The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-10-12

being detected he fed the city.
WEST AND SOUTH.
A mass-meeting was held at San Antonio,
Texas, on the 26th, for the purpose Of form
ally expressing the popular appreciation
Of President Hayes's Southern policy.
The Indians have murdered all the white
inhabitants, Is in number, In Cooks Canyon
and on Whites ranch, between Silver City
and Fort Yuma, Arizona.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Conven-
ton, held on the 26th, adopted resolutions
fayoring the reconciliation OF silver, and
opposing forced resumption and the grant,
Ing Of subsidies TO corporations, etc. James
A. Mallory was nominated for Governor.
Near Roseville. o., on the morning OF the
2Gth, the dead bodies OF Abner James and
his wife were found by the roadside, locked
in each others arms, the wife tightly grasp
ing a revolver in her left hand. The hus-
band had bullet hole In his breast and the
wife one In the temple and another in the
back. James was an undertaken, doing
business in GAINESVILLE. After considerable
domestic trouble, II i supposed that Mrs.
James finally left her husband 10
20 home to her mother, who lives near
Roseville. The husband apparently follow
ed her, and when within a short distance OF
her mothers house the fatal tragedy was en-
acted. II l. supposed that James first shot
bis wife in the back and then shot himself
in the breast: and that Mrs. James, not dy-
ing Immediately, succeeded in getting hold
Of the pistol and ending her sufferings by
| apnfbar ohnf fIrntfUb tho IN nj m
sidney Myers, President Of the defunct
Merchants, Farmers and Mechanics Bank
Of Chicago, has been indicted for the en-
bezzlement OF 100000 in funds Of the bank,
and held to bail in the sum Of $4,000.
The cash assets OF the bank are 500 in green
backs and s. in mutilated currency, while a
large portion OF the securities are Of little or
no values
Lewis Myers, Treasurer OF Auglaize Coun-
ty, Ohio, has made confession that he was
a party to the robbery OF the Treasures
Office, being induced thereto by j. T. smith,
County Auditor, whom he allowed to gag
| and bind him as heretofore described. Smith
has been arrested and a portion Of the Sc
GREETED money recovered. Other parties are
implicated.
A party Of cattle-thieves, II in number
who had run of large herd Of cattle from
the range in Western Colorado, were over.
taken in Northwestern Kansas by party o.
l5rangers and every one Of them killed. Thi,
was on the 2lst Of August. On the 14th @
September the unburied bodies Of the I:
men were discovered by some passers-by
which was the first infimation given 10 thu
public Of the tragic affair.
The Kemper County, Miss, Grand Jur!
found six indictments for murder In thu
Chisholm affair, involving about Is persons
who will be arraigned for the trial at thu
next term, in March.
Two OF the Union Pacific train robber
were killed near Buffalo Station, Kansas, Of
, the 18th, and $4,000 OF the stolen gold re
covered. Sheriff Bardsley, OF Hays City
with posse Of soldiers, was on the lookou
for the robbers, when these two came int
the station. Their demeanor excited sus
; picion, and after they had gon
the Sheriff and his posse start
+ ed in pursuit. They were over
taken few miles from the station, and or
} dered to surrender, when they attempted 4
! pull their revolvers, but the Sherihss me-
! were too quick for them, and both wer
} tumbled from their saddles. One Of the rob
bers was recognized a. Joel Collins, said :
d belong TO q respectable family at Dallas
Texas. The other was not recognized.
! The Minnesota Republican State Conven
: ton, held at St. Paul on the 27th, unreserv
!. edly approved the Presidents Southern an
i Civil Service policies; favored early resump
r ton Of specie payment and the remonetiza
IL - 49, f...~
r were renominated.
d The late officers Of the Protection Life In
/ surance Company OF Chicago have been in
Q dicted by the Grand Jury for misappropria
q ton Of funds. President billiard and SEQ
4 Rotary Edwards were released on 5000
Z bail, but Cashier Sawyer was unable I
: obtain a bondsman and so went to jail.
The 81. Elmo (Tll.) assassin has final
been captured, and fully identified. III
name il Frank Nichols, and his home l. 0
! Lovingtcn, Moultrie County, where he wa
, captured He was taken 10 the Jail At Van
e dalia.
= Nat Pierce, who was implicated in KILN
T. story and Fitzpatrick, In Pickens Count.
p Ala, last August, was taken from Carroll
= ton Jail on the night Of the Doth, by about
y masked men, ana nahkeu.
j. BY the explosion Of locomotive on n
y Louisville and Nashville Railroad, AZ Rock
:. Hill station, Warren County, KY, on II
/ 26th, Chas. Wilson, engineer, Thos. Mac
h Rae, fireman, and Mccormick
! brakeman, were instantly killed an
anumber Of others injured. There were
k number Of valuable horses on the train, tw
n Of which were killed and the rest injures
y One OF the horses killed was Sazerac.
/. Alice Richards, a servant, aged ~, kindle
II the fire with kerosene and was fatally burr
ed. This occurred at Bridgeport, o., on a
II 2sth.
= The civil suit brought against Willial
D, Mckee 70 recover the liability imposed x
violation Of the revenue law, has been d.
J. cidcd In favor Of defendant, the Cou
y (Judgc MIlIcr) holding that the dcfendaI