The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-10
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


cess of the 25-per-cent rule.
THE marriage of ex-Mayor Hugh j.
Grant, Of New York city. and Miss
julia Murphy. eldest daughter of the
junior United States senator from New
York state. was privately celebrated,
on the 30th. at the home Of the bride S
father in Washington.
JAPAN has released the steamer Iik
Sang which was seized a short time
ago. while carrying munitions of war
consigned TO Tien-Tsin. il having been
proven that the captain and crew of
the ship were ignorant of the contents
OF the cases comprising the vessels
cargo.
By the bursting of reservoir at
Bouzey. France. on the 2,th. 100 human
lives are known TO have been lost and
many others were reported missing.
More than 200 families were left home
less and destitute. The path Of the
food was strewn with wrecks of build
ings and covered with heavy layers OF
mud which made the search for the
bodies Of the victims very difficult
OFFICIALS Of the Indian bureau place
no credence in the late dispatch from
Winnipeg. Man. 10 the effect that
1900 Mount Turtle Chippewa Indians
were about 10 60 on the war path.
O~ the Goth Secretary Hoke Smith
approved list Of lands containing 2l,-
0S3 acres granted 10 the Northern Pa
citic Railroad Co in the Bismarck land
district. North Dakota.
THE Russian war ship Penderaklia,
Of the Black Sea squadron, collided. at
3 o'clock on the morning of the goth.
with the Russian mail steamer kotze-
bu. near Tallinhut lightship. The
kotzebu filled rapidly. Most of the
passengers apd crew were taken
aboard the Penderaklia from the kot-
zebu's decks; Others Were picked up
after she went down. Five men sank
with the ship and were lost
JuDGE FOSTER in the superior court
at Evansville. Ind. on the Goth. made
permanent the temporary restraining
order issued against Henry Rosenthal
ct al, of the Improved Order of
knights of Pythias of the United
States. enjoining them from printing
and distributing the rituals Of the Sc
ceders. they being almost verbatim
copies of the regular order Knights of
Pythias.
Four well-developed cases of small
pox were discovered in Claremont. y.
H.. on the 2sth. three of them being in
one family.
On the 3Oth United States Ambas-
sador Eustis requested NJ. Hanotaux.
French minister OF foreign affairs.
TO Communicate 10 him a copy OF the
evidence upon which ex-Sonsul Waller
was convicted and sentenced 10 twenty
years Imprisonment. VI. Hanotaux
Immediately assured Mr.. Eustis that
he would supply him with the records
Of the court-martial the moment they
arrived.
DIR BUCHANAN. the wife-murderer
whose electrocution at the Sing Sing
N. ~ prison was set for the ist, was
saved for the present by stay Of ex'
ecution secured at the last moment
IosFPH w RIDeEwAY. one Of the
pioneer residents of Wabash. Ind, died
at his home in that city. on the 3oth,
aged 90 lie was born in Green coun-
ty. Pa. and moved to Madison county,
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1883 He was married sixty-fve years
ago. and his wife died two months ago
TIE United States treasury receipts
during the month Of April did not NEE
the expectations of the officials, ant
the indications now are that the defici
at the end of the fiscal year will be lit
tie. If any, less than $4,000. 000-
THE supreme court Of Michigan. OIL
the 30th. ordered a new trial in th'
case of James G.. Clark. who was con
victed in the recorders court at Detroi
Of willfully and fraudulently forg
ing and altering the tabulated election
returns Of Wayne county on the sta.
salaries amendment in lsy2. Clark wa
never sentenced.
TIE steamer A. Everett, Chicago =
Buffalo with $4,000 bushels Of corn
was sunk by the ice in Lake Huron
twenty miles above Point Auxbarques
on the night Of the goth. The ere,
succeeded in escaping from the wrec
and were picked mp by passin
steamer.
THE >ultana Survivors associatio
held its annual reunion at Defiance
o., on the 30th. The officers electe
are: Colonel. :. W. Raude baugh; lier
tenant-colonel. George Stevens: major
A. w. King: adjutant. William Fie'
quartermaster. c. NJ. McGrory. TIL
next reunion will be held at Knoxville
Tenn. April a. 1890.
, The home Of Stanford Kinney, in til
!. country near Atchison, kas., wa
!. burned, on the Both, during the tempo
!. rary absence Of Mr.. and Mrs. Kimlel
!. and their two children, aged 3 year
i and Is months. were cremated. TIL
= origin Of the fire is unknown.
!, CHARLES L. SwADSER and Charles |
:. Iddings. for years proninen Mt attorney
/ OF Dayton, o.. were disbarred by tn
circuit court, on the 30th. for embe
ling sums Of money from clients.
e THE body Of DIR. c. :. Dixon, prom
i, inent citizen Of Ashland. Wis, who WI
. lost in the woods last winter, was foun
i by a searching party on the 30th.
4 A CRUCIAL test OF Carnegie Harvt,
= lied plate armor took place at the Il
E. dian Head proving grounds, on the Is
II in which. after all the required ties
: had been successfully resisted by
: plate i6 feet et1 inches long, fe
Il-l6 inches wide Of tapering THO
ness from Is TO inches, and weighiI
n. 70, 800 pounds, a l3-inch Carpent
g | she'll yeighiny LOO hounds. III