The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-04-14

inr that the miners will accept lower price
II The strikers resume a reduction. inc
operators claim that they can pay no more
than three and half cents for mining anu
compete with other districts.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
TRUMAN DuNHAM. President q the
Cleveland LinSeed on Works, an Old and
honorcd citizen. was caught In machinery,
March 30, and killed. lie wss alone IN me
basement. where there was large belt
which runs the grinder; IN some unknown
way he was caught In the belt, carried into
the machinery and the body shochingly
crushed. Deceased had been trustee o. me
Cleveland waier-works many years.
THE following murderers were sus-
pended On the 3lst: Doc. Wright. co'oted,
Al Chatham, va; Al. Wei-inger and Iiill
Ludlow. AZ selma. Ala. Al South Pueblo.
Colo. w. r. Phebus and J. w. NcGrew,
eminent horsc-thieves, we're taken from jail
and hanged BY masked men. The Sigilantes
| then rode 70 ranch ten miles away. cap
| tured the Cha<tine brothers and an accom-
plice named Ow~by. and strung them mp In
| the adjacent timber. II 4 stated that but
one Of the gang Il left Is samples and
necktie l. ready for him.
j. w. SHEEHAN, Q young man stop
| ping Al the Metropolitan Hotel, Kansas
4 CIV. No. was found dead in his room,
March 50, having taken poison. The fol-
1 lowing note was found on the table: MY
fathers address i William Sheehan, North
Walpole. n. H." Sheehan had letter Of
recommendation from the Smith Rcfrigera-
Tor Manufacturing Company, Of Michigan
CITY, Ind, speaking Of him as sober, in
dustrious man. II i supposed be took the
dose In at OF dependency, finding himself
out Of work and among strangers.
DURING severe storm near Reading,
Pa. April "a, number Of persons sought
shelter In 4 she'd behind which large water
tank had been erected. The tank rested on
heavy stone wall, and was also supported
by eirders OF heavy timhers, but the force q
the wind was 50 great that the girders were
twisted on, and the entire mass fell on the
shed. crushing the people under Il. and
! completely burying them in the debris.
George Shelthorn, aged -, and bis daugh'
ter Rosa. aged 9, were crushed or smotherec
! 10 death: Mr.. Shcl,horn was terribly man
rled. and viii probably die, and Charles
shelthorn, aged ~, was badly injured. Johi
,, Cruise, aged IS, was also killed. his heas
. being mashed 70 > pulp. George X Fun
, owner OF the farm. was severely hurt abou
l the head and had three ribs broken. Free
: r. Neill and several others escaped with
few slight injuries. The storm ragged furi
: ouslv IN other sections, barns were blow
!, down. fences were leyeled, and fruit tree
Z greatly damaged.
: CoRxELIUs j.. VANDERBILT, brothe
I; Of william II. Vanderbilt. fatally shot him
\ self Al the Glenham Hotel, New York Cit,
4 April Cd. From the time 81 the shoctin
a until his death Vanderbilt was unconscion
2 Many friends o. the dead man and member
4 Of his family were present when be pas~e
q away. The reason FOR the Act given BY b
friends Il that il was the result Of ment'
q arrangement brought on BY years 81 suffer
= ing from epileptic fits. No other cau'
\ could be given, q bis financial affairs q
= said to be In most prosperous condition.
2 LILLY and Hany, two Indian mu
I. derers. were recently shot dead a ohsnu
Y gee, Indian Territory. The spectators we
ic nearly Al Indians, mainly friends Of Il
y. prisoners. iutIt 49, ~ @t~'"t $500
n scarcely word being spoken from the tin
q he criminals were led from jail until n
y sharp report Of the rifles announced "a
al their doom had been sealed and the a
81 yindcated. They were found guilty Of q
murder of an Indian sixty years old. VI
had been robbed BY Lilly. and who N
II prosecuting him for the theft. The mu
\, derers proie-sed 10 have been converted N
4. united with the M. Il. Church. They di
expressing The hope % eternal life.
n OFFICER JONES, Of Kansas City, "A
II wa fatally wounded, April ?, while I
Y, tempting 10 arrest two negroes who h
4, been charged with thcft. The men start
60 10 run away, but one Of them, Dick III
rIncton. was captured. A. the officers w
taxing him 10 the Central station they w
oyerpowcrcd by q mob, who took
&C prisoner and swung him on from the Bl
III street bridge. A he went over be shricI
a. that he was innocent. One Of the GRO
~ 6red ! pistol shot, the rope was cut, and
q fell I corpse to the track below. The q
a. quickly dispersed and no arrests were ma
W The other man was captured IN Kan
,or City, Kan. and u now IN Jail.
MrsCKLLANEOUs.
- BLoDcErT, On ex-keeper IN Sings
On Prison, n. Y, testified before the legisIa'
ter investigating committee, March -, that
On. resigned because he could not stand
Of sight Of ali the brutalitIes practiced tow
'rts prisoners.
BY Nh. JAcouEs, "A electrician q =
Ton, Mass, has % improved the teleph
I'M TINT the full tones Or the voice can be trs
uaI mit,ed. A current Of quadruple streng'
Tres required, and the use Of galvanized earl
leo. BIZ neglect Of the Legislature q q
J 3. rado, thai state was left from March 70
q 81 last year without any law covering
red Genie. or feIonies. This u the decision Of