The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-09-04
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Ohio. was elected president OF the Ma
tional League Of Republican clubs al
Milwaukee. on the 2dth. The ballot
resulted in vote Of $40 for him ara
so4 for Charles Ulysses Gordon, of Chr
cago. The league will meet next year
ia Detroit, Mich
TmE Michigan gold democratic state
convention met at Lansing. on the
26th. and nominated full state ticket
headed by Rufus Sprague, OF Green
Vile, for governor.
Tnr annual report of United states
shipping commissioners for the year
ended June 80, 1896, show total snip
ments and discharges OF seamen Tor
American seagoing vessels To have been
I 100 ass. compared with lis, 4s3 for the
previous year.
The death at Atlantic City, \. j. OF
Judge Arthur Macarthur, retired. OF
the District of Columbia supreme
court, aged y years, was announced
on the Goth.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, an old resident OF
Wichita. kas.. fell from the window OF
his room to the pavement, on the Goth,
and was instantly killed. His meek
was broken.
FIFTY Armenians took possession OF
the Ottoman bank at Constantinople,
on the Goth, killing several soldiers.
The Armenians resisted efforts oil
troops To dislodge them. The rioting
became general. 1t was believed To be
the result of a revolutionary plot.
ACCORDING to cablegrams, the steam
er Laurada, which sailed from Phila-
delphia for Cuba August &, landed one
of the most formidable filibustering
expeditions yet shipped to Cuba, and
then touched at Port Antonio, Jamaica.
CAPT T. X. RoEMER, who went To
Cuba to fight for the insurgents, re-
turned TO st. Louis on the Goth. Capt.
Roemer secured three months fur.
Tough from the Cuban army, and with
a few comrades eluded the Spaniards
along the coast and escaped from the
island. Capt Roemer succeeded IN
reaching New York and went direct
to 81. Louis.
The Canadian yacht Canada defeated
the challenger Nencedor at Toledo, O.,
on the Goth. and won the international
race, by % seconds, time allowance,
after as pretty contest as was ever
sailed on AXE Erie 1t was hard
race for the Yankee yacht to lose. for
she had the race well won, but lost by
am error The course was five miles
straightaway to leeward and return
and repeat.
81 !, 80 ~
interior department approved patents
for gss, 200 acres of land to the Union
Pacific Railroad Co. The lard is all in
Nebra ska. being situated in the North
Platte. Grand Island. Bloomington
and McCook land districts. The pat
ents were issued in pursuance of the
resolution of Representative Mondell,
of Wyoming. which provided that
lands should be patented to bond-aided
roads which had been sold TO bona fide
purchasers.
TIE st. Resale hotel at Long
Branch, " j., was destroyed by fire
at three o'clock on the morning of the
eth. Twenty guests were asleep in
the hotel when the fire was discovered
and many of them were forced to
make their escape in their night
clothes. Miss Alberta Underhill, a
guest. jumped from window and
broke her left leg
THE New York Herald heads sub
scription list which IT proposes tc
start in order to pay the expenses OF
Mr.. Henry Watterson in the event OF
his nomination by the sound-money
democrats at the coming indianapolis,
convention. The Herald heads the
list with $1,000.