The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-21

Elgin, Ill.,, receives $4,000. She was the
frat white woman who settled in Fox River
: allev. Another case OF emosienai In
lanity comes 10 10 from San Frsncisco. :.
II. Mansfield met Mary heiu on the street,
and, because she persisted in her deter
mina.ion not 10 marry him, shot the young
lady twice in the breast, and then serveo
himself the same way. Both wiz Proeao'y
die 49,. The shoemakers Of CINCINNATI have
eudea . successful strike, having obtained
an advance Of 20 per cent in their wases.
The Buffalo printers have demanded an In
crease of wages The other trades are ar
ranging 70 follow.
Tnr house Of Michael Kenly, near Marea-
70, ILL.,, was burned on the night OF
the sth inst. Mr.. Keuly and four
children were burned to death...... Joseph
Fraw committed suicide at Cleveland on the
10th inst. Ira Lafriner. one OF the Oldest
ship builders Of Cleveland, 10 dead......Tne
Wild man who has been frightening labor
ers ON the Nuscatine Western raiiroad' IN
Iowa, was found dead in sloush, last wesk.
He turned out to be muiasso' ana 10 sup
posed to have been insane.
LOGAN county, Ohio, was visited by ter
rife and destructive tornado on the evening
of the 9th inst. Tho villages Of Quincy and
peGraff were almost wholly swept away.
Thirty-nine persons were injured more or
less-some, it 10 feared, fatally-and vast
amount of property destroys ...... The work
ingmen Of Quincy, ILL.,, are agitating the
eight hour movement......A magnificent
railroad bridge is 70 span the Missouri river
| at Atchison, Kansas 1.-THE Omaha (NebD
Daily Bee Office was destroyed By nre on the
llth inst. The pleasure travel toCalifornia
has set in, and promises to be immense this
->~k-syd hound ira ms from
Omaha are crowded with passengers every
day. The receipts Of silver bullion at
| Omaha, from the west, average ton and .
| half daily ..... Volunteers and troops from
Fort Whipple, Arizona, overlook the APa-
| ches who raided near Prescott and recap
tured 1000 Acknowledgements laid the
corner stone Of her new courthouse with
| imposing ceremonies, on June III. FRO
posed cost of structure, $500, 0......There
are appreh eusions of general Indian war
on the frontier. Especial danger seems to
threaten settlers on the line Of the Northern
| Pacific railroad. ..... Henry Book, Of Dubois
county, Ind, last week shst and killed his
son.in-law, Henry Aufderhaon, and then
hung himself.
The Democrats of Indiana have nomi-
mated Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks for Gov
ernor ...... Chicago had $1,000 worth Of fires
on the 18th inst......John Atwater, Of Can
ton, ILL.,, got his foot entangled in halter
and was dragged to death BY horse last
| week Michael Noouan was killed by q
locomotive, at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 18th
inst The Springfield (Ill.) rolling mills
have com menced operations.....The Nation
al Saengerfest opened at st. Louis on the
18th. over 10000 strangers were in attend
ance.
NEAR Peoria, ILL.,, on the 18th inst, ten
freight cars became detached from train
ON the Peoria and Rock Island railroad, and
starting off, en- a steep down grade, at the
rate of IS miles an hour, collided, with ter
rife force, with some empty cars on the
track, SIN shing the cars into million Of
fragments William Thompson, q theatel
actor-the only person on the train, was
iusta ntly killed. Valentine Fisher and
Frank Lower, while driving in hack, al
Chicago, on the 18th inst, were crushed to
death BY the falling Of a derrick......T Two
precocious Chicago youths last week stole
$4,000 and started out to see the world.
Thew were overhauled at Detroit, having
squandered the greater portion Of the
money-... Kate Kousen, aged sweet 10,
shuffied off her mortal coil, at Chicago, on
the 18th inst, by hanging herself in her
fathers woodshed Iowa z cries in l70 ,000
dogs $685. The Michigan Paohibitionists have
nominated ticket for State officers and
Presidential Electors. Henry Fish, Of Port
Huron, is the Gubernetorial nominee.
Ex-Alderman Whitaker, of Chicago, under
Indictment for ms lfeasance and bribery
has been pronounced insane by competent
experts, and the prosecution dismissed.
The South.
ATLANTA, Ga, has opened q cotton and
produce exchange......The Richmond stree
car employees are on a strike...... VIM. I
! varble, . Louisville Falls pilot, has beer
muicted in $4,000 damsges Tor the loss of |
steam which he was steering over tn
falls......Ex President johnson has beel
nominated for Congressm sn-at-large by tn
Labor Reformers OF Tennessee.
TIE committee to investigate the case o
DR.. Huston, of Baltimore, has declared hin
innocent of the charges preferred agains
him ...... Gov. Brown, Of Missouri, has calle
an extra session Of the Legislature, to re
7 district the State.
AT Newport, KY, on the 10th inst, Fran
: Shields, aged IL. killed John shuester, age
10, by stabbing him 10 the heart......The s
! Louis workingmen are about forming a
. eight-hour league.
: GES. DAVID L. STANTON, late Collecte
!. of Internal Revenue for Baltimore, has bee
indicted for embezzlement of Governmer
!. funds, and bailed in $4,000.
l Rev. DIR. BERKELEY, of st. Louis, who WI
: accused of taking improper liberties with
young girl, has been acquitted by an cecil
siastical court......A Baltimore grand jur
has indicted Rev. DR.. Huston for adultery
. Washington.
!. IT is stated that official information h,
been received from London, giving the q
y surance that the English Government q