The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-07-18

have made more money than we should
have by tipping the train of, you fool"
West.
A large number of Kickapoos from the
band lately chastised by Mackenzie, have
come across the Rio Grande from their
abiding place in Mexico, and asked 10 be
sent TO their reservation. Ii is said the
request will be complied with.
At $50 p. m, on the evening of July l.,
tornado struck the house of Mr.. Gid
dings, living at Galesburg, Kansas, blow
ing it 10 the ground and burying in the
ruins Mrs. Giddings and three children.
The latter were instantly killed. The
house of Mr.. Roder was also blown
down, and Mrs. Roder fatally injured.
The tribunal for the trial of Captain
Jack will consist of the following officers:
Lieutenant Colonel Elliott, First Cavalry;
Captain John Mendenhall, Battery ID,
Fourth Artillery; Captain III. G. Has
brouck, Light Battery, Sixteenth Artil-
lery; Captain Robert Pollock, Company
d, Twenty-first Infantry, and Second
Lieutenant Geo. Kingsbury, commanding
Company 4. Twelfth Infantry.
Lieut.. Babcock, Fifth Cavalry, who was
sent in pursuit of the murderers of Almy,
overlook them on the mountains and COM
PEELED an engagement, killing fourteen
and capturing six. Two of Babcock's In
dian aids were wounded.
James Bulger, residing near st. Joseph,
Mo-, while harvesting with his reaper, on
July 2, was thrown before the cutter-bar,
and so badly mangled that amputation of
both feet became necessary.
Four men died of cholera six miles be-
low Cairo, on June 2. Several others are
reported down with the disease.
Hon. Joseph G. Wilson, member of
Congress from Oregon, died, at Marietta,
Ohio, on the morning Of July 2.
The Hamilton Wooden Mills, at Cincin-
natl, were struck by lightning, on July 4,
and burned TO the ground. One man was
killed by falling roof.
The wind end rain storm of the evening
Of July extended over wide extent of
territory, and caused extensive damage.
twenty persons was capsized, and ten OF
them drowned. In tine States of Ohio and
Indiana hurricanes and tornadoes, with
floods and rain, have followed each other
in quick succession. Telegraph wires
have been generally Frustrated over both
States. At Springfield, Ohio, it is re-
ported that the telegraph poles have been
blown across the turnpikes so thickly in
some places as to entirely obstruct travel.
Immense quantities of water fell, and
there has been great deal OF
damage done to the crops. In
Richmond, Indiana, trees were blown
down in the streets one fell on an ex-
press wagon, breaking both legs of the
driver, and crushing the wagon. At
Troy, Ohio, large cordage factory was
unroofed. This side of Troy, on the Day
ton q Michigan Railroad, houses were
seen tumbling down, fences Frustrated,
trees uprooted, fields of grain leveled,
corn fields flattened, and, in some in
stances, corn uprooted. Everywhere the
fields seemed lakes of water. On the
GAINESVILLE road bridges were washed
away. On the Milwaukee Il Northern
Railroad trains were very much delayed
by fallen trees. Over eighty had to be
cut from the track before the trains could
pass. An engineer on the passenger
train saw tornado approaching, and put
on heavy pressure of steam and got into
the clearing ahead Of 1t. Hundreds of
acres Of grain were Frustrated along the
course Of the storm. At st. Joseph, Mo-.
the storm was particularly violent. The |
steamer Mountaineer was lying at the |
river bank above the bridge, secured to
the railroad track and other fastenings by
eight cables. two Of which were new and |
four and half inches in diameter. At
the first big blow these lines parted, tear
ing up a portion of the RAILROAD track, and
the steamer turned her head down stream.
The wind kept her close to the st. Joseph |
shore, and she drifted down and struck |
the east end Of the bridges draw. Sew
eral of the iron guys Of the bridge were
sprung from their bolts, and the damage
to the bridge is from $1,000 to $4,000,
and 1t will require twenty days to make
The repairs.
A dispatch from Stanley's Yellowstone
expedition. dated in camp. seventy miles
west Of Bismarck, Dakota, June 80, states
hat the health of the whole command |
was good. Indians were Offering no Sc
-ious resistance to the location of the rail-
road through their hunting grounds.
The military commission met at Fort |