The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-07-19
NEWS SUMMARY.



ming, near Boston, July 5.
Margaret Elliott murdered her daughter
Jane, aged II, 1t New York, July s. by strans-
ling her to death.
Near Utica. N. Y, July 6, barn in which .
party of railroad laborers had taken shelter
was blown down, and two OF the laborers killed
and several seriously injured.
The reported consolidation of the Erie and
Central railroads, and the elevation Of Com
modore Vanderbilt to the head OF the new
corporation, turns out to be without founda-
ton.
The deaths in Philadelphia for the week
ending July numbered Team increase over
the preceding week Of $50. One-half we're
children under one year.
Judge John H. McCunn died in New York.
July 6. from nervous prostration. the result Of
his modification and grief at being removed
from office by the State Senate on the ground
OF corruption and malfeasance. Judge McCunn
left an estate valued at e3, 100000.
Three boys were killed by an explosion of
fireworks in South Boston. July5.
A policeman was beaten to death by gang
Of rowdies in New York. on the night of
July 2.
In one day, last week, twenty-three boys
were sentenced to the Penitentiary, in q New
York city court.
E. L. Sauderson, lawyer, sues the Brooklyn
Union for libel, claiming $50, 600 damages
A man fell from the top of the Brooklyn
tower of the East river bridge, q distance of
100 feet the other day, and, strange to relate.
was uninjured.
Cuban war vessel, heavily armed was
captured at Newport, R. l., July 8, by a
United States revenue cutter. and taken into
New York. What disposition the Government
will make Of her is not yet stated.
The much mooted question of the Erie man.
agement has been finally settled by the cleo
ton Of P. H. Watson, Of Ohio. President and
Gen. Devin, Of New York, vlce-President.
They are in the interest of the English stock
holders.
An explosion in the iron works at Quaker
town. Pa, July 3, killed three persons and
seriously injured several others.
The daily New York Standard has suspended
publication. This makes about 100 daily Jour-
mails started and suspended in New York within
aquarter Of . century, after precarious ex-
istence. The capital sunk in them has not
been less than s25 100000.
The great trot at Fleetwood Park, New York.
on July 3. between Goldsmith Maid. Lucy,
Henry and American Girl was won by the Girl
in three straight heats. Time-2:21. 2:19Ix,
2:24. After the second heat, Goldsmith Maid
was allowed to withdraw. on the claim that she
had cut her quarter. Sporting men, however,
lie md ~, . "a
her merits. the slight crack in her heel on |
which she was withdrawn being regarded as q |
mere subterfuge. The time made is the best |
ever accomplished over the Fleetwood course,
and good judges claim that. considering the |
track. it equals the best Of Goldsmith Maids
performances.
The new directory of the Erie railroad are
going to inaugurate some healthy reforms in
the management of their road. Their first
side-shows, the oil companies, car-buiding
companies. and other concerns that have been
sucking Erie's lfe-blood. The opera-house
and the Twenty-third street Office are to be
sold. and the company will go back to its less
rretentious Office at the foot Of Duane street.
where its real business has always been
done.
The large brewery firms of Windenmayer x
Sons and Philip Brock, Of Newark, n. j., are
reported to have failed. The Liabilities of the
former are sl5O.OOo; OF the latter, $4,000
Patrick Morrissey has been convicted. at
Buffalo, Of murder in the first degree. for
killing his mother
James Burns has been tried at New York on
the charge Of murder, for killing John HALO
ran, and acquitted on the ground of insanity.
The prisoner was Immediately committed to
lunatic asylum.
David Paul Brown, the eminent Philadelphia
lawyer, is desd.
An earthquake shock was sensibly felt in
various portions Of Eastern New York on the
18th of July.
The West.
Two boys were drowned in Luding creek.
July7
There lie a general strike among the lumber
men Of Saginaw mich. valley, and the mills
are silent. Employers and employees each de-
clare their firm determination not to bulge.
The strikers are orderly and quiet.
At Cincinnati, July T. Rev. Samuel J.
Browne, aged s6 years, shot and killed bow
OF IL years who had entered his premises to
recover baseball that had been thrown over
the fence. There was much excitement in
the immediate neighborhood. and a strong l
disposition manifested to lynch the aged muir I
derer. q
Two men were drowned while bathing. near 4
Moline, ILL.,. July I.
District Attorney Bates Of Utah, has pro- q
vided Grand jury with view to present in {
against several prominent Mormons
for viola fion NJ fha III ms L. "a 1910