The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-01-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.



confined in fail at New York, in default Of bail
The statistics Of enormous dealings on the
New York Stock Exchange last year have been
published The registered sales Of tibet wenty-
seven most prominent stocks amounted TO
$1,000, 900 shares, valued Ut nearly double the
bonded debt Of the United States. The largest
transactions were in Pacific Mail, their extent
covering fifty-fve times the amount of its cap
ital stock.
Mrs. LYDIA SHERMAN, the Connecticut Bor-
gia, has been sentenced to imprisonment for
life at New Haven. She has made full con-
fession. in which she acknowledges to having
poisoned eight persons, three Of whom were
her husbands.
THOMAS C. DuRANT, in behalf Of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, has commenced suit
in New York against Cakes Ames and James
Brooks to recover shares Of Credit Mobilier
stock alleged to have been fraudulently OBJ
tanned The debt Of New York city increased
A7.25O. 900 last year. Ex-Mayor Daniel c.
Kingsiand. of New York, is dead. aged as
years. The trial of William NJ. Tweed is in
progress in New York. The Boss" expresses
himself confident Of acquittal. The widow
Of ex-President John Tyler is about to sell her
estate on Staten Island and repurchase the
old Tyler estate in Virginia
The New Hampshire Republicans have NOM
mated Gov. Straw for reelection. The
Directors Of the Erie Railroad Company have
authorized the issue of 80, OOO,0 c0 seven per
cent. convertible bonds for the purpose of
laying double track along the line Of the road.
MATILDA HERON, the once celebrated actress.
is almost hopelessly demented. She is being
treated in q New York hospital. The New
York Typographical Society has indorsed the
proposition to erect q monument to Horace
Greeley, of type metal, and requested printers
to contribute the pay Of 1000 ems each ON
the Sd Of February. All the conductors on
the Harlem railroad have resigned, consequent
upon being obliged to use books with coupons
for tickets. to which they contend no person
with manhood can submit. "A large force Of
laborers is engaged on the New York under
ground railroad. :. B. c. Calvin, New York
banker, has commenced suit against Mr.. Bout
well, Secretary Of the Treasury, to recover
s2,000, 900 alleged to be due to plaintiff for
certain plans furnished the Secretary for the
purpose Of enabling him to equalize the price
Of gold and paper currency.
The Mechanics Bank, Of Lancaster, Pa,
was recently robbed Of $4,000.
THE VEST
JOSEPH RoeERs. of Hazel Green, Wis. was
recently blown to atoms by the explosion Of q
can of nitro-glycerine, which he Was carelessly
handling. The Home Wooden Mills. At Jack
sonville, H., were recently destroyed by fire.
Loss, sl00, 900. Charles Ducharme one Of
the most prominent and active business men
Of Detroit, is dead. aged 81.
ADvIcEs from Arizona state that . battle had
been fought between the command Of Mai.
Brown and . band Of Apache Indians, lasting
five hours. Fifty-seven Of the red devils were
sent to their happy hunting grounds. and
loss was one Lima Indian. An explosion Of
gas which had leaked and filed the space be-
tween the ground floor and plastering below
the Office of the Western Union Telegraph. in
Cincinnati, occurred the other day. tearing up
the floor. extinguishing the lights and creating
q wild panic among the operators, who rushed
pell-mell into the street. Hibler the Fort
Wayne, Ind. wife-murderer. has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
In the battle of the companies of the 9Th
cavalry with the Apaches in Arizona. Dec. 80.
near Salt river, not warrior escaped. All the
band we're killed and twenty-five women and
children we're captured. A singular accident
occurred at the Wisconsin State Normal School.
in Oshkosh, the other day. Prof. H. C. Bowen
was demonstrating the theory to the class in
chemistry Of using the compound blow-pipe.
The magc-lanten was lighted with a calcium
light and Illuminating gas and by some means
fire was communicated to the gas. causing
terrific explosion. which was heard for a dis
lance of two miles. sounding like an earth
quake. Every window on one side Of the
school building was torn out, sash and all.
Prof. Bowen and Is students were badly in
jured. Bowen's clothes and boots were torn
into fragments, stripping him completely
naked. Several Of the students we're more or
less injured, and all in the room we're rendered
entirely deaf. The door was torn of and
forced through q window, and shivered into
Fragments the plastering was torn of. fur
nture destroyed floor ripped up. and the
rooms looked as il they had been visited by an
earthquake. All the injured will doubtless
recover. Leo Canman q Chicago Postoffice
clerk, has been convicted of robbing the mails.
The accommodating reports of fatalities by the
recent storm in Northern Minnesota, says the
Chicago Times, intensity the horror Of that
dread calamity. The storm seems to have
been unprecedented in its suddenness as well
~ its severity, and for travellers who encoun-
tered it death seems to have been the rule and
escape the exception, very few of the luckless
wayfarers surviving to tell the story of their
sufferings. Whole sleighing parties frozen to
death upon the road, the horses standing stark
upon their legs and the drivers sitting bolt
npright the farmer dying while hurrying to
the succor Of his stock; a husband. leaving his
wife in the agonies of childbirth. dying by the
roadside while Fastening for assistance. the
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