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

Ex.-Gov. RoBER. STOCKTON GREEN. O
New Jersey. died in the city Of Eliza
beth, on the 9TH, aged q years.
The due d'Orleans was. on the 9th
pronounced out Of danger. and hi
physicians announced that no furthe
bulletins in regard 10 his conditioI
would be issued.
On the 9th the president offered tn
vacant civil service commissionershir
caused by the resignation Of Theodor
Roosevelt. TO Col. Rice. OF Albany, y
", and il was said that the latte
would accept.
Mrs. MARY Brown. a ~monogamial
pensioner, died. on the 10th, at he
home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn
She was the widow of Joe Brown.
soldier in the revolutionary war, anS
was born in 1904 Her husband dies
nfty-one years ago.
Ir was announced in London, on tn,
9th, upon authority of the Exchang,
Telegraph Co. that the Nicaraguar
government would pay the entir,
amount of the indemnity demanded
by Great Britain at the foreign ofhc,
in London in a few days.
On the 9th Gov. Morton signed thu
Lexow New York city bipartisan po
lice bill and A>semblyman Ainswortb'
bill, prepared by the New York cit,
tenement commission. providing FOL
the construction and supervision ol
New York city tenements.
SCOTLAND YARD detectives. on the
9th. su omitted 4 United States Am
bassador Bayari evidence that Mendal
Howard. now in custody in London a.
a counterfeiter. was fully prepared Il
make and issue spurious United States
greenbacks and postage stam ps-
RALPH X. PAIGE vas paroled by the
Ohio prison board Of managers on the
eth. Under the Ohio law this gives
him the same freedom "a a pardon,
save that he may not leave the stat
and must report TO the state peniten-
tiary authorities once each month.
DESPITE an almost universal belief
10 the contrary. Mr.. Lorrin a. Thurs
ton is still recognized by the state de-
partment as minister from Hawaii.
The diplomatic list for May, an official
issue Of the department. contains his
name with the simple word absent
after it
Ii was stated in Santiago de Cuba,
on the sth. that the revolutionary
chiefs, in interviews. had declared
their opposition TO annexation TO the
United states. They desire the indie
p~endence Of the island under the pro-
lection Of and free trade with the
United States.
The Nicaraguan legation in Wash
ington received a telegram. on the sth,
from the minister OF foreign affairs at
Managua. stating that there was no
foundation for the reports that rioting
had occurred in that city or in any
part Of Nicaragua during the British
occupation Of Corinto.
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The post office department has re-
voked a fraud order, issued in Febru-
AIRY last. against the Hemltic Brother
hood Circle OF Isis, represented by DR..
Phelon. Of Chicago. DR.. Phelon having
agreed not in future 10 send out
through the mails the curative discs
u~hfab r.r the Etrhfn@~ - ~. r~l..
SIMON JACOBS. the retiring city
treasurer Of Butte. Mont. committed
tirement from Office. by shooting him
self through the head. 1t was re-
ported that he was short in his ac-
counts 500 900 or 10000. but there was
no positive information regarding L.
The post Office department has taken
steps to secure and destroy the cou
terfeit postage stamps recently un-
earthed in Chicago. Should a coun-
terfeit Toe discovered in the mail. the
parcel carrying it will be held for
postage and not delivered until the
name and location of the sender are
discovered.
GES. MARTINEZ CAMPos has offered
the American Railroad Co. in Cuba a
monthly payment Of $4,000 in consid-
Grafton Of the company's employing
the idle natives along the route in the
work Of extending their lines of track.
Gen. Campos has also advocated an ex-
tensive improvement of the harbors as
a means Of giving work to the unen-
ployed-
IL a fight between striking furnace
men from the Illinois steel works nj
South Chicago and a large force of
police, on the eth, quite a number
on both sides were more or less seri-
ously injured. though no one was
killed. The strikers we're finally
routed and the immense works Of the
company were taken possession Of and
patroled by the guardians Of the pu b.
lie peace.
The Waubansee club of Chicago
gave a banquet at the Auditorium ho-
tel, on the night Of the {th. for TIN .