The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-24
NEWS SUMMARY.


me body OF man was found In the
East river, New York, Friday, with his
hands and feet strapped together. It il
supposed that the man was murdered. His
remains were unrecogni ICED ...... Mrs. Abbie
Christian was thrown from a car and in
stantly killed, Friday afternoon, while on
her way to Calvary Cemetery, New York, to
visit her husbands grave..... Engineer Jas.
Wood ran special train from Roc b ester "a
eighty-one miles, in eighty-two mnutes......
Emma Couch has been held to bail in the
sum If $1,000 for Matchmaking Rev. DR..
Carter, at New York.
SATURDAY morning while a party of engi-
neers were examining the disused gans way
Of Pine Ridge colliery, two miles from
Wilkesbarre, Pa, an explosion Of fre-damp
took place. Thomas Morgan, David Morgan
and Evan Davis were killed, and another
badly hurt, but will recover. The Equal
Rights Convention, at New York, after vol
uipes Of persifage, on Saturday voted to
enter the canvass with the goddess of liberty
on their banner, and authorize $4,000 in
bonds to elect Victoria Woodruff to the
Presidency......The lead works of Fahne-
stock, Hazlett & Swartz, on Liberty street,
Pitts burg. Pa, took FIRE at 2 O'Clock, Sunday
afternoon, and were entirely destroyed, to-
gether with a dwelling adjoining. Fahne-
stocks loss is very large, and will probably
Buchanan Reid, the poet, died at the Astor
House, New York, on Saturdsy....... Reports
from Chester, Ulster county, N. Y, say that
the mountain fires there are three miles in
length. The uoited efforts of $50 men alone
saved the village of Chichester.
A FIRE at Williamsburg, N. Y, Monday
evening, destroyed sixteen houses, and rem
dered l32 families homeless. No lives were
lost. The dwellings were worth 500, O0O......
The Grand Trunk railway bridge, at South
Paris, Nc. burned Monday morning, having
caught irs from embers dropped py the en-
gine.....k Richard Keefe, Dennis Shea, Geo.
Briggs and Thomas Franklin were tpsized
in ssail-boat of Erie, Pa, on Sunday
night. Franklin got an oar and
padded the boat ashore with one of
the Others on it, who died soon after
The Others drifted of and their bodies have
not been recovered...... The propeller Chi
cago, OF Chicago, laden with flour and gen.
eral merchandise, sunk about twenty miles
from Buffalo, N. Y.,on Monday. The crew
Ward, clerk in A. T. Stewards, New York,
who disappeared on March l, has been
found in North river. Ward had evidently
been murdered and robbed.
TnE New York Tribune of Wednesday
morning publishes the following card from
Horace Greeley: "The Tribune has ceased
to be party organ, but the unexpected
nomin alton Of its editor at Cincinnati seems
to involve it ina new embarrassment. All
must be aware that the position of Jour
nalist, who is at the same time a candidate, |
10, at best, irksome and difficult; that he is |
fetterad in aciIop and cd scn
by the knowledge that whatever he may |
say or do is closely scanned by thousands
eager to find in it what may be so inter-
preted as to annoy or perplex those who are
supporting him as candidate, and to whom
his shackled condition will not permit him
to be serviceable. The unders gned, there.
fore, withdraws absolutely from the conduct
Of the Tribune, md will henceferth, until
further notice, exercise no con troll or SUPER
vision over its columns" The editorial
management of the Tribune falls on White
law Reid. Officer John Leslie had his
head spit open with a cleaver, in New
York, Tuesday, by German rag-picker,
who was prevented by the officer from MUIR
tering his wife......The fire in the Shawan-
sunk mountains, New York, has burned
over space of two miles in width, destroy
ing 300 cords of wood and an immense
quantity of tim BERN. The fires in the woods
- sAN ''s'uNy VI ctidAtou, are Stlll |
aging IN many quarters, destroying vast
amounts OF lumber and timber. A number
# barns and small houses have been
destroyed in the vicinity Of Moscow and
Iehigh Falls......As New York, Monday
light, John McMara, sixteen years old, shot
md fatally wounded his father......At Pitts
'urg, Pa, on Tuesday, Eliza NJ. Cartney,
While in spasms, fell upon a red-hot stove.
When assistance reached her it was found
hat hnr haa 70 1
we're burned to crisp.....0. G. Ferry, of .
was reelected United States
senator on Tuesday.
THE New YORK Cham Der of Commerce. on
Wednesday,, with but one dissenting voice,
dopted resolution approving the supple ,
ientary article TO the Treaty of Washing.
,n......Mr. Bonner's stallion =" Startle, "oniv
We years old on the 14th, driven by Geo.
hopkins. rotted half a mile on Fleetwood. /
ark, Wednesday, in the marvellous time of ,
04l. This is the fastest half mile by two /.
seconds ever made in harness on Fleetwood
y any horse Of any age. Indeed, it is the :
istest half mile by two seconds ever made c
ny where by any horse except Dexter, who c
nee trotted half mile in exactly the same
me......A private dispatch from Scranton, |
a., reports that another re-damp explosion 9
at an early hour on Wednesday g
orning, at the Belleview shaft, killing y
irec men instantly, and wounding many .
hers. Z
A DISPATCH from Scranton, Pa, May I6, !,
Us: Persons just returned from the scene r.
the terrific mountain fire in the neigh Dor. r.
bod of Tobyhanna report that the village y
as entirely surrounded by fire on Wed mes. :,
~. The villagers mustered all their force, u
I'd beat back the fire until they got il =,
1dcr control. Had it not been for a large -
vamp intervening between tho town and n
. fire, there is no doubt but the whole of p
,byhanna would have been DESTROYED. y
ne inhabitants aud those who have been ~
ere assisting them have had a terrible =,
eek of Il, some Of tho man not haxinr aIent VI