Of !
lbsence for several weeks MANY .
werT at che Euston station -
good-by to him and his family. 4