The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-14

press Of ST. Louis. His body was horribly
mutila,ed. 49,. Hon. Ben. ]. Stanton,a Prcmi-
nent politician and formerly Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, and for eight years a
member Of Congress, died mt Wheeling, w.
Va. on Monday, June 3, aged 6S.....A dis.
patch from Gen. Howard to the Secretary OF
War states that at council held with the
Mexicaus, Poppsgoes, Pimos, and Apsches,
in Arizona, a pesce has been agreed upon,
the Indians agreeing to stop further raids
and aid Gen. Crook in capturing incorrigible
Indians. Gen. Howard says that success
now appears sure......A most daring and sue
cessful burglary was committed in Chicago
on the night Of Saturday, June l. the store
of C. A. Morse, ?23 West Madison street,
having been robbed Of jewelry aud silver
plate to the value of $4,000. The store was
COM pletely Quilted of everything except the
clocks. Strange to say, the urAia'y was
not discovered till Monday morning. No
clue to the perpetrators had been discovered
At last accounts.
Ar Dubuque, Iowa. on the night Of the Sd
inst, a negro named Blatchford was shot
and instantly killed oy his son, who mistook
him for a burglar-....The house o. David
Danley, at Farley, Iowa, was struck by
lightning and burned down, last week......
Five Michigan railrcads-the Flint and Pere
Marquette, the Bay City and East Saginaw,
the Holly, Wayne and Monroe, the Flint
River, and the Cass River-have been con-
solidated into one corporation, under the
name OF the Flint and Pere Marquette Rail-
road Company......John McLane, a Decatur,
Ind, broker, was shot and killed by man
named Zimmerman on the 4th inst, for AL
legged intimacy with the latter's wife......The
fourth trial of Mrs. Glen, the alleged In
diana polls murderess, was commenced at
Lebanon, Boone county, Ind, on June 5.
......A Andrew Bauer fell into privy vault Of
the st. Nicholas Hotel, at Pittsburgh, on
June 4, and was suffocated in the excrement.
......An unknown man was run over by
train of cars at Bloomington, ILL.,, on June 4,
and literally torn to pieces.....On June 4, an
unknown Swede was run over and killed by
q construction train at Moline, Ill......The
switchmen on the railroads centering in
Chica 60 are on q strike for an increase OF
wages.
NEWCASTLE, Ind, h ad a 1925 900 Ere on the
night of June Late advices from Dakota
Territory state that the workmen on the
Northern Pacific railroad have no trouble
whateve. with the Indians, and the men are
healthy and happy, with the work rapidly
Oregon election has re-
suited in the success Of the Republican
ticket.
REGULARLY organized band of river pi-
rates has been discovered to exist on the
whose operations extend several
hundred miles above and below S. Louis.
Their depredatons, since the opening of
navigation, are said to amount to over
$4,000. The chief and three others of the
L l. ~ osC No.
Anesta, aged 40, was thrown from her buggy
a md instantly killed at Jersey Landing, H.,
On the 9Th inst......T The Detroit Board of
Trade protests against the bridging of the
Detroit river at Crosse Isle......A serious
rave-in occurred in the Emma Mine at
Little Cottonwood, Utah, on the 4th inst,
carrying away floors, aggregating about fifty
feet. There were no lives lost.... Myriads
Of young grssshoppers have appeared in
Weber county, Utah.
The South.
GEORGE F. CLARK, attached to Noyes' cir
Jus, in making an ascension in balloon, at
Memphis, on the 3lst ult, struck against the
Tockson block, when the ropes supporting
he trapeze on which he was seated parted,
citing him fall to the ground, distance of
10 feet, cutting and bruising him in a hor-
.ible manner. Little or no hopes of his re-
.overy are entertained. His parents reside
1t Columbus, 0.
TIE twentieth annual session of the Inter
national Typographical Union assembled at
Richmond on the Sd inst. Eighty-one
subordinate unions were represented, in
>luding three from the British provinces.
The following officers were elected for the
II Il
IF New Orleans; Vice Presidents, E. C.
-rump, of Richmond, and Robert 6. Streat-
n, of Deseret, Utah Secretary and Treas
Irer, John Collins, of Cincinnati; Corre-
spending Secretary, R. A. Hamilton, of
ia......A. o. P. Nicholson, an old
time politician Of Tennessee, has just had
his political disabilities removed.
A FIRE in Pulaski, Tenn, on June 5, de-
,troyed $4,000 worth of property.
Parker was killed, and several others in
ured, by the explosion of q locomotive
boiler, at sanderson, Fla, on the 5th inst.
TIE yellow fever has made its annual ap-
pearance at New Orleans, and the United
States troops have been removed. CONNER
.ial circles are very much depressed, as it is
The general experience that an early advent
If the fever is an indication of an extended
spidemic......Tbe employees OF the Texas
Central railroad are on a strike, and nearly
III the engines are disabled by the removal
If portions of the works......The Tennessee
EDITORS were in conclave at Nashville last
week, and had jelly lood time.
Washington.
Born houses Of Congress have reconsidered
heir resolution to adjourn on June 8, and
.xtended the time to june 1O......The Secre-
AIRY Of the Treasury has directed the As
istant Treasurer at New York to withdraw
Il 800 900 Of three per cents......It is an
iounced that the civil service regulations
the appointment Of clerks in the
departments are completed. THE United
States District Court at Washington has
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