The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-02-23


THE son and daughter Of Mrs. Thomas,
ton, N. j., on Saturday $50. Porter and Taos.
Brixley, fashionable burglars. were arrested
in New York on Saturday with the imple-
ments of their profession. They offered
5000 each to the officer 10 be released.
They have heretofore moved in aristosratic
society.....A clerk in the Psymasters Office
Of the Delaware, Lsckawanna and Western
Railroad Company, in Scranton, Pa, alb
seconded on Saturday night with $4,000 Of
the company's funds.....John Henry, q bar
tender, was fatally shot on Saturday night
in lager beer saloon in New York, by
Charles Garvin, who was arrested.
TaE oil-cloth factory Of Potter, Son Co.,
at Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
fire on Sunday night. Loss $loo, 900. ....A
Scranton dispatch says that the Coroner's
Jury in the recent explosion in the Henry
mine, gave a verdict that the explosion re-
suited from q want Of care in ventilation.
..... The City Council OF Springfield, Mass,
has elected Miss 8. J. Williams City Ply
| sician.
THREE young sons Of Mr.. Miller, of Sha-
Tuesday by breaking through the ice &C.,.
Government has commenced an action to
recover $4,000 deficit in the accounts of A,
M Wood, late Internal Revenue Collector of
Brooklyn.....Judge Bedford, of New York,
has sentenced a garroter named McLaugh-
lin to twenty years. hard labor in the
State Prison ...... Charles Gleason and Daniel
Dougherty, the Grafton, Mass, bank rob-
bers, have been sentenced respectively TO
fourteen and thirteen years confinement in
the State Prison. .....Last Friday evening, at
Puce River, in the township of Madison, Is
miles from Windsor, Ontario, Wyetl Stuart
killed Samuel Hamilton by striking him on
the shoulder with an axe, and cleavng him
entirely through the body. He afterward
smashed two ribs in with the axe. The
murderer and his brother, Green Stuart, are
in Sandwich Jail, and will be tried in April
for murder.
ELIPHALEr A. BULKLEY, President of the
Etna Life Insurance Company, died at
Hartford, Conn.,, on the 18th inst. "A ship
canal between Newark, N. j., and New
York, costing $l2,0oO,0O0, is projected ....
The City Sanitary Inspector of New York
reports the death of five members Of the
Brown family occasioned by the occupation
of rooms entirely closed at night, ventilation
boing entirely obstructed, the inhalation OF
poison ous sewer gas, from the use of defec.
tive earthenware pipe, and want of proper
nourishment.
J JUDoE WooDRoFY, Of the United States
Court at New York, has sustained the de.
cision Of the United States Court in Connec
, ticut, adjudicating the Boston, Hartford and
Eric railroad bankrupt......On the night o
the 18th, locomotive boiler exploded Al
, the Susquehanna depot, ON the Erie road
, instantly killing Patrick Mccoy, and Sc
verely scalding or injuring six other per
sons......A fire at Toronto, Ont, on Thursday
night, burned nine out of eleven wholesal,
stores in the "Iron Block" one of the fines
in the city. Loss estimated at $50 600
insured for $3.50 ,oOo...... The dry goods hous,
of Byers 4 Burnett, at Middlesex, Pa, wa
o night. w. A. Henderson, clerk, barrel,
E escaped with his life, he being very badl
burned.
E The West.
s The Rockford, Rock Island and st. Loui
Railroad Company have offered reward O
$500 for the apprehension Of Frederick Be-
: ker and Patrick Halpin, the conductor an
IS engineer Of the freight train, near Alton, o.
n Wednesday last....A lad named Earnes
g Priest, IA years of age, broke through th
e ice en- the lake at Milwaukee on Sunda
v morning, and was drowned.
4 The snow blockade on the Union Pacifi
e still continues between Creston and Washs
Is kie. There is much indignation anon
n merchants and business men that the roa
"a has not before this made arrangements I
- run the mails and passengers over tn
20 blockaded division by the old stage roac
If the railroad would pay, commun icatio
- could be kept open daily, and passenger
u sent round the blockade without difficult,
......A three year old daughter of Michas
q. Gavan was burned TO death at Peoria, III
\, the child in q room while she was froI
e home, and the little ones clothes catchin
u FIRE from the stove, burned her to cindel
v before the mother returned..~..A ne
Of 5000 900 railroad car-shop is about to 60 int
4. operation at Laporte, INDIA & ire at MOI
d ticello, Iowa, on Sunday morning, destroye
= the steam planning and Touring mill I
: Frost, Wood Co., the foundry Of D.
Y Page and two other smaller buildings. Lo
d $4,000 insured for $1,000.
a Tx residence and barn of Mr.. JUL,
Ie Hand, near winona, MINI, were burns
10 about 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Thr,
ot young children lost their lives in the flame
e, The steamer Nashville sunk at Cincil
d natti on Tuesday, injured by the ic
,e She was heavily loaded with groce
- les and furniture, valued at 1880
8 ......Ryan's marine elevator, at Milwa
= kee, Wis, was burned on Tue day. Lo
'e 100000. Partially insured......T hos. Corne
oy who was to have been hung at jefferson Cit
No., on the 18th, has been reprieved
Gov. Brown until April Is, to afford an o
portunity to examine his mental conditio
10 II having been asserted that he was insar
CT MCDONALD CHEEK, recently found guilty
y the murder of Harris, at Brookville, In
- has been granted a new trial on the grou
20 of the incompetency of two jurors. Bo
Ns' housse IF tho 1lliuoia T,aCia1atura ha