The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-06-27

six broke away. Two were shot dead. IN
others escaped.
james w. Jackson, colored, q postal rou,
agent on the Memphis and Little Rock Raj
road has been detected In purloining none,
letters. and Il now under arrest. He con
fessed his guilt.
Crop reports from Northern Ohio an
Western Pennsylvania indicate about two
thirds crop Of wheat and about the same q
oats. Corn viii be almost total failure
and the hay crop will also be very ligh,
Potatoes. probably fair yield. Fruits vii
be scarce. particularly apples.
A party Of Black Hills emigrants from Nil
County, Iowa, on the night Of the 18th en-
camped on Beaver Creek, one mile from
Buffalo Gap. A sudden cloud burst food.
ed the creek and ten persons were drown.
ed, viz: Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Rhodes, Olive,
Rhodes, and three OF the Rhodes children
Frank Reed, besides four men, names un.
known. who were oncamped at the same
place.
At Kansas City, NO., on the night OF the
l4th, Mrs. +. q. Noonan was shot and killed
by her husband under most distressing cir
cumstances. During the night Mr.. Noonan
was awakened by his wife, who stated that
robbers were In the house. He got M.
seized a revolver. and went to a
front room his wife following. Arriving
there, bis wife thought she saw robber.
and, uttering an exclamation, grabbed her
husband about the neck. He became
frightened, and thinking, in his excitement,
that he had hold Of robber, fired, and his
wife dropped dead At his feet.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad, after being
for nearly three years in the hands Of re-
ceiver, has been transferred, by order Of the
United States Court, 10 $. III. ii. Clark, GEN.
eral Manager Of the Union Pacific Railroad.
representing the JAY Gould interest.
The Republicans of the Fifth Iowa Dis
trict have nominated Mayor Thompson to
MI the vacancy In Congress made BY the de-
cease OF Representative Clark.
At Hunters Greek, Mich, on the Detroit
and Bay City Railroad, on the morning of
me 18th, Manly Stevens, Jr., night-watcb-
nan IN saw-mill, went home and found
John House in company with Mrs. Stevens.
The Infatuated husband shot the intruder
I've times through various parts OF the body,
hot his wife through the head, and then /
hot himself, also through the head. diving 4
instantly. Mrs. ST vens and House were \
10Th MORALLY wounded.
Rev. Samuel s. Harris has accepted the
'isnopric OF Michigan, TO which he was
lected by the Episcopal Convention held re-
emily at Detroit. Mr.. Harris has been for
pine years the rector Of st. James's Church.
hicago. He Is about IS years Of age, OF fine
ersonal appearance, and stands high among
ie clergy as an eloquent preacher and able
chatter.
At Boswell, Ind, during sudden thun-
y storm on the evening OF the 18th, a large
imber OF persons present at a shooting
atch took shelter under a low lumber {
ed. The shed was struck by lightning and I
70 men were instantly killed and two IA
lly injured, and several others were badly (
unned. /
George r. Reynolds, the Salt Lake Nor I
on, convicted OF bigamy under the United
ates law, has been sentenced TO two year, =
prisonmcnt In the Detroit Penitenti- d
and 500 fine. A strong effort is being !,
'de to induce President Hayes to grant a Z
rdon. =
sall's School house, in the northern part n.
Lancaster County, Neb., was struck by :. =
mining few days ago. School bad lust :.
~ called and the pupils were singing
en- the fluid descended the chimney and /"
We pipe. Miss Babcock, sitting near the n
Ve, was struck and almost instantly kill ~
Ralph Babcock, brother OF deceased.
his right arm fearfully lacerated, and th
De crippled for life. or the is persons
ne room, II were more or less injured.
end OF the schoo-house was knocked en-
ly on and many Of the desks were broken IN
ieces. y.
harles +. Follett, General Passenger NV
mt Of the vandalia Railway, died In 81.
is on the 18th, aged So. fol
ne recruiting steamer wachusett arrived az
'ensacola, Fla, on the 10th, and was ex- eel
ed to be on her way up the Mississippi 7
r before 1st Of July. ~
le young wife Of Isaac Ashburn. who ~
led near Humboldt, Kansas, recently sor
mitted suicide by poison, and on the .
she was buried the husband also COM
ca suicide by shooting himself through ~ W,
read. They had only been married six -. -
tbs, and II Is said lived happily together ~ ~
Ashburn'- mother came to live with -
and made things generally uncomfort- n, ~.
about the house. Pr
=. William Oliver, living near Camp -
burg, Ky, on the 18th, in a 1T Of tenn
~ insanity, killed her 12-year-old M
hter by splitting her head open with ARC
I. entt
Of $
EAST AND SOUTHEAST. 25th
most horrible crime was committed IN ture