The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-01

A dispatch from Evansville, Ind, on
July 10, says that the cholera at Noun
Vernon was very bad, and business was
almost entirely suspended. More than
one-hAlf the inhabitants had left town.
Ms. Jacob Schaeter, o; winonA, Minn.,
the other day poured kerosene over a
Young fire and covered herself with
flames. She died after four hours Of in
tense agony.
On the night of July II, an eastward
bound train on the Chicago. Rock Island
4 Pacific Railroad, when near Adair,
Iowa. a lonely point about fifty-five miles
ives. Of Des Moines, ran into some OBJ
strHctions purposely placed on the track
by a band Of robbers The locomotive
and Tvs baggage cars were doubled up
and smashed, and the engineer, John
Rafferty,. WAS instantly killed. The pas
senger coaches cane TO a stop without be-
ing injured. As soo as the train stopped,
six large, athletic men, wearing masks,
appeared at the express car, In which were
the conductor. superintendent, express
messenger, and three other persons. and
commenced firing rapidly into the car,
yelling, Get out of there, d-n ye! Get
out II therei' Two bullets passed
through the clothes of the conductor, one
grazed the skull of the baggage man, and
one grazed the side of the head OF the ex-
press messenger. The inmates jumped
out, when they were ordered TO the ear
under cover OF half a dozen navy revolv-
ers. Two OF the robbers marched up and
down the train. threatening to shoot any
person who showed their head on the
train. The robbers then took about $4,000
from the express safe, and cut open the
mail sacks, but took no letters, then
mounted each a horse and rode of across
the prairies in q southerly direction, the
whole being done in less than ten minutes.
They fortunately did not cut the telegraph
wires, and superintendent Boyce at once
FASTENED 10 the station and telegraphed
in all directions. Engines and a posse of
men we're sent out from Council Bluffs,
on the Burlington and other roads, TO in
tercept the robbers in a southerly direc-
ton. IL was ascertained that during the
day the robbers stole a spike bar and a
hammer from a hand-car house at the near
est station. They drew the spikes from
one end of the rail. and fastened a small
cord to the end Of the rail and secreted
themselves several rods away, and "a the
engine approached they pulled the rail
out Of place. The promptness of the en-
gineer and the air brakes saved the pas
sengers from harm, as not n was in
iured. The management of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad nave
offered q reward of $1,000 for the detec-
ton of the villains.
Governor Carpenter, of Iowa, has of
fered a reward OF $500 each for the rob
bers who sacked the Rock Island train on
the night of the 2lst. The U. ). Express
Company also offer n large reward. Up
TO the oath none Of the villains had been
captured, although many parties were in
pursuit
On the morning Of july %, an explo-
sion occurred in v. Fries & Co.'s distil-
lery, on james street, Cleveland, o. One
man was blown into the middle Of the
street. another was blown from a second
story window against another building
neither was seriously injured. Immedi-
ately after the explosion an extensive fire
broke out, totally destroying the large
fivsstory brick block occupied exclusively
by Fries & Co.