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

of Springfield, Warden of the Illinois
State Penitentiary; J. w. Fleury, Stew
ard, and Noah Divelbiss, Jr., clerk In the
same institution; VIM. Little, Spring
field; and Thomas Morton, porter in An
derson's Hotel. Chicago.
A dispatch from San Francisco, August
Is, says that the mail stage between Max
ulumne Hill and the station was stopped
by two hlghwaymen two miles from the
city, who robbed the passengers of =, 600.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s treasurer's box was
destroyed, with mails, papers and all val
uables. Officers were in pursuit of the
robbers, who are known.
Indian Agent Thomas. in New Mexico,
telegraphs 20 the War Department that q
demand had been made upon the Apaches
for the notorious thief and murderer,
Chief Sancha, which they refused. saying
they were ready to fight for him. They
soon~after broke camp, however, and
went TO the mountains. Three other In
dams were arrested and held as hostages
for Sancka, and Major Price had started
in pursuit with sufficient force TO secure
his arrest.
At Twin Springs, Linn county, Kansas,
on the night of August IL, man by the
name of Kellar killed his wife, her sister
and his two children, piled their bodies
upon the floor, covered them up with
straw, and then set fire to the heap. Kel-
lar was arrested and there was strong
talk of lynching him.
Edward Bean, conductor, and John
Buffinburger, engineer, OF the coal train
which caused the disastrous collision on
the Chicago and Alton Railroad, have
been arrested on charge of manslaugh-
ter. A coroner's inquest was commenced
at Lemont, August Is. Up to the night
Of the 18th, the number of dead had
reached eighteen, and the wounded num-
bered forty, ten of whom it was thought
would die.
The Crow Indians, by recent treaty,
have ceded 10 the Government all their
present reservation, taking territory one
third as large on the Missouri, near Ju-
dith's basin. The cession includes num-
Der of valuable mines.
The Reverend j. NJ. Schiller, warden
of a private orphan asylum at Andrew,
Jackson county. Iowa, has confessed to
being guilty. of the most heinous crimes
toward several of the young girls commit
ted 10 his care. He escaped to Europe in
time TO avoid arrest.
A special from Jacksonville, ILL.,, to the
St. Louis Democrat, August 10, says that
the cholera had broken out in the suburbs
CT that city in most malignant form.
Governor Woodson, of Missouri, has
taken measures to have the perpetrators
of the Galloway county outrage arrested
and brought to trial.
kellar, the man who murdered his
wife and two children and his wife's sis
ter, at Twin Springs, Kansas, August IL,
was on the 10th taken by a mob from the
custody Of the Sheriff Of Linn county, at
La Cygnes, and summarily hung. The
Sheriff and some of the best citizens
Of the town endeavored TO save the pris-
oner from the fury Of the mob, but with
out avail.
The coroner's inquest upon the bodies
of the persons killed by the recent acct
dent upon the Chicago & Alton Railroad,
resulted in verdict by the jury that the
collision by which they lost their lives
was "caused by the criminal carelessness
of Edward Bean, conductor, and Joshua
Puffenberger, engineer Of coal train No.
%, in violating the rules and regulations
of the railroad company governing the
movement of trains on said railroad
The coroner issued mittimus for the ar
rest Of both men.