The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-01

Bucxaour, the murderer, was executed at
white Plains, N. Y, ON Friday. He be-
,rsved no fear Of death, and said he was
.on,spt to die. "A woollen mill at Peter
horo. N. H., caught Hre by spontaneous
combustion on Thursday, and was wholly
Sestroyed. An operative named Mrs. Ellen
Tnton was burned to death. The mill and
s.pck were insured for 81, 000.....In New
Work ON Tuesday w. J. Pollock was arrested
md held 10 bail in the sum Of 900 for al
iaged smuggling operations in linen and
;uss Goods ...... Richard OGorman has been
Jya's,scted President of the New York Board
nf Commissioners of Immigration. ....A col
;sion occurred on the C0nnellsville rail-
road, At Layton's Station, Pa, on Taursday,
by which two freight trains were toiescoped,
J. Nurtenny, tho engineer vas fatally IN.
;ured, and four carloads Of live stock were
killed.
Carr. LEONARD HsmHINa, of Elizabeth, N.
+. was accidentally shot. on Friday, by his
son. IL years old, probably fatslly......Ths
challenge of the Atlanta for four-oared
shell race ON the Thames is accepted by
the London Rowing Club. Six men will be
taken TO England by the New Yorkers".:..
Henry Hepner, Of New York, who recently
shot his son and then attempted TO kill him
r. bartholomew killed Charles F. storer, Of
Chelsea, Mass, ON Sunday, by stabbing him
twice in the breast with large knife. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
AUTHORITY has been received from the
Treasury Department. for an investigation
into the affairs Of the exploded Eighth Ma
tioual bank of New York......In tho Pitts
burgh breach of promise case, Mrs. Vankirk
Us. johnson, the jury has given verdict for
$500. Both parties appear TO be sat SIZED
The receiver Of the Lorillard Fire In
sursnce company Of New York, has declared
payable on demand.....The Pennsylvania
Democratic State Convention will be hold at
Reading on May 80.
Ar Jersey City, the Grand Jury have
found ITO indictments, most Of which are
against the ringites of that city and county
for peculation Of the public funds...... United
States Attorney Davis has not yet taken any
action upon the orders Of the Attorney Gem
eral to prosecute the New York Custom
House officials who are guilty of bribery,
but states that at the next term Of the
courts he will take steps to have the culprits
indicted.
A PASSENGER car on the Delaware and
Lackawanna road, near Binghampton, N. Y,
was thrown down an embankment rs feet
high on Tuesday morning, by reason of q
broken rail. Several passengers were seri-
ously injured....... The Coroner's jury at
Hempsted, Long Island, on Tuesday rem
dered verdict charging Hannah NJ. Fowler
and Geo. Fowler, a younger brother OF her
husband, with causing the death Of the lat
ter by arsenic, large quantities Of whicn it
is said were found in the liver and kidneys
of the deceased. Foster, the car-hook
murderer, of New York, has been sentenced
to be hanged March 22.....The oil manufac-
tory of D. G. Beggs, in New York, was
burned on Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000.
ION Friday morning, at Brownsville, Pa,
a fire destroyed Wilgers's shoe and hat store,
Devcre and Co.'s clothing store and build
ing, Gummerts building, Duncan's furniture
store, Story's saloon, and a barber shop.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
IN New York city on Wednesday an octo-
genarian named Margaret Watson, while
ndulging in her habit Of smoking in bed,
set the bed on Ere, and was burned to death.
comprising three Police commissioners,
three Fire Commissioners, and the Chief of
Police, were on Wednesday arrested and
held TO bail, some in $4,000, and some in
S4,O00.....R. A. Streets cotton knitting
mill and Coffin 4 simpsons -four mill, At
Kenwood, near Albany, N. Y, was burned
on Thursday afternoon. Total loss about
$4,000; partially insured......A fire at Selin g
Grove, Pa, Thursday night, destroyed
twelve dwellings, Eve stores, q Baptist
church, and twelve stables aud barns. Loss
100000.
The West.
The California Assembly (Republican) by
vote Of 81 to IL, has passed resolution
asking Congress to permit the levying of a
special mining tax on Chinese. The Senate
(Democratic) has passed the same to engross-
ment.....The shooting Of James Trimble q
few days since, by the guard of the Adams
Express Company, was the termination Of Q
series Of robberies of their cars Of thousands
OF dollars worth of jewelry. Through his
confession the greater portion Of the goods
have been recovered.....Two freight trains
on the Toledo, Wabash and Wastern railroad
collded near Milmine Station on Friday.
Tony Figaro, brakeman, had one arm broken,
and John Patterson had . leg broken, and
the engines and q number Of cars were badly
used up. On the same road freight train
run into car loaded with iron which was
standing upon side track near Carthage.
Engineer Steele, the fireman, and brakeman
were badly injured.....The body OF Henry
A. Sweet, son Of Alanson Sweet, an old resi-
dent Of Milwaukee, was found frozen be-
tween Superior and Bayfield,, . few days
since, where he had gone to look after prop
erty......The first Of The riot murder cases at
Los Angeles has resulted in verdict Of not
guilty, the District Attorney stating that he
had only Chinese testimony to offer, which
was not reliable. The defense introduced no
witnesses......A grinder employed in the
reaper works Of F. H. Nanny, ct Rockford,
ILL.,, on Thursday, wss caught in q belt from
shaft, revolving at the rate Of seventy five
revolutions . minute, and almsst instantly
killed. His head was crushed, and his bones
badly broken. The deceased was swede