The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-28

Bennett Peters, a former wealthy either
Of Chicago, and the inventor and proprietor
Of the once famous Red Jacket Bitters, hal
just enlisted as q private soldier in the reg.
ular army.
BY the explosion Of the raft boat d. A
Mcdonald, on the Mississippi river, oppo.
site MeGregor, Iowa, June Is, about thirty
persons were killed, and . great many
wounded.
The murderer OF Hon. sharousTy ndale, Of
sprinl field. H., has at last been discovered
in the person Of James Kennedy, an Illinois
Penitentiary convict. Gov. Palmer has just
pardoned the culPrit out Of prison, in order
that he may be put on trial for the deed.
The credit Of unearthing the author Of this
foul and mysterious murder is said to belong
to Mr.. Charles T. Askins, . st. Clair county,
ILL.,, farmer, who, obtaining faint clue, pur-
sued il for months, in the lace Of the most dis
couraging obstaclcs-even after the profess
sional detectives had abandoned the scent
until he has succeeded in establishing .
chain Of testimony which, it is claimed, can
not but result in the conviction Of the man
Kennedy.
A Mrs. Logan, residing near Rockford,
H.. last week, in 1T of dependency, super
icduced BY domestic troubles, threw her
babe into the river, and then jumped in
herself, both being drowned.
In boring an artesian well, at Jackson
willie, H., on the 18th inst, a vein of water
was struck, which burst up with such ire
force a. to drive of the workmen.
At last accounts the auger was still in the
we'll. and the water spouting up through q
pipe to the height Of fifty feet.
Reports as to the state of the winter wheat
sown in FIVE Of the prominent North western
States indicate the failure of the crop. In
many instances the crop has been. Flowed
in, being useless but as manure, and in the
cases the yield has scarcely been
,ne- third or one-half of that of last year.
Studebsker Brothers extensive wagon
at South Bend, Ind, was
burned Monday, June IL. Two adjoining
lwei1ing-houses were also consumed. Loss,
ys0, 900.
-Four persons were killed and twenty in
ured BY the wrecking of a construction
rain near Paxton, ILL.,, June II.
At Cincinnati, a few days since, Rev. J. j.
Thompson, pastor of Christie NJ. E. Chapel,
lad his head split open with Ratchet in
he hands of Thomas Bond. Cause-Thomp-
on kissed Bonds sweetheart.
P. T. Barnum is on a temperance lecturing |
our out west The great humbugger lee |
ured the Clevelanders on June IL.
A correspondent, writing from Fort Ben
IN on June ., says the Sioux Indians are
II on the war path, and the wood choppers
nd traders have left the country, not one
between Fort Buford and Camp
ook, a distance of several hundred miles.
dispatch from Fort sully says the Indians
re getting extremely troublesome and it is
lie opinion of men who have been among
rem many years that open war is sure to
,sue this season.
Articles Of consolidation were entered into
Indianapolis, on June IL, by and between
e New York and Western railway, q COM
any organized to build railroad, or rail-
ads, with one or more tracks, within the
.ates Of Indiana, 10 "a, Illinois, and Ohio,
irty Of the frat part, aud the Continental
aiiway Company, a corporation created by
Ie laws Of Pennsylvania The capital
ock of the company is named at
00, 100000 The object is to make trunk
ne from New York to Council Bluffs, con-
,cting by branch or laterals with other
ties.
Chandler 4 Pomeroy, of Chicago, who
i've been running big corner" in oats,
i've come to grief. The corner collapsed
! Tuesday, June Is, and C. i P. are out
me 100000. Immediately after their
lure oats receded from AZ cents to 80 cents
y bushel.
The Apaches in Arizona are again on the
ar path, notwithstanding the late peace
lever.
Myron Bush, a wealthy farmer of Ant
srp, Ohio, shuffied off his mortal coil, the ,
her day, by hanging himself with log
ain. Temporary insanity did it.
Eldorado and Augusta, two rival Kansas
wns, are engaged in fierce county seat
n. The AugustiAns, the other day, armed
d equipped, marched over to Eldorado
tn the fvowed intention of seizing the
unity records. But the Eldoradians were
in arms, and the valiant Augustian army
1t an inglorious retreat without securing 1,
. coveted plumber. They threaten to re-
y the attack, and lively times are looked
Norman B. Judd, ex-member of Congress,
} been appointed Collector of the Port of ,
icago.
The National Division Of the Sons of Tenn
'ance commenced its twenty-eighth an !
al session in Chicago on juno 10. A