The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-17
NEWS SUMMARY.



the LIQUOR business. O'Keefe was arrested.
......Gov. Hoffman Of New York has signed
the Jury bill which allows newspsper-read-
ing people to sit on jury.
NnLo's Theater, New York, was burned
on Monday, with loss Of 100000 on it
and surrounding buildings. While The FIRE
was in progress an explosion Of gas occur
red in the theater. severely ipjuring Captain
Clerichy, efthe Fourteenth Police Precinct,
and nearly suffocating four 6remen.
WILLIAM wEBB, alias Buck, confined in
the Esston (Pa.) Penitentiary, Tuesday
morning killed his roommate, Michael
Trim our, by striking him on the head with
an iron plate.
TIE Democratic National Executive Com
mittee met in New York, Wednesday after
noon, at the residence of August Belmont.
Eight States were represented California,
Connecticut, Florida, Georgis, Louisiana,
North Caroline, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
Baltimore was selected a. the place. and
the 9th Of July a. the time, for holding the
National Democratic Convention ...... Judge
Pierrepont declines to undertake the de-
tense Of Stokes in place of Crab am...... las.
Smith shot Eliza Brown fatally in Green
street New York; bagnio Wednesday, and
was arrested.
TaE warehouse of Samuel L. Tompkins,
No. p West street, New York, filed with
cotton, was destroyed by FIRE on Thursday.
About $50 bales Of cotton were burned.
William Taggart, Of Paterson, n. j., COM
mitted suicide Wednesday, BY leaping into
the Passaic Falls. He 10 supposed to have
been insane.... Fires in Ocean county, n.
j., last week, burned over $4,000 acres Of
timber. The loss il estimated in Egg Harbor
township at 100000. Several farm-houses,
barns, and sawmills were destroyed $500.
Thursday morning at Verona, Pa, on the
Allegheny Valley railroad, eleven cars
loaded with oil took FIRE and were entirely
destroyed. While the buildings on the
corner of Wall and Broad streets, New York,
were in course Of demolition Thursday even
ing, work being done by night to hasten it,
a portion of the wall gave way, burying
Thomas Johnson, Martin Cox, and Daniel
Leary in the ruins All were badly in
jured. johnson will probably die.
The West.
A DISPATCH from Omaha, dated May 8,
says: "A party Of Indians, supposed to be
Cheyennes, attacked q mail escort from this
post, at Labonti creek, twenty miles west of
Fort Laramie, on "Wednesday, killing the |
Sergeant in command. The party returned |
TO Fort Laramie with the body" .. During |
the prevalence of a heavy wind-storm at |
Delphos, O., Friday afternoon. ERE broke out
in the drug store Of Schenck Lang. About |
fifty buildings were entirely destroyed; esti- !
mated loss, $3.50, 000...... H. C. Reid 4 Co.'s |
machine works and foundry, and John
Clements dwelling house, were destroyed
BY FIRE at Warren, O., Friday morning.
Ianae ovA Of k~x, T.
day, fire broke out in the basement of Chaplin
Hall House, Hudson, Wis.,, burning between
ten and fifteen buildings. The {, tai losses
will foot up about sl25,o00. An old man
named Connolly was burned to death.
A FIRE at Cleveland, o., Saturday even.
ing, destroyed large portion of the Stand
ard Oil Company's works. About 40 900
barrels Of distilled and refined oils were
burned......T Meridian Street National
Bank at Indianapolis, Ind, was mysteri-
hours, of about SIS ,OoO From April "a,
the time the convention news began to be
transmitted, to the night Of May 8, the to-
tai special and regular reports transmitted
from Cincinnati by the Western Union
Telegraph were 571,5l1 words......A man
named George Wright was shot by Lizzie
Gardner in a house Of ill-fame in Detroit,
Micn., oasuruay nignI
A DISPATCH from Detroit, Mich, gives the
particulars OF disaster which befell the
Leland Iron Furnace, situated at Leland,
in the Grand Traverse region, on May /.
1t seems that from some cause or other an
explosion took place, which set the furnac
on ire, and ii was totally destroy ed ... The
loes is estimated at about 500 900. Some
workmen in the furnace were seriously ia
iured......On Friday night, ten frame dwell
ing houses, stone store and dwelling, d
church and many barns and other out
houses were burned at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Over q hundred persons we're rendered
homeless. Five horses perished in the
flames. Total loss $4,000.
OK Tuesday, about two miles east Of Ross
Station, Mich., man named P. Reynolds
murdered his wife and tried to kill his step
son. The boy was cut and bruised badly,
and - not expected to live. Reynolds after
ward committed suicide with razor
Arizona dispatches say the Apaches are
swsrming about Prescott. B. White was
murdered in Williamson's valley. The In
dams attached Aqua Fria Station, and
killed g. W. Smith and Joseph Alderman,
both well-known citizens of Prescott, and
captured all the stock. The bodies Of the
murdered men we're stripped and disfgured.
The station has been abandoned. The BODY
OF Osborne P. Clarke, from Texas, was
found one mile north Of Mint valley, shot
in the head and breast. j. Gallagher was
seriously wounded by the Indians at
Beaver creek. The Marvin House and
. large livery stable at Sedalia, No., were
burned yesterday. Loss from $4,000 to
$4,000.
GEORGE TArEHAx. Q one-armed gambler,
was shot in the body by Charles Cham Der.
lain, fellow Of the same kidney, at about
2 O'Clock on Wednesday afternoon, on State
street, Chicago......A fire at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Wednesday morning, destroyed