The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-09-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.
The New York Tribune, referring to Senator
Summers departure for Europe, says his ill
ness, while serious, is not reported as danger
GUS. Among the incidents Of his injuries in
1856 was an Inflammation OF the spinal cord. the
effect of blows on the head. Out of this grew
m abnormal affection of the heart, which re-
ours with overwork, and is only cured by rest
and by restoration Of general health"
John Y. Gerlach was found drowned, at
Philadelphia, the other day. He leaves four
disconsolate widows to mourn his death.
The Board Of Education at Hunters Point,
Long Island, has ordered the Bible to be read il
the public schools every morning, children
whose parents object to the Bible to be allow
cd to remain from school until after the read
ing.
The General Council Of the international
Society will hereafter have its headquarters in
New York city, and Karl Max, the most prom
inent among the International leaders, will
henceforth reside in that city.
The feeling is strong among the New York
detectives and reporters that Forester, re-
Gently arrested at Washington. is the real
murderer Of Benjamin Nathan, and that a chain
OF evidence will be worked up that cannot but
result in his conviction.
The statue of Sir Walter SCOTT, designed for
Central Park, has arrived at New York.
DR.. Schoeppe, recently acquitted at Carlisle,
n Ia - N,sa ha
fled a caveat to the will OF deceased.
box containing $4,000 worth Of counter
felt notes. and plates for the manufacture Of
the queer, was seized in Brooklyn express
Office the other day.
The National Association Of Iron Manufac-
turers was in session in New York last week.
They adjourned to meet at Philadelphia in
January next. The meeting was largely at
tended.
Edmund Yates, the author, arrived at New
York from England the other day.
Newark, N. j., has had q destructive fire.
Loss, 100000.
Justice Henry Hogeboom, of the New York
Supreme Court, and an eminent jurist, is dead,
aged Ga.
Bishop Manton Eastburn, of the Episcopal
Church, died at Boston last week.
Horace Greeley visited st. Johnsbury. w.,
Last week, during the State Far, and delivered
IN address upon agriculture.
arrived at New York, including Pauline Lucca
and Clara Louise Kellogg. Mdme. Lucca
speaks English fuently, and is said to be the
most vivacious of all the prima donnas who
have visited our shores.
the West.
Mr.. L. D. Drew died at San Francisco, . few
days since, from the effects of q cancer FRO
duced by . friend pinching his arm eighteen
months ago. He had submitted to three am
putations without avail.
The news from the West is full of accounts
Of Indian depredations. A Sioux City tele-
gram states that band of Indians who were
engaged in the fight with Maj. Baker, in the
Yellowstone valley, recently came into the
Cheyenne Agency They report their own
loss at eleven men killed. and Bakers loss at
over forty killed and wounded, and say he was
so badly crippled as to be obliged to return to
Fort Ellis without having accomplished the
object Of the expedition. The redskins are
still committing depredations in Southern
Utah. In Arizona tho Apaches are on the
rampage, numbering. robbing, and stealing
Unfortunately. Lisuts. Riem and Stewart
have been murdered near Tucson, and Cor
poral Black captured aud tortured to death.
The Texas cattle fever is spreading in Nor
gan and the adjoining counties of Illinois.
Hon. Samuel Caldwell, prominent citizen
of Peoria, Ill.,, and late Representative ia the
Legislature, has been adjudged insane.
The Art Exposition at Cincinnati has been
largely attended, and has proved q grand
success.
Murder and lawlessness have grown so
alarmingly frequent in Chicago as to arouse
the people of that city to the necessity of
taking some measures for mutual protection
against the assassns and robbers that infest
the town, and with that view a call has been
published, signed by seventy Of the most
prominent citizens, for a public open-air
meeting. Vigilance committees, lynch law,
and other strong remedies are loudly talked
of as the most effectual means Of meeting
the emergency.
Gen. Sheridan telegraphs from Duluth,
MIMI. that the Yellowstone expedition, started
out by the Northern Pacific railroad managers,
is failure, the engineers refusing to proceed
further than the mountains Of the Yellowstone
Valley, fearing an attack by Indians.
One Of the men summoned for Juror in
the Fair trial, at San Francisco, stated to the
court that he had been approached by per.
son who offered him 81 200 if he would secure
aplace on the jury and vote for the acquittal
Of the accused. The briber was promptly
arrested and held TO answer the charge of