The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-01
CURRENT NEWS.


Intellectual effort was made 70 exclude all
who had taken part In the Republican State
Convention. After quite . heated discus
sion, . resolution was adopted-yeas Al,
nays Sa-declaring II expedient, " In view OF
the great questions Of the perpertuity cfthe
Government which are now prominent" to
nominate third State ticket. After ad-
iournment . meeting was called Of those
dissenting from the action Of the majority,
and full State ticket was nominated, head
I'd by Prof. @. T. Carpenter Of Oskaloosa
for Governor.
The regatta or the Mississippi Valley Am
ateur Rowing Association was held At keo-
kuk July 15-17. The principal races were
the four-oared gig race, which was won by
the Peoria Club; the four-cared shell race,
won By the Shoe-ws-cae- mettes Of Monroe,
Mich; the six-ozred barge race, won by the
Peorias: and the senior sirgle-scull race,
won by A. NJ. Butler Of the Minnesota Club.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad has
been peaceably turned over 70 the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Company, by or
der Of the United States District Court.
Prof. Carpenter positively declines TO &C
cept OF the Prohibition nomination for Gov
ernor Of Iowa
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has enjoined the ST. Louis, Kansas City and
Northern Railroad Company from giving
the American Union Telegraph Company
the right TO erect wires along the line Of that
road. The American Union is Jay Gould's
new company. and threatens to open up .
lively opposition TO the Western Union,
Nh ~
Gen. Miles's expedition left Fort Peck on
the 18th. II consists Of seven small COM
panies OF cavalry and about A. many in
fantry. together with . three-gun battery
and 80 Indian and white scouts.
Napoleon Bonaparte, colored, was hanged
II Sardis, Miss, on the 18th, for the murder
Of Tom Butler, colored. in August last. The
execution was witnessed by crowd OF ,, goo,
principally negroes
The WHIP Of the late Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey
Of Mississippi, which bequeaths nearly the
entire property Of teststor, said 70 be valued
II $4,000, TO Jefferson Davis. Is to be con-
tested BY >. Percy Ellis Of Brooklyn, y. r.,
. brother Of deceased. on the ground that
the testator was mentally incapable OF max
ing viii and that she was subject 10 undue
infuenee and prejudice in favor Of Mr.
Davis. II is no, alleged. however, that the
latter used his influence with any Interior
design.
The furniture makers Of Chicago have
inaugurated an eight-hour strike.
Secretary Schurx will deliver four politi-
cal addresses in Ohio during the state cam
paign. Secretaries Thompson and sherman
will also make several speeches.
One Of two Mormon priests who we're ac-
lively engaged ia preaching and prosecuting
through Walker and cafoosa Counties, Ga,
T. reported to have been killed BY mob OF
indignant citizens, who undertook to run
them out Of the neighborhood and met with
some resistance.
At st. Louis, on the 2Ist, Geo. Rosenbaum,
aged "a, = paper hanger. was shot and al
most instantly killed BY his nephew a young
man named Edward Wild Of Quincy, Ill,
while the two were frolicking about the room
preparatory to going out on . target-shoct-
ing expedition. Young Wild deliberately
pointed his revolver At his uncle and pulled
the trigger, utterly forgetful OF the fact that
he himself had loaded the weapon an hour
before.
Near Cloverdale, Putnam County, Ind,
the other day, two boys. named Smith and
Sims, were play ing with shotgun. smith
pointed the gun AZ Sims, playfuly remark
ing that he would shoot him. He pulled the
trigger, and discharged the contents OF the
gun into SIMS abdomen, killing him in
stzntly.
Notice has been given by the President Of
the Western Sanitary Commission Al St.
Louis that no more help can be given TO mi
grstory negroes passing through that city,
the funds Of the Association being entirely
exhausted.
The Congressional Committee, authorized
TO investigate the alleged frauds in the First
and Second Congressional Districts Of Ohio
At the last October election, met at Cincin-
natl on the 2lst for the purpose OF entering
upon the investiga alton.
A dispatch from Bism arck, u. T., 22d,
says: six miles above the Wolf Point In
dian Agency. on the Miss ouri, Joseph Lam
bert "a woodmanD and family were attacked
last Monday By Indians. Lambert, his wife
and four children were killed and scalped,
two other children were 30 badly mutilated
that they can not possibly recover, and one
little girl was carried away captive, 10 be
held a. Z hostage There was horrifying
spectacle at the place Of the murder.
There was a report At Fort Buford on the
I'd, that Gen. Miles had had lively brush
with the hosflles on MIX River, resulting In
che death Of Is indians and the wounding
Of three soldiers. Lieut.. Wright was also
reported to have had slight skirmish above
the mouth Of the Musselshell.
Two elderly maiden sisters, Elizabeth
and Anna Trowbridge, aged respectively A.
and 20 years, residing At Hyde Park, SUBJ
urb Of Chicago, committed suicide on the
2ist by hanging themselves In their own
house. Another sister, Mona, dwarf, was
the only other inmate Of the house. She