The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-04-26

are liable for the whole amount, and sew.
eral Of them will be financially ruined b,
the loss.
II. X. McIntire, President OF the First Ma.
tional Bank Of LakeCity, and Vice. Presi.
dent Of the First National Bank Of Colorado
Springs, Col, hrs absconded with $4,000.
England Is sending large numbers OF tor
pedo-boats TO the Mediterranean fleet, also
additional heavy guns. The warlike prepa-
rations OF both the Russians and Turks
around Constantinople continue.
John T.. Lyon, President OF the Boston,
Concord and Montreal Railroad, was burned
to death at Plymouth. NH, the night OF the
10th. He was stopping At hotel, and being
III he arose during the night and fell, the
lamp In his hand breaking, which set fire to
his clothing.
Launcelot Fogarty, aged 40, OF 30 West
Forty second Street, New York City, on the
10th, killed his wife, aged 50, and then killed
himself A quarrel about property was the
cause Of the tragedy.
Sam Steenburg, under sentence Of death
for murder at Amsterdam, N. ", has made
most blood-curdling confession. he saws
he has committed II different murders In
his lifetime, the first when he was only IA,
and besides been guilty Of innumerable
other minor crimes.
William NJ. Tweed, the famous ex- Chief
Of the Tammany Ring, died In Ludlow Street
Jail, New York City, on the 18th. from a
complication Of diseases, brought about
probably by his long confinement. He was
in his 56th year. His last words" are said
TO have been-"I have tried to do some good,
II have not had good luck. am not afraid
to die. believe the guardian angels will
protect me-"
John shallington, colored, aged ~, was
hanged in Green County, N. c., in the pres
ence Of 1000 spectators, on the 18th, for the
murder ofhis step-daughter, Serena Thomp-
son, aged Is, in August last. He maintain
ed his innocence 10 the last.
Gen. Henry A. Smalley, avery well known
business man in New York City, who had
been appointed by the Courts as guardian Of
several important fiduciary trusts, public
and private, Is missing, together with several
thousands Of other peoples money.
William Thomas, Wilmington (Del.)
the other night when crazed
with drink killed his wife and then termin-
ated his own life.
). Angler Chace, the defaulting Treasurer
Of the Union Mills Of Fall River, Mass, was
arrested on the 18th and lodged in jail, bail
being refused.
George Leeds and Richard Marley ,,seamcn
OF the United States steamer Powhattan,
fell from the main-topgallant yard while
exercising, in Norfolk Harbor, and were in
stanty killed.
On the 18th notice was given of another
reduction OF wages In all the Lowell (Nfass.)
mills Of from 5 TO 10 per cent.
Capt. j. w. Cakes, Of Charleston, West
Va, prominent steamboatman, committed
suicide on the 18th by throwing himself un-
der freight train.
The famous Bcecher-Tilton scandal has
broken out afresh. On the 18TH inst. the
New York papers published, by request
Df friend OF Mrs. Tilton, letter
addressed by her 10 personal
friend, in which she explicitly and
lnequivocally confesses to adulterous inter-
course with Henry Ward Beecher, as charg-
ID by her husband in the famous trial. Mr.. I
Beecher simply reiterates his general
lenial Of all the acts charged, md
fr. Beecher's friends claim that
Mrs. Tilton's manifesto Is but the car
wing out Of a contract between her and her
husband which il to eliminate in the entire
reconciliation and reunion OF the estranged
ouple. The friends Of Mrs. Triton deny
hat her husband had any part in procuring
he writing or publication Of the letter in
question.
a significant publication appears in the
Jew York World, being an apparently au-
horitativc report OF several recent inter-
Jews with Senator ConkIing regarding the
residents policy. The Senator openly ex-
resses his opinion that the Presidents
curse Is the result Of . secret bargain
iade between him and Governor Nichols,
rowing out Of the Presidential compli-
alton, and thinks the facts will all come
ut sooner or later, when, he says, "the
hole country will be appalled, by tho dis
onor OF the Administration The report
lakes six columns in the World, and il M
we're IN its censure Of the President As II
ell can be.
FOREIGN.
The trouble in England's south African
'rritory has broken out afresh, and sir
artle Frerc has another campaign on his
ands ON the Kaffrarian frontier.
The Earl Of Lcitrim was buried in ST.
Iichael's Church, Dublin, on the 10Th. A
'owd OF about 300 Missed, hooted and
ieered outside the church. The Lord
-
strict comprising Lord Leitrim's Dom
sal estates under peace preservation.
Gen. Grant dined with the King and