The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-01-26

CRIMES AND CAsUALTIES.
CONVICT named Cook recently died
IN The New Hampshire PenitcntiAry. leaving
! confession that The testimony on which he
sent man % the gallows two years ago was
false.
The British ship Wild Deer, from
Glasgow 20 New Zealand, with 200 passen-
gers went ashore on the Irish coast . day
or two since and Il was said would become
total wreck. The passengers were saved.
THREE boys. while crossing the track
at Cohoes, N. n, IN sleigh the other day
were struck By . locomotive and killed.
PATRICK HIoGfNs convicted Of the
IIuddr murders. In Ireland. must hang.
The Lord Lieutenant having refused 20 In
terfere.
SrouoHroN, Wis. eighteen miles
from Madison, reported 100000 fire . few
days ago. The carriage works Off @. Mann
were destroyed.
FIRE destroyed the residence Of Henry
Pierce. near Sioux City. Iowa. recently and
two children aged i've and two years were
burned 70 death. Mr.. Pierce and his wife
were both badly injured.
Ar Neenah. Wis, the other day fire
destroyed one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars worth Of property In the business
heart Of the city. Several business cstab-
Iishments, national bank and the Russell
hotel were burned.
A FIRE in the Planters House 1t st.
Louis. No. on the morning Of the 18th
caused q tremendous excitement among the
guests and employees, and three Of the latter
Carlo Ribali. Dennis Raponti and Henry
Blaney-lost their lives and Mary Kerns,
lsundress, jumped from . second -story
window and broke her lex. The loss 70 the
hotel was estimated at $4,000.
THREE hundred lives were lost = few
days ago BY the burning OF 1 circus At
Berlichey, = town In Russian Poland.
The jail At Oak Harbor, o., took fire
day or two ago. and man locked up the
night before for being drunk was burned 70
death.
THIRTY persons were injured BY a
recent railroad collision In the suburbs OF
London, Eng.
The works Of the Chicago Smelling
and Refining Company were totally de-
siroyed by fire the other morning. Loss,
$4,000; insurance. $4,000.
IT was reported that twenty seven
passengers and ISL other persons we're in
jured by railway accidents In Massachusetts,
last year.
A LARGE building fell under the
weight Of snow At Allentown. Pa, few
days ago, crushing some cars and damaging
r,t,rI. In~ f1xr.I
The steamer France, on her recent
passage from New York 70 London. Eng,
los, overheard 2o2 oxen and lo7 sheep
DAVID j. O'LEARY, . Pittsburgh,
Pa, Ietter-carrIer. was the other day ar
rested for robbing the mails for years.
ABoDY Of snow nearly . quarter mile
long, one hundred yards wide, and fifteen
feet deep swept down the side Of Mosquito
Mountain. near LeadviIle, Colo, few days
ago. and carried away two miners.
JOHN B. HoFFMAN. . Cincinnati
tailor, killed one son fise years ago and re-
peated the crime dry Or two since.
FIVE men were seriously injured and
passenger train wrecked bv collision on
The Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Railway At
Firenbauch's, n. r., the other day.
SINCE the butchcry Of the Cooke
family by Frederick Mann. In Canada, :
young girl died from inflammation Of the
brain on seeing stranger with IN Ak over
bis shoulder. and several persons IA the
Ottawa Valley have been prostratcd BY
nervousness.
Two kegs Of gold coin were shipped
By the Treasury Department % pay the feet
in the Pacific. AT Panama the kegs we're
restored IN the Panama Railroad Company's
vault over night. and In the morning one or
them containing 700 was missing. Sew
eral arrests had been made.
The paper mill Of J. 8 B. Crossley 8
Co.., with IL contents, we're destroyed BY
dre at Bangor. Me-. the other day.