The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

East river, New York, on the 9th ull, kill
ing six persons, including the captain and
engineer...... The strikes among the working
men in New York still continue. the
piano-nakers, cabinet-makers and pattern
makers are the latest strikers Tor the eight
hour system......D DR.. Andrew J. Lynn, Of
Boston, has been held to bail in $40 900,
charged with procuring an abortion, result
ing In death, on Sarah Brown, young lady
belonging TO Fitcaburg...... The boiler Of the
Gordon Company's Bleaching Works, Phil
adelphia, exploded on the eth ult killing
the engineer and woundipg Eve other per-
sons......A riot occurred in Jersey City, on
the 9th ult., between . body Of eight-hour
strikers and men who had taken their
places. Three men were wounded. The
riot was suppressed BY the police.
OvrR thirty persons were more or less
injured by the explosion of the tug Epsilon,
ct New York, on the 9th ult......A terrible
triple tragedy occurred at New York on the
3sth ult. One Trefsy,a baker, stabbed his
wife fatally with . dirk, and then stabbed
her ,paramour, Franz Linderman. winding
up by cutting his own throat. All three
will probably aie.. .... Lyman Tremaine, John |
D. Townsend and Henry Daily, Jr, have |
been retained % Stokes counsel Over |
10000 workingmen are on . strike for eight |
hours, in New York. They are quiet and |
confident OF the ultimate success of their |!
movement. bids for supplies for the In |
dian Department were opened in New York |
on the 2Stn uit. Bids for 27,Oo0, 900 pounds |
Of beef on the hoof, delivered at different |
agencies during the year, ranged from l.S4 |
to 81 per 100 pounds. An award will be |
made at from 81 SO to $500 per 100 pounds.
Bids for 100000 pounds of -four, delivered
at the agencies, range from Sass to 81 per
100 pounds..-...Capt. Samuels' famous yacht
Dreadnaught, which originally cos. SOS, 900,
was sold at New York, the other DAY, for
$4,000.
TIE Brooklyn schutzen corps will start
on June 20, for Hanover, to take part in the
German National Schutzenfest, in father
land.....Two mines of the Delaware and
hudson Company, one at Carbondale and
the other at Olyphant, Pa, suspended oper-
atoms IN order to reduce the production of
coal. The two mines throw out of employ
msnt 200 men and boys, and decrease the
production of the company 5000 tons per
day......Faber 4 Co.'s lead pencil manuiac-
tory was destroyed by FIRE, in New York, on
the 2sth ult. Loss, 100000.
THE Democrats of Pennsylvania have
nominated Hon. c. r. Buckalew for Cover .
nor....-Strikes among the workingmen Of /,
New York still continue, with no prospect :
OF speedy settlement of the troubles... !
Brick Pomeroy has mandamused each :
member Of the New York Board of Audi
tors, to compel the p ayment of his bill for y
city advertising. The claim amounts to Z
between $4,000 and $4,000. While some =
workmen were roaming an oil we'll, near | :
Oil City, Pa, last week, there was a sudden !.
How of oil and gas, and an explosion occur
red in the derrick, blowing the men odtside i
to considerable distance, and setting them
on FIRE. Two of them we're killed, and two
seriously burned. a.
The West. j.
Two BOYS named Mann and Hight were al
in Catfish river, at Rockdale Mills. =
Iowa, on the 25th ult., while in bathing, ca
making seven drowned in that vicinity in la
rs many days.. Wheat in Northern lndi- T
ana has been greatly improved by the re-
cent rains. Flax is being devastated by
little three year-old daugh- ~
Ter Of Mr.. Tobias, OF Springfield, ILL.,, fell ds
into cistern and was drowned, On the 9th Al
nlt..... Edward Plan was ran over bv a 40
freight train at Peoria, ILL.,, on the 18th il
alt, an d instantly killed.. Martin Flynn, Al,
IF De Moines, Iowa, left on the 9th ult ~
With large force of men, horses, and impe- an
nents, TO commence work on a mammoth IN
contract which he has taken on the Wiscon- a.
in Central railroad. His contract is for $40 60
niles OF read bed, from Duluth to Stevens M,
Point. The time for fulfilling the contract
) two years.
YOUNG man named Woods was killed at
darion, Ind, on the 9th ult, by the falling Co
+ tree; and on the Goth, near the same I'M
lace, a youth named Caleb Boots was no
rushed TO death by a large stone falling on SUI
i'm. in stone quarry ......Joseph Slavery, au
n Englishman, committed suicide at Joliet, eli
H., on the 18th ult, by drowning himself An
n the canal. The Houghton lake su- VII
'erior) mining troubles are over, and the to
Military have been withdrawn.....T The agi- ne
alton among the mechanics has extended Or
, Cleveland, Ohio, and . number of the
AIDES are on q strike for an advance of
ages. LOT
A NAN named Charles Sackrider commit 10
ID suicide on the 10Th ult, BY jumping into bil
axe Huron from the propeller winslow...... H Me
Myers, travelling agent for Boston Jew. NJ
ny establishment, was robbed Of a, 900, at
he Plankenton House, Milwaukee,, on the in
9TH ult......The Masonic Grand Codge of In. de,
lana, in session lrst week at Indian . polls, sur
as largely attended, and a good deal Of GRO
nsiness of interest to the order was trans nm,
'ted.. The labor agitation continues to par
'read, having extended TO Cincinnati. The Of
lilors and shoemakers Of that city have we]
ruck for an advance Of wages, and other
AIDES will soon follow.
CAPT. HENRY DEXTER, one OF the Oldest I'm
on the Western waters, died at
Evansville, Ind, last week, from an ry
'erdose Of morphine 1.-THE India napolis Nj Nj
'arndi has passed into the hands Of q new a..
ock company, headed by Mr.. Redmour, .n.
te OF the junction railroad ...... Philip D.
anks, a mail robber, of Des Moines, Iowa, c sI
40 ANIMAL ssno,, ~ 81. ST. In pros
apartment of Ohio shows ~ life insurance A