The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-19
WEST.

WEST.
The fourth Cincinnati Industrial Exhi-
bition opened September3
Dispatches from Sedalia. Mo-, Sept. 3,
state that the vigilance committee which
had been for some time on track of the
Iowa train robbers. traced them TO st.
Clair county. and thought they at one
time had them Gagged. They however suc
ceeded in getting away. and the vigilance
committee had disbanded. Ii is said that
the band consists of the two James boys,
of Ray county, and the Younger brothers.
They are said to be the perpetrators of the
robbery of the Richmond Bank of the
Gallatin Bank, where the cashier, Schultze.
was killed; and also of the Savannah
Bank, where Judge Mclean, the presi-
dent, had his arm shot off. In all these
cases large sums of money We're taken.
Two. farmers. Lafayette Newkirk and
Robt. Muir. had an alteration near Mexico.
No., Sept. l, when Newkirk shot and in
stantly killed Muir. There had been along
standing feud between them.
Governor Osborne of Kansas has written
= letter To Gen. Grant on the subject OF the
Usage lands. in which he takes strong
grounds in favor of the settlers as against
the railroads.
u. ;. Collector John T.. Harper, of the
Eighth District Of Illinois. office at SPRING
field. has become a d~cfaultcr to the moun
of between $4,000 and 100000. and has
left for parts unknown.
A young lady named Belle Willis, of
Kansas City, Mo-. was burned TO Ssath
recently by the explosion of can of kero-
senc which she was handling carelessly
burned down.
In IT. Louis. a few days ago. Archibald
Duncan. "A carpenter. about fifty-sevcn
years Of age, shot his wife. inilicting proba-
bly, a mortal wound. and then killed him
self. He left seven children. four of whom
are under ten years of age.
The Cook county. ILL.,. Grand Jury.
have found bills for manslaughter against
Puficnberger and Beane. the engineer and
| conductor of the coal train which caused
the Lemont disaster. Both are out of Jail
on bail.
A Fort Bridger dispatch, sept. 5, says
that the exploring party of Prot. o. G.
Marsh. of Yale College. had returned there
after an absence of six weeks in the region
of the Minitah Mountains. The trip was
very successful. Many important discov-
cries Of extinct animals were made.
A 500. 900 fire occurred at Mexico. Mo-,
m the night of September 6. 1t is be-
lieved to have been caused by an incen-
diary.
The Fulton Elevator at Chicago. with
its contents. consisting of 10000 bushels
of corn and 5000 bushels of oats, wa
burned. September I.
A portion of the roof Of the round
house of the Michigan Central Railroad nj
Detroit Junction. Mich. fell recently. kill
ing two men instantly and fatally injuring
another.
A horse thief belonging at Council
Bluffs, named George Graves, was hanged
by "A vigilance committee at Plum Hollow,
a station on the Kansas City. st. Joe Il
Council Bluffs Railroad. a few days ago.
A special to the st. Louis Democrat from
Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 6. says: ''The
Texas cattle drive being now all in the
State of Kansas, a collection of statistics
shows the total receipts to be about 500,-
600 head. OF this number, 100000 were
received at Ellsworth. 100000 at Wichita,
$1,000 at Cofieyvillc, and the balance at
other places. Sixty thousand head have
been driven to Wyoming, Colorado and
Nebraska: 10000 have been marketed ;
U $1,000 will be wintcred in Kansas; 10000
more will be driven TO the territories ;
about 10000 will be taken by packers, and
the balance will be driven into Western
States for feeding. except what will be
taken by butchers"