The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-10-08
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Miss SADIE WHITE, aged ~. dangh-
ter Of Hugh White. prominent citizen 81
Richmond Ny, was found dead in bed on
the morning Of the I'D. with her throat cut
I nom ear 70 ear. Temporary INSANITY Is at
| tributed ~ the cause. The Girl was gener-
ally conceded to be the belle OF the blue
gInss region Of kentucky.
ALFRED SMITH. correspondent Of the
California Associated Press az Sierra City,
Wa recently murdered, and his body depos-
tied in house which was fired. Tnos. De-
vine, his next neighbor. with whom deceased
had long-standing lawsuit over land IT,
lie, was arrested for the crime. The de-
ceased was . native or Herkimer County.
New York.
The boiler Of Charles Loose & Sons
fruit-drying factory, n Monroe, Mich. ex-
plcded on the cath. demolishing the factory
aud burylng in the ruins sixteen women and
eleven men and boys. All but two, Henry
O'Brien, the engineer. and Leonard Martin.
boy, were taken out alive, but several were
severely injured, one or two II was thought
fatally.
A COLLISION occurred between pas
senger and a freight train on the vandalia
Road at Harrington Station, about nine miles
west OF Terre Haute, Ind, on the morning
of the 24th, causing the death OF two men,
Oscar Rankin, engineer, and William Saun-
ders, fireman OF the passenger train. Three
postal clerks were injured, one quite seri-
ously.
A SEVERE shock Of earthquake occur
red at Valparaiso on August IS, causing con-
siderable damage. II was reported that the
town Of Illapel. in the interior, had been de-
stroyed BY the shock and 30 lives lost.
THE bodies of the men who persisted
by the caving in OF the Hudson River Tunnel
Al Jersey City several weeks ago have finally
been reached.
The steamer Florence Meyer, from
Cincinnati to New Orleans. while attempt
ing to land at Bullitt's Bayou. few miles
above hatcher, on the aifh, picked up .
<nag, which struck her amidships,s and she
sunk in very few minutes to her hurricane
roof. One passenger. two Of the crew and
two ronstabouts were drowned.
THEODORE CLANCY, editor of the
Santa Barbara (cai.) Erening Press. was
shot and probably fatally wounded BY Clar-
ence Gray. Republican candidate for Dis
trict Attorney, for publishing articles reflect
ing upon his character.
The bodies of two men, Tom McCar-
~ and Tom Kelly. were found in the ruins
Of saloon burned q; Buena Vista, Colo.
on the night Of the e4th. II i suspected
the men were murdered and the saloon Get
on fire 10 destroy evidence OF the crime.
+. b. MORSE, travelling salesman for a
New York cigar house hanged himself with
a shswl-sirap 10 the bsd-po~t at the Central
Hotel. Wooster, o.. where be had been
lying III for about three weeks.
WASHINGTON EMORY. an engineer.
ard James Nenzie. section hand on the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. were
instantly killed BY the explosion Of . loco
motive boiler near Leadville on the oath.
THE Louisville and Madison packet
Maggie Harper exploded her steam-pipe
on the night Of the s5,h- Lem. r. Bower,
the engineer, was badly scalded, and in his
agony jumped overheard and was drowned.
Five colored ronstabouts were seriously
scalded, two Of them ~ least fatally.
THE wife Of benjamin VIM, Esq,
who resides near Plattsburgh, No., was re-
turning home from neigkbor's on horse
back. on the 18th. when A. she
aiighted 70 open gate near
her house she was seized by
negro and subjected 10 the
most horrible treatment. The culprit was
tracked and captured by the neighbors, and
hanged 70 tree. He was employed on the
VIM place.
An excursion train from Sacramento
ran Of the track At the Oakland bridgs.
ditching the locomotive and tender aid
drowning the engineer.