The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-17
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

have got through chasing him.
THOMAS brennan, alias Thoma.
Dale. one Of the persons charged with
stealing the eighty-six-pound silver
brick and some precious tones from
the Idaho exhibit AT the Worlds fair,
was arrested in Chicago. on the 9th. to-
gcther with John Burgess, accused OF
being an accessory.
HERR MEISs>ER. a notorious pam.
phleteer from Berlin. was found dead
on the plain near Jafa. Palestine, on
the sth. His body had been torn by
jaclSals. Near him lay an empty bot
tie. from which he is supposed 10 have
taken a dose Of poison
On the 9th a ~riotous mob of tramway
employees in Marseisles assaulted their
non-union successors, overturned a
mum her Of ears and. pouring petroleum
over them. set them on fire.
The WOODEN and cotton mills of the
Winthrop Mills Co. of Winthrop. Me.
resumed operations on the 9th. after "A
suspension of over two months.
THE king OF Ashantee. West Africa.
was stoned u death recently by insur-
gents in the streets of Coomassie. his
capital.
Ir j. proposed to make state monop-
oily of tobacco in Russia.
THE case of Eva Mann Hamilton VS.
the estate of Robert Ray Hamilton has
been placed on the New York supreme
court calendar for the present term.
and will come up for trial early in the
arr.. This : sS sha ntnan1 shat Era
Mann took from the surrogate's de
cision which denied her the right To
contest the will of Robert Ray Hamil-
ton, and which also denied her status
as "A widow.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SMITH
has appointed William V. Reppert, of
Liberty. Ky. a mem her OF the board of
pension appeals. The other members
of the board are: Orson IL. Gilmore. of
Illinois; John A. Lacey, of Missouri:
John ;. Payne. of Tennessee: John C..
McAllister, of Pennsylvania: Robert T..
Hill. Of Michigan; T. J. Rogers. of New
York. and Herbert |. Bracket. of Wis
consin-
JrDGE JOHNSON, at Milwaukee. on
the 9th, decided that the indictments
found by the late grand jury against
Eugene 5. Elliott and +. w. Noyes, di-
rectors Of the Plankinton bank. were
invalid. because the grand jury re-
turned them at the October term of the
municipal court. whereas the grand
jury's term had expired with the sep
tember term, for which it was called.
Mrs. OLLIE NYE. wife Of a carpenter.
was instantly killed at the outskirts
of Terre Hautc. Ind. on the 9th. by a
passenger train on the Logansport di-
vision of the Vandalia. she did not
heed the whistle or bell and seemed to
be unconscious of her danger.
ALTHOUGH congress amended the
Gearv act so as to allow the Chinese six
months more within which To register,
1t adjourned without making an appro-
priation TO carry out the provisions of
the act.
THE report hat the steamer Costa
Rica was fired upon by the Honduras
authorities was confirmed at the state
department on the eth. a dispatch
was received from Minister Baker i'm
which the details of the outrage were
briefly given. The department is not
likely to take action in the matter un-
til a more detailed report is made by
Mr.. Fuller.
THE collection Of antique Irish metal
work from the Royal Irish academy.
Dublin, exhibited at the Worlds fair,
has been loaned to the Smithsonian in
s%titute, and will soon be shipped to
Washington.
OS the sth Judge Morrow. Of San
Francisco. took under advisement "A
motion to liberate fourteen Chinese
confined in the county Jail and await
ing deportation as provided for by the
Geary act.
WA. n. MoFF. Of Bloomington. Ind.
has been appointed supervisor of In
dian schools.
GEN. RrcGLEs. the newly-appointed
adjutant-general Of the army. has been
an assistant Acknowledgement for the
past eighteen months. having accom-
panied Gen. Williams. just retired. from
New York. He Is a graduate of the
class Of 1855. West Point, and before the
var saw frontier duty in Minnesota
and Montana
The treasury department, on the
9Th, had an actual working balance
not to exceed g. 900. IL this be-
comes exhausted the department will
rave TO meet current obligations from
the gold reserve. The treasury officials.
however, hope for better times. and
hope that further loss will be stopped.
julius FEoEBEL, the wcll-know n
Swiss writer and statesman. died in
Zurich on the 18th. lie was a nephew
OF DIR. Frocbel. the founder of the kin.
dcrgarten system.
DIrTNAR's dynamite factory at Bay
chester, y. ", blew up on the 7th.
The building, a large. low, frame
structure, was completely demolished
If the struggle in Morocco Is pro
longed Spain will declare war on tho
sultan and make the affair on the Riff
fan coast a secondary consideration.
THE latest details concerning tn.
terrible disaster at Santander show
that the number Of dead, missing ant
wounded j. fully 1000.
By "A collision in a dense fog between
the Western Transit Co.'S steamer
Albany and the Anchor Line stcame,