The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-05
NEWS SUMMARY.



The East.
Mayor CASTOR. Of Boston, has vetoed tn
order passed by the City Council for opening
the public library on Sundays.
The Japanese Government are having five
twenty bonds and greenback currency en-
graved by the New York Bank Note Company
under the direction Of Clews 4 Co. Monthly
shipments are now going forward to Japan
About s1o, OOO, 900 have already been sent
II may be authontatively stated, saws New
York telegram. that there is absolutely nc
foundation for the report that Miss Nellie
Grant has become engaged to Scottish Lord
Paul f. Lowe. con Of ex-Gov. Lowe, Of
Maryland, has been bailed in $50. 1000, at New
York. to answer for shooting VIM. Devlne.
The New York Express says grand national
reunion Of the Greeley editors is to be held .,
Baltimore on July9.
Robert Kirkwood, q prominent citizen OF
Pittsburgh. was shot dead ON his own porch,
while surrounded by his family, on June q, by
man named Flanders, because he refused to
fulfill marriage engagement with the assas-
sir q sister.
In Philadelphia, last week, q young man
named George Welsh shot and instantly killed
his mother. while sitting at the supper table.
He is supposed to be insane.
The saltwater wooden mills, near Providence,
R. l.. were burned June %. Loss, $3.50, 900.
Lizzie Garrabrandt's death sentence has
been committed to imprisonment for life BY
he New Jersey Court of Pardons.
Two persons were killed and several injured
by the explosion of q steam lighter at New
London. CT, June2a.
Rev. E. L. ". Jones, wealthy Pittsburgh
clergyman, goes to the workhouse for three
years for swindling widow lady.
Three boys, aged 8, IL and IS years. respec.
lively, we're drowned at Albany, NY, June %,
while bathing in the Hudson.
clever swindler named Price has been
swindl;ng Jersey farmers by selling them lots
in Communipaw that did not belong to him.
He realized $500
Stephen Camberling, one of New York's old.
est lawyers. died in that city June Is, aged 80.
The usury law, which has stood upon New
Hampshire's statutes 200 years, has just been
repealed, and the rate Of interest fixed at
per cent.
Chauncey johnson, of New York city, said to
be the champion sneak-thief of the country,
has just received . ten years sentence in Sing
Sing.
After exhausting panel Of $50 citizens q
jury was finally obtained In the Stokes case. at
New York, on June 26, and the trial proceeded
with.
Three thousand yards Of struggled lace
nicely sealed in milk cans, was seized on the
steamer Russia, At New York, the other day.
In three-mile single scull-boat race at wor-
cester, Mass, June 26, Ellis Ward made the
best time on record-21:3S.
The widow Of the late James Fisk, Jr., was |
followed and booted At by New York mob,
he other day, under the impression that she !
vas Josephine Mansfield.
The New York straw goods house of Baldwin,
Rice Co. has failed for q, 100000.
Harvard College has conferred the degree Of |
IL. D on President Grant.
David Murphy was sentenced. at New York,
he other day, to be hanged in August. Within
hree hours after sentence had been pro.
the Supreme Court, in session in an
adjoining room, granted the oulpnt q new
rial.
The convicts-some 1900 in number-in the
Albany IN. ~ Penitentiary threatened SELF
'us revolt on June 81. For q time they re-
used to obey orders, tut the military having
'een ordered in, the fractions culpnts con.
luded to resume work.
The West.
By the explosion Of q boiler within the walls
Il the Ohio Penitentiary, at Columbus, on
Iune q, about fifty convicts were more or less
njured-some half . dozen, it is feared,
atally.
Henry Ryan, aged 10, was drowned in the
liver at Dubuque. Iowa, on June Goth, while
bathing.
James Keagh, an old man Of 80 years, hung
himself in Sangamon county, ILL.,, last week.
The schooner Jamaica, bound from Milwau-
zee to Oswego. capsized and sunk in Lake
iuron, on June 20. The crew, with the ex-
option Of the cook, woman, we're saved.
At Big Rapids, Mich, on June 20. VIM. Nc
iregor was caught in the machinery Of a mill
nd torn to pieces.
\. B. Latta, notorious counterfeiter. has
cen convicted at Madison, Wis.
A San Francisco dispatch Of June a says
Dr. q. Rogers, recently Of Chicago, appeared
'st night at the wdman's Suffrage Convsn.
on, half his face shaved, the other bali hay
,g beard and whiskers He announ ,ed that
did 1t In recognition Of man being half wo-
ian and half man. He was arrested and sent
} the insane asylum"
An explosion occurred during the progress
a fire in liquor store in Chicago. on June
!. killing two patrolmen, and seriously in. :
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