The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-03

THE city OF Dublin In threatened
with a water famine.
A CONFERENCE of the sixteen Meth
odist bishops OF the United states
opened in Milwaukee on h 25th.
TnE secretary Of the navy. on the
a5th. after consultation with the presi-
dent. ordered the detachment from his
command OF Rear-Admiral stanton. in
command Of the United States naval
forces al Rio Janeiro, for having 80 far
forgotten his duty TO "a friendly nation
as to salute the flag of the rebel Adj
miral Mello.
Ir was reported. on the 25th. that Off
GERS were en- route from Arizona with
Uncle Dick Tate, k~entucky's fugi-
tive embezzling treasurer. The prison
er was said 10 be heavily ironed. and
his captors. who caught him so miles
from Yuma. We expecting TO reap
sa5. 900 reward Tor landing him safely
in Kentucky.
Gov HreHFs of Arizona. who is in
Washington on official business, has
concluded negotiations with response
BILE parties for the esta blishment in his
territory Of a large colony Of European
agri~culturists. viticulturists. fruit
growers. silk weavers. cotton spinners
and mechanics.
WHEN Col. X. Bruce Picketts. of
Gettysburg fame, returned from the
war he bought up vast tracts of wild
land in sullivan and Pike counties. Pa
On the 25th he transferred Is. 900 acres
to a Boston syndicate, and thereby be-
comes a millionaire. The original i'm
vestment did not exceed 81. 500.
Gov. MARKHAM of California de-
clined to interfere with the execution
Of DIR. Vincent. sentenced TO he hanged
for wife murder in Fresno on the 27th-
Louis j. SILVA. the trusted cashier
and secretary of the Rainwater-Brad-
ford Hat Co. of St Louis. is q default
er to an extent exceeding $iOo. 600, and
detectives are searching for him. The
Hainwater-Bradford Hat Co. has failed
in business as a result of thissgigantic
enlightenment, and its affairs have been
turned over TO Christopher y. Ellerbee
as assignee.
THE president has approved a joint
resolution providing for the disposition
Of certain personal property and money
now in the hands Of n receiver of the
Mormon church. and authorizing its
application to the charitable purposes
of hat church
REV. SAMUEL w. HADDAwAY. chaplain
of the house of representatives. and
pastor of Marvin chapel, NJ. +. church.
south. in Washington. died at 4o'clock
on the morning of the Goth. Of Bright's
disease.
THE Pacific Mail steamship City of
New York. which sailed from San Fran
cisco on the Goth. vent on the rocks at
Point Bonito in a dense fog, and will
probably be a total wreck.
Hos. THEODORE RUSyoS. American
ambassador to Germany. presented to
Emperor William his credentials as
ambassador on the Goth. The audience
was held behind closed doors.
FREDERICK A. LovEcRAFT. manager
of Palmer's theater in New York and
secretary Of the Coney Island Jockey
club, shot himself twice in the head on
the Goth.
OWING to the falling off in American
orders the mills in Armagh. Ireland.
that weave the superior kinds of dam
ask, are running on short time.
THE national convention of the Wom-
ans Home Missionary society Of the
Methodist Episcopal church opened in
Toledo, O.. on the goth.
PRIME MINISTER DUPUY has threat
ened to resign unless the radical ele-
ment in the French cabinet is elimi-
mated.
on the 26th were 49,. 649.