The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-10-31

well-kn0wu commercial traveller was killed
on his farm on the nishf ~ the 18th. Mr.
Bell, assisted ~ his sous Levi (who was
spending a Few days al horncl, Charles ari
Mood. and John Myers d work.hnnd on Tie
farm, were trying % force fractions colt into
the stable. A hong pole was used q purh the
colt. While the men inside the building pulled
the hAlter-sfFap around the colts neck Levi
held one end 81 the pole. which was over
tvrnty feet long, while Hiram Ball and his
son Charles held the other enc and pushed II
against the animals stern When the colt
was partially inside the door II suddenly
plunged backward with great force, throwing
the father down The pole struck him Ia the
abdomen, telling him scnseless. He was car
riei 70 the house lIfeless, and soon commenced
vomiting blood, when consciousness returned
for an hour. Then he bled freely from the
right ear: the blood ran from the head into
the throat and strnngled him. lie became
unconscious, sunk rapidly, and died al two
I O'Clock next morning
JoHS GoRDoS was run over BY locomo-
tive AZ Nashville. near the Fair Grounds on
the nth, and fatally injured.
ROEDER a BEcKFK. boot and shoe manu-
faftgrers AZ Evansville, have failed. owing
Aubul FlistrN. MUCH ~ lL4r Vas WNlIbN Eu
from widows and orphans in small sums, one
partner borrowing and giving the firm name
as security 10 his note The firm own 5000
or 5000 worth o. property loaded with mort
gage. and have fled exemption schedules
showing $50 of personally each. Consider
able excitement prevails among those who
lose by them.
BIZ the breaking Of wagOn-seat a few days
before, Mrs John smith, 81 Richmond, was
thrown TO the ground. aIighing on her head,
and was % seriously injured that she died on
tie 18th.
OK the 10Th William Henderson. freight
brakeman on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne x
Chicago Railroad. was crushed 10 death al
Pserceton. Kosciusko County, while stalking
out cars The pole which be was using
caught tie, throwing one car against anoth-
er before Henderson could escape. His head
was caught. and he died in rev minutes.
A BAKS situated about half mile from Ed
inlyurg. belonging u J. A. Thompson, was
burned 20 the ground on the morning Of the
10th. II contained thirty tons 81 hay, and the
loss will BE- nearly S2,00O. with no insurance.
CHARLES BARxEs, clerk In tie Office Of the
Supreme Court. Is said 70 BE- defanlter to
the amount 0f 500 of collected fees. Hewas
last heard from about September -. in War
saw. Koscinsko County. Poo,-tickets used up
his money.
THE condition Of the growing wheat crop in
some portions Of the State Is somewhat
alarming. A farmer from the vicinity Of Day
ton informs the Lafayette Journal that II this
weather continues fifteen days longer his
wheat Will .josnts' In this event the frost
and freeze would destroy II entirely. In
many OF the fields where early sowing took
place the wheat is half knee-high and Il grow
Ing very rapidly.
A FARMER living near Edinburg. who went
through bankruptcy few years ago, Is re
ported 70 have made $1,000 lately in Chicags
margins on wheat
A HORRIBLY brutal story comes from New
Albany A man named sfringham. who hai
had familiar acquaintance with the police fol
several wears, accepted wager % fight saw
age bulldog. lie prepared himself for the
brutal encounter by getting down upon hi
hands and knees and growing and snarling
dog-likc, until the other brute became gradu
ally Infatuated The dog was then turned
loose. and attacked Stringham savagely, but
he caught the ear of the brute in his tech
and chewed il OF. This only Infatuated thu
dog. and when 1oosencd from Stringhami
teeth he made another and fercer attack
This time stringham caught the dog with hi
teeth in the under liz. and 20 lacerated ans
worried the brute that II howled from pain
and. when finally released. fed from his tor
ture and could not again he induced 70 renew
the tight
The iron molders al the four Union f0un
aries in Evansville struck for an advance il
wages on the morning Of the 18TH
THE Indiana Insane Hospital has cost q
date $6s00o0. The exterior 81 the building
il finished. but only three Of the six wing
have a. vet been furnished There are nov
accommodations for 800 patients. On thu
evening Of the 18th the Provisional Trustees
turned over the building 70 the Hospita
Board
LARGE barn on the farm Of John Berger
west az Logansport, burned on the night O
} the 18th. with four thousand bushels Of corn
three horses. a carriage and farming nipple
ments Loss. 5000: light insurance. Tn
IRE. II is supposed originated by tramp
camping in the barn
THE bitter personal war between simpson
Of the Madison Star, and Howard. ex-Treasu
rer, eliminated few nights ago In stree
fight. In which simpson was knocked dow
. and bruised BY Howard, and the latter sho
. and seriously wounded. Simpson and McFeti
. ridge. another editor OF the Star who wa
, mixed up in the affair, were arrested and hel'
20 bail in the sum Of tl,ooO each. 20 await ex
animation Subsequently Howard died, am
they we're re-arrested and held for his murder
PRoFEssoR CALEB MILLS, one Of III
. founders IL Wabash College, died AZ Craw
louisville on the night Of the nth. Mr. Mil
was the first state Superintendent q Publ
, instruction in Indiana. He had been con
rccsed with Wabash College for fcrty-si
years. and was scvcnty-three years old
PErrE DAirox. Carbon coal-mIncr. wa
: fatally cut In the abdomen by Dan McGutrs
! another miner. on the night Of the 10th. vi