The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-07-18

Incidents and Accidents.

ing papers loT strhillnR CiaD-aPPic Iehy
through an SIS veil.
Madison, Ind, has captured and inn
prlsoned "A desperate horse thief eleven
years old.
The divorce lawyers in Chicago were
recently Mortified by the announcement
of a silver wedding In that city.
Young John Connolly, of Moorsvlle,
Tenn, shot his step-mother, recently, to
get even with his father for refusing to
loan him his horse.
AT Johnsbury, VT, James Shaw. a
farmer, while drunk, fatally shot John
Stanton, peddler, who called at his
house 70 sell some goods.
AT Burlington, Ia, little girl, eight
wears old. walked up and gazed few mo-
ments Oh her dead mother, and then died
almost instantly.
-Tabitha Hurt, who was injured on
the Tennessee Railroad, wants her hurt
healed with plaster of $4,000.
An Alabama lawyer, defending
murderer, spoke nineteen consecutive
hours, and the jury convicted the client
in seven minutes.
-Samuel Jones, a farmer of South Oys-
ter Bay. Long Island, was murdered re-
Gently, his body thrown into well and
house robbed.
"A Scranton Pa.) woman put her
tongue on llat-iron to see If 1t was hot.
She found out, and has been SO quiet since
that her husband has stayed at home al
most every night.
A jealous and despairing Lafayette,
Indiana, cooper tried scissors and arsenic,
but as physicians are pretty thick in
that town, he is still jealous and despair
ing.
They make coffee from almost every
thing nowadays, but Mrs. Stearns, Of
Keokuk, Iowa, declares that when she
gets new husband and family, she shall
use no more rat exterminator.
Mrs. Lyster, aged ninety-ene, was
buried at Graysville, Ind, last week, in
the wedding garments which. she wore
seventy-three years ago. They were OF
linen, spun and woven by herself.
Little Johnnie Alderman, of Buffalo,
New York. who went out to swing, one
day last week, didn't have half as much
fun as he would if he had not hung him.
self.
1t is humilating fact that, though
John Bender, the Kansas murderer, has
been arrested in nearly every enterprising
town in the West, he is still at large.
The women of Welsel county, West
Virginia, have formed vigilance COM
mittee 70 prevent their husbands visiting
the grass-widows who abound in those
parts.
"A Massachusetts postmistress has re-
signed her office, as matter Of honesty,
because she cannot find time to read all
the postal cards and attend to her other
duties besides.
An Iowa matrOn who, after anguish
ing In the bonds of matrimony for thirty
five years, recently came into an unex-
pected Inheritance of $500, Immediately
invested ii in divorce.
And now comes news that the girls
Of Elkhart, Ind, are forming a smoking
club. And so in this wild era of "female
advancement" women are dropping, one
by one, their distinctive charms.
"A Tennessee lady presented her hus-
band with pair of twins and in due sea-
son added triplets. Dear me-" ex-
claimed an astonished neighbor, III s'pose
Mrs. Stebbing will have quadrupeds next
and then centipedes."
Mrs. Bridget Kelley, of Albany. n.
Twas found dead in a cistern the other
day. and as she was very large woman
and the opening in the top of the cistern
NA4iN Slualt. ilt SoiV-
ner was forced to the conclusion that her
TALL therein was not accidental.
Miss Anna Radcliff, of Chester county,
Ia, was so shocked at the death, from
paralysis, of her sister, Mrs Williams, that
she died, too, and both were buried in one
grave One was sixty years old and the
other sixty-two.
Geo. Briggs, an energetic sewng-ma-
chlne canvasser in indianapolis, after
driving good citizen almost to despair
with his opportunities the other day, left
me house with malicious smile on his
lace which changed into spasm of hor-
ror as the heels of deceitful mule were
planted in his abdomen. He was carried
nome doubled up like a jack-knife, and the
mule was straightway treated to sump-
tuous bran mash.
"A hound was chasing fox, near
Laurel Hill, North Carolina, a few DAYS
since, when the latter, being tightly
pressed, took refuge in hollow log, en-
trance into which 1t effected at knot hole.
me Dog coming up, and finding that the
,ox mad gotten into the log, thrust his
mead INTO the knot hole after the fox, and
got his head fast therein. Being unable
20 extricate himself, the dog died, and the
lox, being cut off from the only avenue of
escape from the log, likewise persisted,
Do.ll OF them, evidently, having died Of