The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.


couldn't improve on in the open heia'
SECRETARY HERBERr announced, on
the ssth. that the unnamed ships now
under construction will be named As
follows: neutrality-suspicious., In
nois and Wisconsin. Gunboats-A An
napolis. Marietta, Newport, Princeton
Nicksburg and Wheeling
AN afternoon paper at seattle
Wash, has compiled information show
! ing that the farmers of eastern Wash
ingtou have. since the recent rise IN
heat. sold $4,000. 900 bushels at an
average price of 60 cents, the crop net
ting about sa,s00,Uo0 more than last
year.
1T develops that the Blue Cut train
robbery, near Glendale. Mo, dld
not pan ont very rich for the rob
bers. 1t is asserted they did not
get over $500 and few packages
Of iewelry. 1t was no fault OF theirs,
however. that they got no more as
they evidently understood their busi-
ness.
GEx. MORTON c. HUNrER died at
bloomington. Ind, on the .Sth, from
the effects OF stroke OF paralysis re-
ceived while attending divine service
one week before.
NINE persons were killed and 20 in
iured. eight OF them probabl fatally,
in wreck on the st. Louis & san
Francisco railroad, near Meramec
Highlands, Mo-. on the 25th, caused
bv collision between the second sec
tion OF "a q. A. K. excursion train going
TO ST. james, Mo, TO dedicate soldiers
home, and the Valley Park accommo-
dation going east. In addition TO the
known casualties il was thought that
at least two other bodies were buried
: beneath the wreckage. Both engines
and several cars were completely de-
molished.
RI. REV. FREDERICK TEMPLE, bishop
of London, has been appointed arch
bishop of Canterbury and primate OF
, all England IN succession to Most Rev.
Edward White Benson. deceased.
The attempts of Consul-General Lee
to obtain for American buyers the re-
lease of tobacco leaf purchased or con
tracted for them in Cuba previous tc
, Capt Gen. Weyler's embargo decree
= have so far been unsuccessful
: lHE total registration of voters IN
!. Cincinnati is s0,935, against 60,9l5 las'
c year, and $4,000 in round numbers -four
r wears ago. There were ,720 NOR,
names Registered in 1886 than in 1895
IT is reported from Washington thai
: the president, in his annual message
! to congress, will announce that the
> Behring sea controversy with Grca
e Britain is near IA settlement.
. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has begun
!, work on his annual message TO con
gress 1t is his present thought L
make it his valedictory also. And,
e said an authority, lit will be corler
II TREASURER ST. JOHN Of the demo
e cratic national committee is on til
+ sick list Mr.. st. Johns eyes hav
,r given out, and he is compelled to TAX
" a few days vacation.
x NJ. CHALLEMEL-LAcoUR French min
lister of foreign affairs in the cabiuc
of Jules Ferry, died in Paris on tn
Is Goth
'e Two LARGE grain elevators owne
&c by the Chicago & Pacific Elevate
=. Co., located on the north branch {
?. the Chicago river, in the localit
~ known as Goose island, and cor tainin
I, more than a million bushels OF whea
besides corn and oats, were destroye
by fire, on the Goth, together with Sc
~ eral frame dwellings adjoining. III
t. loss, which is fully covered by insu
t. ance. is estimated at $1,000. 600
ht SECRETARY HERBERT left Washin,
a Ia
in speeches in TIE Alabama congre
n sional district which he formerly rel
at resented, in the interest OF Palmer
40 election.
TELEGRAMs received in London, {
the 2cth, from Pekin announced u
~ appointment of Ii Hung Chang
les Chinese minister of foreign affairs.
% EDIsoN's latest, although he says Il
idea is not new, is an autographs L
'u' egraph by which pictures can be tran
~ mitted by wire to any distance.
- Az three o'clock on the morning
- the 26th, the packing department
the Acme Powder Co.. located 10 mil
from Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Alleghel
IN river. was blown up and totally dc
he troyed. and two packers, named ST
md aud Andrews, the only occupants
nd the building at the time, We're blo'
Sc to atoms.
yn- The call for the next annual meet
viii Of the Farmers National congress !
Der been issued 10y President II. +. Clayt'
'er- of Indianola, Ia, and Secretary 10
NJ. Stahl, of Chicago. The mccti
will be held at indianapolis, Ind,
oi vembcr j0-i3.
yer ADvIcEs from IIarpoot, eastern 4
KEY, received in Boston, confirm
at patches in regard to the exten. .
'm- barbarity OF the recent massacres
', Egin. These advices state that ma
Ev- of the dead were left in the streets
ote DAYS as food for dogs.
one KING HUMBERT, in honor OF the IN
rage of the crown prince rad Prime
Helene of Montenegro, has appoin
ago 80 senators. among whom IL Pfii
oy Emanuel Ruspoli dc Poggio Suasa,
be- mayor OF Rome, whose wife was
No., merly a Miss Curtis, of Boston, M
am THE Sac and FOX Indian agency
- .,.th 49,. l1.1.