The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Enc railroad ran OF the track near Morsvia.
Pa. the other day. and Was precipitated down
m eu,tankment thirty feet high. Two Of the
coaches we're burned. but all the passengers
succeeded in getting out alive. Twenty OF
them were injured. but none seriously.
The trial of Stokes for the murder Of James
Fisk. Jr. Was brought to . close in New York
on the 4th inst, and resulted in verdict OF
guilty Of murder in the first degree On re-
firing. the Jury stood ten for murder and two
for manslaughter. They were absent three
hours. On the announcement of the verdict
the prisoner was visibly affected. He turned
CHASTITY pale, and threw his arms in the air with
. gesture Of utter despair. Financial advices
from New York and the East express the belief
that the ruling monetary stringency must soon
give WAY TO an easier feeling.
Of Over and Terminer, the other day, to re-
ceive his sentence. The prisoner was asked
what he had to say why the sentence Of death
should not be passed upon him. Stokes said
that he had not violated the law intentionally
that the Testimony upon which he was con-
yicted was Manufactured and perjured. Judge
Boariman. then. in feeling address. in which
he alluded 70 the prisoners youth and social
surroundings. sentenced him to be hanged on
Friday. the 18th day of February next being
the longest time that could be legally allowed
the convicted man. The prisoner looked gen
tlemanly, and bore the scrutinizing gaze Of the
thousands Of spectators led by morbid curiosi-
ty. He was ashy pale. The sympathy of
most Of the spectators was with Stokes. and it
is believed that Gov. Dix viii exert executive
clemency.
A BITTER and exciting journalistic war is
raging in New York A dispatch of the 9th
inst SAYS: All the papers in the suit OF the
Tribune against the Times and the Brooklyn
Union have been serv ID and the Tribune will
press for trial IS early as possible There is
prospect of = lively row among the newspapers
in the next few weeks The Tribune and the
World are making common cause against the
Times. and savage compliments are exchanged
daily The Herald is not in the fight at present.
but viii probably take hand on the side of the
Tribune and World The Journal Of Com
MERGE approves the Tribuse's course in bring
ing the libel suit. and intimates that it has
suffered from stories similar to that which
causes the present row. Deaths in Brooklyn
the past year numbered II 64s.. Mrs. Sophia
NJ Hiltsman and William J. y. Sheppard were
foully murdered at Moravia. n. Y. BY John
Hiltsman. husband of the former Stokes
has been taken from his luxurions quarters in
the Tombs- and confined in the murderer's
cell One ground ON which the verdict viii be
attacked by Stokes counsel il the remark said
tween the first and second trials, that he would
be juror next time then you will see what
viii happen to Stokes"
TIE Democrsts Of New Hampshire have
1t is said the Erie Railway Company is about
to sue Drew and Vanderbilt for the restitution
Of money Of which it is claimed they defraued
the compAny--.-Henry c. Bowen, of the Brook
lyn Union, has sued the New York Tribune for
large amount because the Tribune copied
from the Brooklyn Eagle an article alleging
that Bowen Was responsible for the scandal
about Rev. Henry Ward Beesher in regard to
the woodhuIlClafin publication against him.
Stokes, the New York murderer, has been
removed to his old cell. 1t il said this is the
first instance in 81 years in which prisoner.
confined in the Tombs and convicted Of
murder, has beeen allowed to occupy any
but . condemned CELL. A diabolical at
tempt ct wholesale incendia-ism was dis
other day. Atwine merchant named Kidd had
carefully prepared . train Of fuse connecting
his premises with adjoining buildings. whereby
they could be set on fire. He was arrested.
and his Office boy testified to seeing him max
ing the fuses. Three large warehouses were
involved In this attempt, and but for the dis
covery . heavy confagration would have en-
sued, - trains Of fuse were nearly all laid in
the upper stories and from roof to roof /.
A meeting of old soldiers Of the war Of 1912
WIS held in Philadelphia on the anniversary Of
the battle of New Orleans. Oaly twelve
answered to roll-calI-
PErrrIoSs are circulating in New York for
signatures. praying Congress- to annex the
Sandwich Islands to the United States The war
among the New York newspapers wakes warmer
daily. and some sanguine persons are antici-
pating duels in consequence. II il said the
Times Is about to bring libel suit against the
World for recent publication in which the
private life Of parties connected with the
Times is freely ventilated Bowen. Of the
Brooklyn Union. threatens half dozen
suits against the Triierne. The COM
positors CT the New York Tribune. at
meeting the other day. approved the
proposition that the printing Offices in the
United states give one or more pounds Of old
type each for the purpose Of making statue
Of Horace Greeley. to be erected over his
grave in Greenwood, and ask the compostors
Of the country to give the proceeds Of 1000
ems. Get up on Feb. 3 next, the sixty-second
anniversary of the birth of Mr.. Greeley. the
money to be forwarded to the President of
the New York typographical Union No. 6, at
Y Duane street, New York. Of which Union
Mr.. Greeley Was the first President