The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-09-17

THE customs authorities at Colon
have seized 30 cases OF tobacco forward
ed there by the steamer Finance, capt
Daily, from New York. which were
down on the manifest rs lard. Inc
duty on the tobacco is $1,000, or twice
the value OF the tobacco itself.
CoSsuL-GENsRAL MARArrA reported
10 the state department, on the eth'
that for the six months ended June 80
1897, there were received at tho Mel
bourne australia mint 6l9,2l4 ounces
ofgold. This came from Australia ana
the surrounding islands.
A~ccoRpINe TO information brought
by the steamer National City, from 81
Michaels, arrived at a Francisco on
the 9TH, an immense amount or Mon
dixie gold is on its way from the mouth
of the Yukon to San Francisco and Tn
sound.
Ir was announced in London. on the
9th. hat a concession TO complete the
| Panama canal had bee given to In
gland.
The crisis in the grain trade in south
ern Russia has been enhanced by the
influx of "A half score OF Hungarian
commissioners. who are purchasing
wheat at any price at which they can
obtain il. A majority of the great
grain exporters are in a very precari-
Gus condition.
SIX YOUNG men were drowned in q
yacht near Windmill point in Lake St
Clair. above Detroit. Mich, on the sth.
The disaster was caused by -four others,
who rocked the yacht till it capsized.
The drowned men were in the cockpit
when the craft went over.
Hon. WIN. J. BRYAN was a passenger
on one of the trains wrecked IN kansas
on the night of the sth, and was fore
most among those who aided In rescu-
ing the passengers from the wreck and
in ministering to the injured.
A SECRET organization which has for
its object the liberation of Canada and
the adoption of a republican form OF
government has been organized by the
French Canadians at Lewiston. Me-,
and elsewhere In Maine and in Canada
+. LAME. Of Portland. Ore, who re
turned on the steamer National City,
from Alaska. is authority for the state
ment that over fifty men have already
died of scurvy this summer in Dawson
THE annual report of the auditor FOL
the interior department issued. or tn,
9th. showed that the amount paid FOL
pensions during the last year wa
sl40, 477.637. The payments on pen
sion account for the fiscal year lo9'
was sl3s. 7o2, 1917, and for the fiscal yea
of 1895 Si40, 5as. Gal; 1894, Sl3s, ll9, 55l
and for 1898. S-54. 552.2i-. The cost o
: the service asst year was $3.50 pei
81. 600; for 1896. s4O7; for 1895. 81; 70
= 1894. s.. II. and for 1898. $685.
JAMES X. WILLARD, Elmer Dwiggin
and John Dwiggins, who compose tn
: firm of j. r. Willard & CO.. banker
and brokers. with offices in New iorl
citv. Buffalo, Washington. Philadel
I phia and Montreal. Can. assigned. oil
: the 9th, to Jas. l.. Starbuck. with pref
: erence for $50, 900 to William H.. Oster
hout.
JAMES K. HAMLIS. a grain broker ol
Q the st. Louis Merchants exchange, wa
S found dead in a oath tub at the Tel
$ minal hotel in that city on the 9Th
r He was an excessive drinker. and hi
affairs are said TO be in bad shape.
Consul ATwELL reports to the stat
Q department. from Roubaix. Francs
that there is good market ~throughor
n northern France for California dris
fruits, particularly prunes, drie
a peaches, raisins aud candied fruit.
OK the 9th. the Official Gazette.
Madrid. published the new custom
tariff of Cuba Nearly all Americs
d goods are subject to lower duties.