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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-09-04
Madison Township Trustee
Notice.

Notice u given that hereafter the Trus-
Gee Of Madison township Will be at the
store room Of Mr. John p. Norman. in
Ireland On every Saturday, for the pur-
sose Of attending To township business,
Int All persons having business with the
sgwuzhfp are expected To confne It to
rnnse DAYS
The township library is kept Mt Isaac
4lexanfer'z in Ireland, where all may
obtain the books
The Indiana school books will be
scunt az Norman 4 Grz-'s store at al.
times JoHS T. NORMAN,
Azx. rs. y5-y Trustee Madison Tp.
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Daily and Weekly Sentinel

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For Congressman. srd District.
WILLIAM +. ZESOR.

For Congressman, Srd District,
WILLIAM T. ZESOR.
For Representative of Dubois and Martin
FRANK PINNICk.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOR Treasurer, EDWARD A. BOHNERT.
For Sheriff. HENRY CASSIDY.
For Coroner, ORvILLE A. BIGHAM.
For Surveyor, WILLIAM T. YOUNG.
For Commissioner, I'd District,
JOSEPH SCHROEDER
For Commissioner, Sd District,
JOSEPH FRITZ.
For County Assessor. WIN. II. KUPER.
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SPECIAL MEETING OF the TOWN
BOARD.
Electric Light Proposal. Eighth Street
Ordered Improved.

The Jasper Trustees were called
in special session Tuesday night
last, and all the members and sew
eral citizens attended.
The first business attended to was
to consider petition of Phillip
billy, Ed. A. Bohnert and others,
comprising more than two-thirds OF
the real estate owners on Sth street
from the East line Of the original
town to the East line OF the present
corporate limits, in McCrillus addi-
ton, praying for the grading Of that
part OF 9Th street. The prayer was
granted, and an advertisement for
propo sails for grading will be found
in another place in this paper.
Next Mr.. Bretz presented the fol-
lowing petition on behalf Of the JAS
per Electric Light Company;
To THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE Town
OF JASPER;
We the undersigned. persons who eonsfi'
tute the Jasper Electric Light Co.. respect
fully petition your honorable body for the
right OF way and the privilege to erect and
maintain posts, poles, wires masts skei-
eton towers and other appliances and struc'
lures necessary to the maintainance OF an
Electric Light plant, in the streets, alleys
and other public places in said town. for the
term of twenty hve years for the purpose OF
supplying said town and the inhabitants
thereof with electric lights. We further ask
that contract be awarded to us for lighting
the streets, alleys and other public places
OF said town.or SO much thereof AS the board
may see proper to light, for term OF ten
years, with the understanding however. thai
the towa is to have the right to purchase
said plant at any time after years from the
date said plant Is put in operation and dur
ing said ten years. at actual nrst cost Thereon
plus the first cost of any and all extensions
and improvements thereto. We agree in
case this proposition is accepted. that We
will furnish the said town with either Arc or
Incandescent lights in such numbers AS said
town may desire, II Arc lights not less than
ten. however, and IL Incandescent not less
than ", at the following prices per month.
all lights to be run on moon light schedule
time and not later than till eleven O'Clock at
night
A 1000 Candle power Arc light at - per
month.
Asa Candle power Incandescent light at
81 Is per month.
JOHN L. BRETT.
JOHN GRAMELsPAcHER,
JOHN +. sALB,
FRANK JOSEPH
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Pension Increased.

Huron, S. D., Dec. l5.-G. c.. Smaller.
living near Virgil and one of the most
deserving old soldiers in this section,
has been advised that his pension has
been increased to SIT per month. Mr..
Schaller is in very poor health.
Odd Fellows and their wives to he
umbe OF $50 or more enjoyed a supper
and sociable in Odd Fellows Saturday
night which vas a very enjoyable af-
fair.
Word a been received here from
Pittsburg denying the report that Will
j. Mcconnell who lectured on temper
ance in this state during the campaign
mad died from an overdose of morphine.
He was taken very sick from the effects
of the drug while attending the trial of
the murderer of his son. but will o
be Well again.
Charles Sherwood, son % Mrs. Mary
Sherwood of this city, died in st. Paul
a few days since. He was known to
many Sioux City people, having been
employed as q bookkeeper there d few
years since.
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= DROPPED FROM THE WIRE.

