The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-04-19

A recent reduction Of wages and the dis
charge by the company Of two brotherhood
engineers are stated n the cause Of the
strike.
The steamer Dawn, from Shreveport, with
500 bales OF cotton and other freight. was to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 4th, about -
miles above New Orleans. The passengers
saved their lives, but lost all their personal
effects.
An express-car attached to a train on the
Texas Pacific Railroad was captured at
E~agleford. about six miles west Of Dallas,
on the night Of the 4th, by four masked men.
The robbers got about so in express pack
ages, and also took = number Of registered
letters from the mail apartment. The rob-
bers are said 10 be the same gang who rob-
bed the Central train sometime back At Al
len, and latterly at Hutchinson, both places
near Dallas. II Is supposed their headquar-
tiers are At Eagleford. The passengers were
not disturbed.
Henry Crouch, his wife and two children
were drowned while fishing In q pond near
their residence about seven miles west Of
Battle Greek, Mich, on the ID.
One thousand spectators witnessed IN
arena fight between q lioness and . bull
near San Antonio, Texas, on the 9th. The
fight lasted ~ minutes, at the end Of which
time the lioness lay impaled under the bulbs
horns, in a dying condition.
The Sandy Fashion, = small steamer rum
ming from Cstlcttsburg, KY, up the Sandy
River, exploded her boilers on the night OF
the 9th at the mouth Of the Sandy, and sun
In three minutes in nine feet Of water. She
had on board about 40 passengers and crew.
Joseph N~ewburg, . merchant OF Richmond,
KY, A. Osborn, pilot, and others, names un-
known, were killed, besides several serious
y injured.
A letter to the Chicago Tribune from
Cairo. 9Th, says: sYour correspondent has
seen In a letter from a gentleman at Port
Eads, received here to-day, evidence that
the j~etties are q success In every sense Of the
word. II IL stated, Notwithstanding the
high river, the scour or wash IL still going
on, and vessels drawing % l-2 feet come and
90 with ease. There il every indication
that Eads will reach his 24-feet- payment In
q month";"
@. X. Clark, Jr., a Detroit grain speculate
or, has absconded, leaving about $4,000 in
debts behind him.
j. w. Bugbee, an Indianapolis lumber
dealer, has committed forgeries to the amount
Of $4,000. His forgeries extended through
several years.
The Governor Of Kansas, on the sth, is
sued a proclamation ordering the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad strikers to
disperse, and called out the militia COM
panies Topeka and Leayenworth TO en-
force the order.
Thirteen frame buildings on Market
Street, Galveston, Texas, we're burned on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Chapman, the notorious land-title swind-
Ter, who has been In Jail nearly . year at
Urbana, ILL.,, awaiting trial on charges
against him, pleaded guilty to five counts
and has been sentenced TO 20 years In the
Penitentiary. He has operated largely In
the Northwest.
The wife Of ex-Congressman Vance, Of
Cincinnati. has received q dispatch from San
Francisco, stating that her husband, who
mysteriously disappeared . few weeks since,
Il in that city and insane.
Rev. w. J. Shannon, pastor Of the Con-
gregational Church At Emporia, Kansas,
was accidentally shot and killed on the 9Th,
by one Of the militiamen who were called
out BY the Governor to suppress the railroad
strikers.