The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| large sums OIL money from MISS SatH-
crime Phillimore and others under false
pretenses.
A HEAVY snowstorm, accompanied
with violent winds, prevailed through
out the northwest. including Montana,
the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin,
on the 18th.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
will not be taken by surprise ii a strike
is declared during the rush of the
Worlds fair traffic. Detectives are
watching the men closely at all points,
and any movement toward general
strike will be promptly reported.
PRINCESS kAIULANI and suite having
attained the object of their visit to
Washington-that of seeing the presi-
dent--the remainder of their time there
is being spent in social affairs and visit
ing the interesting places about the
city.
TIE boycott on the Ann Arbor rail-
road was ordered lifted, on the 18th.
pending n conference with the officials
of the company. who had consented TO
listen to the men.
| ACTING under telegraphic instruc-
tions the indianapolis Ind. police. on
the 18th. arrested a. j. Caffey. said to
be an ex-treasurer of Comanche coun-
ty Tex, charged with being a de-
faulter.
THE Countess Gomar. member of
one Of the old grandee families Of
Spain, narrowly escaped assassination.
on the 14th, Mt the hands of a trusted
man-servant. who. after wounding both
mistress and maid, turned the weapon
upon himself with deadly effect The
countess and her maid may recover.
The court of appeals of Maryland has
decided that tax upon land alone for
the support of the government Of that
state or any part of it, or the govern
ment of any county or municipality in
IT, is not in accordance with the pro-
visions of the state constitution. and
can not. therefore. be enforced.
STABLE, the chairman of the wrecked
Anglo-Australian bank of Melbourne.
has been sentenced to penal servitude
for five years: Norwood. the auditor, to
pen al servitude for two years, and Har-
oldson. the accountant, to six months
imprisonment
THE Colorado state senate. on the
18th, passed bill. which it is thought
will also pass the house and which
the governor is known to favor, sub
stituting life imprisonment for hang
ing as punishment for murder in the
first degree
The Egyptian cotton seed which was
purchased by Secretary Rusk through
the United States consul-gcncral at
Cairo. Egypt, arrived at the depart
ment of agriculture on the 18th.
THE Belgian anti-slavery society has
written an urgent protest against sup
plying arms TO Arab slave trad
ers. England and Germany are held
responsible for the traffic.
OK the 18th the president accepted
the resignation Of w. NJ. Stone. Of
Iowa. commissioner of the general land
office. to take effect on the cath.
A. l.. STuETEvANT died at his home In
Norwich, Conn. on the 14th. lie was
one of the largest manufacturers in
the country. and owned 81. 900, 600 worth
Of property in New York, including the
Sturtevant house.
THE French police arrested in Brus-
sells, on the 18th. two brothers named
Schoupp on suspicion of Matching an
anarchist dynamite plot in connection
with the nortorious French archist,
Matthew.
A STORMY scene in the New York leg.
islature followed the introduction. on
the 18th, of the bill appropriating
$500 600 additional for the Worlds fair,
certain members wanting informa.
ton as 10 what had been done with the
money already appropriated before
voting for any further sum.
The jury appointed by the United
States circuit court on the condcmna.
ton of property between Sixth, Seventh
Walnut and SAMSON streets, Philadcl
pha. for use as a site for the new mint
fled its report, on the 10th. awarding
$3.50, 100 to property holders, and to ten
, an Is s27.o45.
Two HUNDRED villages around thu
city of Warsaw and the town Of Are
chef, Russia, were inundated, on thu
, 10th. by sudden thaw. resulting II
great distress 10 the inhabitants ant
millions of roublcs' damage.
REAR.ApMIRAL IRWIN has been dc
tached from command Of the Mare Is
! land navy yard aud ordered to the com
!, mand of the Asiatic station, relievin,
! Admiral Harmony, who returns HON
, to retire.
! THE steamship Tacoma arrived a
!, Victoria, Is. G.. on the 18th. floating tn
4 yellow flag. There were three cases O
:. smallpox among the Chinese on board
Ir has been decided to name the nes
military post to he established nea
= Essex junction. VT. Fort Ethan Allen
r. in honor of the revolutionary hero VIII
n at one time owned the land where tn
q post is now situated.
q THE secretary Of the interior, on til
,. 10th, accepted the resignation Of Gree
v u. Raum. ms commissioner Of pensions
h and designated Deputy COMMISSIONS
a Andrew Davidson To take charge 4
:. that Office until the appointment b
the president Of Gen. Rsum's successor