The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-07-08


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The Hazlitt brothers, Bill and IKE
were recently killed BY party Of cowboys 4
Eureka. N. M. TIC killing was done ~ ~
vense for the IIaxlitt'r having shot Leonard
and Harry Head, the Contention stage rob-
bers.
a MoNTENEGRIN officer went to th<
Winter Palace - 81. Petersburg. On The ga
and demanded an audience with the Princes,
% Montenegro. Being refused he stabbed
the officer on duty. The Russian officer ther
shot the Montenegro dead.
CLARENCE j. DAVIS, cutter. killed
his brother-in-law. Alonxo Barrett. q De.
troit, Mich. while under the influence 81
liquor imbibcd 4 the soldiers reunion on
the 23l.
SIDNEY N. STRAY, formerly Metho.
dist minister located Il WarrenSburv. n.
y. and for me time . resident or Leayen-
worth, Kans.. where under an assumed
name he lad been employed a. bookkeepcr
by prominent business house, committed
suicide BY drowning himself IN tho Missouri
River. His body was recovered Il Kansas
City. About three years ago StrAy's wife was
wounded by the discharge Or 4 revolver IN
the hands Of her husband. lie hen shot
himself, confersedly with suicidal intent.
stray said the shooting OF his wife
was accidental. and she corrohorafed
his story at the time. bur has since
4 Il said, expressed her conviction that he
intended 70 take her life. and her brother
had announced his intention OF hunling stray
ou' and asenTing the wifc's wrongs. The
church authorities invesligaiei the shooting
and other Irregularities Or an immoral na-
ture charged against stray, and he was ex-
PEELED from the ministry.
EuoExE GUYN, wealthy Young
West virginian. was fatally stabbed on an
Ohio River steamboat by a mulaffo waiter
named Thomas Graves, with whom lie had
an alteration about trivial matter. Guyn
nrst struck Graves a blow with HE fist, when
the negro retaliated.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, proprietor Of Z
restaurant At Cleveland, o., was killed on
the 18th BY William Frtch, Of Columbus.
who Is probably insane. Fitch saws ~
went 70 the desk to pay for some refresh
ments, and discover ing that he hal no money
he felt an irresistible impulse 10 shoot the
proprietor.
WIZ. TEUrEBERo, aged 70 years. was
almost instantly killed near steu' ensille.
Q. He was walking on the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh track. when freight train backed
up on him, breaking his arm and leg and
MASKING bis head Ia.
SEVENTEEN persons were killed and
fise wounded BY an explosion in the Louise
Tieffan colliery. Austria.
AT Washington. u. c., on the 25th,
]. 4. Christmas fatally shot h par ner. W.
Q. whitney. whitney was the son Or Mrs..
General Gaines BY her first husband. and |
Chr stmas her son-in-law. There had been
bad feel ng between the two for some time. |,
WoRKxES on strike. having A.
lacked the Town Hall At Dr. mnIen. Nor |
way, 70 relcasc two comrades arrested.
were fired upon BY troops. One man Wa l
killed and several wounded. One officer and \
some soldiers were injured.
G. P.C0rLE shot and mortally wound |
q Joel A. Phillip, the other day, q, Jasper,
Fla. They were both from Madison. attend
ing a wi nesscs In the trial OF Savage and 4
James for the murder Or Frank Patterson.
h Madison, in February last. during the
aking Of testimony Ia the Finley Bi.bee /
contested election case.
AT Paterson, N. j., on the 25th. Ed
ward De Porter, the rejected suItor cf sil,ia
knockardt. fatally stabbed the father Of the
,iri and made mnrderous attack upon Ar
hur Won der CapelIa, her accepted sutton.
Two sons o. Jared Smith, Of Eden.