The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-17

DIR. : G.. Hooker. mayor OF stanford.
Ky, "A prominent business man. com.
mitted suicide, on the sth. by hanging
With a small cotton rope in his meat
house. lie was % years old. "a family.
consisting ~ a widow and two chill
dren. survive him. His enemies had
accused him Of illegally selling whisky
Ia his drug store. and were continually
bounding him.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the sth
said: Unless there Il a decided change
IN the sentiment of Justice Jackson
toward the income-tax law. he will
vote against that law. In that event
the whole section OF the Wil>on-Gor-
man act will be stricken from the
statute BOOKS
Col A. ID. Cross. one of the best
known men in southern Indiana, died
at >helbyvillc, on the evening of the
sth. from "A stroke of paralysis. lie
located in Shelbyville in 1910. moving
from Lexington, Ky, and at the time
OF his death was drawing a pension Of
ST. per month.
j. c. MONAGHAN, United States con-
sui at Chemnitz. Germany. reports to
the department of state that an effort
is being made there to keep foreigners
out of the technical and industrial art
schools. Petitions to that end are be-
ing circulated throughout Saxony.
The covert object is TO keep ont En-
glishmen and Americans
ROBERT II. GOODWIN. assistant cash
Ter of the wrecked bank of Lexington.
Va. was found guilty, on the evening
of the sth. OF having made fraudulent,
entries. and his punishment fixed by
the jury at four years in The state
prison at Richmond.
lr is understood hat Russia will
not make any opposition If Japan aug
ments the war indemnity from China.
This will be a sort Of return for the
abandonment Of the Lao Tung prov
ince.
RI Hon. SIR ROBERT PEEL. ~baronet.
eldest brother OF ex->peaker Peel of
the British house of commons, died in
London, on the 9TH, aged 70 years.
AcTISG SECRETARY or THE TREASURY
CURTIS has decided TO invite proposals
for a temporary public building in
Chicago, To be occupied as local gov
eminent offices pending the construc-
ton of the new pu bile building.
NINE HUNDRED employees in the
wooden and worsted mills Of James
Lee & Son. at Bridgeport, Pa. were
thrown out of employment on the 9th.
Three hundred of the hands struck for
an increase in wages and the firm de-
cided 20 close down the mills. The in
crease demanded was 40 per cent.
SAMUEL AYMER. the defaulting book
keeper Of the National Shoe and
Leather bank Of New York city. who
embezzled $50. 900 belonging to that
institution. pleaded guilty. on the 9th.
before Judge Benedict in the United
States circuit court. and was remanded
for sentence.
JUDGE THOMPSON after listening TO
arguments for four hours in the Cor
don-Brown murder case at Louisville,
Ky, on the 9th. decided that Fulton
Gordon should not be held for trial,
and discharged him.
The Delaware legislature adjourned
sine de. on the 9th, with the sena-
torial deadlock still unbroken.
Speaker McMullen Of the house de-
clared II. A. Dupont elected United
States senator
A DISPATCH from Yokohama. on the
9th, said that 1900 persons died from
cholera in tire Pescadore islands dur
ing the month Of April. The disease,
the dispatch added. was abating.
AT the meeting of the Greek cabinet.
on the eth, the ministers decided to
resign after the public business then
in hand should have been arranged.