The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-12-17
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The Bank of America Al New Orleans has
suspended payment and will 90 into liquida-
ton.
The freight propeller Phil. sheridan was
burned on Lake Erie, a few miles out from
Buffalo, on the 3Oth. All on board escaped.
She had on board :. 600 barrels Of salt.
The Hudson River steamer Sunnyside
was cut in two by the ice and sunk on the
morning Of the lst. Eleven persons were
reported drowned, five Of whom were pas
scngers and the Others employees Of the
boat For two hours fifty or sixty persons
we're hanging to the rods and masis Of
the promenade deck before they could be got
OF.
The Thermometer marked "a degrees be-
low zero at Montpelier, VT, on the lst.
Two slight shocks Of earthquake were felt
At keene, y. H.. on the lst.
In New York City on the night of the ii,
Patrick Toney saturated the clothing Of his
wife with Kerosene oil and then set il on fire.
The screams Of the woman brought the in
mates Of the house TO her rescue, and the
flames were eXtinguished. She was horri-
bly, burned, however, and i not expected
to live.
The Navy-Yard at Philadelphia has been
sold by the Government for II 600 ,GO. The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company j. said TO
have been the purchaser.
The Centennial Committee have selected
William VI. Eyarts for orator, ii. ". Long,
fellow as poet. and a grandson Of Richard
II. Lee, Of Virginia, as reader OF the De-
claraton Of independence.
Hon. Ira Harris. formerly United states
Senator from New York, died on the ID.
The schooner J. G.. jenkins, Captain John
Brown of Oswego, has been lost with all on
board-nine persons including the Captain.
The Rowing Association OF American Col
leges has voted To challenge oxford and
Cambridge. Of England. and Trinity. ~
Dublin. To row them asix-oared race. with
out c0Aswain>, az the American College
Regatta IN 1876. The time j. the thir |
"Wednesday in July, the place Saratoga,
New London or Springfield. a may here
after be decided upon. Philadelphia which
had been proposed. j. ont 81 the question.
Tho>. Hughes, OF England, has been chosen
referee.
The will Of President Wilson i in
hi own handwriting and was executed
April q, 1874. BY II he bequeathed his en-
tire estate, real and personal, to hi nephew,
DR.. VIM. l.. Coolidge, in trust for the sup
port Of hi- mOther-in-law, Mrs. Mary
Howe. now in her Goth year. and for the ed
ucafion and support Of hi adopted daughter
Eva, a little girl OF some ten summers.
4 pyrotechnic mandatory exploded in
East New York on the Sd. killing one man
and injuring several otherS.
In consequence Of the close Of navigation.
together with the fact that the Eastern coal
market j. already oyerstocked. large num-
Der Of the Pennsylvania collieries have
operations, for two
at least, and perhaps
Tor the entire winter. II was estimated that
py the 18th the suspension would be general
md that 10, 900 people would be out Of en-
ployment in the schuylkill regions.
- Boss Tweed, the great New York Ring
nalefacior, on the evening OF the 4th made
ais escape from the custody Of Warden Dun
nam Of the Ludlow Street Jail, where he
rad been confined since his release from the
ItappearS that Tweed. accom-
panied By the Warden. had been permitted
o pay a visit 10 the residence Of his wife. at
Madison Avenue and 18th Streets that while
here the Warden allowed him 10 20 upstairs
o have a private Interview with his wife,
md not returning after considerable lapse
II time. the Warden went 10 look for him.
when il was found that Tweed had fed.
This l. the story told by Warden Durham,
notified the police authorities at once,
md every effort was used to find the escaped
prisoner. The Sheriff offered reward Of
so, 900 for his capture. Tweed's trial in
the great 5000, 900 suit was TO have COM
menced on the following Monday.
A lamp containing gasoline fell from the
wall in Frederick Kaffman's- beer saloon,
At Newark, n. j., on the night Of the 5th,
and Mrs. Kaufman and daughter were burn
I'd so badly that they died the next day.
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