The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-10-25

D
MAYOR STRONG Of New York will go
60 Atlanta. Ga. TO visit the exposition
November 25. or Manhattan day, which
is evacuation day in New York. The
old board will go with him as guard
of honor.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has accepted
the invitation to attend the annual
dinner OF the New York chamber OF
commerce on November Is. He will
deliver the principal address, speaking
on Sound Money"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his fam
ily will go to Woodley. their country
residence, after the return of the pres
ident and his party from the Atlanta
exposition. and remain there until the
cold weather sets in.
STANsBURy, the Australian oarsman.
has accepted the challenge of "Wag
Harding. the English sculler, TO row
a race for the championship Of the
world and $500 side. the contest to
take place on the Thames
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which had been vestigating the case
of Miss Eliza eth Flagler. charged
with killing young colored boy in
Washington last August, voted. on the
18th. to return an indictment against
her.
THE Chickasaw legislature has
finally appointed conference COM
mittee to meet the Dawes commission.
which is regarded as "A .uost important
concession. while ii does not neces-
sarily imply that an agreement will be
reached.
A DISPATCH from Bombay, India. on
the 18th. said: The nutneers in Goa
have refused to accept the amnesty
offered them by the Portuguese Of
ficials. and have looted the treasures
in the city of Goa and wrecked several
buildings
The Spanish minister of marine
cabled to Havana. on the 18th, order
ing the summary punishment Of the
commander of the Spanish dispatch
boat vole Mercante, which was re-
Gently captured and p!undered by a
band OF insurgents.
INQUIRIES at the British foreign of
flee. on the 18th. concerning the truth
Of a report published in the United
States that force of British troops
was marching through Venezuela
ELECTED the reply that the story was
und oubtedly canard.
Col GEO. II. FISHER. who was con
sul-general to Japan by appointment
Of President Lincoln, and to Syria by
President Grants appointment, died
suddenly in Washington. on the night
Of the 18th, OF hear. disease He was
born in Boston in 1924. and served in
the Mexican and civil wars.
FRANKLIN l.. PoPE, an electrician,
formerly connected with the Bell Tel
ephone Co, and a scientific writer OF
some note, was killed by shock from
an electric-lighting apparatus in the
cellar of his house in Great Barring
ton. Mass. on the 18th. Three thou
sand volts entered his body.
THE London Morning Post publishe,
dispatch from Paris, on the 18th
saying that official returns showed
that the number Of Spanish troop
lost in fighting or 10y disease since
the opening OF the campaign in Cubs
is .s97, including a general. twenty
six superior officers and 1870 officers q
lower rank.
The supreme court of the Unite
States convened, on the l4th, for III
October term, ls95. All the survivin
justices were present The death {
Justice Jackson caused slight reai
rangement OF sittings Of the bencl
Justice White taking the deceased ju
tees place at the extreme right OF I'll
chief-justice
PopE LEO has issued decree PR
hibiting Catholics from participatin
in religious congresses, which is cor
sidcred a direct blow TO the policy
Cardinal Gibbons and Arch bishop lr
land, whose liberality in this partic'
lar had won thousands Of frien,
among American Protestants for Il
Catholic church.
IMPROVED in appearance and CIV
IDENTITY in excellent health Preside
Cleveland returned TO Washington, q
the 18th, from his summers vacation
GRAY Gables lie made the trip on II
steam yacht Oneida, enconnterir
some rough weather: while Mrs CIev
land and the children returned by sp
cial train, arriving some hours aft
the president.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT AIKEN,
Ohio, who has been absent from I
treasury department for nearly I,
months and who is now in San Fra
cisco. has been requested to return
Washington and resume his ofiic
duties by the 25th instant In case
Lis failure to promptly comply w
this request "A pretty broad intimati
u given that his services NAV be d
pensed with.