The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-08-27
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


OF the United States supreme court,
hind him a record of service longer
han that of any other man who ever
sat on the supreme bench.
llESRy GABLE, an old and expert
enced miner. who was one of the first
TO Join the rush to the klondike. has
returned to San Francisco. and tells a
story calculated to deter Others from
going north in search Of gold.
In a quarrel between deputies at
Camp Isolation, near Pittsburgh. Pa,
on the 10Th, Deputy Sheriff Carr was
fatally shot by Capt. Anderson.
HENRY c. HANsBRoUGn, United
States senator from North Dakota, and
Miss Mary Berri Chapman. a poetess
of Washington, ID. c., were married at
the Hotel Burlington, in New York
city, on the 18th.
A SPECIAL from Rome. on the 10th,
said: at is reported thatthe pope will
excommunicate Prince Henry OF Or
leans and the count of Turin. as duel
ling is forbidden by the Roman Cath
Ollie church"
FREDERICK WILDE, a striking coal
miner from MountOlive. ILL.,, who went
to st. Lonis five weeks ago, was ground
to pieces beneath a Missouri Pacific
train at Howard station on the 10th.
1t was to all appearances n case OF pre-
meditated suicide.
The presidents secretary. j. Addi-
son Porter, on the 10th, made the fol-
Izt.. Efhan Allan
Hitchcock, Of st. Louis. has accepted
the ministership to Russia, and will be
appointed immediately.
NAVAL officers are considering the
question of constructing dry docks suf-
tciently large to accommodate our
largest war vessels. The matter will
be ST unlimited to congress at the next
session.
The post office department has pre-
pared advertisements for contracts for
all star aud steamboat mail service in
all states west Of the Mississippi. ex-
cept Minnesota. lows ard Missouri.
These contracts. embracing about 700
routes. 'vill run for four years begin
ming July |, 1898. Bids will be opened
in the second assistant postmaster geE-
erals Office December l..
The biz wagon works Of the Mitch
ell Lewis company, at Racine. Wis,
began working IL hours per day ON the
10Th.
The Peruvian government has or
dered the banks OF Peru to withdraw
from circulation, within 80 days. and
TO stop the further emission of circular
checks. payable to bearer. which are
classed as being nothing more or less
than bank notes in disguise.
NoTICE Of contest OF the second will
of Charles Coudert, of New York, which
devised his property to his seven chill
dren. was filed. on the nth. by the
widow. Mrs. Mary Coudert. whom a
former will made sole legatee.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the American Bankers association
met in Detroit, Mich. on the 18th.
WILLIAM OBRlES. formerly Of the
Seventh United States cavalry. has
been granted a pension OF S22 a month
and s.. 200 back pay. His whereabouts
is unknown To his attorneys.
A MOVEMENT looking to the connec-
ton OF Denver and the Black Hills re-
gion of South Dakota by railroad 10
said to be " progress in Wyoming.
Al result of the decline in silver
the Lamartine mine at Idaho Springs,
Col. discharged its force of men work.
ing on the silver lodes on the nth.
In the two weeks ended on the 18th
over 2 600 beeves were sent TO Havana
from Florida. most of them from the
kissimmee river ranges.
The Rock Island Railroad Co. has
requested the farmers of Grant and
Garfield counties. okla. to reimburse
the company for 50, 900 bushels of wheat
furnished for seed, in 1894, when there
was a crop failure.
In the Wisconsin assembly, on the
18th both the express company aud
sleeping car taxation bills were passed
over the governors veto.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Co. has acknowledged the
justness OF a claim made by the Kan
sas state board OF railroad commission
ers Of exorbitant freight rates on that
road. and agreed To substantial reduc-
tions. to take effect September D..
W. Il. l.. DAVIS, aged 90. a wealthy
farmer. living rear Rockmart. Ca.
was killed and his house wrecked, on
the 18th. by the explosion of /. dyna-
mite cartridges he had placed under
the kitchen stove for drying.
The former government boat John
A. Dix, recently turned over to the
Louisiana naval reserve. sank in the
Mississippi at the foot OF jackson street.
New Orleans. on the 18th.
On the 18th the directors of the Chi
cago. burlington 4 Quincy railroad de-
clared aquarterly dividend Of one per
cent.
MRS. MARcELISA VALDEZ and a girl
named Francesca Mondragon were shot
In Guadalupe, n suburb of ConejoS.
Col. on the 18th. by Pablo Gallegos.
Mrs. Valdez was wounded In the head
and the girl In the arm and thigh.
Both will probably ecovcr. Gallegoa
was "A discarded lover OF the girl. lie
escaped.
THE wheat p: Of the New York pro-
duce exchange was wrought up to q
fine frenzy of buviup nclivitv. IN the