The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-16


construction of Il railway To the la
rima as a violation of Venezuelan terri
tory, is an insult TO Great britain.
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THE smallest lot ever sold in New
York city has just changed hands. 1t
Is six inches long and six inches wide.
and the purchaser paid 500 for 1t,
which is not quite 50 square inch.
REroRr of the condition of British
crops up TO October ] shows that the
cereals had been somewhat damaged
by rain, but the roots and grasses had
been improved. The average OF wheat
was lO4 g-l0, and that OF barley 81 5-5.
AT the request of the secretary OF
the interior Secretary Lamont, on the
9Th. ordered two troops OF cavalry
To report TO Indian Agent Wilson at
Tushkahoma, l. H. The agent feared
trouble between two sections OF the
Choctaws-the outcome of an election.
GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS has declined
the nomination for governor OF Massa-
chuseets on the ticket chosen by the
Fanueil hall faction of the democratic
marty. This is the faction controlled
originally by the gold men, who were
frozen out of the Music hall conven-
ton.
on the 5th Secretary Herbert set
tied the controversy over the torpedo
boat contracts by awarding two tor
pedo boats of the 3O-knot class TO the
Bath Me- iron works and one 30
knot torpedo boat of the larger class
to the Union iron works of san Fran
cisco.
TIE new registration throughout
the city of Baltimore and state Of
MARYLAND closed on the sth. 1t is
much more full than was expected.
There are about $4,000 voters in the
state. and this years registration
probably will come within $4,000 of
that number.
Mrs. MARY SuREvE RANSOM, the
richest woman in Louisville, Ky, has
two political bets. One is a wager OF
$500 that Col w. c. L. Breckenridge
will be returned to congress from the
Ashland district. The other is "A bet
of 81 900 that Mckinley will be the
next president.
The report of the Ohio state board
of agriculture for October, issued on
the 5th, estimates the acreage of wheat
sown in that state for the harvest OF
1896 at 2,Ol1, 7Os acres, and the total
product at II, 269, 545 bushels; average
per acre, 81 bushels. The Ohio wheat
yield is the poorest since 1876.
A CABLE dispatch from London, on
the 9TH, said: 1T is learned upon UNI
questionable authority that Russia has
undertaken to interfere actively in
Turkish affairs unless the porte car
ries out fully the long-delayed Ar
menian reforms. England and France
agree to give their moral support
SECRETARY OLNEY returned to the
state department, on the 5th. after
several months abser &C, and plunged
at once into diplomatic work. The
secretary will not leave his post again
for the remaining four months Of the
administration. in which time he hopes
TO close several pending questions, no.
tably that of general arbitration with
England.
TIE gold standard democrats of In
diana filed petition with the gov
ernor, on the 9Th, signed by g6i men
asking that the party be named Oh
the ballots to be prepared by the cleo
ton board "1he National Demo
cratic Party" The device asked foI
at the top of the ticket on the ballot
is the head of jefferson surrounded by
laurel wreath.
THE reception rendered the czal
and czarina in Paris. on the 18th
called forth the following encomiun
from the czar: II have been in Aus
tria, Germany and England in thu
course of'my present tour, but nowhere
have ! seen such enthusiasm as il
France. expecteda magnificent rec
option, but this surpasses anything
/ could possibly imagine"
KEARNEY and Haynes, the tw
Americans vino were arrested in Rot
terdam at the instance Of British Dc
tectives, who claimed that they wer
implicated in a widespread dynamit
conspiracy and that they had bee
manufacturing explosives at Berchcn
a suburb Of Antwerp, have been COZ
Quoted to the frontier by the pole
and expelled from the country.
THE president has pardonc
Charles Jones, alias Marsh Marl<'
Jake, who was sentenced in lndiar
in 1894, to two years and six mont
IN Jail for robbng post office. III
president says that the detectives WI
procured the conviction of Jones no
represent that facts have come
light which satisfy them that he W
a victim of mistaken identity and
nocent OF the crime Of which he "
convicted.
w. II. HARVEY, author of "Coin,
= speech at Clinton, Ia. on the 81
referred TO the touring genera
kicklcs, Alger, Howard and Others.
.old wrecks of the rebellion "
have "lost all their honor and patri
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