Thomas Leavell, who was shot by Cliff
Garrett at Kennedy, Tenn, has died of
his Wounds.
Will Perry, who killed Leo Mclean at
Indianapolis, Ind, has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
The home of Mrs. Charlotte Shellnut at
Walnut Grove. Ga, was destroyed by fire
and she persisted i'll the flames
Charles Meyer, a German carpenter,
who fell from a scaffold at st. Louis, died
from his injuries at the city hospital.
Ross, the 16-year-old son of P. 7. Bryan,
treasurer of Lebanon, Ind, was Fatally
hurt by jumping from a Vandalia freight
at Brazil. Ind.
Robbers broke into ]. Bourland's store
at South Alcester, i. T., killed Night
Waterman Mcdonald, and breaking open
The safe got 4 large amount Of cash.
George Bryan of Elm Springs. Ark. set
fire to a fuse in a well, and before he
reached the top of the well the blast ex-
ploded Blowing his body to pieces.
Mrs. Scantlin and daughter were held up
by highwaymen at Evansville, Ind. The
police have arrested several on suspicion,
two of whom confessed.
While workmen were digging a ditch at
Tenth and Bono avenue. at East st. Louis,
they discovered a box containing the skel
eton of a man supposed to have been bur
led Before the city was located.
A farmer of Hancock county was driv-
when the animal baked and two men
tn d to make it so. Failing they tied a
cord to its tongue and pulled the mcmber
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The Old Chestnut.

Aberdeen. Dec. 15.-There are many
indications that one of the Interesting
features of the coming session of the
legislature will be a scheme to remove
the capital from Pierre. A proposition
Of this kind has come up with more or
less force every session since the capt.
tai was located, but those who claim to
know say 1t will develop great strength
this time and that all the leading popu-
lists are in favor OF it and will push it to
the best of their ability.
Arthur w. Ellis of San Francisco and
Miss May Noonan of Lincoln, Neb.,
both members of the Church Metropol-
itan company, now playing here, were
married yesterday by Rev. Mr.. Todd.
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Why They Go Insane.

Chamberlain, Dec. 1.-THE question
of Pennington county purchasing an
old unused Indian school building which
stands north of Rapid City is being ag-
itated. 1t is proposed that the county
secure possession of the building and
present 1t to the state for an insane
asylum exclusively for Black Hills pa
tients. Between seventy and eighty
persons have been sent from the Black
Hills to the asylum at Yankton at great
expense for transportation, and that
institution is often so crowded that
considerable time often elapses before
a patient can be received. The question
has often been proponnded as to why
SO many people 30 insane in the Black
Hills. and 1t has been answered in va
rious ways, II of which is that the
high altitude acts unfavorably on the
nervous system; another is that the
old miners and prospectors lose their
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QUEEN LlL's MISSION.
Comes to demand Indemnity From
Grown Lands.

ONInff0 10 lsCItsHtlu AhucItlbbtt F'COJl
Crown Lands.
Washington, Dec. 15.-Caesar Celso
Moreno, once prominent in Hawaiian
politics, has received a letter from one
OF the leaders in the late revolt for
which the ex-queen, Lilioukalani, was
arrested and imprisoned. h commu-
nication throws some light on the
queens visit to this country 1t speaks
OF the robbery of. the crown lands
which We're hers by right, and which
would have given her an incoiue for life.
In lieu of this income the Dole governs
ment had assured her a pension. which
would have been given Says the letter.
but for the pretended. promise of inter-
vention by President Cleveland in Ha-
waiian affairs. The apparent purpose
of this visit of the eX-queen as disclosed
In the letter is to demand indemnity for
the loss of the crown lands. as We'll as
her regal authority. which, it Is claimed.
was taken away by a evolutionary
movement instigated by the United
States consul and aided by the United
States marines from the cruiser Boston.
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A subscription has recently been
started In London, under the patronage
Of the prince of Wales, which mas for it's
aim the restoration of the old church of
Burnham Thorpe, where Nelson was
baptized, and where his mother and
father lie buried. 1t is the intention OF
h committee that has the subscription
In charge to have the windows of the
church decorated with scenes recalling
the career Of the victor of Trafalgar.
During his life Nelson often expressed
a desire to be buried at Burnham
Thorpe. m nothing but a command of
h king prevented his body from repos-
ing there, instead of beneath the beauti-
fully sculptured tomb in st. Paul's
cathedral.
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MISSOURI GETS THE LAND.
Settlement of the Missouri-Iowa
BOUNDARY.

