The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-11-09


WEST And SOUTHWEST.
The Official returns Of the Ohio election
-how the following result on Governor:
Bishop. Democrat. s7s.2l3; West. Repuhli-
can. asa. nS1: johnson. National Greenbsck,
1906; Bond. w~orkingmen's party, l.-5i5;
Thompson, Temperance. 4,Sso: scattering,
isa. Bishops plurality over West, s4,is..
Two-ood 4 Elliott's private banking
house AZ Marion. Iowa, has suspended with
liabilities amounting 10 $4,000. Assets not
known.
Wesley Geyer, a suspected horse-thicf
and bad man generally, was warned by his
neighbor- 81 Greenville. Darke County, O.,
10 leave the town. and failing 70 dc 90. he
was called from his hou-e on the night OF
the s4th BY 4 party Of masked men and rid
died with bullets. Geyer had been for ~
wears = resident OF the town, wss aproperiy
owner, and had = wife and seven children.
DR.. William f. Munsey. = noted preacher
81 J~onesboro, Tenn, died suddenly ON the
asd, while on his knees by the bedside, en-
gagged in prayer
A horrible double murder, committed
doubtless for the sake Of robbery, occurred
about Xix miles north 81 Cincinnati, o. the
Circlevilie pike, on the night u the 18th.
The victims we're Edward Mcvey and wife.
aged about 10 years each, and they kept the
toll-gate AZ that place. The only other oc-
cnpant OF the house was a.girl named Alice
Dean. aged Is. She WAS awakened BY the
firing o. pi~tol-shot- in the adjoining
room. occupied BY the old folks and wa- .
haSly frightened that she got up and cra~led
under her bed. while lying there, -hiyrr-
ing with terror. a man came into her room
and searched through the bureau-drnw-
err, but went away without having dis
covered her. After all had become quiet
she Jumped out Of the window,
ran 70 4 neighbor's md gave the
alarm. Several persons FASTENED 20 the
t0ll-gate, and upon entering the house found
the old man lying upon the floor with a bull
let through hi~ head. and the old lady par
italy reclining in q chair, shot in two places
Both were dead. The murderers had at
tempted TO cover up their crime by burning
the house. but failed in their purpose Re-
WARDS a~ggfegaring $500 were offered fdf
the arrest Of the murderer, and several
suspicious parties we're taken up for exam
nation.
Grover Kennedy, = notorious Kentucky
outlaw, was captured by Marshal Hunter
and = posse Of IL men, near B~ardstown, on
the 2-th-
Morton was reported sinking on
the 18th. and his physicians had given up Al
|, hope OF hi recovery.
Returns from I'll the counties In lows, ex-
cepi Lyon. in which the vote l. very small
, give Gear tRep-), izi.2s-: Irish DEM, ~
: l34: stubs ~tGreenbsrkl. 1919: JessuI
fProhib.), l0.43-. Gears majority over Irish
4a,la3. The Legislative returns show tina
the Republicans will have . majority OF !.
1 on joint ballot
The Missouri supreme Court ha- over
! ruled the decision on the Circuit Court, b.
which the Hannibal and =. Joseph Rail
!. road was placed III the hands Of 4 receiver
/. and the regular officers 81 the road have i~s'
y reinstated.
GEN Bedford Forrest, the famous Con
federate cavalry officer. died AZ the re~idenc
Of his brother In Memphis, en- the z'th ~.
AT East Liverpool, d, on the Spth. Ralp'
wintergfIl cut his wife's throat with a razor
causing death in a few minutes. and the
cached his own throat s~evering the wind
pipe and INJECTING 4 fatal wound. The hus
1 band and wife were about 40 years old an
= had no lived amicably together for -om
! time past, owing to jealousy on the part b
the husband, who intimated that the Aliena
tion Of his wife's love for him was the caus
of The tragedy
The Missouri supreme Court has render
ca . decision favorable 70 Metcalfe. Repuh
lIcan. in The Congressional contest in n
Third Missouri District.