The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-29

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East.
A violent rain-storm has recently pre-
vailed at the East. Reports up to August
IA, from New York, Philadelphia, Balu-
more, and other points, give accounts OF
considerable damage 10 railroad tracks,
bridges, ETC., which had caused some de.
lay TO travel.
A one-armed soldier named Weston, a
peddler of prize packages, was murdered
near Albany, \. Y, recently, and his
wife and two other women have been ar
rested as accomplices in the deed. A
German barber named Lowenstein is be-
lieved 10 have committed the murder. and
he has escaped. His wife is one of the
three women arrested. They all live to-
gether in Brooklyn.
Emil Lowenstein, the alleged murderer
Of John ID. Weston, at Brooklyn, has
been arrested at st. Catharines, Canada.
Mrs. Weston strongly declares her inno-
eence Of any knowledge Of the murder of
her husband, and presents conclusive evil
dence, ii is said, to prove her statements.
West.
A man named Peter Kessler was placed
IN trial for mule-stealing, at Fulton, Mo-.
August Is; he pleaded guilty, and was
sentenced by the Court to six years in the
penitentiary. There had been threats of
lynching kessler during the day, and az
ter the trial close carriage was pro-
cured and the prisoner placed therein,
guarded by the sheriff, prosecuting at
torney, and constable; the city marshal
was also near with force of six or seven
men mounted and armed to act as escort.
As the driver was about TO mount his seat
q man stepped up with a drawn revolver,
took the reins, and jumping on the seat,
started the horses ona run. He then turned
and pointed his revolver at Kessler, when
the sheriff. George Law. caught the pistol
In his only hand lone Of them having been
shot of in the war, and turned Ii out
ward, just as il was discharged. About
twenty-five men then mounted their
and CONNIE need firing into it. Col. Law
was shot in the spine, and constable
Dundon was shot in the neck. The
former was fatally, and the latter seri-
ously wounded. John G.. provinces, the
prosecuting attorney, was shot through
the wrist. The mob then got possession
of the carriage, and drove TO a grove
about a mile from the court house, and
there hung Kessler until he was dead.
He made no statements, but offered up
very earnest prayer. The fury Of the
mob was intense, and was doubtless
caused by the escape of Kessler's son
from the cars while the two prisoners
were being brought from jefferson City
for trial
During the performance Of an itinerant
show at CRANKY, Mo-, August 10. pistol
combat took place between two white
men and negro, in which several shots
were exchanged. The negro, Thomas,
was badly wounded, and Mr.. Schmidt,
a prominent merchant of the town, was
instantly killed by "a chance shot. Two
other quiet citizens-one lady-were
wounded. The white men were the ag-
gressors in the row, and were subse-
quently arrested.
Mrs. Ellen Mckinney, of Chicago.
poured kerosene on the fire and burnt her
self and foIr-year old child to death.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, near Lee
mont, twenty miles south Of Chicago, on
the evening Of August lG, caused by the
collision Of coal and passenger train, by
which eleven persons were killed out
right or died shortly afterward, and some
thirty-hve Others were injured, some fatal
". Most of the deaths were caused by the
passengers in the smoking-car being scald-
ed by steam from the boiler of the
freight locomotive, which ran into that
car, crushing IL in pieces and cutting of
all means Of escape. The passenger
train was the 81. Louis express, and the
coal train should have remained on the
siding at Lemont until tie express
passed. The firemen OF both trains were
killed. The engineer Of the coal train. TO
whose carelcssness the accident Is said 10
have been due, was not seen after the ac-
cident, and II was thought that he escaped