The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-01-02

session, closed contract for the purchase Of
the Werner Harvester patent, with the in
tent To start a mandatory Of their own. A
committee was appointed 20 dram Il railroad
tariff bill. 20 be presented TO the Legislature
with a memorial. The Transportation Conn
miitec reported IN favor Of the Mississippi
River and Fox and Wisconsin River improve
ments: against the acceptance of railway
passes by legislators; in favor Of purchasing
mo- more agricultural implements from llli-
nos rings; In favor Of the expansion Of cur
rency aud free banking.
Mai. Robert A. kinzic, Paymaster u. ;. A.,
attached 10 the staff ofLieut. Gen. sheridan,
died suddenly az his residence in Chicago
Dec. l3, of heart disease.
The Rev. Charles Edward Cheney was duly
consecrated n Bishop of the Reformed
Episcopal Church." in Ch 4 Church, Chica-
40. ON Dee. IA. In addition 20 Bishop Cum
Minis ihc other clergymen participated in the
services.
John Copeland. said TO have been one hun
dred and five years old and the oldest resi-
dent Of the Northwest, dcd At the Agency
near =. joseph, Mo-. on Dee. 10.
Ex-City Treasurer David A. Gage, Of Chi
cago, is found to be some three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars short in his official ac-
counts, in addition 10 over one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars of the city money
which was deposited in suspended banks. 1t
+ said that the city will recover the full
amout from his surcties.
The Illinois State Farmers Association met
i'm convention al Decatur on Dec. rs. Nearly
every congressional district was represented,
the number Of delegates present being two
hundred and forty. The President reported
an aggregate Of eight hundred and thirty clubs
i'm eighty counties Of the State, with menu
bcrship of forty-six thousand four hundred
and >eyenty-threc. Five hundred and forty
nine oranges had also reported, but number
of members was not given.
The Iowa State Grange AT its recent session
adopted q resolution in favor of removing the
National Grange from Washington TO II.
Louis. \ petition was also addressed to Con-
gress. asking for an appropriation 10 build
and equip double-track railway from Sioux
CITY. Iowa. to Norfolk. Va.
The Committee on Aid and Relief for the
suffering homestcadcrs in Northwestern Iowa,
report that in Osceola county there are POO
families needing immediate aid; in Lyon
county 100 families; in Cherokee 100; in
Sioux POO: in O'Bricn 25O; in Plymouth 10;
in Clay 30; il. Dickinson IL; in Emmett 80 /;
in kossuth 80; in Buena Vista 80. and in
Patio Alto 30. Total number Of families $50,
or 1000 persons. The articles most needed
and clothing fuel and provisions, besides seed
/ to sow over 5000 acres Of land that i already
broken. They recommend that the entire
people of the state be called upon 10 co-opc-
rate in the grand work of relief. The cause
of the distress j. the grasshopper plague.
Official information has been received that
Lieut.. Hodson of the Fourth cavalry, who
was recently sent from Fort Clarke with
forty men 10 intercept "A band of Indians raid
ing on the Lower Neuces. on Dec. 10 struck
the band. killed nine wounded good many
more and captured Ill animals. His own
casualties We're one man wounded and three
horses killed. This occurred on the west fork
of the Ncuces.