The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-04-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST

NEW YORK FURNISHES an INSTANCE oi ewit
Justice. On the 18th OF March two young
MISREPRESENTATION Coughlin and John Green
aged l6 and II respectively attacked and rob
bed citizen in the street. On the 10th the,
we're indicted by the grand jury, on the 2oti
tried and convicted, and ON the 2lst sentenced
TO fifteen years each in the penitentiary..
William Foster was executed at New York on
the 2ist Of March, for the murder Of Avery
d. Putnam in . street-car ON the goth OF
April, 1871; and James McElhaney suffered q
like penalty at Boston for the murder Of his
wife. Brooklyn 10 excited over mysterious
murder Mr.. Charles Goodrich, . wealthy
citizen, was found dead in his bed, having
been shot through the head aud robbed by
some unknown assassin.
FosrEa, the murderer Of Putnam, who was
hung in New York recently, was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery, which is in direct viola
ton Of the cemetery regulations, which say
that no person who has died in prison, or has
been executed for any crime, shall be buried
there. Dr.. Tying performed the Episcopal
service. Only . few male relatives were pres
emit, no ladies attending. :. New York city
owes gas bill Of nearly million dollars and
the authorities have been told that, il it is not
prid forthwith the gas company will cease to
supply the streets and public buildings.
Commodore Vanderbilt gave half . million
dollars, few days ago, for the endowment of
liberal charity with half . million dollars for
the erection Of q female seminary ON Staten
Island. to be managed on the plan Of the
seminary at New Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania.
GEORGE Francis TRAIN Is to be confined in
the Wards Island Lunatic Asylum. Dion
Boucicault and his wife went through the
process Of becoming naturalized citizens Of the
United States, at New York, the other day.
Fechter. the tragedian, has declared his inten-
ton. The mysterious murder of Charles
Goodrich greatly puzzles the Brooklyn detec-
tives.. Henry Magruder, the printer who
shot and dangerously wounded fellow-com-
positor in New York, few weeks ago, has
been sent to Sing Sing for ten years. Julius
Ende, printer, residing in Jamaica, L. l.. be-
coming dissatisfied with life because his fore
man compelled him to perform menial SER
vices. agreed with his wife to commit suicide
the other day. He sharpened razor, and,
after opening the veins in his arm and leg.
passed the weapon to his wife, and she didthe
same Then they both went to bed and
calmly awaited death. neighbor happened
in. however, and it is believed that they will
recover.
THE murderer Of Charles Goodrich, of
Brooklyn, has been arrested. Her name is
Kate Stoddard, formerly writer for the New
York Tribune. Hon. Augustus Schell was
married recently, in New York, to Miss Anna
Fox, according to the simple form of the So
ciety of Friends. The ceremony was very
impressive, and was Witnessed by many promi- |
nent citizens, including Commodore Vanderbilt |
md wife,. Fosters children have been forced,
70 stop attending public school in New York |
by the taunts and insults Of other scholars
some of whom went so far as to draw pictures
Of gallows with . man suspended, on their
states, and to point them out to Fosters chill
lren as representation of the death Of their
father.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has appropri-
sted 91, OOO, 900 for the Centennial Celebration.
Boss Tweed, profting by Caldwell's ex-
ample, has resigned his seat in the New York
Senate pending the investigation Of this case.
j. Ex-senator James Dixon. Of Connecticut.
9 dead. Rear Admiral John B. Montgomery
lied recently ut Carlisle, Pa.
THE WEST
JUDGE J. @. Bowman, prominent lawyer Of
Tincennes Ind, committed suicide recently,
~ stabbing himself with . carving-knife.
insanity.
A SOD cabin was burned q few days ago, in
Jalhoun county, Iewa, and the inmates con-
listing Of . poor woman named Halleck and
Ter two little children, we're burned to death.
/. In Jackson county, Iowa, the other day,
young man named James McAllister, not sat-
SIZED with the ordinary method of splitting
ogs with IN AZ and wedges. concluded to ia
'ilitate bis work by the application Of powder.
he drilled hole in . large oak
og, filled the cavity with powder, applied .
'use, and touched it OF. The explosion fol-
owed before McAllister could get out Of the
vsy, tearing the log into splinters, and almost
literally beheading the unfortunate man. His
rains wore scattered In al directions and the
'ody INITIATED in . horrible manner. :. "A
itizen Of Chicago has sued the Ocean,
4 that city, for libel, claiming damages to the |
mount Of s500. O00.. Another fight with the I
Apaches is reported from Arizona, in which ,
tx savsges were killed.
CART. JACK, the Modoc chief, is negotiating [
or an alliance with the Klamath Indians, . |
and numerous tribe. He declares [
hat ~ soon - the grass grows he will leave
he lava bed, burn the ranches, and murder I
he settlers. Alexander j. Fenwick, under I
sentence Of death at San Diego, Cal, cheated I
he gallows by taking poison.
soME time ago an old lady named Langston, I
md little girl who was living with her, were I
nysteriously murdered in Coles county, ILL.,
The other day son of the murdered woman '
William l.. Ianrsfnn--cana forward and