The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-05-28

absent from home. Fry went 70 the house
late. IN an intoxicated condition, and Il Is
supposed upset lamp while going 70 bed.
A DISPATCH from Fort Davis, Tex.
18th. saws thar a party Of fifty Indians A.
tackled an emigrant train going west on the
previous day, killing one man and one woman
and wounding two men. Two other men
were missing and their fate was unknown.
AN explosion occurred At Birchill's
Hall Ironworks, England, ON the 18th, BY
which twenty five persons were killed and
about sixty injured.
The house Of w. 4. Farmes, near
Gore, O., burned ON the 18th. young
child. who had been left alone in the house,
asleep and locked In, persisted In the flames.
MISCELLANEOUS.
EX-SENATOR CHRIsrIANcY, Minister
20 Peru, has begun proceedings for divorce
| in the Washington courts. A cross bill viii
be Immediately fled by defendants attor-
neys.
| SENIOR HrPoLIro DE URTATE. Span
| ish Consul at New York, received an in
\ formal machine through the mails. In tear
| ing open the apparently harmless paper box
| m which IL was inclcsed, the affair
exploded, burning Senior Uriate slightly
on The hand and setting the carpet on fire.
| II was charged with most deadly explosives,
and that il did not do greater damage was
because Of its imperfect construction.
| FOREST fires Of q most alarming ma
mre are reported from Monroe and Pike
Counties, Pa, and from various sections Of
New jersey.
ANOTHER cremation took place at
Washington, Pa, on the 12th, the body in
cinerated being that OF Charles Gustav Poetz,
Of New York.
The entire business portion OF the
village OF Stuyvesant, n. r., together with
A number OF fine private residences, was
burned on the 18th. A tramp was arrested
charged with causing the fire.
GEN. McKENzIE's command, about
900 strong, left Fort Garland on the 12thfo-
the Los Pinos Agency, and will occupy
the heart OF the Ute Country, under in
struetions to keep out prospectors and TO
prevent any conflict between the Indians
and the whites.
IT is reported that the Colombian
Government will interpose an objection TO
the summary manner In which 1t Is claimed
the United states took possession OF Laguna
de Chiriuui and Colo Duice Is coaling
station on the Isthmus Of Dssricn.
THE revenue-cutter Thomas Corwin
Is about to sail from San Francisco to the
Arctic Seas in search Of the Jeanette and
the missing whalers.
MILTON, large and prosperous town
IN Northumberland County. Pa, was nearly
viped out by fire on the 14th. The whole
length Of Main Street and the principal
: cross streets were swept clean. The Acad-
emy Of Music, 1--WE churches, all the hotels,
} gasworks, banks, newspaper Offices, railway
and telegraph Offices, machne-shops, and
MANY private residences were burned A
; high wind carried the flames so swiftly from
one end Of the town sothe other that sewers.
! people lost their lives and Others barely es-
, capped. There Is great restitution and thu
: Governor has issued an appeal for aid.
IT is reported from Denver that SO
cret organization has been formed, will
. headquarters in that city, To take possession
!, Of the Ute country and to fight the Indian
!. for possession II Unnecessary.
!. CARL MAxKE was hanged at Buffalo
4 NY, on the 18th, for the murder OF Johi
Atloff, in April, 1873.
9 A TUCSON New dispatch from
: most reliable source reports that Gen. Mar
j quez, with 100 Mexican rcvolutionists, re
!. cruited In the neighborhood Of Yuma, |
now stationed around the old town Of ste
yan,ta, on the line about 100 mile
from Yuma and the same distanc
= from Tucson. The troops 60 frou
q one side Of the line TO the other
!. occasion requires. They are being closet
J. watched by the Mexican troops. The Mex
a lean Consul stationed there has called on tn
r United states military authorities 70 assis
! him in supprcssing the movement on tn
American frontier, and to maintain the In
4 ternational laws between the two Govern
a ments.
! IT is reported that cargo of arm
n and ammunition and one hundred men hav
been landed in Cuba from an America
, vessel. and that the struggle for indie
,f pendence will now begin anew. Gen. Carol
Il in command Of the expeditionary force'
J. and Gen. Cxiixto il Commandments CHIEF
A regular provisional Government has bee
II formed, with Gen. Yniguez as President.
. THE report transmitted 70 Congress
BY the Secretary Of the interior concernin
Ls fraud and corrupt practices Of Indian Agent
], mentions the names Of eight removed 4
"a suspended on account Of frauds, corruY
practices, ETC.: Geo. w. Fox, 1t Gro
j. Agency, Montana; w. II. DanieIson. at Fo
Il Hall Agency, Idaho; n. >. Godfrey, /
"a MescaIero Apache Agency, New Mexico, an
'. II. w. Jones, 1t Quapsw Agency, India
re Territory. The others are 1t Living Stal
: Bridgeman, WhIteman and Hart.
10 CONGRESSIONAL.
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