The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-05-01


THE President expects 10 take up his
residence ~ the Soldiers Home early
next month Ths house he will occupy II
about three miles norsh OF the White
House. The President looks forward with
pleasure 70 his change Of residence.
oRTMEs AND CASUALTIES.
A Ma. PowER. OF Boston. says that
Preller. who was found murdered At ST
Louis was a s~ympathixsr with the dyna-
mlters, and that Maxwell was heard TO
say sThe whole crew ought 70 die"
ON the 18TH y. @. Small, = murderer.
was lynched At Pierre, Dak.
On the 10th senator Stanford's stables
In California were fired by tramps, and
liz horses and mules persisted.
AT Norfolk. Va, ON the 10th. Rev.
Thomas Spencer. colorcd, was convicted
OF houssbrsaklng. Hs was given hve
years
AT Nswburg. N. Y. on the 18th, Hugh
Mccain, = blind man over eighty years
OF age was indicted Cor the murder Of his
vie.
FIRE totally destroyed thu ofics OF tho
Buffalo IN. W Express On the evening Of
the 18th. caused by the carelsssnsss Of the
porter in lighting one " the lamps In the
composin groom. There were many mar
row escapes. bat no loss Of life. Loss about
S50,0o0
A NUMBER of business houses werc
burned 1t Bristol. Ind, on tho 18th.
Two children OF a Mr.. Kemp. near Full
lerton. Mob, set fire TO n straw stack on
the 18th and were burned to death.
A DOC fight for $1,000 took place near
Hunters Point l.. l., on the 18th. One OF
the dogs was killed, aud he hght lasted
but fourteen minutes.
NRAR Paducah, KY, on the 18th, Lucin-
da Besrdan killed her newborn hAbe and
disappeared, and the supposition Is that
she has committed suicide.
BsNJ. N. PRATT. : Cincinnati lawyer,
committed suicide on the FISH.
WILLIAM Phillips was hanged on the
18th at Port Smith, Ark. for murd ering
his fashsr-in-law. WIN. Hill; Thomas SAM
/ on, 1t LaconiA, N. H., for the murder OF
Mrs Jams Ford, JOAN Rudy aud Frank
Rrddy, the latter an infant; Gus Finley.
at ~Prestonburg. KY, for the murder Of
James Hunt; and tive Italians. named
Capons and Santors, at Thorn aston, Me-,
for the murder OF q fellow-workman.
TIM Falcon Iron and Nal C~ompany's
rolling mill at Cleveland, o., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th.
POSTMASTER BUCHANAN at Victor, Ia,
has been arrested for alleged crookedness.
On the 18th Edward sumner. seventy
years OF age and a wealthy man. hanged
himself at West Dsdham. Mass
Two noted thieves, Bill Smith and Chas.
Hodges, alias "Datch Charlie" were
jailed At jamestown, Oak, on tho 18th.
AT Sullivan, Ind. on the 10th dire de-
stroyed $4,000 worth Of property.
On the 18th Rev. DR.. Stern, . Jewish
| Rabbi, took Iaudanum ut Wilkesbarre, Pa,
with suicidal intent. md died on the 10th.
Or the night Of the 10Th at GleDd ale,
near Cincinnati, o., d. w. Charles was
approached by a stranger who ordered
him to throw up his hands. Charles
throw q ball into the stranger. killing him
instantly. Two other men rushed up with
an express wagon and carried the corpse
away.
On the 10Th . farm hand near Fainneid,
N. j., murdered an old lady for whom bs
worked, because she objected 70 bis maxi
ing love to his daughter. He then hanged
himself.
FoRssr fires wers reported burning on
Long Island on the 10Th.
On the sosh swo Of tbs New York build
Ing inspectors were indicted by the Grand
Jury.
arrest d on ths 3oth, charged with embss-
cling 5000 from his employers
FIRE destroyed the Exchan 20 Hotel and
the Lutheran Church at Lyons, y. Y, en-
the 2osh. Calvin Porter was burned to
death.
Or the Goth the trial OF VIM. Dickerson,
foreman Of the jury on what was known
as the first Star route trial, indicted for
~corruptly ~endsavoring to influence jurors,
was begun In the Criminal Court at WASH
ington, ID. G.
MIsCELLANB0Ua
THH Attorney Genera rendered a deci-
sion In references to the last appropriate on
made by Congress in aid OF the Now Or
leans Exposition
INFORMATION received at the Stats d.
partment states that there IL no cholera In
Spain
The gross earnings OF the Union Pacific
system for thu year 1884 were S., 79l, 900;
expenses and taxes, SIS, liS.0Jo; net earn
ings. $l0.6ss. 146.
A CONSPIRACY on . vast scale among tho
military, Is reported In Spain.
TELE0RAns TO Bradstrest's from prin :
cipal distributing points report that de-
mands from country merchants have thu
far been disappointing. Spring trade Il
. fortnight late, even where the demand
n most active. Failures for the seven
days ended tho 18th, 1876; previous week,