The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-05-06

IT II mid that .he movement In WASH
ington Ia transfer the boly II ties
Grant from New York a. the national
cemetery at Arlington has substantially
come 70 on end.
.IE~~m McCArLEx. he ii-year-cld
daughter ~ a Long Island farmer, lost
for three days in the wo,ds. was found
on the .sth. She said she was moi
scared. but awfully hungry.
Two tramp> resisted ejection
from u train BY q Panhandle crew. near
Columbus. Ind. on the nth. and in the
revolver fight a brakeman was severely
wounded.
TnoMAs SiEiR. az architect and
Princeton college graduate. shot and
killed himself. accidentally il j. claimed.
nj his home in south Orange. y. j., on
the ..th.
WHrx the old Wabash 4 Erie canal
was built Col. Hanna gave aluab
ground on both sides Of five streets Ia
Wabash. Ind. crossing the canal. 70 hc
used as dock spaces. The canal was
abandoned twenty years ago and this
ground has remained vacant. Il for
possession was begun five years ago.
and the ease has just been decided The
part of the canal in Wabash county i
owned by a company. hut the judge de-
cidcd that the dock spaces should revert
"a the heirs ~ Col Hanna. The ground
i now in the heart ~ the city. and i
worth thousands ~ dollars
ADyIcES from Nof.roe county. Tenn.
state that the Murphy brothers. the desr
pcradoes. are hemmed ina mountain de
file by a squad of officers. and that their
capture j. probable. This must. how
ever. be taken with some allowance. for
the men are desperate and know besides
that II captured they will ultimately bs
hanged. If not lynehed.
CARRIE BOOKER. a country belle. Is
plaintiff in 4 breach 81 promise suit AZ
Goshen. Ind. against Melvin Nv>onr.
in which she asks for 5000 damages
They became engaged in the fall Of
1891. hut Ny>ong has since married an
other. Plaintiff AYERS that all the
while defendant was pretending e.
make love 10 her. he was also paying
court 10 his present wife.
SCHOOL children playing near the
Burlington tIa.l roller mills on the
a7th. found the dead bodyof baby near
the burlington. Cedar Rapids& North
ern railroad track. Marks on it, throat
showed il to have been strangled to
death II is supposed to have been
thrown from q passing train
.JonS WILLARD and Charles Wisdom.
accused Of the murder If Edward A.
Drexler in II. Louis. have each made
confessions charging the actual com
mission Of the crime on the other. II j.
morally certain that one ~ them j.
guilty. and public opinion leans 10 the
belief that both are equally -.
cHrPADrRA. one of the most deadly
snakes 70 be found in Honduras. was
discovered in 4 bunch Of bananas in the
warehouse Of the Vessels company in
New York. lie was three and a half
feet in length and very vicious. The
reptile vas secured. and has been sent
I . the Central park o
MRS. ALEXANDER. an invalid. and her
nurse. an old lady named Elizabeth
Jones. were burned to death. and DR..
Briggs and Mr.. King We're fatally
burned in a fire in a New York fiat
house on the 18th. Several other per
sons were more OF les burned or other
wise injured.
WA. AsToR's body has been en-
balmed and will be- brought 10 New
York on the la Bourgone by his widow
and Mrs. Drayton-
TIE entire business portion Of the
town OF Hudson. o.. was destroyed by
fire. supposed 70 have been ofincendiars
origin. early ON the morning Of the
18th