The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-10

orado Territory admitted tito the ! h."h- ~ haS
been proposed to increase it's population TO an
Approximate standard by annexing TO il the
most thicky settled portion OF wyoming Ter
ritory. The Wyoming people lave taken sreas
alarm "a, this and are sending To Washington IN
digilant protests against such ds'nembefment.
The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
has been completed to the west line of kansas.
\ This company has built 362 miles OF road since
March last In August so miles OF track were
laid-the largest months worth ever done on
any railroad in this country. The entire
length If the rosd. inclusiinS branches. h 4IO
miies, al graded. ifoned. and eduirsca shice
1869. The Ohio and Mississippi railroad IS
negotiating for the purchase of the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago railroad.
! ELEVEN persons were buried by the recent
I snow-slide at Little. Cottonwood. Utah. "A
/ letter from Arizona says that the Lee family.
circus performers. eight persons well known
on the Pacific coast, were all murdered 10y
/ Apaches while on their way 10 Mexico through
Arizona Mrs. Christina Mack. an aged w.d-
( ow of 73. and the survivor Of ten husbands.
1 was burned TO death in her shanty. near La
Sale. ILL.,. recently.
1 FIRE at Galesburg. H.. recently. destroyed
an entire block of buildings involving loss
! Of slo0. 900. The damage to steamboats, and
barges at Cincinnati. by the breaking Of the ice
| gorge. is estimated at s2O0.000. Milwaukee
shipped. last year. wheat and -four TO the
amount of 1858. 81 bushels Its manufae-
tures are claimed TO foot mp S2o.ooo,oo0. of
which iron ard lager beer ge the largest
the former yielding -. 100000: the other. s3.-
100000.
The works of the Northwestern Fertilizing
Company. in South Chicago. were DESTROYED
by fire recently involving loss OF $4,000.
THE S0CTA
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad has
been completed 10 Dennison. Texas. the south-
ern terminus of the line.
FIVE colored women were shot in Memphis
or Christmas day-two fatally b. their hus-
bands. and the other three by colored admirers.
NED BrSTLISE was recently arrested in So.
Louis for. alleged completely in = rot which
occurred in that city twenty years ago BY
the breaking Of an ice gorge a. Memphis. last
week. number OF steamers and coal harges
NtIt cuiAh. AisOlNAhS Aoec NJ W.
of million dollars.
ANDREW STRONG, one of the notorious Low
rev gang OF outlaws. was recently killed near
Scufietown. y. G.. The only villain OF the
band now alive is Steve Lowrey. Ter thou
sand Cinnamon are at work OH the Texas
Pacific railroad in rpshur county. Texas
A FIATBoAr. with seven persons ON board.
was sunk by the breaking Of the ice gorge at
Memphis. the other day. All we're lost
The publication OF the New Orleans Times has
been resumed.
ALL the prisoners confined in the Frankfort,
Ky, jail recently escaped by cutting through
the roof Alexandria. Va. had 100000
blaze ON New Years eve.
Two passenger trains collded near Augusta.
Ca, on the I'd instant. Eight persons. all
colored. we're killed. and ten or twelve injured.
The Carlotta Patti concert troupe were on
board. They lost their piano and a portion Of
their wardrobe.
WASHINGTON
The President has signed the bill TO reduce
the Offices and expenses of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau. and the work of putting the new
Law into practical operation viii be commenced
at once.
Ii is stated that the Government will decide
in favor of Council Bluffs as the terminus OF
the Union Pacific railroad. ]. 1t i believed
there is 10 hope for the admission CT Colorado
as State during the present session Of Con
gress. The Washington Republicans says 1
project will shortly be brought forward in tbs
House for the annexation OF San Domingo.
Gen. Francis A. Walker has resigned the Com
mssionership Of Indian Affairs.
JuDGE NcARTHrR. Of the Supreme Court o
the District of Columbia. decides tina; dogs ..
not property. but that at common lax they AZ
simply nuieances. 1t is rumored that Js.dg
Settle. Of North Carolina. VII succeed Nj
Creswella a. Postmaster General. A parnphle
is now in course of preparation. intended to b
laid before members of Congress, which re
views the workings of the telegraph lines il
the Territories and elsewhere. constructed b
: the Government. and which are worked unde
Government control. The snimus Of the doc
ument will tend TO sustain the projec. Of bring
ing all the telegraphs Of the country under til
!. control of the National Government. Tn
SecretaIy Vi tbe AIesSui. har @ushoiAzea III
Assistant Treasurer at New York to buy 81
100000 in bonds and sell Il 900. OO0 in col
each week during the month Of January.
: IT is positively" announced that Secretar
Boutwell, will retire from the Treasury Depar
ment in February. Assistant Secretary Ricl
i ardson, Henry Clews and Gov. Morgan Al
q prominently mentioned a. his Successors. p,
It contra. it is announced with equal 'positiv
; ness that Mr.. Boutwell, will not resign in Eel
= ruary. lyon pays your money and takes yoI
choice. !. Notwithstanding Secretary Bou
/ wells policy Of disposing Of two hundred mi
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