The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-04-05
NEWS SUMMARY.


N.a from New York to avoid arrest or the
witness stand, are congregated at St. John
NIB, where they have formed club and
Arc hsvinga quiet, luxurious time. They
arc we'll supplied with money, and have al
last half a million in United States bonds
dcoosited in st. John banks. Peter Is.
Sweeney recently paid them a visit, and al
last advices they were expecting Tweed.m.
Oneof the mills of the North Andover, Mass,
Mil Company was totally destroyed by fire,
together with its machinery, Thursday. Mrs.
Keep, widow Of the late Henry Keep, has
riyen 81 OF, 900 to the New York Homeopathic
Institution for the Blind....H. Marten, q
wealthy local agent Of Holloway's medicines
In New York, has been sued for breach OF
promise in 200 damages by Miss Marga-
ret Boutigny, who alleges that he visited
her as an accepted suitor from 1858 to
1870. Two years ago he went to Europe and
returned with French mistress.
ON Saturday a man named Clark, in Cold
Spring, near Otis, Mass, by the most foolish
careessness, with loaded gun shot and
killed his sister, aged 20 years, and wounded
her daughter, 9 years old, so that amputa-
ton Of her arm was necessary .....A boiler
in the Trenton Rolling Mills, in Jersey City,
exploded on Saturday, destroying the
blacksmith shop and portion OF the rear
building. Five men were injured, and one
Hughes, boiler tender, is missing. Loss
$4,000
MICHAEL HAYES was arrested in New
York on Tuesday for murder committed in
q Roosevelt street bar-room row, fifteen
years ago. Somebody then in the District
Attorneys Office took $4,000 and pigeon
holed the indictment, and the assassin fled.
......At Pittsburgh, on Tuesday, little son
of John Scott, aged about four years, struck
his brother, aged fourteen months, on the
head with poker, killing him. ...A fire at
Port Leyjen, N. Y, on Monday night, de-
stroycd Sylvester 4 Riggs block. Loss
$26, 900; insurance $21, OOO.. 1.-THE New York
World says Jay Gould netted profit of
So, 24O, 900 in the rise of Erie stock on Tues
day 49,. Elias Magnin, Of New York, has re-
covered $244,ll4 in a suit against the Adams
Express Company, for the value of box Of
watches shipped to Memphis, Tenn, in
1868, and lost.
THE Executive Committee of the Centen-
NAL Commission met in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, and elected Hon. Daniel Nor
rell permanent chairman.....The excite
ment in the New York Stock Exchange on
Wednesday eclipsed that of any previous
time since Black Friday. Four hundred
thousand shares changed hands. The stock
fell from 20 to So.
ALEX. REAvEY, New York lawyer, has
been com mitted in default Of bail in $40 900,
on charge Of forgery, in obtaining the sig
nature Of lady to sheet of blank paper
and filing the page SO as to obtain her
property 1.-THE family of Col. c. J. Jack, a
lawyer of Br ,oklyn, N. Y, wore asphyxi-
atsd on Wednesday night by the fumes Of
coal from a defective furnace. Miss Nor
ton, visitor, was found dead. The ieman-
der Of the family, eleven in number. will
probably rccover.....John Quinlan has been
awarded $4,000 damages from the Sixth
Avenue Railroad Company, New York, for
injuries received from q collision of horse
car with a runaway team. No negligence
on the part Of the company was shown.
The Wost.
The Missouri Democrat was sold at auction
at St. Louis on Friday, and was knocked
down to Mr.. Fishback, one of the former
propretors, for $456, lOO......Governor Fair
child, Of Wisconsin, has written a letter,
stating that the report Of arbitration in the
matter Of the Fox River and Wisconsin I'm
provement, as presented to Congress by the
Secretary of War, will be accepted. Gov
ernor Fairchld is now in Washington, and
laboring earnestly in the int rests Of the
measure. ....John O'Neil, charged with aid
ing in the robbery and murder of man
named Atkinson, some twelve miles from
Memphis, Tenn, last January, was arrested
IN st. Louis on Frday.....As Mr.. Allen
Hartung and son, Of Green township, Summit
county, were returning home from Akron,
Ohio, at the A. & G. w. railroad crossing
their team became frightened and ran before
horses were instantly killed. Mr.. Harting
was seriously injured.
OK Saturday night, in q saloon at Spring
field, ILL.,, Edward Duffy shot and killed
Henry stoy and wounded Edwin Stat
er, the saloon keeper. The murderer
escaped......The Protection Life Insurance
Company, Of Chicago, has commenced q
libel suit against the Masonic advocate, of
indianapolis, Ind, placing the damages at
$l0,OOO......A young man about eighteen
years old, named Lewis Herted, committed
suicide ut Garfield, Ohio, on Sunday by
hanging himself to tree. disappointment
In love was the cause.
FRANCES TYLER. young lady from Quincy,
Mich, committed suicide at Detroit, Mich,
on Sunday night, by taking strychnine.....
The machine shop Of William Crippen, at
Manistet, Mich, was burned on Monday
night Loss Sl2,O00 insurance $1,000.
Ellard PAX, teller Of the Bank Of Jose,
committed suicide at San Francisco on Sun
day, shooting himself through the head.
NO cause known. Tobias Clay well, a saloon
keeper at Winchester, ILL.,, was shot and
killed on Saturday nv a N, an whom he had
orciby elected from the saloon.
WoLr's brewery, a saloon, and two dwell
ling houses werc destroyed by fire in Still
water, Mimi, on Monday night. Two men
The barkeeper in the saloon and laborer in
the brewery, whose names are not given
persisted in the flames. Two Others barely
escaped. The loss is about $4,000; partially
covered by insurance