The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-10-03

abilities had been injured 10 the extent d
$1,000. IL was a heavy price for a ''ligli
fantastic"
In the town OF Greenwood, iClarl
county. Wiz, George Taylor wa let Int
a well Just dug, 10 recover a bucket. liz
became exhausted before reaching the sur
face. fell Ia the bottom. smashing his skull
and producing instant death.
-Lud. Lowell. OF spencer county. Ken
lucky. an inmate OF the Insane Asylum al
Lexington. hung himsclfm his cell. by hi-
handkerchief. tied 10 one of the iron bar
across the window. lie had been in the
asylum only fifteen days.
The Rev. W. Il. Watkins. Methodist
minister AT Waterloo. Iowa. was made
temporarily insane by the combined effects
of anxiety about his wife. who was dam
gcrously sick. and efforts To give up the
use OF tobacco. 10 which lac had long been
a deyotee, and went out and drowned him
self.
AT Red Oak. Macon county. Iowa, re-
Gently. Harry Williams. a farmer. shot and
instally killed John keaton. and shot. aud
il is thought fatally wounded. VIM.
Euchler. both ncighbors OF his. but with
whom he had quareled about some remarks
he alleged they had made about his wife.
The murderer escaped.
Helen Williams. a young woman who
was abducted from Marshalltown, Iowa.
has been found and returned to her mother
in a state of mental arrangement. In her
collected moments She says that she was
seized by two men, placed in "A buggy. and
chloroformed. and when she awoke She
was in a log house attended by an old wo-
man. who allowed her To depart and she
started 10 walk along the railway track.
james Gibson. aged about forty-iive.
was shot and killed by his nephew, Henry
lakewood. at Armstrong; Mill. about
four miles west of White Hall. H.. a few
days ago. lakewood was arrested.
Whisky and card-playing were at the bot
ton of the aifray.
During an anti-monopoly procession,
at Sioux City. Iowa. a few nights since.
Charles Collins. editor of the Weekly TtmeA
irritated by a lot of boys following his ear
riage In which he sat in kukluX costume
heating a circular saw with a hammer.
threw the missile into the crowd. striking
a boy in the forehead, and inflicting Il dam
gerous if not fatal wound.
Recently a young and wealthy Welsh
man. named COnrade Abadam. from Wales
direct. on a pleasure trip. was accidentally
shot. about six miles north of Jefferson.
Iowa. causing his death. The accident
was caused by a gun falling ON the bottom
of a buggy. the hammer striking and cans
ing the explosion of the cap. The charge
took effect in the right side. extending into
the plcural cavity. The deceased was the
eldest son of the Hon. Edward Abadam. OF
Middleton Hall. Caerlnarthen. Wales. a
rich landowner and Il prominent man. He
was twenty-five years of age. and leaves a
wife and two children in Wales.
Martin kuhl. of Fond du Lac. Wis.
recently committed suicide in "A somewhat
novel manner. He took a clothes-line. one
end of when he fastened 10 a spike driven
into the clubhouse. the other 10 a tree. He
then cut the rope about four feet from the
spike. fastened il around his neck. and
bending his knees nearly 10 the ground
choked himself To death. kuhl was a
Prus-ian by birth. and has been in this
country about eighteen months. He was
thirty->eyen years old. unmarried.