The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-12-11

ID. II. Frink, ex-editor OF the Truckee
tCal.) Republican. was shot and instantly
Killed a few nights ago by an unknown
man. He was member of the Vigilance
Committee Of that place.
David Young, aged IL years, of Adj
ans, Ind. experimental with an old mus
ket 10 see iii was loaded IL proved TO
be, and the charge passed through Dayid's
head, killing him instantly.
A little daughter of Frank. Solomc n,
of Perrysburg, Ohio,a child OF six years
old, was so badly burned from her clothes
catching fire that she died in three hours
afterwards. Her parents We're both from
home at the time OF the accident.
"A boy named Hall, Is years old, al
DeSOtO, Wis, while playing with rifle a
few days ago, was instantly killed. He
held the muZZle under his arm, and played
with the lock of the gun with his foot,
when the gun was discharged. its contents
entering his left side just over the heart,
and coming out under the right collar
bone.
The Wheeling htslligsncer says that
Henry Groscor. aged Is years, was shot
in the head with a pistol. by drunken
companion. on last New Years eve. As
only a slight confusion was noticed on his
forehead. il was merely thought he had
received blow from some blunt instru-
ment. Last week. however, he was taken
i'll. and became partly paralyzed, and very
delirious. He died on Tuesday, and a
post-mortem examination revealed the
presence of bullet in his brain. which
was the undoubted cause of his death.~
A simple accident near Rutland, Yer
mont, had a remarkable resemblance to
murder. Mrs. Mcclure. farm wife, took
a load Of butter to the village, sold il for
forty dollars, and started alone to drive
home. Afterward she was found lying
dead on the floor of ercarriage, with her
head terribly bruised and her money
gone. The theory of robbery and murder
found ready credence. Later the truth
explained il all. She had died of heart dis
ease, and had fallen on the wheel of the
carriage, which had made the bsuises, and
the money had been spent in paying bills
in the village.
Mrs. w. II. Howard, Jr., of Brain
tree, Mass, was lately walking in the
streets OF that town, accompanied by her
husband. when they met an intoxicated
man. who was more than ordinarily de-
monstrative. just as the Towards came
abreast of the inebriate, he gave a whoop
which was so sudden in its effect upon
Mrs. Howard that she dropped dead at her
husbands feet. She was a robust and
healthy woman, and her death was pro-
nounced by her physician. DIR. bearing.
TO be the consequence Of fright.
"A colored man in Baltimore, while
under the influence of liquor a few days
since, climbed out upon his roof. and
amused himself by jumping thence to the
TO-. of the adjoining house, and thence TO
ls next, till his antics had attracted quite
a crowd of persons in the street below.
Seized with sudden idea that the specta-
tors were going To shoot him, he sought
refuge in a chimney, and slid down TO
within few feet of the floor, where he
became wedged in beyond the power OF
extrication. AT about the same moment
the inhabitants of that story, unaware
that the draught was choked up by hui
man body. lighted fire. The unearthly
noises which proceeded from the chimney
were attributed TO some agency similar TO
thar which recently caused the mysterious
bell ringing In the same city; and It was
not till two police officers entered the
room and made an attack upon the fire
place that the scorched incbriate was res
cued from his perilous position.