The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-07-10


PosuAsrER-0KxERAl vn-Asand the Su-
~psrintcndsnt Of foreign mails held . three
hours conference on the esth with repre-
~sentatives Of seven American steamship
lines running 70 foreign countries In the
Pacific Ocean.
Ok the 2e.h the marble statue OF the
late Pres dent Garfield WAS unveiled In
the Capitol at WASHINGTON
CRIMES Ann cA~suAI.rIEs-
Ok the aSth . fearful explosion occurred
in a powder mill a. Lucca, Italy. Anum-
ber Of people were 1T work At the time and
very few escaped death or serious in
~juries- The bodies Of twelve Of the killed
were recovered.
A III named burst was accidentally
poisoned at Plymouth, Wis, on the 18th.
BY the accidental use Of arsenic for baking
powder. One death resulted, and others
were in q precarleu US condition
T~REAsuRER ANDERSON Of West Hob,k-
en-, N. j., Is charged with being $1,000 be-
hind in his accounts
A named Carpenter. on trial at New
York for wife murder. tried to commit
suicide on the 18th. hut failed.
Tax Pacific mail steamer City OF Toxic,
ashore near Yokohama, Japan, will b q
total loss.
AT Bairdstown, KY, on the 26th, an
explosion Of q boiler killed three negroes
and seriously injured another.
o. the 18th James Arcine aud William
P~archmeal, full -blooded Cherokee In
dams. were hanged at Fort Smith. Ark,
for murder.
OK the 18th John Mex esner, . colored
murderer, was hanged In Memphis. Tenn,
and Jordan Taylor at H~opknsvilie, Ky.
A BoY named w liam Hayes, sixteen
years old. was found b snged with his
hands and feet tied, on the 26:h, in Harri-
son County. Iowa, supposedly the work Of
tramTa He was . harmless lad and left
home on the I'D to 60 to church.
AFTER four days work q jury has been
obtained to try the i've Italians, charged
with he murder of Cafuso, a fellow coun-
trvman, in Chicago.
On the 26th Milo Jump, a porter at the
whitmore Hou Sc. at Northumberland.
Pa, was shot by John Cox, proprietor OF
the Palmer House. Jump lived but a few
minutes.
Ok the 26th the building occupied by the
Dickinson urass and Field Seeds Company
at Chicago was partially burned. Loss.
IS. zoos; fully insured
BIT an explosion at Dudweiler, Ger
many, on the 9th, eighteen miners we're
killed
AT Clarksvilie. Ia, Miss Shaffer, .
young school-teacher. was brutality whip
ped by two women named Forney, one OF
whom was her rival in love.
OK the 9th another Of the murderers OF
Mrs. HAZEL ct Elk hart, Tex, was iynched.
He was caught in Grayson County.
NEAR Lenox, Ia. on the 18th, Rev. G +
Laughiin and sister were rowned by the
upsetting of . skin.
A LARGE amount Of property was dam
aged in Baltimore on the 2sth by . great
rain-storm-
MERcILEss war is again being waged
betw cen the two factions in Rowan Coun-
~. Kentucky.
on the 2sth William ON ell was drowned
by the capsizing OF . ska at Indianapolis
Ind. His three children, who were riding
with him, were rescued
News was received at Gainesville
Tex, on the 18th Of the lynching II Nv
more horse-thisves in the Indian Terri
tory.
IN . Polish Church at Toledo, o., On th'
18th, . faction quarrel eliminated Ia
riot in which two men were killed and
number injured
ON the 18th Thomas Drugan ant
Michael Murphy. Of New York. fou zh
about the ~latter's attentions to Nrs. Dru
gan and Murphy was killed
EDwARD A BoyD, . millionaire glass
importer, IL In jail in New York awaitin
sen tence for defrauding the customs rev
euuc.
AT Beaver, Wis, on the . tn, thre
children were burned to death.
on the 18th n. w. GAVIN. Assistau
Postmaster, aud b X Lincoln wer
drowned 1t Brunswick, Me-, while boat
, Ing.
ON the 10Th Thomas O'Shea beat hi
wife's brains out with . Ratchet 1T Brood
lyn, N. Y. He surrendered himself TO til
police.
LIEsKI, the man who a~ssassinated Her
RumH. Police Counsellor, Ii on trial 70
murder at Frankfort-on the Main.
On the 29.h . firs in the drug store 9
Lord, Oersns & Co, Chicago, caused
loss Of SO. 00o; fully Insured.
: FIRE destroyed the major portion OF Cd
works Of the Grand Rapids Mich Man
ufacturing Company On the 10th.
caught from liam e caused by the blaxin
OF some varnish into which some iron Va
plunged The loss Il sstimstsd 1t $30,o q
TO $4,000. largely on material II vi
we'll Insured.
WHILE bathing In Hllard's miIl.dam Ii
Salisbury township, near Lancaster, Pa
on the z9sh, VIM Robinson, aged four
teen, and . lad aged ten were browne
Robinsoa lost his life in endeavoring I
save the younger lad.
AT Trenton, o mt. an incendisry al