The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-03

PRoF. w. w. CAMPBELL of the Lick
observatory. San Francisco. will head
the expedition Ia India, made possible
through the gene ~o'aty of the late Col.
{. Il. Croclser. tn observe the next total
eclipse of the sun.
CHEF OF POLICE PETER CoSIIN was
retired, on the 25th, by the New York
police commissioners on his own Appli-
cation. He will receive . pension Of
S3, 900 year
OK the 25th the president appointed
VIM. X. Holloway. of Indiana, to ~
consul general at ST. Petersburg.
Russia, the commission being dated
August 81.
ALL the British army officers on leave
of absence have been ordered to rejoin
their regiments Immediately.
A TELEGRAM was received at the Jap
anese Legation in Washington. on the
18th. announcing the death OF Count
Mutzu. ex-minister of foreign affairs
and Japanese minister TO the United
States in lsss.
duke and duchess of York have ac-
cepted the invitation of the premier of
Canada, Sir Wilfred Laurier. to visit
Canada during the spring of 1895 while
on their way TO Australia.
PREMIER MELINE. addressing the dele
gates to the council general of the de-
partment of the Seine and the munich
pality of Paris. on the a5th. on the rise
in the price of wheat. declared that he
b.. ka \.
net adding that he would not hesitate
to reduce the tariff if the rise was
genuine and not speculative.
ADoLPH FELTON,. of Chicago. an artist
and sculptor, whose work has received
favorable comment from critics in Eu-
rope and America. was sentenced To
six months in the mouse of correction
by Judge Chetiain after entering a
plea of guilty to charge of forging
the name of Catholic priest to an or
der for $50.
PRACTICALLY all the small bakers in
New York city have met the advance
in the price Of -four by decreasing the
weight of bread. five cent loaf of
bread weighed a pound before the
boom in wheat and flour. but now it
weighs from two to three ounces less.
EIGHT persons broke Jail at Welsh.
W. Va, on the 25th, and made their
escape. Seymour Grey, who was to be
hanged September =. was among the
fugitives. as were two negroes who
murdered a policeman at Keystone.
The large boiler in the Adams
County Lumber Co.'S mill at Decatur,
Ind. exploded. on the 18th. killing
Vern Reynolds, the seven-year-old son
of Clarence Reynolds and fatally in
juring William Lewis
The North German Gazette an
nounced. on the Goth. that DIR. Won
Holleban. the Prussian minister at
Stuttgart Wurtenburg, had been Sc
ected for the post of German ambassa-
Tor TO the United States.
THE endorsements the Spanish gov
,rnment intends to send to Cuba will |
start from Spain in October 1t is said
hat they will number from 5000 to
70. 900 men.
THE Pleasanton stock farm at Oak
and, Cal, the famous training and
breeding establishment of some of the
worlds greatest race horses. has been
declared insolvent by Judge Hall.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Bombay. on
he Goth. said that cholera had broken
,ut in the Northamptonshire (British)
'egiment.
SHIPMENTS Of grain from the port of
,hicago this season are the heaviest
n the history of the lake trade.
THE French cabinet has decided that l
here is no ground at present for modi-
wing the duties on cereals.