The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-03-29

The East.
ANOTHER boat Of the Staten Island Ferry
c.mpany was seized at New York, on FRI
I.v. for judgment against the company.
M. Sheriff will lay the boats up, or collect
"a Messenger fares, unless the Judgments
w shortly paid.....At White Plains, New
VII. an attempt has been made TO poison
family named Alderman, composed OF
sirht persons. BY impregnating . spring
rIth arsenical poison. 1.-THE official report
ofthe new Directors OF the Erie railroad
s.,tes that The earnings OF the company
ncooO. against $l7,O0o,ooo the year pre-
ans x young man named W. Sewers,
ND eirl named Longuard were run over and
hs former instantly killed by train on the
baltimore and Ohio railroad, on Friday
night. They had been sitting on the track
taking.
NEAR Springfield, Mass, on Saturday,
train was thrown from the track BY bro
Ken rail. The smoking car went down an
smbankment fifteen feet, and twenty per-
sous in il were more or less injured, but
probably none fatally.
WILLIAM TREvERr accidentally shot his
wife at New York on Tuesday, killing her
instantly, and he became q raving maniac
when he discovered what he had done....A
New York immigrant swindler was on Tues.
day sentenced &c Ave years. imprisonment.
Mas. E. SHAUsHANK died in q dentists
chair at New York on Wednesday, from the
administration of laughing gas-....The
Plattskill Falls Hotel, the New Mountain
House, near Saugerties, N. r., burned on
Tuesday. The building was owned by r. Z.
Pomeroy. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The house Of farmer named Robert Bowles,
resr Theresa, N. Y, was burned on Monday
night. The family were obliged TO leave
the house in their night clothes, and sew
eral Of them had their limbs badly frozen.
Bowles was so badly burned while attempt
ing to save his children that no died next
dsy......A Fonda, N. Y, dispatch of Wednes-
day evening says: "The train which left
here this morning, on the Fonda, Johns
town x Gloversvillc railroad, with three en-
zines, is fast in a snow bank a mile long and
six to ten feet deep. near Gloversville......All
trains between st. Lawrence and Prescott,
Ont, were snow-bound on Wednesday.....
General sickles states that he has negotiated
loan of $4,000, 900 at S per cent for the new
Erie Board on securities rating 80 high as
seventy. The new loan can readily be paid
of with the earnings in q very short time,
and is only needed to tide the company
over the rugged places left by tive years Of
Jay Gould.
JAMES BURNS and John McAvoy,of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, found guilty Of highway
robbery, have been sentenced TO fifteen
years. imprisonment......A Watertown, N.
Y, dispatch Of Thursday says: "A severe
storm has prevailed in this region since
Tuesday last. Trains are all snow bound.
No mails for two days. The weather is in
tensely cold, with piercing winds. The city
Water Works are nearly all frozen up"
The West.
MRS. ANNA C. RurH was released on a writ
Of habeas corpus at Lawrence, Kansas, on
Friday. The Prosecuting Attorney an
nounced that since the decision Of the Su-
premc Court against the admissibility Of
Ruth's letter, written the evening of his
death, as evidence, her conviction under the
present developments Of facts was impos-
sibe, and he did not desire to retain her in
custody any longer. She was therefore dis
charged...... Michael WEIGH, . farmer resid-
ing near Waukesha, Wis, was kicked by .
mule on Friday and instantly killed. The
entire top Of his head was taken of. WEIGH
was about As years of age, and leaves a
family.
TIE Houring mill of Zesig house 4 Bro,
St. Louis, No., was burned early on Sunday
morning. Loss 1000; insured for $50 900.
Pour powder mills Of the Austin Pow
der Company, situated about FIVE miles
south Of Cleveland, blew up on Saturday
afternoon with q series of heavy explosions,
three hundred kegs, or about four tons, Of
powder being fred. Two men, named Leon
ard and Sherman, who were ut work in one
Of the mills, were blown to pieces, fragments
Of their bodies being thrown hundreds Of
feet away. Three other men, at work in
the vicinity, were more or less injured. The
mills blown up we're torn to atoms, tho
ground for several acres being strewn with
fragments. Loss between $4,000 and
$4,000. The explosion was heard at Ra-
VIENNA, . distance of forty miles,. Mrs.
Kane, aged 66 years, mother Of Thomas
Kane, Of Wenona, whose legs were crushed
by the cars in La Sale, ILL.,, and am putated
on Friday evening, came to town TO sec her
unfortunate SON on Saturday morning, and
on seeing him Immediately swooned and
died.
In the matter Of the difference between
the proprietors Of the Missouri Democrat,
Judge Madili on Monday appointed VIM.
Mckee, one If the firm, receiver, and or
dered sale Of the establishment.... George
Thompson, night yard-master Of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad, at Sedalia,
No., was killed on Monday morning while
switching Q train......At Mackinac, ON the
7h inst, the mercury stood ct twenty de-
grees below zero. Tho ice in the, harbor is
twenty-four inches thick, and no conjecture
can be formed 40 to when the straits will
open.
Mrs. ScHAcr, who was Drained At st. Louis