The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-05-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE EAST.

eensured by the Halifax Investigation Com
mission, and his commission revoked for tw
years.
NEARLY u quarter of million dollars
United States bonds, which had been obtane'
by Mcdonald. alias Bidwell, and his associate
in the Bank Of England forgeries, were recov
cred in New York the other day. Ont Of $500.
900 obtained from the bank by these forgories
all but $4,000 has already been recovered.
MARY GArrNEy. while returning home, q
Cohoes, N. Y, the other night, from funeral
fell down an embankment, and became 81
mired in mud that she could not extricate her
self, and was in this manner strangled te
death The number Of passengers who are
booked at New York to cross the Atlantic this
season is q, 800. Sixty thousand emigrants
have arrived at New York since Jan. 1. The
Bulls Head Bank, Of New York, which sus-
pended some time ago, has been reopened for
business. The New York World, Of the 23d,
closes q long article ON The Democratic
Party" in the following words: I'VE fellow
ship with all genuine Free-Traders; we scorn
political association with any Protectionist
every citizen who is unequivocaly for free
trade is good enough Democrat for us; no
Protectionist can be Democrat at all. We
stake all our hopes on making the Democracy
an out and out, thick and thin, aggressive,
and, il you please. intolerant, Free-Trade
party, subordinating all issues TO this, and
thereby drawing to itself all citizens who have
true appreciation Of this great principle"
HoosIER BRowN one of the most notorious
of Western criminals, has been arrested in
New York for robbing man Of $14,0OO...
Mrs. Hennessy, of New York. during a fit of
insanity, the other day, murdered her two little
children. Fire insurance was not profitable
in the year Of the Boston fire. The President
of the Convention of Underwriters at New
York says that the companies Of this country
lost e. 1870, 366 in 1872 The total loss in the
Boston fire was go 600, 600, of which $50, 1885,
343 has been borne by the insurance companies.
..Usury laws are not likely to last much
longer in New York State. The Grand Jury of
New York city, who learned the utter inutility
Of the laws in the effort to enforce them,
recommended the Legislature to abolish them,
and this suggestion has resulted in the intro
duction of bill for their repeal, which has
passed the Senate by a vote Of II to -.
Ar Albany, N. Y, Collector Bailey has seized
% locomotives and SO passenger and three bag
gage cars Of the New York Central and Hud- |
son River Railroad Company for non-payment |
Of taxes.
THE WEST.
CoSGREssMEN CREBs, of Illinois, and Cotton. |
of Iowa, repudiate the back pay.
San Francisco dispatch of the 2lst says :
The peace conference at Camp Verde resulted |
in the unconditional submission and surrender |
Of two Of the worst bands of Apaches. Peace
was brought about through the complete rout
Of the Apsches, who have for the last 20 years
1efied the Government. Over 200 warriors
have been killed in the last campaign in the
businesses Of the Apache country. The war
riors gave up their arms. When the talk be-
gan the Apache chiefs we're the first speakers
ALI acknowledged complete defeat. They
desired peace. Gen. Crook accepted in few
The chiefs promised to send word
10 all outside Indians in arms to come in and
Passes to protect runners were
promised, when the conference broke up. The
Apaches went up the river to the
Did post. where feast was given them. The
Generals policy will be to treat the Indians
place them on reservations, make
hem no promises which will not be fulfilled
% maintain order among them, in struct
hem in their simple duties to God
Ind man, and thus prove to them
hat peace is far better than war.
\ telegram from San Francisco of the Goth
'ays: A Yreka dispatch reports that the Indians
atill II, tho Ia had cf H. | F.,
having been seen where young Hovey was
'hot, evidently keeping open communication
With the lake for water. A number of shots
we're fired along the line just before lie left
The troops are still remaining in the lava-bed.
The Indian found in Jacks cave was Scar
Faced Charley, beyond doubt, by the descrp- ,
ion. He was dead, instead of wounded. as
'efore reported. Eugene Hovey's body was
'uried near the camp on Friday. 1t was 80 ,
'orribly mutilated as to be scarcely recog- !.
lizable.
Two workmen on Potter Palmer's new hotel.
q Chicago, were killed the other day, by the !;
living way Of an insecure scaffolding Re- !,
orts Of the late storm in Western Nebraska
how 1t to have been one Of the severest ever
nown. Men were frozen to death within two I.
DDS OF their houses while trying to get to their
took to feed them. Families we're compelled !
take refuge in cellars or keep their beds for !.
hrec days. The destruction Of horses was
rcat, some losing all they had. One party !
DIST his whole herd Of rs head. The gullies Of !,
he railroads were filled with snow as hard as !.
%. Snow-plows were useless. !,
The wheat throughout Northern Kansas is !,
good condition, and promises large yield !.
IA Mr.. Robinson, from Minnesota, aged :.
~, passed through Milwaukee, the other day.
visit young son in Illinois aged &c.
A PARTY of four pcrsons-william and =
Lall. /