The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-03-11


President and senator Brown Chairman d
Executive Committee.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
EIGHT lives were lost BY the burning
OF William Sloan = st6re-h house and dwelling
q East Liverpool, o., on the morning Of the
23d. The Sloan family occupied the upper
portion OF the building. They were moi
awakened until the flames had cut on their
escape BY the stairway, and running
70 window. followed BIZ his
family, Mr.. Sloan jumped out, telling
his wife TO drop down the children
and then follow herself, and he would break
their fall. For some unexplained reason the
remainder OF the family did not follow. aud
all were burned to death. The following Is
a list Of those who persisted: Mrs. william
sloan, aged 81 years; Luella Sloan, IS; Clyde
sloan, Y; Lizzie Sloan, II; Alex. sloan. q:
Paul sloan, 8: another daughter, aged Is
months, and Wilbur sheels, q brother Of Mrs.
sloan.
ROBERT HADFTELD, an old and we'll
known resident Of Buffalo, n. ~, formerly
connected with the press, while laboring
under mental arrangement shot himself
through the head, causing instant death.
lie was 81 years old. an Englishman by
birth, and son Of Robert HadfeId, the noted
Liberal, who represented the Sheffield Dis
trict In Parliament for over 40 years.
JOHN Q. Morris, well-known resi-
dent ofIndianapolis, committed suicide while
temporarily deranged.
Mn. WIN. II. H. RUSSELL, we'll
known ST.. Louis lawyer, was murderously
assaulted In his Office, on the 18th. BY a
client named Philip Brady, who felt A.
griesed at the slow progress or a suit in
which he Is interested. A riyefinr- hammer
was the weapon 81 attack. and but for time
" assistance Mr.. Russell would doubtless
have been killed. As il was, be escaped
with severe scalp wound.
4. q. HAYDEN, wife-murderer, was
hanged AZ Windsor, VI, on the 18th.
a TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from
Waverly, Lafayette County. No. Two young
farmers living near there, VIM. Pickett and
Martin Ross, became engaged III an alterca-
tion, when pistols were drawn and each shot
the other. Pickett was instantly killed and
Ross fatally wounded. Pickett leaves
IL
JOHN NANDERIIEpE was hanged at
sheIbysille, KY, on the 18th, FOR TIC murder
Of negro. This was the second execution |
In this county Of white man for killing |
negro. the first having occurred ia 1875
BERNARD Hoover, son Of the late |
Col. Wesley Hoover, Of Murfreesboro.
Pike County, Ark, died from hydrophobIa
caused BY the bite Of rabid dog received IN
November last.
y. Q. KfSzER, engineer in Wool
worth's ax-hande factory, twelve miles from
Bowling Green, Ky, was Instantly killed by
! boiler explosion. Several others were In
ured.
FRITZ w. HAAS and Catherine Hof-
art, bis alleged paramount. confined IN the
franklin County Jail a. Union, No., under
Indictment for the murder q Mrs.. Haas.
narrowly escaped lsDching at the hands ~
N Infatuated crowd. Under cover III dark
less the officers finally succeeded III getting
he prisoners OUT Of town and conveying
hem % 81. Louis, where they are now safe
4 least from mob violence.
The Catholic Orphan ASYLUM at
Iyde Park, Scranton. Pa., partially burned
n the night Of the eth, causing the death
4 seventeen Of the inmates, iii y,
hildrcn. the victims were locked iii their
COINS on the third foor. and tho dense
moke and flames rendered II impo~sihlc for
be sisters 70 effect their release. only two
we're touched ~ the namcs, the Others bc-
ne suiiocated.
a MEXICAN named Marine, another
{ the alleged murdcrers or COL. Potter, was
prcibiy taken from the jail IL Albuquerque. {
!. Mex, and hanged BY the yigilantcs.
Mrs. DEnoRAH MERRILL, aged "a, II
wing with her son Charles, aged "a. NJ !.
Weeks NILS, IN Kcnncbcc County. Me-, was
eccn'Iy murdered BY the lattcrand herbody \
hoped IN pieces, partially burned, and then |.
uried IN manure heap, where II was found Y
'me days later The inhuman son has been !, !.
rrestcd, and n now confined IN Augusta !,
M, where he was taken u avoid lynchirr.
n confesscs having killed his mother ~
riking her On the head with hammer ana !,
IN di<posing 81 her body In the manner y
ated. The murderer has long borne an !,
reputation among his ncighbors,
a had frequently quarrclcd with biz :