The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-09-10

hobkkr McCLELLAKps . distinguish
Cd citizen Of Michigan. formerly member ol
President Pierce's Cabinet, 4 dead.
Ex-Gov- PAUL o. HERBERr, Of Lou
\ isisnA. Il dead, AGED g.
SECRETARY SHERMAN delivered his
nrstcampsixn speech Il Pixies Opera house,
Cneinn2ti. on the night q the ath. II was
devoted mainly 20 the question Of finance.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
TEE Chicago, ST. Louis and New Or
leans and the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
ences, and rates on both passengers and
freixhrs have been restored.
l The Southern Pacific Railroad track
i now within less than 20 miles Of FL Paso,
and II i believed the rails will Be aid 70 that
point By the fr-t Of February. 1881.
The excess of United States exports,
~ specie values. for the month ending July
81, Was $l5, us 3os, against - s44. 80 In the
corresponding period Of last year. For the
twelve msnths ending July 81. this year. the
excess wHs sl5l. 754,e47. against So, es3, -
for the same period Of 1873.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company have deteymin-
ed 70 extend their road from Binghamton to
Buffalo. y. u, thus securing through line
from New York 70 the West, in competition
with the Central and Erie.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ALLEN WRIGHT, colored. was hanged
- Dallas. Tex. on the 9Th. for the murder
OF Jesse wicks, also colored, in February,
IS-s.
ROLAND RCcKER, who was TO have
been hanged st Palestine, Tex, on the 9TH.
for the murder OF DR.. Grxyson and wife,
committed suicide in his cell by cutting both
arteries in his left arm and bleeding to
death.
LrScEFIELD BURKs was hanged At
Waco. Tex. on the 2-th, for committing I
criminal assault upon nine-year-old girl
in August. 1s7a.
ANOTHER attempt to assassinate King
Thebaud. o. Mandalsy, has heen frustrated.
The would-be murderer and one OF his assoc
cistes were captured and promptly put to
death.
ANOTHER lady member Of the Ameri-
can colony in Paris has committed suicide
Miss Candace l. Olney. formerly promi-
nenf milIiner Of New York City, The only
explanation " her taking OF i note ieff BY /
her saying-.I an weary Of life and want
rest
FIVE lads. named William Maher,
John MeNamara- Timothy Nolan. Patrick
Ryan and John Shnnick, whose age ranged \
from Is 70 Is, attempted TO steal ride home \
from . picnic near Lowell, Mass. on the 4
evening Of the 18th, BY secretinx Themselves 4
on the top Of passenger coach Of the Lowell \
and Lawrence Railroad The train PASSED !
under low stone bridge, three miles from
Lowell. which swept them from the car All \
the bodies were horribly mansled when
found, and II j. supposed that death was in
srantaneous, except in the case Of Shinnick.
who fell upon the ear platform and lived 4
about twenty minutes The space between \
the top Of the car and the bridge l. twenty
two inches, and IL i therefore couiectured \
that all Of the LADS were sitting upright when
struck, unconscious q their danger.
DrRrSG the absence from home Of Il
Mr. g. W. Ward and wife, OF Lane Town
ship. Warriek County Ind, IN inhuman
n onster entered their house. the only in Il
mates ~ which were several children. and \
committed most fendish assault upon the Il
eldest % them. girl ten years OF are, after 4
which he cut her throat and left her for
dead. she was still living when her parents
returned but unconscious, with no proba-
bilify u her recovery.
Two men lost their lives by the burn
Ing Of the feeee-washing room Of the Pacific
Mills, AZ Lawrence. Mass, on the 18th
The steamer Marine City, on Lake
Huron. while on her way down from Mscki-
full passenger lit, took IRE on sturgeon
Point, and before effective efforts could be
brought 20 bear the flames became unman-
zgeable- The tu- Vulcan, which was fortu-
nately near BY. took Oh number Of pa-sen-
gers. and the boats from the Life-saying Sta
ti0n picked up number Of those who had
jumped into the water Several lives were
lost. but IL was impossible 70 tell how many
or what were their Names
An anvil with which some boys were
firing salute ~ Darlington, Ind. exploded.
seriously uounding six Of the party, two az
them fatally.
MARI BOYLE, aged IL, Of Buffalo,
and Nellie HurIbut, aged 2, of Rochester.
were drowned while rowing on the Siagarz
River.
THE loss Of life BY the Marine City
steamboat disaster. On Lake Huron. j. yari-
cu-ly estimated a. from eight 70 thirty. The
boats books and papers being lost there are
no means Of ascertaining the names Or pas
sengers-
J. 8 MORGAN. well-known Cinoin-
nnfi Job printer, committed suicide on the
nth Financial and other troubles are at
tribnfed a. the cause.
JAMES BENNETT, a fireman on the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. W. sho,