The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-08

The East.

works. Pittsburgh, Pa, owned by Jones x
I..ughlip, we're partially burned. The
rrrer rolling mill, with six trains Of rolls,
tbs ankle, bolt, and nut factory, pattern
shors pattcrn storehouse, and foundry were
s!ra,v destYoyed. Tho loss will be from
Ssoo 400 10 $500 900. The works were the
wost extensive in America, afiording en-
njovment TO $500 hands.... Bellefont mills,
i,ranston, r. l., were burned on Saturday.
Loss $50, O00j insurance $4,000.
TIE house Of Henry spinney, Yarmouth
county, N. s., was burned on the 18th inst,
and his five children persisted in the flames.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spi IN uey were absent on visit.
The large sugar refinery Of Bartol x
BARKER, at Marcus Hook, Pa, was entirely
destroved by fire ON Sunday morning. Loss
$3.50 900; insurance sos ,000."...On Sunday
nioht last o farmer named Daniel Kramer,
residing about nine miles west Of Auburn,
Schuylkill county, Pa was brutally muir
dered and his wife left for dead. Mr.. Kra-
mer's son, on entering his fathers house on
with her skull fearfully fractured, and still
living, but unable TO speak. The father
was found about one hundred yards from
the house with his brains beaten out and
frozen TO the ground. No trace Of the MUIR
derers has yet been discovered. The mar
derer robbed the house. Mrs. Kramer can
not recover.
A RESOLUTION has passed the Maine Legis-
lature, requesting the delegation in Congress
from that State to urge the construction of
the Niagara Ship Canal.... Very Rev. Henry
Benedict Coskey, Vicar-General and Ad-
ministrator Of the Arch Diocese of Balti-
more, died in that city on Tuesday evening,
of pneumonia, after an illness of several
weeks, in the Gath year Of his age...... The
New York city charter of the Committee of
Seventy passed the Assembly on Tuesday,
50 to 2S......On Of the storehousos Of the
Harmony Mills, at Cahoes, N. Y, was
burned on Tuesday. Loss $4,000; insured
for $4,000. The fire was caused by spon-
famous combustion.
In the breach of promise case of Sadie E.
wilkinson ys. Brick Pomeroy, the defendant
has filed an answer denying that he ever
solicited plaintiff in marriage; that she is
unchaste, habitually incorporate and of
violent disposition; that she repeatedly
threatened his life with deadly weapons,
and that she was an unfit pereon to marry
anybody ...... Fisk's horses and carriages were
sold at auction in New York on Wednesday.
A large crowd was present. The chestnut
horse Butcher, rode by the Colonel on
parade, brought only $3.50, less than one
eighth his cost. His favoritc carriage team
Of blacks brought $1,000. A clarence that
cost $4,000 brought 81 800. The total re-
ceipts of the sale were about $4,000.
Statements are published in the New York
papers showing that the officers of the Gucr-
riere, while bringing the remains of General
Anderson TO America, INDUCED in q general
carousal, lasting for weeks.....In the first Of
the fifteen suits against the Atlantic Mail
Company, for aggregate penalties amounting
to $4,000, on allegations that cigars have
been landed from its vessels without pay
ment Of duty, Judge Woodruff, of New York,
has given a decision in favor of the United
States...... Ex-Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, has
sued the Brooklyn Eagle for $4,000, for al
legged libel..... Eight roughs, of the Nine
teenth street gang, who nearly murdered
Officer Tully at New York on Sunday, have
been held for trial. One of them, named
Clemens, is heir to $4,000 worth of real
estate in the city, but his mother declined to
60 bail for him. Officer Tally is still in q
dangerous condition......At meeting of the
depositors Of the Bowling Green Savings
Bank, New York, on Tuesday evening, a
proportion from President Smith, to pay
$4,000 as . compromise with the depositors,
was accepted. The amount Of the deficiency
in the bank is $4,000.
Mas. REnsEH sues the Brooklyn Board Of
Health, claiming $4,000 damages for losses
of the services Of her son, who was removed
from her house in January, 1871, TO the
smallpox hospital, where he died...... Brad
ley Grant, the Binghamton, N. Y, farmer,
who had resolved to starve himself TO death,
died on Wednesday, having eaten less than
three ounces Of food in six weeks. The man
had overworked himself to the point of
insanity.
The West.
EIGHT freight cars, belonging to the In
dianapolis railroad, with their contents,
principally dry goods, were burned on the
track at East St. Louis early Saturday morn
ing. Loss about $25, 000...... The covered
bridge on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St.
Louis railroad, near Cambridge, Ind, was
destroyed by FIRE on Saturday night The
bridge was about 800 feet long ...... The ice in
the Missouri river has broken up at Fort
Benton, and the water is rapidly rising.....
At Fort Madison, Iowa, on Friday, Frank,
son Of James Layton well-krown citizen.
hanged himself in his fathers barn, with the
reins Of a bride. He was bright and in
tellectual boy, and highly esteemed by all
of his associates. No cause can be given for
the sudden attack Of insanity.
The Japanese Embassy arrived at Chicago
on Monday, and left for Washington on
Tuesday evening. .....T The body of Mr.. Charles
A. Badger, for many years the clerk of the
fremont House, Chicago, was found floating
in the river in that city on Monday. Mr..
Badger had beeh missing for about six
weeks. 1t is supposed that he committed
suicide. The steamers ]. r. Lockwood and
Silver Bow, lying at the Red River wharf
boat at st. Louis, were crushed and totally
wrecked on Mondsv NIGHT nv an immense
field Of ice from the gorge in the Missouri
river. The wharf-boat and the steamer
Minnie were also somewhat damaged. Loss
$4,000 insurance SAC, OOO... The men ar
rested recently at Van Vert, o., have been
fully identified as Scott and Charest, the