The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-04-24


rode away.
John II. Mclean, proprietor Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, has been sent TO jail for re-
flising TO testify In court as 10 the source from
which ne received information upon which
an alleged liDelous publication In his paper
was based.
Isaac Clark, who with his wife and infant
child was on his way from Iowa To Kansas,
with horses and wagon, was shot and killed
BY three desperadoes one night recently while
stopping by the roadside in Clay county, Mo-,
and his pockets rifled OF $1,000 in the pres
ence Of his almost frantic wife. His body
was taken charge Of by the Masons OF smith
Vile.
A fire occurred in house at Evansville,
Ind, on the morning Of the sth, and Mrs.
Roher and her son Louis were smothered in
their beds. Another son, Charles, escaped
by Jumping from third-story window. The
bodies Of mother and son were recovered
after the fire had been extinguished.
Two men. named Fred. Eckert, Jr., and
Jacob Petri, have been arrested and lodged
in Jail on the charge of being implcat-
ed in the Stetzereide murder in st. Clair
murdered family. and the elder Eckert is
one OF the administrators of the steltzereide
estate.
The last rail on the Louisville, Paducah and
Southeastern Railroad was laid on the 9th,
and the early opening of the line for business
is announced.
Turner Ardazol. An Italian. captain Of the
sloop New Louisiana, entered the residence
Of Mr.. Jett. three miles from Orange, Texas.
during Mr.. Jett's absence on the 9th inst,
and murdered Mrs. Jet and two children.
A daughter, nearly grown, made her escape
and gave the alarm. When the citizens ar
rived they found Ardazol endeayoring TO burn
the bodies. He was Immediately arrested
and lodged in Jail. and the same night a crowd
of armed men rushed in and took the muir
derer outside the prison, and literally riddled
him with bullets.
Progue Bryant. negro, was hanged at Pu-
laski, Tenn, on the 10th, for the murder of
Alexander Steel some two years ago. The
execution took place in public. large con-
course Of people. black and white. being
present.
A passenger train on the Cairo and Fulton
Boughton station in the Little Missouri River
bottom, on the 10th. caused by a portion OF
a trestle-bridge giving way, by which the To-
connective and baggage-car were wrecked and
the engineer killed.
Frost was reported As far south a. Hous-
ton. Texas. on the night Of the 9th, and at
many other points in Central and Northern
Texas. Considerable damage TO the crops
was feared.
John X. Breckenridge, a law student at
Lebanon, Tenn, was shot and killed by John
L. Anderson, son Of the Mayor of that town, a
few days ago. The two had beer on drink
ing bout during the day, and the shooting
was brought about by trivial and apparently
friendly dispute regarding an umbrella.
Anderson had not been captured, but posse
was after him. Young Breckenridge was the
Youngest son Of the late DIR. Robert j. Breck-
enridge, Of Danville.
A Cheyenne dispatch of the 18th SAYS that
the United States Peace Commissioner has
view with Spotted TAIL and tina, movement
on the Agency by the military is probable at
an early day.
The Chicago Presbytery has preferred for
NAL charges Of heresy against Prof. David
Swing, the well known pastor Of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church OF that city.
James Shoaif, editor Of the Paris (Ill.) Ga
zette, died recently from the effects of NOR
phine administered by himself.
The Wisconsin State Institute for the
Blind, located at GAINESVILLE, was burned on
the 18th.
Owing to several dangerous crevasses in
the lower Mississippi. Governor Kellogg on
the l4th addressed a circular to all police ju-
ries in river parishes, saying the exigencies
were beyond all provided means to control
the threatened overflow, and advising them
to go to work and build up and protect the
leyees in their respective parishes, promising
TO recommend the next Legislature TO reim-
burse the parishes for money expended. The
State authorities also advanced TO the Levee
Company. which by the acts of the Legisla-
ture creating 1t has monopoly Of levee
building in Louisiana, $4,000 in advance Of
collections on this years levee tax, 10 help
them to meet the emergency.
The Government Peace Commissioners to
the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies
have returned to Omaha, and telegraphed to
Secretary Delano on the 14th as follows:
The Commissioners found and left the In
dians quiet. They are fairly reasonable, not
outstanding the irritableness consequent
upon their late turbulence and the arrival Of
troops. There is no reason TO apprehend war.
Should foolish measures precipitate it, the
good results Of the present policy are so great
that The number of Indians who would go
upon the warpath is probably less by one
half than IL would have been six years ago.
The Commissioners are not without a hope
that the policy which they will recommend.
considering as II does the rights Of whites and
the Indians. will be approved by good men
East and West
The st. Louis Dispatch has been mulcted