The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-03-23


TnE weekly statement ~ the Rank
II France. issued on the 18th, showed
an increase of 1850. 900 francs gold aud
a decrease OF ooO.o 900 francs silver.
CHAIRMAN WILSON left GuadalajarE.
Mexico. ON the 18th, for san Antouio.
Tex
Fox the first time In the history Of
the United States a Japanese has APP
piled FOR naturalization papers in i:os-
~. lie is a graduate of the State school
Of south Carolina and the Washington
academy in Maine. and also attended
the Georgetown university AT WASH
ington. lie married an American
woman. The case will be decided on
the aad.
A MITE Of baby is thriving in an
incubator in New York, and though
She weighed scant two pounds when
she was born on February -. on the
18th She tipped the beam Mt five and
one-half pounds and was as fat as "A
butter roll. 80 She promises TO be "A
credit 10 her mechanical foster moth
er. the incu bator. She il the daughter
of f.. Clarence and Florence IL. G..
Haight.
CIuNG Nine SEE. treasurer Of the
company of Chinese merchants which
owned and operated the Chinese thea
ter and village on the Worlds fair
grounds, is locked up in Chicago.
charged with embezzling nearly 500, 900
of the company's funds. lie was arrest
ed by a Chinese detective. Lem Dong.
who brought the alleged embezzler
back from China.
ELEVEN survivors of the company of
800 which left Pittsburgh. Pa. for Cali
fornia during the gold excitement Of
1919 met in that city. on the night Of
the 18th. TO celebrate the fortv-iifth
anniversary OF their departure. After
brief business meeting and the re-
election Of the old officers THE i9ers"
sat down TO an elaborate banquet.
FALSE teeth sold at one cent per set.
gold watches at $3.50 each. and seal
sacques at ~ cents apiece. AT the sale
III unidentified property held by the
lost and found department of the
Worlds fair in Chicago on the 18th.
Other lost goods were sold at equally
low prices. and not over $500 was real
lied by the Exposition managers.
DISPATCHES received at Lisbon. on
the 18th. from Rio dc Janeiro said that
Admiral >aldanha da Cana. with 800
Of the insurgent sailors and marines,
was on board the Portuguese corvette
Nindello. Ii was added that the refu-
n I.
the Mindelio and by the Alfonso de
Albuquerque.
The ravages ~ yellow fever arc
alarming everybody in Rio Janciro.
The number Of deaths amount To sixty
daily. All sorts of rumors are in circu-
lation- One of them is that the Aauida-
ban. one of the vessels seized by de
Nello when he sought to set up n gov
eminent on his own account, has been
found abandoned in southern waters.
CAPT FRANK BRowyEII., who shed
the first southern blood in the war on
Virginia soil. shooting and killing
Jackson who had the moment before
killed Col. Ellsworth, after the latter
had torn down the confederate flag
from JaclSsons hotel in Alexandria.
died in Washington on the 18th.
OS the 18th the Bland seigniorage
silver coinage bill was passed by the
senate by majority of thirteen. the
vote being: AYES. a.; nays. 81. The bill
was passed exactly as received from the
house.
ApvICEs from Miller, -. D.. on the
18TH were 10 the effect that the country
was being swept bv a fearful prairie
fire. which had burned much timber.
two or three schoolhouses and farm
buildings in several places.