The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-11-22

newly appointed Consul to Liverpool, has LEI
for his post Of duty.
DIR. Samuel Ashmore, OF Topeka. Kansa,
in drunken frenzy, recently shot and kille
his wife, and then cut and mutilated he
body In q horrible manner, In an insane on
deavor to take her heart out. II took te
men to arrest and convey the mailman to jail
20 desperately did he struggle.
lafayette w. Graves, editor Of the Licking
ton (Mo.) Intelliyencer, was shot and instant
killed, last week, by Edwin Turner, editor o
the Lexington Register. The difficulty grew
out Of political discussion.
While the horse plague has spent it's forc'
| in the East, and has almost wholly disappeared
in many localities. it IL just beginning to make
itself felt in the West. In Chicago the disease
il rapidly abating. horses are appearing OF
the streets in large numbers, the stage and
street-car companies are resuming travel. and
the streets are beginning to assume theil
wonted business appearance. Less than zoe
deaths have occurred in that city since the
distemper broke out. Milwaukee is suffering
seriously from the prevalence Of the plague. a
natl is terribly afflicted with it, street traffic
being almost wholly suspended. In many Of
the interior cities and towns of Illinois the
epidemic has made its appearance, and is even
spreading in the rural districts.
The Mayor OF Chicago, in view of the possi-
bility Of another conAagration in that city, and
the insecure condition Of insurance, has
urged the Common Council to purchase four
teen large Babcock engines, and four port
able engines for each police station, to
order the construction of . tower with an
alarm bell, to add rs or 100 policemen to the
present force, and to sink well at the end
Of each street running to the river.
Gov. Baker, of Indiana, refuses to issue
to either Neff or Shanks for the
seat in Congress from the Ninth District, but
has decided to leave the contest to the arbi.
lration Of Congress.
Information has been received At Washing.
ton to the effect that work on the Northern
Pacific railroad has been virtually abandoned,
hat the contractors had left and that the
aborers and teams had returned from the end
II the track at Rose Lake, Dakota, thus
eaving 800 miles Of the road to the Missouri,
liver unfinished.
r. c. Mccormick has been elected Delegate
o Congress from Arizona Territory, without
opposition.
At Logsnsport, Ind, last week, Judge D. d.
)ykeman shot and seriously wounded Mai.
Will Z. Moreau, late sponsor to Mr.. OConor
c the Louisville Convention, and now editor
4 the Logansport Sun. The cause of the
hooting was an alleged malicious article pub
shed in the Sun against Judge Dykeman.
uring his abssoce. Moreau, it is said, was |
xpecting the attack, as two Colts revolvers |
ere found on him, and he had besides coat |
mail over his body. The shot will not
rove fatal.
The smallpox is raging to an alarming ex-
snt in ST. Louis, the deaths averaging, it is
aid, from thirty to forty day. The disease
confined to no particular class or locality.
here is not second-class hotel in the city
lat has not had cases, and many Of them are
Ill Of it; twelve cases are reported in one
oteI.
The Southern Minnesota railroad has been
reed into bankruptcy, and o receiver APP
)inted.
The epizeotic has almost entirely disap-
cared from Chicago, the street cars and
are running, and the city il as
rely with equines as ever, the streets ex-
biting a. great number of horse-drawn
shicles as at any time before the appearance
the disease. Cincinnati and Milwaukee
port that they have it bad, nearly all their
luines being Frustrated. In the former
ty. at fire the other day, the en-
mes we're drawn by men. The Milwaukee
re department has purchased six yoke of
Ken.
The Institute Of Architects, in session at
incinnati last week, severely condemned the
ansard roofs. and attributed the spread of
ne Boston fire to these tinder-boxes.
The South.
The second trial Of Mrs. Wharton for pois-
hing young Van Ness, at Baltimore, will COM
ence at Annapolis, Md, in January.
The steamer Katie, ono Of the finest pas
niger boats on the Mississippi, sunk recently
Helena, Ark. She will be raised.
Col. William M. Grosvenor, a prominent
ader and one Of the original organizers of [
Q Liberal movement. has assumed the edto-
u management Of the st. Louis Evening Dis {
Itch.
Jewell, who hes been on trial at Brentsyille.
fAW he LII IL.