The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-05
CURR ENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Columbia.
TmE steamer City ~ Rio de Jancirc
arrived AT san Francisco from IN,
orient. on the cath. with Chinese adj
wees up to August ~ and Japanese /,
September 8.
MAJ. liowEN Moons, pension claims
agent at Buffalo. y. ", indicted for
collecting Illegal fees. was. on the
s4th. found guilty ON all five counts OF
the Indictment.
THF committee in charge Of the in
spcction OF the various routes for the
proposed ship canal from Pittsburgh.
Ia. TO Lake Erie. left Pittsburgh. on
the cath. for the performance Of that
duty
TIE rebels. in Brazil, according to
reports received in Montevidco. have
made fur, her advance. Motto Gro>o,
il i said, will soon be in open revolt,
and the san Matco garrison has de-
serted to the rebels after killing its
officers.
ON the cath Ex-premicr Mercier, of
Canada. was reported to be dying in
Montreal His friends and physicians
had given up all hope.
PREMIER CRISP i ready to make any
concession TO the church compatible
with the maintenance of ltaly's SOW
ereignty over every foot of the soil:
but Italy will never concedc the tenn
poral power of the pope.
A FIRE broke out in the Jerome hotel
atCape Nincent.N. Vat . o'clock on the
go L.. -. !,
Of the business part Of the village.
The Jerome hotel. the Hotel Angon-
quin. eight stores. the telegraph office
and the post Office were consumed.
A TERRIBLE waterspout visited the
village Of suchil in the mountains Of
Durango. in Mexico. on the cath The
delugc carried away woodchoppers'
camp of ten families. and all are be-
lieved to have been drowned. \ NUM-
Der Of other cases Of drowning are re-
ported.
SIXTY houses in the city Of Baszki
in the district of kalsh. Rus>ian-Po-
land where cholera j. making fearful
were set on fire. on the night
Of the cath. and destroyed a number
Of inmates Of the houses who were suf-
;ering from the dread disease were
burned to death
The president on the 18th. appointed
cen William Ward Dufiield Of Detroit.
Mich. superintendent of the coast and
ycodctic survey. 70 succeed Prof. i. G.
resigned. The position j.
worth 10000 per annum
1. la. tx. -
'tarted from Brooklyn on her contrac-
or's trial trip. She was provi>ioned for
two weeks trip, in case il was neces-
AIRY to extend the trial for so long
period.
JAPAN is said to be bidding high for
Of war, and European firms
ire undertaking great contracts.
a MURDER Shrouded in mystery was
committed in the very heart of Cleve-
and. o.. some time during the night Of
he cath. James II. Caven. general
freight agent Of the Valley railroad ~.
o.. was shot and killed by some I'M
lnown assassin. Five bullets pierced
ais body. and when found shortly after
ne was dead.
The charge of forgery against Caro-
inc Ellsworth. daughter Of the Mil
saul1ee millionaire. Isaac Ellsworth.
was nolle pressed in Chicago on the
18Th. Miss Ellsworth was charged by
several Chicago merchants with oh
aiming goods 10y forged checks. The
Ease is said to have been settled out
side Of court by the girls father.
TUE brazilian government has given
notice that the reciprocity treaty be-
tween the United States .and Brazil
viii he abrogated by Brazil on .Ianu-
ary | next. 1t is expected that the cx-
ample of Brazil in withdrawing from
the reciprocity treaty with the United
states will be followed by all the other
having similar treaties
SAMUEL +. MoEsE. United states con
at Paris, has sent to the
state department an abstract Of the
official report on the wheat crop in
France for 1894. II is estimated By the
that the crops Of 1894 throughout the
world will be 80 per cent in excess Of
the worlds demands for consumption
and seed
III is reported from Tahiti that Count
Festich de Tolna, who. with his bride.
sailed from san Francisco in October.
last year in a trading vessel bound for
the South seas. is dead The countess
is the daughter Of J H. IIaggin, of san
Francisco,
TIE American Sugar Refining Co.
Sugar trust issued orders. on the 25th.
for the closing dowa of onc-half Of the
under its control. IL is said
the trust purposes 10 curtail produc-
ton and put up prices.
MRS. REBEccA A. CARNEY. widow Of
Thomas Carney second governor OF
Kansas. died at her home in Leaven-
worth. on the s5th. of cancer. She was
&C years old and removed To Lcaven-
worth from Ohio in 1860
JrDor GREEN, of rekin. H., on the
Goth. overruled the motion for change
of venue in the case of the Little mine
rioters. and gave notice to the defense
to prepare for trial. These are the
eases in which John Geher, an cx-
member OF the Illinois legislature. led
mob which committed the murder
and destroyed the coal mine near
Peoria.
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