The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-01-14

ale. u d said that The young assassin vas
actuated BY revenge for some wrong. real Or
f.ncied, IN The settlement Of his fathers 60
tate, and Il q believed he had previously a.
1 tempted % poison the family.
AN old colored woman named
Slaughter. reported % have turned cen
tury, and her son. aged about sixty. per-
ished from exposure during tho recent cold
spell. about six miles west Of Doonsille.
Mo-, where they owned : small farm. Both
were infrm. There was plenty ~ provision.
ia the house, and pile Of wood outside, bst
/ not cut.
MEs. CICERO Brown. Of Nprcross,
Ca, was tanning the IRE with her apron.
when her clothing ignited and she was
burned 70 death. The unfortunate lady
was young and Of high social standing. She
had been married only year.
Two negroes. Fred Harris and Henry
Peters, were killed BY the collision Of . bal
last train and hand-car near Glencoe. KY,
on the lst. VIM. Dcyine, conductor, and
several employees were injured.
ANDREW EHRUKE, OF Davenport.
Iowa, celebrating with . clnnon on New
Years Day, was 80 badly injured BY pre-
mature explosion that he VIII probably die.
BEVERLY MITCHELL and Henry Tay-
Tor were badly injured BY the explosion Of
boiler 10 the Dupont Paper-mill At Louis
vile. KY. on the IL. The latter il not ex-
pccted 10 live.
AT the Lockwood House, Sidney,
Neb.. receatiy. Detective James L. smith
ended the career o. bad character named
Black BY shooting him in self-defcnse.
JAMES SNOW and George Chamber
lain, responsible for the recent railway acci-
dent near Tiflin, o., have been arrested for
murder.
A LITTLE son Of Isaac Shane, Of East
Springfield. O.. was lighting pieces of paper
a stove, when his clothes ignited and he
WAS roasted alive
Rev. john WEsrRrr, who was an
pointed BY the Houston Conference a. Rap
ti~t missionary 70 Mexico, was murdered
zna horribly muiilated BY twenty Indians.
near Monterey, on December y. The Next |
can authorities gave chase, and captured |
three q their race who were concerned ia |
the murder.
The Fond du Lac accommodation
train on the Northwestern Road was thrown
from the track near Milton Junction. Wis.
the passenger-car going down an cmhank- /
ment. Six persons were injured. among \
them Rev. A. y. Mead. Presiding Elder Of I
The GAINESVILLE District, who suffered frac- \
ture Of the right shoulder.
THE long-delayed verdict Of the Cor
oner's Jury in the case o. the Alpena di~as-
Ter on Lake Michigan. in October last. has
finally been rendered. The Jury ind that
the vessel was In bad condition and rener-
lily unSeaworthy, and that The Goodrich
Company should be held re-
'ponsIble for All damages.
AT Memphis, on the morning OF the
N. Henry Burton twice shot barber named
Tate and then shot hi own wife. Tate re-
turned the iire, MORALLY wonnling the in
nreh husband. Mrs. Bnrton'> wound Il
let serious. Tate viii probably die.
The steamer Natchez, while passing
'larueminc. La. was the scene II tragedy
n which one man was killed and another
probably drowned. Thomas Cummings
va stabbed SIX times ~ james Kelly. Who
'lnnred into the river 70 escape arrest and
va seen no more.
STEPHEN .joY and Jacob shoemaker
c~t their lives BY falling wall- al Gre II
Kingston. n. Y.