The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-09-20

MRs. CLARA MCABTHUR, the woman
who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge,
before daylight on the morning OF the
9TH, was fined S. in the Tombs police
court, New York City, on the 9th.
Huxpnrps of thousands of specta.
tors lined the streets OF Louisville.
Ky. on tre 18th, to witness the pa
rade. $4,000 strong, of the Union vet
Grams in attendance upon the national
encampment
The new English battlcship Males
tic started on her trial trip. on the 9th.
but ran aground on the sands mt Spit
head She was floated at high tide
hut further trial was postponed un-
ill her hull could be examined.
A DISPATCH 10 London news agency
from Rustchuk. on the nth. said that
twenty arrests had been made OF per-
sons implicated in or suspected OF be-
ing connected with plot TO take the
life of Prince Ferdinand Of Bulgaria.
THE annual reunion OF the Latter
Day Saints Of the Decatur, pes Moines,
Eastern Iowa. Northern Illinois, ke-
vance and Nauvoo districts COM
menced at Bluff park, opposite Nau-
700, H.. on the 9th. 10 continue ten
days
ApvIcEs from Havana, on the 10th,
stated that. according TO rumor, Gen.
Campos had sent an ultimatum TO
Spain, demanding that the govern
ment send him forthwith 100, 600 addi-
tional troops or grant Cuba separate
government
A GREAT radical liberal organization.
known as the Constitutional Reform.
club. organized TO cont bat the gowing
power and prestige of the Catholic
clergy and TO defend the public
schools. is rapidly extending its MEM
bership in Mexico.
DIR EDWARD Ii. BuRNErrH. of New
York. was reported. on the 9th, to be
dying of cancer. contracted while
treating a female patient. The case is
the first of the kind in the history of
medicine, and seems to prove conclu-
sively that cancer is contagious.
THE Morgan Belmont bond syndi-
cate came to the aid Of the treasury
gold reserve again, on the 18th, with
81, 600, 900 Of the yellow metal which
they exchanged for greenbacks, max
ing in all Sl4, 900, 600 gold turned in in
excess Of the requirements of their
contract.
The Canadian government was noti-
fed on the 18th. of tine seizure by a
United states cutter in Behring sea of
the Canadian sealing schooner Be
atrice, which was sent back to Vic
toria The offense was failure to keep
q record of the number Of seals and
the location of capture.
ALL hope of rescuing alive the fire.
imprisoned miners in the Osceola copper
mine at Houghton. Mich. was aban-
doned, on the 9th. and the mine was
Theoretically sealed for the purpose of
smothering the fire. Twenty-nine me n
were known to be entombed. all but
one Of whom were heads Of families
HEIRS to the celebrated Leake estate
who reside in Missouri. Kentucky. on
the Pacific coast and elsewhere in the
west, with heirs in New York. intend
making a claim to the estate. great
part of which is located in New York.
and the value Of which is variously es'
timated at from 10000. 900 to $500, ooo.-
600.
AT Louisville, Ky, on the 18th, Gen.
l. \. Walker, of Indiana, was nom
mated by his only competitor, Gen
Thayer. OF Nebraska. and unanimously
elected commander-in-chi OF the
Grand Army OF the Republic St Paul
MINI. was unanimously selected a
the place for holding the next nationa
encampment.
The second race Of the international
series for the Americas cup was sailed
over triangular course off Sand,
Hook. y. j.. on the 10th. Valkyrie nom
inally winning by forty-seven seconds
As the English yacht fouled the Amer
lean at the start and crippled her tn
result is subject 10 revision by TIN
racing committee.
THE eighth constitutional conven
tion OF the state Of South Carolina me
in Columbia on the 10th The princ
pal business before the convention
the regulation of the suffrage so as
disfranchise as many negroes as poss
BILE without DISTINGUISHING singl
white man, except for crime an
maintaining white supremacy.
The regatta committee of the Ne
York Yacht club, after hearing II
statements of all parties in intere'
and a large number Of witnesses OF Il
fouling OF the Defender by Valkyri
IN the second race for the America
cup, awarded the race 10 tho Defen
er. Isprd Dunraven accepted the d
cision, and proceeded TO get his vac
IN trim for the third race.
HAVING received no reply from Z
regatta committee Of the New Yo
Yacht club To his protest again
the proposed course marked out
the third OF the series Of Amcrici
cup championship races, on the IL,
Lord Dunraven refused TO sail Walk