The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-07-17

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GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
In accordance with . recent decision Of
the New York Court Of Appeals. Frans
Jo&ph Petmeaky, the Auburn murderer.
WAS taken TO Buffalo on the Soth and re-
sentenced BY the General Term Of the SUI
prems Court to b hanged In Auborn. FRI
day, August sist.
OK the let . woman and two children
were burned 70 death In . tenement house
~ Cleveland, o.
On the lst In Stephens County, Texas.
. man named Thompson inaugurated .
campaign against Archie Freeman. bent
on taking his lifa Freeman's cousin
came along 1t the right time, and ended
the campaign by shooting Thompson II
was all about . woman
on the lst James Osiesby. Of Detroit
Mich, fell from the steamer Alaska At
Put-in- Bay, Lake Erie. and was drowned.
PATRICK LKFToRD and james Miller,
two tramps, were struck by the Western
express OF the Penssylva Railroad near
Pittsburgh on tho 1st Miller was in
stantly killed and his companion fatally
hurt
OK the night OF the lat . fire In Sloss
BroA' millinery establishments At Cleve-
land. O., destroyed $4,000 worth Of feath-
ers. flowers, etc. Insured for $1,000 w.
G. Bell. jswsler, lost $1,000. and Hull, .
dealer in rubber goods. $i,o>o. Fully in
sursd.
OK the I'd IRE destroyed $75,0ooworth
OF property at Peshtigo, Wis.
OK the "a Mrs. Lewis Steele, . newly
married lady. committed suicide at Utica,
NY.
VIM. MxxRIcKs was hanged in the Jail
yard &C Binghamton. n. T.. on the I'd, for
the murder OF Katie BredhofY-
Ok the ID Edward Hall and Isaac Law
renee were convicted in the United States
Court In New York Of conspiring to coun-
terfeit Gustsmalan currency.
EroENE SAULsBu Ry. who killed Peter
Miller 1t Union City. Mich. in May. has
been convicted OF manslaus ht ter. and sen
fenced to ten years in the States prison
ut Jackson
DuRIx0 the first six months OF 1885 there
have been ninety three lynchings in the
United States. the South being respon-
sisie for over three-fourths Of the number;
legal hangings. forty-two The total NUM-
Der Of lynchings In 1884 was 1873; legal
hangings, IL
OK the 5th George H. Dunbar was muir :
dered by unknown parties at Pittsfeld.
Macs.
On the 5th an unknown man b id his
clothes stolen while bathing At Omaha,
Neh. over which he went crazy aud die !.
AT Utica. N. Y, on the lth VIM Van
yoart and Charles Maxwell were killed
| by the premature explosion OF cannon.
on the lth Louis Hasson, Of Nsw York,
| spent the day on the top Of Storm King
I Mountain, near Newburgh, and wound up
by killing himself, after trying to kill his
1 wifel
| AT stoughton, wis, on the 9Th, ten
large tobacco warehouses were burned,
and 1900 cases Of tobacco were destroyed.
The losses will aggregate 500, 200.
| ADvIcEs from Japan state that the COM
| dagration which occurred q Toyama, May
| 18th, destroyed 5.s1s housss
| Al YOUNG man named Henry Kirmoe. OF
| Dubuque. Ia. vas instantly killed It Nc
| Gregor on the 9Th. BY . piis-driver, on
| which he was working.
| Louis ZIMMERMAN, . teamster for the
| Lake Shore Railroad ct Cleveland. O.
| fell through IN elevator hatchway ~ the
PERKINS, Power block on the 9Th, and VA
| killed
| Ar Viola, wis, on the sth. three young
men. Eliza Shambaueh, aged fifteen; Lew
Mcfarland, aged eighteen; and Henry
| Fisher, aged seventeen. were drowned
while bathing in Kickspoo River. McFar.
land saved one OF his comrades from
drowning, and while in the act Of rescuine
| another was himself drowned.
| A YIRE It Carson, New, on the 5th
which ragged several hours, owing 70 lacl
Of water supply, destroyed the creates
| portion Of the lower part OF the city. The
loss Il estimated It $4,000; insurance
$4,000
| THE large stock barn Of James vanette
| in the town Of Fulton, near Janesville
via, was destroyed by IRE At an early
hour the morning Of the 9Th, together with
nine blooded horses and slcighs and car.
riages. Two men sleeping In the barr
were badly burned, one seriously. HI
will probably mot recover. The loss ID
10000; Insurance., - 800
HusCELLANEOUs.
Mss South American Commission from
che United States has made it, report on
Chill Il received very little encourage.
ment there chilly greeting, 90 10 speak.
REPLYING to inquiries from State Of
fciais the Postmaster General has decided
that penalty envelopes can not BE- used .
forward correspondence on State Affairs.