The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-09-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
TEE NEWS IN BRIEF.


with such skill and which manage -
maintain themselves under such mani
fest disadvantage. VAL sooner or
later conquer for themselves al the
rights which they seek unless some ~
the rights are quickly conceded 10
them
Hos. MATT W. RANSOM arrived IN
on the 18th. and bright
and early next morning appeared al
the state department where he took
tine oath ~ Office before notary pub
lie 20 enable him 20 reassume The du-
ties Of tie Mexican mission
o~ the 18th. Deputy sheriff sloan. of
Buffalo. ~ u. seized train of sugar
from Chicago. bound for the seaboard.
To satisfy = claim held by the Ameri-
can Exchange bank of Buffalo for
500 agains, the Chicago Sugar Co
The cars contained 100. 900 pounds 81
sugar.
A FIRE. which broke out al Hans
bnrv-> wharf. BlaeStriars. London on
the night Of the sith. burned fiercely
al night. destroying the granary and
the storage for oil. sugar and combus-
tible~- The damage amounted to
xl0c.UOa
The petition Of James Peralta Reavi>.
held as a prisoner in default of 5000
bonds. for his connection with the
Peralta land-grant fraud. seeking re
lease on a writ of habeas corpus. has
been denied by the court al Santa Re.
y NJ
UNITED STATES SENATOR WHITE. OF
California. says that Labor Commits
sioner Fitzgerald. of san Francisco.
has asked him 10 introduce in congress
bin similar 70 the Chinese exclusion
act which shall exclude japanese SEN
ator White has promised 20 DO 80 if
Fitzgerald will furnish the data TO
prove that japanese are seriously in
iuring American labor
GES. ALEXANDER VI. >rorr died of
old age at the Presby terrain hospital
in Chicago on the e>th- Gen Stout
was a native OF shelby county. XIV.
where he was born January :. l-90- lie
was the first commander OF the Seven
teench Kentucky volunteers
ONLY a mass Of blackened timbers
and ashes mark the site Of the arena
Of the Columbian Athletic club at
Robv. Ind The structure. which has
been the scene OF numerous prize
fights. was destroyed by fire on the
night az the a5th-
PRESIDENT FAUEE- who Is AZ presen.
stopping al his residence in Havre.
gave z reception. on the 2cth. TO Adj
miral Kirkland Of the United States
navy: number Of officers of the
United States steamship San Francis
CO. then in that harbor. and Mr.. Chan
.elior. the American consul
~cnE excitement was occasioned. on
the es,h. hy an alarm of fire in the
treasury department in Washington
IL did not. however. develop into any
thing serious. and was confined IN the
stationery department Of the building
CoUNcELxES HALEY AID CASFIELD. Of
New Orleans. convicted OF proposing To
receive a bribe- were. on the 10th, SEN
fenced to eight months each in the
state prison
CARIBBEAN received a. the state
department. on the e5th. from Minister
o.
that an agreement Of peace had been
signed b. the federal government OF
Brazil and the Rio Grande do Sui rev
olufionists.
The naval estimates of the British
government provide -. 3l3.s+2 for ths
construction az ships and E-S0.0ro fol
ornaments The number % men pro
vsded for is =. 80. which is an increase
Of :. $40 over the estimate Of last year
THIRTY anarchists who were az
rested in Paris on suspicion OF connec
tion with the explosion Of the inferna
machine BY which VI Jacobsky. tins
confidential clerk OF Baron Alphonss
de RothschiId- was badly injured
were released on the 2Sth. for want 0
evidence
THE convent Of Ribordaine- a villag
in the province Of Turin. Italy. wa
\ partially DESTROYED by fire on the a-tn
( Eight women persisted and four other
were severely injured
OK the Goth the Madrid Dia asserte
that the Spanish government ha
aha ndoned the intention 10 send $500
soldiers TO Cuba in October
DIX SSERDscHER and two guides fel
over precipice while ascending Nor
Blanc. in the Swiss Alps on the 2ttl
and all three were killed.
The coronerrs Jury investigating h
murder Of Mrs Reynolds ami her thr,
children AZ Mansfield. England. {
August IL. returned verdict. on Il
g-th. Of willful murder against Hem
Wright. a lodger in the Reynol'
house. Wright stabbed the woms
and the three children set fire 70 u
|. house and unsuccessfully attempted
!. comm. suicide
! THE yield from general taxation
| spain for July shows a decrease
3.5-e. 500 pesetas. As compared with &
. month Of july. 1885,
! QUEEN NicToRTA. accompanied
Princess Beatrice. left Osborne nous
on the --th. for Balmorai.
! THE American Ear association ca
! vened IN eighteenth annual session
= Detroit. Mich. on the 3.th-
n The coroner and the police Of
n dianapolis. Ind. went 10 Irvington,
q the 2-th. to get together all the
= mains Of the body ~ Howard Pietz
y and ~ collect the mass ~ evider
r. developing there against H. H. Holm
,O Later the coroner bcgan the takin 2
testimony in the case
HErr0LYrE EANNAS. the dramafi
n. s.rrutnffsasi ~uts.ida IA Paris On