The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-19

the avowed intention OF going on the war path
Troops are pursuing. Many depredations are
reported.
A fearful tragedy was enacted near Celina
Mercer county, Ohio, on the 9th Of July. Two
msn, named Jacob Kimu.el and Alexander
Mcleod. and youth, brother Of Kimmel, had
been guilty Of violating and subsequently
numbering q girl Of fourteen years Of age, liv-
ing in Celina. and were in Jail awaiting trial.
mob Of between two and three thousand
people gathered at the Jail. overpowered the
Sheriff, forced the doors, took the three pris-
oners out Of town and hanged two Of them,
but, through the iuterposition Of the brothel
Of the murdered girl, the youths life was
the two men were being hung, farmer re-
siding about two hundred yards from the
scene committed suicide by cutting his throat
with butchers knife.
A fire ut indianapolis. July 8, destroyed
Mossler Bros clothing house, involving loss
Of $4,000.
Leander Stratton and H. Kennett were
bathing in the canal.
The number of deaths in Chicago for the
week ending July 10 was 372-an increase of
l0l over the week preceding; 2sl were chill
drcn under one year Of age.
The stove manufacturers were in nationa
session at Cincinnati last week. John s.
Perry, Of Albany, presided. The amount Of
Il ,xoAs e.
in the United States was stated at $50, OOO, 900,
giving employment to $50, 900 men.
w. D. Richardson. Of Springfield, has hired
$50 Of the Illinois Penitentiary convicts for
five years, at SIN cents per day.
Rev. Samuel ]. Browne, who shot and killed
the boy Schick, at Cincinnati, last week, has
been bailed in $4,000.
Two ladies' were drowned IN Walnut creek,
near Topeka, Kansas, July 10, while bathing.
Two persons (colored) were killed at Madi-
son, Ind, July IL, by gas explosion.
Oscar and Pliny Whitcomb. aged 16 and Is,
were drowned while bathing, near Geneseo
H., July 10.
Two men were killed by lightning at Bell
flower Station, ILL.,, July IL.
And still they come. John Summers, Of
Milwaukee, while bathing in the canal, July
II, sank to rise no more-alive.
A brother Of the man Dorman, who COM
mitted suicide near where the Mercer county
(Ohio) mob hung Ri nmell and Mcleod, killed
himself by cutting his throat with Q razor, on
the 18th inst. 1t is supposed that both of them
we're in some way connected with the murder
of Miss Secore. The excitement still continues
high In that section.
The South.
Walter s.. Overton, long connected with the
press Of Louisville, and of late the Washing
ington correspondent OF the Courier-JournaL,
died in Louisville. July 9, Of fistula.
Thomas Smith. colored, will hang at Louis
vile. Sept. Is, for the murder of Mrs. Braden,
in May, 1871.
VIM. Cain was crushed to death 1T Louis
vile, last week, by an iron mould weighing
|, 1000 pounds falling upon him while he was at
the bottom of pit twelve feet deep
VIM. Hagmann suicided at st. Louis. July
;, by jumping into TIE nver from ferry
boat. About the same hour. Mrs. Ellen Allen
poisoned herself with PARIS green. Cause. in
10th whisky.
The caterpillar is playing havoc with the
otton fields in some portions of Alabama.
John h. Lane, Of Illinois, stopped at Itch
ield, Ky, last week, wrote on slip of paper.
Old Death, salute thee" took . dose of
and shufied OF his mortal COIL
Seven persons were killed outright, and sew
ral dangerously injured by . bridge giving
vay beneath a railroad train. near White Sui
thur Springs, W. Va, on the 18th Of July.
The caterpillars, in unusually large numbers,
ave appeared all through the cotton belt of
three weeks earlier than ever be- |
ore. The same report comes from South |
'arolina. There is much depression among |
he planters in consequence.
Stilson Hutchins has sold his one-third in
crest in the St. Louis Times to Henry Ewing
or SO, 1000.
Washington.
Mrs. DRAKE MILLS. the mother-in-law of |
Ion. Fernando Wood, fell out Of the window
the Metropolitan Hotel, July 5, and was
atally injured.
A Washington telegram of the 9th inst.
avs The sensations of the day have been
ne suicide of War Department clerk, the
teral carving up of one negro by another,
nd the falling of three derricks, each nearly
ne hundred feet in height, at the new State
department., among the laborers at work on
ne lower story. By this last accident several
ere killed and many wounded
The District Court has awarded s23O, 1000
rize money for the destruction of the rebel
I'm Albemarle.N
It is announced that the postal cards will
OF be ready for month yet.