Boundary.
Washington, Dec. 15.-Attorney Gem
eral r. F. Walker OF Missouri. today
filed in the supreme our of the United
States the report of the commissi' IL
which last spring determined the b9un-
dairy between Missouri and Iowa. as
the result of a friendly suit entered by
the law officer of Missouri. to settle the
boundaries in the counties of Mercer,
Mo-, and Decatur. Iowa. Missouri
named j. l.. Hardy n Iowa Pater ID.
Dey. and those two selected Dwight l..
Morgan of Illinois as the third mem
Der. AT their request w. c. HodeNins,
of the coast and geodetic survey, was
detailed to run the line under their SUI
pervision. The result of his work was
submitted to the supreme court of the
United States today by MI. Walker with
q request that the report of the commits
sion thereon be approved.
This will be done as soon as the at
torney general of Iowa gives his for
NAL assent. The line laid down by Mr..
Hodgkins agrees with h a of Sullivan's
in 1876 and gives to Missouri a strip of
territory varying from ten to 100 feet
in width, running for 20 odd miles.
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~Aristocrats Quarrel.

London, Dec. ia dispatch from
Edinburgh says: The trial of the suit
for divorce brought by Lady Winifred
Berens-Ross Of London, wife OF Sir
Charles Ross. b%aronet, of Balnagowan,
R~oss-Shire, was commenced today iii
the court of sessions, with Lord Kyl-
lachy presiding. The suit Is brought on
statutory grounds, and, owing to the
high standing of the litigants, the case
has attracted an unusual mount of at
tention and gossip in the aristocratic
circles of England and Scotland. Both
sides are represented by eminent coun-
sci, and Sir Charles Ross will make d
bitter fight against the granting of u
decren
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Balloons were used in the recent Gel.
man army maneuvers. Each corps had
a balloon, handled by sixty men. Six
gas carriases,drawn each by six horses,
belonged to each balloon, and the un-
leading. filling and sending up took only
fourteen minutes. The balloons were
kept at a height of 5000 feet, from
which the officers telegraphed to head
quarters and sent sketches Of the enc
my's position down the rope.
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WIFE OF EX-PRIEST ALARMED
Father Francis Soveiski Mysterious
ly Lost in Chicago.

Crown Point, Ind, Dec. 11.-Rev. Fa-
Their Francis Soveiski, a well known
minister in most every city INC village
in the central states, is missing, and 1t
is feared by friends hat he is in the
hands of enemies.
Three weeks ago he left for Chicago
to fill an engagement about forty miles
from there, and since then his wife. who
has been living here for some time, has
been unable to locate him.
Soveislti at II time was a priest, but
a few years ago. through some trouble,
he left the Roman Catholic church and
became a Baptist, and Yer since has
Travelled over the central states as a
~revivalist in their interest.
Mrs. Soveiski thinks that he never got
out of Chicago, where he was to change
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Weekly fsank Statement.

New York, Dec. 12.--The weekly state
nlent of the associated banks shows the
following changes:
Reserve, decrease ss5S,050; loans, in
crease s11, o61 200: specie. increase $751;
200; legal tenders, increase $1.7lO, 500;
deposits. increase s14, 559, 900; clrcula-
tion,, decrease $156. 400.
The banks now hold $31, SOC, $50 in exc
cess Of legal requirements. \
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The English nobility are giving the Van.
derbilts a royal run for their money.

