The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-02-09

warrant charging him with frauduIently
and corruptly procuring the escape OF q.
w. Young, under indictment for illegal
voting At the October election, and an Inn
portant witness In contested cases now on
trial.
Mr.. Q. ID. Whips, proprietor Of the Will
lard Hotel at Louisville, KY, on the morn
ing Of the a6th shot and fatally wounded
Mr.. John w. stockton, superintendent OF
the hotel. The shooting was the result Of
an alteration regarding tho management OF
the house. stockton died on the following
day. Whips was held to bail In the sum Of
SO, 900.
Lawrence Mack, bar-keeper At the The
ster Comique In st. Louis, was shot and
instantly killed At an early hour on the
morning Of the 18th. by VIM. Wiener. a
private Waterman, ut the same establish
ment. Mack was quiet, inoffensiye young
man, and the shooting appears to have been
the result Of drunken frenzy on the part
Of the murderer.
was destroyed by fire on the night OF the
27th. Loss from $50, 900 to $a00, 200, par
TALLY insured.
The physicians Of Chicago held meeting
on the 25th, to devise means for checking
the present alarming spread OF scarlet fever
and diphtheria In that city.
Four men were killed by boiler explosion
In saw-miil near Eaton, Ind, on the 18th.
Gen. John Mcdonald, chief OF the former
St. Louis Whisky Ring, has been pardoned
by the President on the ground OF III health,
and Is now at liberty.
The South Carolina Supreme Court, on
the Goth, rendered a decision in the quo
warranto proceedings against the Hayes
Electors, Diminishing the case, on the ground
that the proceedings were Illegally present.
ed on the part Of the State, instead Of the
United States.
A peddler called at the house OF 8. s.
Chalfant, near Thornville, Ohio, on the
night Of the 10th, and obtained permis-
sion 10 lodge over night. During the night
he chloroformed the entire family and ram
sacked the house, carrying of 500 in mon
ey and 50, 900 in drafts. The robber was
tracked to Lancaster, but not apprehended.
W. IL. Hardy, the defeated candidate for
Congressional Delegate from Arizona, has
petiiioned the Supreme Court OF that Terri
tory TO compel the Secretary to recanvass
the vote.
Two rival saloon keepers at Hot Creek,
Wyoming, had = serious shooting ARRAY on
the 26th. Daniel Perry was wounded In the
breast, and head, and j. ii. Price, his an
tagonist, was seriously wounded In the leg.
A collision between the whites and blacks
occurred at Timnonsville, Darlington
Cnftntv ~ 10 49,
BY the assassination by some unknown par
~, on the preceding night, OF ID. 0. Hol-
loway, the Republican Trial Justice. The
blacks and whites both armed, and the re-
suit Of the encounter was that two whites
were placed hors dc combat. The casual
ties on the part Of the blacks, if any, are
not mentioned
Representative Piper, OF the First Dis
trict, California, who was defeated by Horace
Davis In the last election, has given notice
that he will contest Davis's seat in the For
ty-fifth Congress, on the ground Of fraudu-
lent voting.
Prof. Edward l.. Seymour, an honorary
member OF the Polytechnic School at Dillen-
berg, Germany, cut his throat in St. Louis
on the 10th. Cause, poverty.
The first annual meeting OF the Sunday
school Congress Of the United States opened
its session at Chicago on the 10Th.
O.. W. Via and Granville Peake, two
horse herders, had a shooting encounter at
ranch, - miles south OF Chey-
enne, on the 9th. Eleven shots were fired.
Peake was fatally wounded, but Via Is
likely to recover.
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state Engineer Corps, committed suicide
1t San Francisco on the 10th. Cause not
stated.
Edgar Moore, the murderer Of Mabel
Hall. the St. Louis ballet girl, has been
found guilty Of murder in the first degree.
The Jury appended to their verdict re-
for clemency.
A decision has been rendered by Circuit
Judge Carpenter, Of south Carolina, that
neither Chamberlain or Hampton has been
legally installed as Governor for the present
term, and that Chamberlain il therefor the
legal Governor by right Of holding over un-
III his successor il qualified.
FOREIGN.
ylish lady, on the Both killed herself by
jumping froma window OF her mothers
residence In Berkeley Square, London. The
Jury rendered verdict that the
.ct was committed while the lady was in an
state Of mind caused by grief At
he death Of Earl Howe, her husband.
The American ship Dakota, from New
orleans TO Liverpool, was struck by light
hing and burned when about 400 miles from
he Azores. The captain and crew reached
Fayal in safety, after being ut sea four days
n open boats.
European advices Of the Goth were gener-
lily indicative Of . peaceful solution Of the
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