The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10

$NAN-Att -0ANt AtAtA ~'0's ~ 1850
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The resignation Of Theodore Roose
Welt as a member of the civil-service
commission was received 1T the execu-
tive mansion on the Soth-
The public debt statement, issued
OIL the lst shows net increase in the
public debt, less cash in the treasury.
during April. Of so 100. s575e. Total
cash IA the treasury, S7s., 44e,3 35.
For using a profane epithet four
times. Mr., John Hoffman. contractor
was, on the 30th. fined s26s-sxty-
seven cents for each timely Alder
man Donovan. Of Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE marriage Of the DUKE of Aosta
to Princess Helene Of Orleans has been
indefinitely postponed, owing 10 an ac-
cident TO the due d'Orleans. brother 10
the prospective bride and head of the
house of Orleans
THE supreme court of Ohio, on the
3Oth. held. in a case from Lucas coun-
", that the owner of building Is not
liable 10 a sub-contractor. II, after pay
ing the contractor said contractor
fail 10 pay the sub-contractor.
A DISPATCH from Yokohama. on the
29th. said the mi&ado was suffering
from the effects Of chill, and thatth.
fetes which were TO have been held in
Kioto. 10 celebrate the victories of Ja
pan, had been postponed in conse-
quence.
THE German marine department has
contracted with the North Germa u
Lloyds and Hamburg American steam
ship companies for the construction OF
ten ocean liners which shall become
armed auxiliary cruisers in the event
Of war.
For the nine months ending March
81 last 1870 $50 immigrants arrived in
the United States. They are known
TO have brought with them in cash
81, ss-, >s6. and il is believed that many
times this amount escaped the scrutiny
Of the officials.
Mrs. MARY BROWN, a monogamian
pepsioner, died. on the 10th, at her
nome 5 niles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow of Joe Brown. a
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born ia lsOi Her husband died
6fty-one years ago.
The Paris Authorize says that seven
teen soldiers have died in the hospital
I Wire from the effects Of eating
tainted canned meat purchased from
an American firm, and that thirty-iour
others were, on the list, seriously III
from the same cause.
THE 800 students at the Ohio Wes-
leyan university. at Delaware, o.. I.
were notified BY President Eashford.
at the annual chapel exercises. on the
evening of the ID. that. beginning
with the opening next fall. no student
will be allowed to attend who persists
n the use of tobacco.
Az outbreak Of the plague at the
naval station at Moi, IN southern Ja-
pan, was reported. on the 3Oth, but the
United States sanitary inspector AT
Yokohama reports that such strict
measures for repression have been
adopted that there is very little dan
ger that the disease will spread.
GREAT BRITAIN Is said 10 be prepar
ing 70 take aggressive measures for
the collection Of the interest on Hon
duras bonds negotiated in England
nearly twenty years ago. the interest
and arrearages upon which amount Il
between 10000 and $4,000. The
proposition is to collect the revenue,
Of Honduras ports until the claim i.
satisfied.
FRAUD orders have been issued I,
the postmasters at 81. Paul. Mimi,
Pittsburgh. Pa, and Chicago. for
bidding the delivery Of any mail ma I
tiers 10 the publishers Collection
Agency" which has Offices all over tn,
country, and has persisted in attempt
ing TO enforce the so-called news
paper laws" in spite of the warnin Z
Of the post ftics'department
THE French foreign Office is frml.
convinced that the United States gov
eminent il secretly supporting Japa Il
anu knAs ItAltl a, >udA tA IA AAt A. 80
sian aud German embassies in Paris
This feeling is causing the frencl
government good deal Of anxiet
concerning the outcome Of the join
protest Of Germany, France and Rus
STA against japanese occupation Of Oh
nese mainland territory.
THE grand jury, which for thre
weeks had been invests eating the dy n
amite explosion horror at Butte
Mont. in which fifty-eight men los
their lives. reported, on the 2gth. tina
it had been unable to fix the respor
sibility. Civil suits for damages aggr,
eating s25O.0OO have been orougi
against the two hardware companis
In Whose warehouses the explosive
we're stored in violation Of law.
A PREAMBLE and resolutions were ii
PRODUCED in the New York state a
sembly On the "a, expressing syn
pathy with the 'Cabans engaged in
struggle 20 throw of the yoke
Spain and establish .heir national i
Dependence and fears that the spa
ish soldiers may repeat the barbarol
atrocities which characterized the W
Of is6s," and calling on the preside
ITO take proper steps TO insure Il