The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-02-20
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dead. Wyatt confessed his guilt before
death.
A serious accident occurred on the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad. near Howard.
ILL.,. on the 5th, caused by broken rail on a
bridge. The whole train was thrown from
the track, and three passenger coaches, one
sleeper, and the baggage-car with its entire
contents. were burned. Only seven persons
were injured. and none seriously il was said.
The escape of the passengers was a little hess
than miraculous, a. the train was running AZ
full speed at the time.
A committee Of the Iowa Senate appointed
20 investigate the condition of the alleged sut-
ferng homesteaders in that State, have re-
turned from tour through the counties OF
Linn. O'Bren, Osceola and Sioux. They re-
port great distress among the people, and the
necessity Of immediate action To prevent suf-
ferng ana TO enable farmers TO seed their
lands.
The Utah Northern Railroad is completed
10 Ogden, and the first train passed over the
road from Ogden To Logan on the 9th.
A suit has been brought against the Chica-
go and st. Louis Railroad by the Attorney
General Of the State of Illinois for viola
tions OF the Railroad law. The Attorney
General recites several cases in which more
than fair and reasonable compensation
has been charged by the company for
passengers as well as freight, and de
mands the legal damages. This is
the first prosecution OF the kind under this
law, and the result i looked for with great
interest.
Representative Farris of the Missouri Leg
isature, who was on the train that was robbed
at Gadshill, SAYS that it was the original inten-
ton of the robbers to throw the train from
the track, but at the earnest solicitation of his
son. whom they held prisoner, they finally
agreed that if he would consent to flag the
train and open the switches they would not
obstruct the track. which he promised, and
did do, to save his fathers life.
The woman's temperance movement. re-
Gently inaugurated in Ohio, is rapidly extend
ing, and is meeting with most encouraging
results. In Ripley, Ohio, sixteen out Of the
twenty-three saloon-keepers in the town have
signed the pledge and abandoned the business.
A converted saloon-kecper of New Vienna.
o.. has started out on temperance crusade.
lecturng in various places.
The Kansas House Of Representatives, by
a vote of 81 to 26, has passed resolution re-
questing the County Attorney 10 take steps
for bringing ex-senator Pomeroy to trial.
A bill has been introduced in the Iowa Leg
islature, which proposes 10 take the railroad
tariffs in use on all railroads in that State,
February ;. 1874, and reduce the rates twenty
per cent, which shall be the railroad tariff
law.
An Omaha dispatch of the 10th says: The
excitement over the Indian news is becoming
very great. There is no doubt but that in
consequence Of the failure Of the agents TO
provide for them. the Indians are leaving their
reservations for the purpose of providing
themselves at the expense Of the settlers,
herders and ranchmen. Some ranchmen near
Sidney had been raded by the Indians. and
the commanding officer al that post was or
dered to send out cavalry TO scour the coun-
try.
A telegram from Fort Laramie states that
on the 9th. Lieutenant Robinson, Fourteenth
Infantry, and Corporal Coleman, company X,
Second Cavalry, Were surrounded by forty or
fifty Indians. ten miles from the fort and muir
dercd. Their bodies were found riddled with
bullets and arrows, but not otherwise mutt
lated. Two companies of cavalry under com
mand Of Capt. Eagan and Lieut.. Allison. had
been sent in pursuit Of the Indians. Frank
Appleton chief clerk at the Red Cloud Agency,
had also been shot. and the agent dared not
return to Red Cloud for fear Of his life.
kilograms Of the 18th, from various towns
in Southern Ohio and Indiana. show no abate-
ment in the women's temperance crusade
In Xenia, o.. four hundred women had or
ganized for the work, and in Springfield sew
enty-tve women had visited saloons, and one
hundred and sixty-five more women had been
added to the visiting committee. In shelby
vile, Ind, the saloon-keepers served a writ
ten notice on the ladies that they would hold
them responsible for their loss Of business,
and on the next day an immense meeting was
held, and an incorporated company organ
lied. with S30O,00O capital. to fight the liquor
traffic legally, if other means fail. In Ripley,
o.. only two saloons continued open, and these
were doing but little business. The ladies
were extending their work into the suburbs.
SOUTH.
A steam boiler in Baird & Roper's single
mill, at deep Creek, eight miles from Norfolk.
Va, exploded on the jth, killing four persons
and badly scalding four Others.
John Mccarthy. who j. charged with firing
the Louisville Railroad machine shops at