The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-03-02

j =. on the 18Th. His accomplish, Ryan,
who We 70 have been hanged with him.
died In his cell on the morning appointed
for his execution, supposed to have taken
poison.
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, on the morning
Of the 18th shot two policemen In New
York both being seriously wounded. CO.
burn took ofFense because one OF the officers
ordered hacknAn away from in front Of
his mloon. NMN
The Miners Trust and Safe Deposit Bank
n shsmokin. Pa. suspended on the 10Th.
The principal business men Of the place are
heavy depositors and the loss falls mainly
upon them.
The Grand Duke Alexis and suite arrived
In New Ysrkjfrom Norfolk on the nth.
WEST AND SOUTH
The South bound express train on the
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Wa
thrown from the track about ~ miles north
OF Little Rock, Ark, on the morning Of
the llth. The locomotive, tender and bag
eage-car were thrown down An cmbankment
and crushed TO pieces, killing the fireman
and fatally injuring the engineer. The re-
mainder Of the train was uninjured. II h
said that the rails were locsened, with the
evident design Of wrecking the whole train.
DR.. N. N. Wishard. Superintendent Of
the Orphans Home ~ Knightstown, Ind,
cut his throat at the St. James Hotel In
New Orleans on the 18th.
An unsuccessful attempt to sssassinate
Gov. Packard was made In New Orleans on
the 18th, by . young man named VIM.
Henry Weldon. He entered Gov. Pack
ads private ONCE Just before noon. while
the latter was sitting at his desk In
conversation with several gentle
men, and as the Governor turned
around in response to his salutation, We'll
| don drew pistol and pointed II 81 Packard
breast. The latter instantly struck the
weapon down and grappled with his assault
ant. The pistol was discharged, the ball
striking Packard on the right knee-cap. in
| fiicting slight wound. A number Of Pack
ards friends who were present i'm
mediately drew their revolyers, and
one fred at Weldon, wounding
him in the left arm. He was taken into
custody, and from an examination Of papers
found upon his person II was ascertained
| that his name was Is above stated, and that
he was recently from Philadelphia. He
claimed to be correspondent Of the Phil.
adelphia Press, but that paper denies
all knowledge Of him. Being asked his
motive, he replied: s'Only patriotism. =
He had only been in New Orleans "a hours,
and IL was thought by many he was insane,
while others charged the attempted assas.
sination to political motives.
\ Reports from Deadwood, ID. T., on the
4 18th, were to the effect that . number Of
| Indian depredations had recently been COM
mitted in the Black Hills, and fears were
entertained Of general onslaught by thu
hostile Indians.
The steamers Clifford and Pine Bluff were
sunk on the 15th--the former In the Red
River and the latter In the Arkansas. Botl
were laden with cotton.
Weldon, the young man who attempted
to assassinate Gov. Packard, 10 identified
~ dry goods clerk recently employed II
Mobile, where be had gone to the bad from
hard drinking, coupled with an unfortunat'
love affair. He was last seen In Mobile OF
the 18th, when he informed an acquaintance
that ae was going 10 kill himself.
II At Oregon, Holt County, Mo-, on thu
10th, John T.. Simero shot his wife and
then shot himself, both being killed
simero was carpenter BY trade, Of dissi
pated and brutal habits, and his wife hat
applied for divorce He was 50 years OLE
and his wife 80, and they had nine children
The ferryboat Jones, from Bayou Gouli
TO Plaquemine. La, exploded her boiler
on the 18th, killing six persons.
Eph. Holland, . well known sporting man
Is under Indictment At Cincinnati for com
plicity In election frauds. II Is said that h'
has made confession, In which be admit
receiving about Il 900 indirectly from New
York party, and accounts specifically 70
some 15e illegal votes for the Democratic
ticket. He says that about 500 fraudulen
votes in all were cast by the gang OF repeat
err under his direction.
winsiow, indicted for larceny Of $l2, 90
package from the Treasury Department
has been sentenced 10 IS months i'm
prisonment in the Albany Penitentiary.
The searcy County, Ark, Court-hcus
was burned on the 18th, II IL supposed p
an incendIary. Most Of the records wer
saved.
VI AT Minneapolis, on the 10th, younl
woman named Kate Noonan shot and kille'
WIN. n. side, assistant Cashier Of the Fir
National Bank, for alleged seduction an
desertion.
N, A young man named Abe Rothschild mad
IN unsuccessful attempt 10 commit suicid
IN Cincinnati on the 18th. IL has transpire
that be murdered his mistress, named Bes
sie Moore, in Jefferson, Texas, On Jan. 81
and her dead body was found some days n
terward in secluded spot, with bullet 4
, the brain. Rothschild was acommercis
traveller. He will be taken TO Texas 70
trial.
The eastern approach to the great rail