German explorers in New Guinea, DR..
L~uterbach. DR.. Keruting and Herr Tap.
penbeck, discovered in October at the
foot Of the Bismarck mountains a nav
gable stream flowing through a fruit
full and thickly populated plain, over
which they Travelled for 200 miles. This
is the first well populated area that has
been discovered in the interior of New
Guinea.
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FATALLY Injured

Sioux Falls. S. D., Dec. 11.-Henry
Bush of White, was probably fatally
injured Wednesday. He was in a well
digging and had just started up O large
lot of dirt and ston when the hook
that fastened the rope - the tub slip
ped off, letting h tub fall about six
feet striking MI. Bush on the head He
was taken out n carried to a house
where he still remains in a unconscious
condition. His recovery is doubtful.
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Paying the Hospital Debt.

I.OIItIOlI FIRLTV.
The new lord mayors proposal to sig
nalize his m%ayoralty and commemorate
the queens record reign by freeing the
hospitals from debt Is an excellent one.
Alderman F'audel Phillips is a WARM
man himself. and he has 9. host OF
wealthy relations and friends whom he
should be able to whip up in the good
cause. Still, 81, 000, 900 will need a good
deal of collecting, and the lord mayor
Will have to stretch his influence to the
breaking point to get it together.
Should a umo which reaches me to
the effect that some of our South Afri-
can b~illionaires intend to come down
handsomely be true, however, the task
will not be so difficult.
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Civ Topeka girls wrote to their re-
spective h~oneyboys the same afternoon
recently. breaking the engagement and
sending back the ring. They had just
come from a train where they went to
throw rice at a pretty bride, but broke
and ran when the bridegroom got ugly
about 1t. They accepted it as a warn
ing that no matter how agreeable a
man may be as a beau, he may not turn
out to be 50 sweet as a husband.
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1t is we'll known that left handelncss
has often been observed in animals. Ac-
cording to Vierodt, parrots seize objects
with the left paw by preference, or ex-
clusiVely. The lion strikes with the left
paw and Livingstone stated as his opin-
ion that all animals are left handed.
Prof. Jordan has recently verified the
statement with regard to parrots. He
found that this bird makes a reader
use of h left claw for climbing than
the right.
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Canton, Dec. 11.-This city has sew
eral candidates for federal positions.
The latest candidate is Colonel l.. II.
Larsen, cashier of the Canton State
bank. He is seeking appointment as
deputy United States revenue collector
for southeast South Dakota. He has
very strong support, Is fully competent
and a leading republican.
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M'HuGH HELD UP.
At Thurston's Request tho Nomina-
ton IL Not Considered.

Az Ihurston's Request the NOminn-
ton Is Not Considered.
Washington, Dec. 15.-The senate ju-
dietary committee held its first meeting
his morning. Owing to the unusually
large number of recess appointments to
the federal district bench due to deaths,
the docket of this committee is filed
with important nominations. One of
these is a promotion to the chief Justice
ship of the court of claims and the fill
ing of a vacancy on that bench. There
are six nominations to fill vacancies in
the United States district curtis and
one associate justice of the supreme
court of the territory of Oklahoma.
At the request of Senator Thurston
the nomination of VIM. d. McHugh, to
be district judge for the district of Me-
braska, was laid over until after the
holidays. The other cases were referred
to subcommittee for investigation. The
only serious opposition appears in the
McHugh case, and papers are being pre-
pared for presentation to the commit,
foo
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LILLIAN RUSSELL MARRIED..
She Became Mrs. Walter Jones III
Chicago Recently.

Chicago Recently.
Cincinnati, o., Dec. 15.-1n conversa-
ton with friends DR.. Jones. father of
Walter Jones, the comedian and imper-
senator, stated that he was omen to
congratulations as a father-in-law.
The one whom the fortunate young
actor has made his wife is none other
han Lillian Russell. The fact of the
engagement of this c~ouple-eyen h ru-
NOR of their marriage-has been ST Of
ten in print that this will create less
surprise han would otherwise have
been the case. Dr. Jones stated posi-
lively that the couple was married in
Chicago during Miss Russell's recent
engagement there. Admitting the diff
terence in their ages. which is consid-
srable, DR.. Jones expressed much salts
faction in the match, and his belief is
that they will be very happy togeth-
II.
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Model Irrigation Farm.

