The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-07-12

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OK the ed Judge McComas. II Wash
ingfon. sentenced W W Howgate to
eight wears in the Albany IN. ~ pen
itentiary. four years on each charge OF
forgery and cmbezzlement.
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FAILURES in the United States dur
Ing the week ended the 2>th, as re-
ported nv L. c. Dun & Co. were 25d,
against pa for the same week last year.
In Canada the failures were p, against
81 las, year.
Ir Is said upon the highest author
ity that Mrs. Leland Stanford will
soon 70 Ia Europe 10 sell her jewels
valued al $1,000. 900. TO carry on the
Leland Stanford, Jr., university at
Palo Alto. Cal.
IL speech at Wick Scotland. on
the 4th Ambassador Bayard said that
the secret Of his mission TO Great Brit
ain was that the war of 1872 should be
the last war between the United
States and Great Britain.
ACrlSG SECRETARY OF STATE I'M
left Washington. on the I'd. for six
weeks tour OF Europe. During his abb
sence. Mr. Adee. second assistant sec
rotary. will act a secretary of state in
Secretary Olney's absence.
BEGiSSING on the 9Th. the wages of
The employees OF the Diamond state
Iron Co. OF Wilmington. Del. were
advanced 10 per cent About 700 men
are affected by the increase. The
works are now buster than they have
been for years
GOVERNMENT receipts for the fiscal
year ended on the 3Oth were. in round
numbers. S3l2.500,0 900. against S2T9,
7a2. 0lg for 1884. and s3,5. sla.J2s in
lsqa-3 The expenditures for the year
were $3.50. 900, 900. the deficit being
So. 100000, against sG9, soS.9oo last
year.
JrnGE Ross. Of San Francisco. on
the goth. rendered his decision on the
demurrer in the SIS. 900. 600 suit ofthe gov
eminent against the estate of the late
Senator Leland Stanford as share
holder ~ the Southern Pacific The
verdict was adverse 10 the govern
ment.
A REPORT was current in Montreal,
Can. on the 4th. that the Blackfoot
Indians near Gleichen. Northwest Ter
ritory. are in u very ugly mood and
threaten to kin all the whites on the
reservation The English church mis-
sionary has been compelled TO flee for
his life.
AvGUsT DAENER. who was sent TO
the ionia Mich prison for brntally
whipping "A man who refused 70 pay
him hs wages. was released on the lst.
When he stepped out Of prison he was
met az the door by an attorney. who
informed him that fortune Of $685.
600 was awaiting him
DR RoBERr w. BUCHANAN. the wife
poisoner. was electrocuted in the Sing
Sing n - prison. On the lst, after
every legal expedient had been OK
hausted 10 save his life. or at least TO
secure for him another respite. The
execution was the quickest and most
successful ever witnessed in the prison.
PRESIDENT Hill ~ the Great North
ern Railroad Co. has for some time
been preparing plans for a line n Pa
cifc steamships 10 be established in
connection with that road and 70 be
run iii opposition 10 the Canadian Pa
citic steamship line. II i said that
the new scheme viii he announced at
al early day.
AuoyG the passengers on the steam
ship Empress Of China. which arrived
from the orient at Vancouver. Il. G..
on the 1d. was Hon John W. Foster,
ex-secretarv " state He declined 10
speak Of his mission TO China further
than 70 saw it had been successful and
was concluded. He started immedi.
ately for Washington.
TnE records Of the immigration
bureau show the number OF immi-
grants who arrived in this country
during the fiscal year ended on the
30ih % De approximately 81, 225. de-
crease for the year Of 30. 3O4. OF the
whole number Of arrivals about 2, 500
Were debarred from landing and de-
ported 70 the coasts from whence
they came.
TIE prisoners Gronemever, Thies.
Nestler and Drechow. who were ar
rested in Hamburg in June. 1894, for
counterfciting and forging American
and other notes, were sentenced. at the
conclusion 81 their trial on the 2~th,
as follows. Gronemeyer and Thies 10
eight years imprisonment, Nestler q
four years and Drcchow 70 three
years.
The reports of the operations of the
Ife-saving service, made public on the
1st- show that during the past year
the total number Of disasters To YES.
sells az sea and on the great lakes was
about SOL. OF these abou. 35s were on
the Atlantic and gulf coasts. ITO on the
lakes and IL on the Pacific coast
, Property loss. 81. pa, 900; lives lost. rs
against y, last year.
On the lst Rev. John A. Brooke
severed his connection with the larg,