The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-01

he had some high words.
THx Kansas House, in Committee Of the
Whole, on Monday, agreed to tho Sen ste
bill providing that nobody shall be hanged
for murder until one year after conviction,
and not then unless the Governor issues the
warrant for execution, which he may never
do unless he 90 elects......At Bowerstown,
Ohio, on Sunday, . desperate young man
named George Clark shot his sister with
rife because she threw snow at him. The
ball passed through her right thigh, just
below the hip joint, and thence nearly
through her left thigh. Clark was arrested.
.....A barn belonging 10 William Freeman,
living about two miles from Darlington
Station, ILL.,, was burned on Saturday even
ing, together with nineteen head of cattle,
six horses, and q large stock of farming
utensils. The fire was caused by the explo-
sion Of non-ex plosive" lantern.....Ad-
vices from Lawrenceburg and Madison re-
port all the gorges broken and the Ohio river
full Of floating ice between Cincinnati and
Louisville......At Horse Bluff, Wis, ON Mon
day, an Irishman named John Murphy
stabbed and instantly killed Nick Cranz, q
German laborer, mistaking him for another
German with whom he had had . difficulty.
......A Mrs. Gordon and her little daughter,
three years old, were 90 terribly burned by
the explosion Of coal-oil lamp, in their
residence at Gayoso, No., lately, that they
both died shortly after......A FIRE at Lima,
o., on Sunday night, destroyed John r.
Ashton's handle factory and ssw.mill. Loss
$40 900; insurance $4,000.
TEE eleventh and last span Of the Union
Pacific bridge at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
completed on Tuesday.
met at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday. One
hundred and fifty delegates were present,
representing seventeen States. Arkansas
and Mississippi were the only Southern
States which sent delegates. 1.-THE bodies of
Michel McCsigue and man named Cavan-
augh, inmates Of the National Military
Asylum at Milwaukee,, Wis.,, were found in
. ravine near that institution on Wednesday
afternoon. The unfortunate men had been
missing about fortnight. They were in
toxicstsd when last seen, and, both being
partially blind, it 10 supposed they lost their
way while returning to the asylum and per-
ishcd from cold..... Mrs. CARLY and child of
Mechanicsburg, O., were burned to death ON
Wednesday, in attempting to start . Ere
with ksrosens....Sweet's Hotel, at Grand
Rapids, the largest hotel in Western Michi-
gan, was partially destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night. The loss is estimated at
nearly 100000.
TIE decision of the Supreme Court of
Nebraska 10 that the present extra session Of
the Nebraska State Legislature is illegal, the
Court holding that the proclamation of Act
| ing-Governor James, revoking the call Of
| the President Of the Senate was authorized.
sees. The spoke factory Of Birnell x Co., and
an adjoining dwelling at st. Msry's, Ohio,
was burned on Wednesday morning. Loss
| $50 900, with no insurance on the factory.
IA fire at Leavenworth, Kansas, on
Wednesday night, destroyed the Brevoort
| light.....Thc National Labor Reform Con-
vention, in session at Columbus, o., closed
it's labors on Wednesday. Judge David
Davis, of Illinois, was nominated for Presi-
dent. and Gov. Joel Parker, Of New Jersey,
for Vice. President......The National Prohi-
bition Mass Convention met at Columbus,
Ohio, on the 23d. One hundred and nine
| States. James Black, Of Pennsylvania, and
John Russell, of Michigan. were nominated
for President and Vice. President, after
| which the Convention adjourned sine die......
Chas. D. Smith, one Of the managers Of the
| National Engineer Association Gift Enter
| prise, was arrested at Milwaukee on Thurs
day morning under the Wisconsin law
against lotteries. This virtually explodes
| the swindle.
Instructions have been issued by the Chief
Signal officer of the Army, to all observers
at stations upon Western rivers, to make
special reports by telegraph Of any sudden
| or unusual change in the rivers. This will
hla eta n NH hat N n faka nraraufi n q
against loss Of property by tie breaking up
| Of ice
The South.
OK Saturday night a fire broke out in
Goodall's boarding house. on Main street,
Memphis, Tenn. Owing to the scarcity of
water the building and several adjoining
ones were damaged to the amount of $l0,-
900; fully insured. Henrietta Conley, col
| ored, employed in Goodall's, was alseep at
the time and was burned to death......A Will
mington, N. c., special says the Lowry gang
raided upon the town OF Lumberton, and
carried off safe from the store Of A. H. Nc
Leod, with $4,000 deposited by various par
| ties for safe keeping, there being no bank in
the town. Valuable papers were taken from
the sheriff's safe. A posse of police attempt
ed the capture Of the thieves, but were too
weak.
HENRY DoRsEr, aged l6 years, living four
miles south Of Memphis, was accidentally
killed on Monday by the discharge Of his
own gun, while attempting 70 shoot wild
cat......All the courts in Memphis have been
compelled to adjourn, owing to the coal fam
| inc.
| A WOMAN named McManus, while walking
on platform at . blast furnace, in Ben
wood, near Wheeling, W. Va, stepped on .
loose board and fell TO the ground, distance
Of rs feet. She was carrying her little boy
in her arms ct the time the accident oc-
| currAd. Tho woman died aoon After. The