The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

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r,;dav. Garvey testified that Of fraudu-
's,t bill Of $4,000 he only received thirty
g.. ner cent. The remainder was d'stribu-
M "a follows: To Tweed, $5o,o 10 the
tea .r;eus Club, 500 900 TO Woodward, clerk
.ha BOARD of Supervisors, $4,000; and
o. liar amounts to several other parties.
s Mns earning State's evidence Sd endangers
49,! h' safety Of Tweed, Connolly, Sweeney and
.no sat a Ia believed they will all flee from
W.. WV c;ty. George A. Purdy,at Newburg, on
aTThvursday, during a fit Of insanity, attempt
a. 70 xiii his mother and two sisters, maim-
~. them with a fre-shovel, and cutting
them with a razor. lie was hhaiiy secured
w. The nichbors, end sent TO the hospital......
The house Of Captain Bryant, at Machias-
1T Me. was burned on Thursday morning.
Eontaiu Bryant, together with his wife and
two grand. daughters, persisted In the hre.
Mus JANE MADDEN at New York on Satur-
aav recovered So, 900 against the Staten
Island Ferry Company for the death Of her
husband by the Westfeld explosion...In
the harbormaster's investigation at New
york on Saturday one Of the witnesses stated
that he would give $25, 900 for the privileges
enjoyed by one of the harbormasters, of
whom there are eleven in the city.
Ara meeting OF the Directors Of the Erie
railway at New York on Monday, Gen. Dix
was elected President and Gen. Mcclellan
Vice President Of the road. Eight new di-
rectors were also chosen, thus completely
routing Gould and the remainder Of the
thieyes.... Carlo vogt has been arrested at
Philadelphia, charged with numbering
Chevalier Dubois de Bianco, in Brussels, last
October, setting fire to his house and stealing
securities valued at 100000. A portion of
the stolen property was found on Vogt......
The fine residence of Mr.. D. J. Reekie, at
Montreal, was burned on Saturday night.
Loss $50, 900 .....A farmers child near Bid
deford, Me-, last week died Of cold and
starvation while its parents were away
drunk, and a famished hound horribly mutt
lated the corpse.
EYASEuL SHArFNER,of Morrisburg, Pa, who
has been tried for the murder Of his first and
second wives and John Sherlock, by poison
ing, has been convicted OF murder in the
frst degree .. The packing room of the
Merden Malleable Iron Works, at Meriden,
Conn, was burned on Monday evening.
Loss $50, OOO.....At Greenbush, N. Y, on
Tuesday, Samuel Fargue shot his wife dead,
fred at his daughter without effect, and cut
his own throat with jagged, rusty, jack
knife, inficting frightful wound..".. Evil
dence has been given before the New York
Senate Committee that $5,oOO,o 900 full paid
stock of the Beach pneumatic tunnel, New
York, has been issued, mourning an indebt-
edness to that amount for no other considera-
ton than the purchase Of its charter and
patents, and no part used in the construction
Of the road.
TIE lumber yards of II. R. Deacons, Hun
sicker & Co. and Patterson a
Co., at Philadelphia, were damaged BY
FIRE on Tuesday night to the amount
Of 100000; insurance $54 ,OOO......A complete
change in the direction of the New York anc
Mahopac railroad took place on Wednesday
The road comes under the control Of Van
derbit.
A. T. STEWART has arranged for the con
l.. J., this spring, at a cost Of 100000.
The number of firms in New York engage,
under false names in swindling persons b.
means Of lottery, counterfeit money, AM
other schemes, is over five hundred. Tn
Post Office authorities have an alphabetical
list, and are showing increased activity il
fighting the evil. THE Iron City Brewery
Of Pittsburgh, owned by Fraunheim
Feilsch, was seized by the revenue Office
on Thursday for making false returns an
other offenses against the government. TIL
seizure embraced the entire stock, machine
ry and other personal property found on tn
premises, amounting TO about $4,000.
Tho West.
A FIRE at Lincoln, ILL.,, on Thursday nigh
destroyed Thubey's jewelry store; Brewer
Hall, occupied on the lower floor by store
and Houster's Block. Loss estimated
$4,000 to $4,000. Twenty mules wei
brfrpa1 N Aaotb Co ia s,,a fvatvhf ~<
on the Toledo, Wabash and Western raj
road, by the straw on the floor taking fiji
by spark from the iocomotive.....On Sa
urday a stage driver between Stockton an
Jenny Lind, CAL, saw man in the cha]
arral, and recognized him as one Of IL
recent stage robbers. An armed party pu
sued him, when desperate fight ensue
The robber was shot three times, mortal
wounded, and taken prisoner. He admi
that he was engaged in two recent stat
robberies, but refuses to give his name.
LEAvER 4 MERvIs's saw mill, situated
Moline. Mich, was blown up on Monda
Three men named J. Lcaver, j. Staffer, ar
Frederick Huff, were killed, and five othc
injured, some of them quite seriously. III
water was allowed to get too low in u
boiler. The livery establishment Of w.
TORY, at Webster City, Iowa, was entire
destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, CO
sisting of large stock Of buggies al
sleghs, and twelve valuable horses.
insurance......On Saturday night, Micha
Dunn, with son three years old in b
arms, attempted TO cross the st. Louis
vandslia railroad track to East ST. Louis,
front Of an approaching train, and was n
over and fatally wounded. The child Z
capped with the loss Of the toes of the rig
foot....A young man named Joseph Ne
man went to Breeze Lake, ILL.,, on 6und
last, to shoot ducks. Newman discharg
one barrel of his gun at q duck, but I
ether barrel snapped. He then blew in
the barrel TO see if it was loaded, when
diarhasnol M h. lar, If