The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1884-10-17


SONS ml-cseant Hired 4 bullet Into the
train IN which The frohlbitionist candi'
date. Mr.. ~. John, was riding. on his
way 10 Ierre Hautc. Ind, on the 20 Il
passed IN mont ~ the e~x-Governor and
quite near him.
OK the ~ one man was killed and sew
eral seriously injured BY an explosion Of
q ran of powder al a saloon adjacent 70
the Excelsior Mine, near Dss Moines. Ia.
A S~edish miner carelessly allowed 4
conl from his pipe 10 drop into the can.
on the night OF the n a Wild train on
the Chicago. Minneapolis ~ Omaha Road
ran through q bridge near bayfield,. Wis,
and thirteen people were seriously in
jured.
FRox tho shores OF iceland come reports
OF . terrible and disastrous hurricane in
which much shipping was destroyed.
o. the 81 Captain Dave Kenyon, Acting
Fire Chief OF Chicago, was fatally injured
by being thrown from his buggy while go
ing % a flre.
on the night o. the "a. Geo. Wood. a
farmer living near Sedan. la. was shot
and killed by some unknown person.
J.. q. PERcrvAL, his wife ana child ana
Hugh Meyer were murdered BY unknown
parties near Fullerton, Vance County.
Neb., on the 3rd.
on the night Of the "a Benz. Thomas. the
N-arrangansett Indian. and the last Presi.
den Of the Indian Council In Charles
town. was found dead near Wood River
Junction, X. l.. having haen struck BY a
train.
OK the 81 at Morrow, Ia Warren County,
o., an employe Of the Pittsburgh, Gin.
cinnafi & st. Louis Railroad Company
was fatally injured by tho premature
explosion Of a canron. being fired in
honor Of BIaine's appearance. The man
died soon a~fterward, and another was
also in q critical condition.
The loss Of the steam whaler Boroheai
Is reported, the vessel having been crusL ID
in the ics in the Arctic regions, proving a
total loss. II was owned BY the Pacific
Steam Whaling Arctic Company, and was
valued, without cargo, at Sl2v.00o. The
crew was saved.
On the 4th James Graves and wife were
in New York on the charge OF
smuggling $4,000 worth 81 unseI dia-
monds.
EVIDENCE indicates that the Vance
(Neb.) butchery was committed
by II. A. 9. Baird. 4 young man who lived
the Percival family. He Is missing
and a reward OF $1,000 l. III sresi for his ar.
rest The bodies OF the five victims have
been found.
On the 9TH Frank Manly was arrested
near Henrietta, Tex, on the charge or kid
Sadie Barton. a pretty sixteen
year-old girl Of Kansas. He threatened
her life il she informed on him, but she
told Of her treatment when he was away.
There was talk Of lynching Manly II the
girls story proved true.
OK the oh Charles Austin, Of Council
Ia, shot his wife three times and
hen killed himself.
On the > b q washout caused a wreck on
the Northern Pacific Railroad near Fond
du.Lac, Wis. Three lives were lost.
FIRE destroyed a large furniture storage
warehouse and nine dwellings at Phila.
delphia, Pa, on the 9Th. Loss half a mil
lion dollars.
A NAN named Henry Esgare was found
In a brothel at Dallas, Tex, on the
,th. Circumstances indicated murder BY
poison Tor money.
DURING a gale on Georgian Bay. on the
j.h. a schooner loaded with 10000 bushels
corn from Chicago for Midland, Ont,
sank.
OK the 9th Charles Lally, q miner, was
killed by William Vandever nt Union
Pa II was an unprovoked murder,
aud the murderer narrowly escaped!y ncb-
Ins.
FIRE destroyed the extensive Newton
Mills al Holyoke, Mass. on the Oh.
AT Esseg, Austria, fourteen children
drowned On the Oh. They were
ia q boat, which capsized.
FIRE consumed the carpenter shorsof the
g. ST. Louis Railroad, at NJ ii.
neapolis. Mimi, on the Oh, including a
Of cars.
On the night Of the 9TH, four masked
men entered the house OF John Sherry At
Eiinburg, Pa, gagged him and all Others
n the house, and then robbed him Of
70, 200. No clew.
The court martial which investigated
ihs loss Of the British gunboat Wasp,
wrecked recently On Tory Island, found
lie disaster was due % the absence Of care
20 inattention in navigating The YES
'ei. The surviving members OF tie crew
acquitted Of blame.
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