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


Lackswanna railroad have been arrested for
embezzling the company OF large sums OF
money during the past two yesrs......The
great strike OF the New York workingmen
still continues, with every prospect of sue
Late advices from New York state
that Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, the founder
and proprietor OF the Herald, is hopelessly
ill. His death may be expected at any
moment......The first jury impanelled under
the New York State law providing that the
reading of newspaper shall not be capital
offense in a iror, has been drawn at Pulaski,
in that State.
TaE strikes in the Eastern cities for eight
hours labor and ten hours pay have been
practically successful. The effect upon the
employers will be less serious than was at
first expected, since but few contracts have
yet been made without reference to the pos
sible advance in wages......The New York
Court House Commissioners, on Saturday,
discharged all the workmen mployed on the
new court house building. The men had
not received any wages for the past nine
months......The Daily Register has been
sected as the official paper of New York city,
at $500 q year. The successful bidder was
died at Hudson, n. Y, on the LIST inst, from
poison introduced into his system while at
tending an erysipelas patient.
GEO. LAvERr, convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing officer Lambrecht,
has been sentenced, at New York, to the
State prison for life...... VIM. H. Wadleigh,
discount clerk in the Merchants National
Bank, Boston, is a defaulter to the amount
of Ss7, O0o......Fred. Douglass residence, g.
Rochester, n. Y, was burned on Sunday,
June 3
AT Rochester, n. Y, on June 5, q floor of
brewery gave way, with large quantity
of grain, and an immense mash-tub filled
with boiling liquor. Five men were fatally
injured, two of them being scalded to death.
......On Monday night, June 3, Mrs. Jane
Farley, in q nj of jealous dependency, cut
her throat at a friends house, in New York,
dying in q few moments.....The German
Brewers Association met at New York, on
Wednesday. June 5. Brewers were present
from every State in the Union. They repre-
sent capital of $500 900, 600...... Herr Franz
Abt, the great German composer, is on
tour out West, where he is being feted like
prince.
ELEVEN thousand dollars in United States
bonds was burned in the house Of Frederick
Douglass, at Rochester, on June 2......The
workingmen Of Boston are about to inaugu-
rate movement looking to the establish
ment of the eight-hour system. The Phils-
delphia mechanics are also beginning to
agitate the matter.....Alfred Eugene La
Grave, a Broome street New York; mer-
chant, has left for parts unknown, leaving
unpaid debts amounting to $500, 900. A. T.
stewart, H. B. Claain L Co., and other large
dealers, ere sufterers..-.-A Bridgeport Comm
dispatch states that Capt. Colvocoresses, of
the United States Naval Retiring Board, who
was murdered on the night of June 3, was
robbed of his watch and about $40, 900.
Capt. Colvocoresses had insurance on his
life amounting to over 100000.
TEE famous La Garde Republieaine Band,
of Paris, arrived at New York on the 6tn
inst, en- route for the great Boston Jubilee.
The band numbers ffty-fve pieces, and is
esteemed the finest mus cal organization in
Paris......Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault will open
At Booths New York Thester in September.
......A daring attempt TO rob the Firs.
National Bank of Jersey City, on the night
Of June 6, was discover d and frustrated by
the vigilance and sagacity Of a womsn....
A New YORK dispatch Announces that Just
before the landing OF the French band,
about seventy-five French Communists made
hostile demonstrations sgainst them at the
pier, but the police dispersed the Commu-
ns;s and furnished the band with an escort
to the Boston bost......The Philadelphia gas
works stokers are on strike, and tears are
entertained that the city will soon be in
utter darkness.....The vicinity of Boston
was visited by severe storm on the night
of the 5tn inst. Seversl vessels are reported
wrecked, and many lives lost......The eight
hour strike in New York still progresses.
Over 10000 men have taken part in the
t-tL ali he rnidd1a of MAJ nj foo.
1900 TO 10000 still remain Idle.
The West.
JOIN sorER is under sentence Of death, at
Pontiac, ILL.,, for the murder Of William
Rollings....P. d. Banks, of Page county,
Iowa, has been sentenced TO ten years in the
penitentary for robbing the mails......A
little girl fell into barrel Of scalding slop,
at Peoria, ILL.,, last week, and was 80 badly
burned that death ensued shortly afterward.
...... Henslee, the wife, murderer, has been
sentenced to twenty years at hard labor, at
Jacksonville, Ill.....The Supreme Court of
Indiana has affirmed the decision Of the
Franklin Circuit Court by which Werner
Bailey was sentenced to Imprisonment for
life fer being an sccompIice Of Macdonald
Cheek, in the murder of Thomas Harrison,
near Laxrenceburg, in 1s70......A son Of Col.
Taylor, Paymaster United States army, sta
toned at Leavenworth, Kansas, was foully
murdered in that city, by some unknown
parties, on the night Of the 3lst ult.
TnE vicinity of Springfield, Ill, was visited
by an unprecedented rainfall on the night
Of the I'd inst, doing a vast amount Of
damage.....A terrible thunder storm, ac-
companied by rain and wind, passed over
Terre Hau,e, Ind, last week, doing immense
damage The Office of the Guz<tts was nm
roofed......It il announced that the muir
derers of Hon. Sharon Tyndale, at Spring
field, ILL.,, have teen discovered, after q years
ceaseless search by shrewd detectives.
Charles Cunning and James Kennedy, at
present serving out sentences in the peni-