Chamberlain, s. D., Dec. 15.-By the
purchase of more land the Carpenter
irrigated farm, near Puckwana, now
contains q tota! of eight quarter sec
tons, which adjoin each other. This
farm is owned by a wealthy resident Of
Chicago. who proposes next season to
exactly what can be done in the
way of extensive irrigation in this state.
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Bill boards are to be utilized for the
dissemination of scriptural teachings
at Muskegon, Mich, a society for the
prosecution Of the work and also for.
h distribution of hand cards bearing
biblical texts Inc illustrations having
been organized there by A. 8. Standen,
a commercial traveller. who got Rev.
DR.. Joseph Mccarthy to act as presi-
don't
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ALLISON FOR PREMIER.
Chicago Record Canton Special Says
1t Is n Certainty.


1t Is n Certainty.
Chicago, Dec. LA Records Canton,
O., special says: Senator Allison of
Iowa will be secretary OF state in Mr..
Mckinley's cabinet. This may be set
down@as a fact. 1t is believed here hat
he has been formally offered his port
folio.
Dubuque, Dec. 1.-THE dispatches
from Canton and Washington announce
ing tht Senator Allison has been ten
dered the position of secretary of state
IN the Mckinley cabinet are denied by
Mr.. Allison's closest friends. They ia
ne anticipates no such tender and
would prefer to remain In the senate.
Mr.. Allison's abcess of the ear is grad
ually healing. but he Will not go to
Washington until after the holiday va
cation
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UP in n of Names two northern
o extensions is the Madawaska re-
glon. Until very recently it was a land
inhabited almost exclusively by people
whose ancestors were driven from Ar
cadia by h English. and they We're
proud of being un-American in every
sense. French was the only language
spoken or understood. and the habits Of
life were strangely like those of ancient
France. All his is changing rapidly
now, the most potent influence being
the establishment in all the towns and
villages of public schools, III which
both teachers inc pupils are required
to speak English. This one innovation
has sutficed to bring the reluctant
Madawaskans u into the nineteenth
century, n already they are begin
ming to express satisfaction in the new
order of things.
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ACTION RATIFIED.
Hearing OF the New Tariff Bill to
Begin the S8th,

Washington, Dec. 15.-The action of
the republican members of the house
ways and means committee on Satur-
day last in deciding to give hearings on
the new tariff bill, which it is proposed
to prepare at this session, was formally
ratified at the full committee meeting
today. A resolution to adjourn from the
22d inst. to January S was agreed to. as
was also a resolution offered by Mr..
Payne of New York, to commence heal-
ings on the bill on the 2Sth inst.
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INTERNATIONAL BlMETALusM
A Bill to Be Introduced as Soon as
Possible.

Possible.
Washington, Dec. 15.-The special
committee appointed by Senator Sher-
man, chairman of the republican sena-
torial caucus to devise legislation for
action at this session Of congress-, look
ing to an International monetary con-
ference, held its first meeting this
morning. with Senators Wolcott as
chairman, and Chandler, Hoar, Gear
and Carter present. The meeting was
informal and no action of any kind was
taken. Owing to the meetings of other
committees of which some Of the sena-
tors We're members. the meeting was
short. 1t is hoped at the next sitting q
tentative plan. at least, vii be submit
ted, for it is the intention to prepare
the bill as speedily as possible and sub
NIT 1t to h republican caucus. A
canvass of the senat has been made
and it is said that this shows tina the
silver boiling republicans will not an
tagonize the proposed MEASURE and that
many of the democratic silver men VIII
support it.
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Another Double Asphyx,ation,

Indianapolis, Ind. Dec. 15.-Mrs.
Catherine Corhett, 20, and her daugh-
ter, Mary. 40 years of age, were found
dead in their home Sunday. Both were
lying on the floor, and as the odor OF
gas was strong in the house it is sup
posed they were asphyxiated.