The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-12-31

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JoHS CUNNINGHAM, freight conduc-
tor on the Chattanooga Railway, fell between
two cars Al wartrail. and was instantly
Killed He leaves wife and children
L. H. BIRGE 4 Sous wallpaper
mandatory. IL Buffalo. ~ r.. burned on
the l-th- The building va. I'VE stories in
height. 60 feet deep and % feet front II
wa~ flled with infsmmable material and
kept throughout a 4 high temperature in
order 10 hasten the drying Of the paper
In consequence the fre spread with
great rzpidity, aud within three minutes
apparently, after The alarm had been
gwen. the whole building was euvsloped
in flames About one hundred and fifty
hands. men and boys. were employed Many
81 those Al work in the upper stories were
unable 70 escape except BY jumping from
the windows Thomas Fields and John Ma
hone were instantly killed: several Others
were fatally and many badly injured. Ii i
also certain that several burned TO death
rather than take the desperate leap. but the
number could NOT be ascertained until the
ruins were cleared AWAY
Lofts b. PALETTE. aged 66, form
erlv = weil-known retail merchant Of Bos-
ron. l. under arrest charged with completely
in the death OF Rebeccz IT, Long. a young
woman with whom he had lived on terms of
Intimacy
Two colored children who had
been locked IN The house during The absence
81 their parents in Prime George County.
Va. we're cremAtsd ~ the burning down Of
the edi1ee-
Ed LONG. colored. was hanged AZ
Jackson Tenn "a the 18th. for the murder
o. Rogers al-o cel0red. and Daniel Keith.
white, wzs hanged AZ Rutllsrfordtou. y. q.
ca the same DIR. for the murder Of young
negro girl named Alice Elli--
The residence Of Mrs. Amarillo
Mitchell. NJ Newton. Iowa. burned the other
s:-ht and Mr. Mitchell Wa consumed in
the building The cause i supposed to be
the upsettirE u kerosene lamp. She was
- years old
Two brothers named Muller were
killed by Albert and Alfred Quackenbush,
also brothers. At the kellogg ranch, about
ten mile from santa Ro~s. Cal, in DIM
Guilty about some lands II l. claimed the
shooting was done in seif-defense.
JOHN CHEW and John Mead, colored
men. attempted 10 cross the railroad tracks
At Fulton station. near Baltimore, when
theF were struck BY train and both in
sfsnfly killed.
JOSEPH SyrTHERs. prisoner in the
Columbus (O.l jail awaiting sentence for
sr~on- committed suicide By cutting hi
threat
GEORGE PAREATr, alias diagnosed
George famous border desperate and
robber. has been sentenced TO be hanged At
Rawlins in April
A. Ross and j. McWhinnev, Of
Lakepcrt. Cal, went out shooting in boat
and were drowned They had been drink
inr heavily and II i supposed became too
drunk 10 manage the boat
DE REID and Henry Page. whose
families live in the same house near Bzstrop.
Tex. had An impromptu duel with revoIv-
err. growing out Of family difficulties Page
w.s sho' in TWO places and probably fatally
wounded The Doctor received only slight
fe-h wound.
The number Of lives lost BY the burn
in< n the wallpaper msnufacfory af Buffalo.
~ n. J. believed 70 Be- fifteen.
DR. X GRAFTON, q well-known
physician of wysndotre, Kzns.. committed
suicide With morphine. He leaves . wife
and family No cause assigned.
FEED- OLDs. . young man serving
term Of lise-imrrisonment in the Kan-as
Peniientinry. for the murder OF an old man
named d. W. Paris. In Topeka, in 1874. has
Withdrawn hi former plea or guilty, and
makes statement charging his father, now
dead- With having committed the murder.
Ths prisoner SAYS he took the onus OF the
crIwe upon himself In order TO shield his
fafhrr- who would Otherwise have been
~nsirr a. and that an additional motive f5r
ElF was the belief ~ the father that be
reuld secure his spn'- pardon on account IN
h. Fpsth. the latter being At the time u his
conviction but ~ years ~ age. Failing In
~. effort. - accomplish this. and goades. by
remprse. A. l. presumed. the Old man hanged
himself A pardon has been applied for.
WILLIAM MULHoLLASD was shot