The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


18th, OF consumption, aged 80 years.
In accordance with a decision by
Judge Dale, adjudging the street cars
of Wichita. kas.. 10 be a public nui-
sance. the cars quit running on the
18th The lease expired some time ago,
but the company continued 10 run de-
spite the city's protest.
Columbia university will give the
honorary degree of LII. ID. 10 Carl
Schurz, on commencement day. Mr..
Schurz has already received this de-
gree from Harvard university and
from the University OF Missouri.
Baron Heyl Zu Herrnshein. the ma
tional liberal member OF the reichstag,
has donated 10000 marks towards
the tuberculosis asylum movement in
Berlin.
The Cuban soldiers and people are
greatly disturbed by the order 10 sur
render their arms on applying for
their share of the American donation
of S3,0OO.O 900.
The cuiser Marblehead arrived at
Pernambuco, on the 18th, en- route to
the Pacific.
A snow and sleet storm prevailed at
Marquette, Mich. on the 18th.
"Oakwood," the grounds ard man
sion Of Henry Probasco, il Clinton, a
suburb OF Cincinnati. has leer sod at
ASST gnee's sale for $4,000 IL consisted
uf 20 acres of superb Landscape and
sore mansion that cost $25O,0C0. The
whcle property cost half million.
The transport Centennial. capt. Ea-
rics. sailed from san Frana.sc". on the
iGtn, for the Philippines with n large
cargo of commissary and 1ud. termas-
ter : supplies.
Gen. Hernandez. leader of the Nene-
zuelan revolution in ls9s, who was
captured near lumare, on June AZ
last. has been released from captivity.
The Earl of Straiford, who married
Mrs. Samuel j. Colgate. in Grace
church, New York city. last December
was instantly killed, on the 10th, at
Potters Bar, England, by the Cam
bridge express.
DR.. Howard Ayres, professor of BIZ
ology in the University of Missouri
has accepted the presidency of the
| University of Cincinnati.
President Murphy Of the New forl
beard Of health says that If the medi
cal societies in Greater New York de
eide that the case is urgent enough
the legislature, when it assemblies il
extra session, may be asked to pass
law making it felony to practic'
"Christian Science" in the state.
As the result of a thorough examina
ton by an eminent oculist, il is foun'
that Queen Victoria has completed,
lost sight Of her left eye, and that tn
right eye is almost obscured by a cat
aract.
Edward Coleman. sheriff of Wash
inrton county. Nas., was shot and al
most instantly killed. at Hollcnbere
Kas.. on the 10th. by Will IIoxie. whor
he had just placed under arrest. Hoxi
was shot in the abdomen by tn
sheriff.
Contributions TO be expended in IN
purchase of a residence for Admiri
Dewey in Washington are accumula'
inZ rapidly. The idea has met wit
hearty approval in all sections OF tn
country.
: Rear Admiral j. G. Watson. who wi
succeed Admiral Dewey in c.mman
| of the Asiatic squadron, sailed froi
san Francisco, on the 10th for Manila
via Hong Kong. on the City OF Pekil
Admiral Watson was accompanied b
. his full staff.
The cattlemen OF western Ol<lahom
are organizing n boycott on kans'
: CITY and threaten to ship all their ca
; lie to Chicago and South Omaha b
: cause of the recent action OF the kal
: sas quarantine board in requiring Il
!, spection Of all Oklahoma cattle ente
ing the state.
Rev. DR.. William Mast. the found
of German Meth odism in America, di'
1 at Cincinnati on the 10th, aged %.
|, was born at Stuttgart, Germany, ed
: Gated at Tuegingen university, came
a America in 1925. and entered the CT
: cinnati conference in 1877. From TN
! time TO the day OF his death he edit
!. the Christian Apologist, the Germs
- organ of the Methodist EpiscoT
n church.
Joe Robinson, colored, was hang
at Greenvile. Miss. on the 10th,
y the murder of Lizzie SIN tn. lie
d. cool. going to the gallows with Gig
81 in his mouth. He declared his inn
as ccnce to the last. asserting that I
TO killing was an accident.
IN Bertha Bielstein, who was tried
e. the murder of her mother, at Pit
IN burgh. Pa, and acquitted on
On ground OF insanity, has been plac
On in Dixmont insane asylum py order
n the court.
Owing to attendance on the czn
peace conference. which opened. on
n 18th, at The Hague, Of Prof. Marie
OF professor of international law at
ch University of St. Petersburg, 0
as final arbitrator of the Venezuelan
ce bitration commission, the meeting
IN, the Venezuelan commission has be
". postponed for the present.
mt 1t can now be predicted that
lat high Joint commission 70 adjust ISIS
I'D between the United States and Ca
list ,ia will he r.cassemblcd during