The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-06-01

breast. She Immediately turned 10 her seat,
fell over and expired. A post morton cx-
animation revealed the fact that her lungs
were diseased and her heart so badly In
yolvcd that death might have been caused
any time by oyer-excitcmcnt.
Capt. II. J. Jcifreys, Of Horn Lake, Miss,
shot himself on the 18th, blowing the whole
top of his head on with shotgun whether
Il was accidental or intentional Is not
known. He was 90 years OF age, wealthy and
highly respected, and no cause for suicide Il
known.
Al Cleveland. on the nth, a Mrs. Donovan,
after having some trouble with her hus-
band, took her two children, a boy OF six
months end girl two years Of age, to the
river, jumped in, and drowned herself and
children.
Sam Orr was hanged at Mount Vernon,
Lawrence County, No., on the 18th tor the
murder OF George w. Davis, wealthy 'arm-
er Of Christian County, ON Dec. IA, 1879 Al
bert Cox, who assisted Orr TO consummaic
the bloodydeed, j. sentenced to be hanged on
June IA. Orr's father Il now in the Spring
field Jail, also charged with being an accom-
plice In the same murder.
Collector Mills, OF the Lynchburg (va.)
Revenue Office, telegraphed on the 10th to
the Department. at Washington that the re-
cent shooting affair in that district resulted
in the shooting Of four Illicit distillers and
one citizen, and not five United States
officers, As was at first reported.
The steamer j. Don Cameron, with $50
tons Of Government freight and 70 passen-
gers, struck q snag and sunk in Is feet OF
water, 40 miles below Sioux City, Iowa, on
the 18th. No lives lost.
Charles Tommey, colored, was hung at
Americas, Ga, on the 18th, for the murder
Of Mrs. Caraway, a white lady.
An excursion train on the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad ran into a
wash-out near Ellinwood, about 20 miles
west Of Topeka, on the evening OF the 18th,
killing one passenger, named Miller, Of
Fond du Lac, Wis, and injuring six or
eight others.
The 81. Louis Daily Times was sold at
auction on the 18th to Il. M. Chambers,
President Of the Butchers 4 Droyers' Bank,
for $1,000 cash. There will be no change
in the editorial department Al present, cx-
cept the retirement OF Mr.. Hutchins A. edi-
tor-n-chief.
Goldsmith Maid trotted mile in 2:l4 i-2
al San Francisco on the 1sth--the fastest
time on record.
A most destructive storm passed over
portion Of Grant County, Ind, on sunday.
the 20th. A brick church, nine miles north
Of Marion, was demolished, while filed with
people attending divine service. The roof
was uplifted and the walls fell in, burying
the inmates. The scene that followed was
terrible. One young man was killed, and 10
or Is persons were seriously injured.
The town Of Creswel, Washington Coun-
~, Y. c., was totally destroyed by fire on the
night Of the 18th. There was but little in
snrance held BY property holders, and the
greatest distress prevails.
ON the first Of June . mail service will be
begun between Paddock, Neb., and Custer
City, Dakota, making the sixth mail route
into the Black Hills country.
Levi Pyle, the negro who attempted TO
outrage the person Of Mrs. G. X. Pyle, the
wife Of his employer, near Bandsville, KY,
was taken from the jail by mob and hanged
on the night Of the 10th.