The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-15

IN session NJ Elfnlfa, ~. II. august ..
elected s. IL. White. Of Illinois, Presi-
dent; A. +. Marble, of Massachusetts,,
Secretary; John G. Hancock, Of Ohio,
Treasurer, and a list Of Vice Presidents
and Counselors from various States.
West.
A Peoples Convention was held at Co
lumbus, Ohio, July 30, which was
participated In by Democrats and
Liberal Republicans. The following
ticket was placed in nomination For
Governor, Isaac c. Collins Demo
craft, of Hamilton county Lieuten-
ant-Governor, A. Saunders Piatt lib
eral), Logan county Attorney-General,
Zeraphim Meyers (Liberal), Stark county;
Supreme Judges, p. Ii. Ewing Demo
craft, Fairfield county, and ID. w. G..
London (Liberal), Brown county Board
of Public Works, Jas. McBeth Demo-
craft, Allen county +; State Treasurer,
Jonathan Harshman (Democrat), Mont
gomery county; Comptroller of the
Treasury, p. l.. Butler (Li)eral), Frank
lin county. Resolutions were adopted
denouncing the salary-grab and all who
participated therein; favoring a diminu-
ton In the number of Federal officers ;
declaring grants of public land and the
fostering of ~monopolies to be unjust and
oppressive, and that duties on imports
should be for revenue only.
A NUMBER of citizens of Rogersville,
Tuscarawas county, o., recently captured
an unknown man who had been guilty OF
a gross outrage upon a young girl, and
stoned, beat and shot him in five different
places, dragged his body through the
streets by a horse, while life was in it, and
then hung him TO a tree, where he died.
His body was cut down by the doctors Of
the village.
The Kansas State Grange Of Patrons of
Husbandry held its first session at Law
renee. commencing July 81. -Four hun
dred and nine oranges were represented.
Resolutions d~enouncing monopolies of all
kinds were unanimously adopted.
A dispatch from st. Joseph, Mo-, July
81, states that the Texas cattle disease
was spreading in Nodaway county, the
losses of cattle being already heavy.
Cattle from Kansas were not allowed TO
be landed from the cars. The disease
also prevailed in DeKalb, Caldwell,
Davies, and some other counties in North
Missouri.
A wheat corner in Chicago, on July 81,
succeeded in forcing up the price of No.
? to s1.46, being an advance for the day
of twenty-one cents per bushel. IL is said
that one of the operators realized $780,
600 by the corner.
A telegram of July 81, states that the
| cholera had broken out with great Sc
verify at Carmi, H.. eight deaths having
occurred in the preceding twenty-four
hours.
The Patrons of Husbandry of Mclean
county, ILL.,, have nominated a full ticket
of county officers.
A dispatch to the Kansas City Times
from C~herryvale, Kansas, August /, says
Col. A. NJ. York has received intelligence
that there are more bodies TO be discov-
cred at the Bender graveyard, and that
a clue TO the whereabouts of the Blenders
can he had.
Portland, Oregon, suffered from a seri-
Gus co~nflagration, August 2. Over two
hundred and fifty buildings were de-
stroyed. The burnt district includes
twenty-five entire blocks of houses and
portions of five more blocks, and Is
bounded by Front street and the river,
and Clay and Morrison streets. The loss
was thought to exceed 81, zoo, 900; insur-
ance about $3.50, 600. 1t is believed that
the fire wa the work Of an i~ncendiary.
No lives we're lost.
Two of the Iowa railroad robbers. it Is
said, are known to be the James brothers,
of Clay county. who participated in the
robbery of the Gallatin Bank and killing
Of the cashier.
An Omaha dispatch states that a letter
from Camp Brown, situated about forty
miles from Camp Stambough, Wyoming,
says a band of hostile Indians appeared In
the vicinity of old Camp Brown on the
goth of July, and attacked the house,
killed two women, but attempted to com
nit no other derredations. A body of
armed men had gone in pursuit.
A mass meeting was held at Cincinnati,
August 4, to ratify the New Party ticket
nominated at Columbus, July 80. The
speakers were Hon. G.. T.. Pugh, Fred.
Hassaurek, A. Sanders Piatt and others.
The following resolutions Were adopted !:
Whereas, The Republican party has ceased to
be the means of protection for the people, and
the Democratic party has ceased TO be a ht in
strument of reform; and, whereas, the condition
Of the country and the distress of the people de-
mand n new party; therefore, be IL
ResOired, That We, the people Of Cincinnati do
hereby indorse the platform adopted by the Peo-
ple's Convention at Columbus on the Both Of
July.