The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-10-29

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". n HANNA colorsd, Who We ssnsssesa
70 the penitentiary Tor life from Lebanon
committed suicide On the train while en
route 70 the prison.
Jonx U. LEE was convicted Of bigany -
indianapolis, and sentenced % nve years In
the penitentiary.
JAMES DICKENS, IN Ohio crook, was cap
tursd ~ Marion while in the act Of robbing
Henry Beshore's store
Two CHILDREN named Neptune, - Co
lumbus, were poisoned by eating jimson-
weed One will recover, the other will die.
A COMPANY has been formed q Terrs
Haute, TO bore for natural gas
VIZ. Balm sues Edward Young. - Hunt
ington, Tor $1,000 for false Imprisonment.
FREDERICK Morr, Of Richmond, died the
other day from the effects Of blank car
fridge discharged 50 near his face - 70
cause conclusion of the brain,
The north-bound express on the Evans
Vile aud Terre Haute railroad, was wreck
ed near Ingles, the other morning. For
tunately no one was hurt
DAN. w. srour, Of Columbus, blind from
service In the late war, was the other day
granted pension Of 81 per month, dating
back to his discharge, amounting 70 si0''
4ds G6&. This Is the largest pension ever
granted in that section.
8. @. WHITAKER, OF Boston, rode ~
miles on bicycle At Crawfordsvilies IN ~
hours and ~ minutes Is -5seconds, beating
the worlds record over forty miles.
JAcoB BROCK. . farmer residing near
Muncie, dropped dead in church the other
day OF apoplexy.
TuK Grand Council 'of Royal and Select
Masous Of the State began it, annual session
at indianapolis on the 10th. with IN alton
dance Of about fifty delegates. Tue address
OF Grand Master $ nks showed = healthy IN
crease OF the Order drring the past year.
The report Of the Recorder slows that
there are forty-one Councils jim the State
with membership OF l $50. The receipts
for the year were q, 055 - and the disburse-
ments q, 0a3B
The Edwards Electric Light Company,
Of Richmond, was organized there the
| other evening with capital stock OF 81
| COCOON, divided into shares Of $50 each. The
| object Of the company is TO manufacture
| an electric headlight for locomotives The
| first OF the companys headlights left Gin
| cinnati on the 10th on Little Miami en-
| CINE.
| WILL CARrRR, who shot an incffensive
| colored man at Shelby vile. was fined -
and sentenced TO two years in the peniten-
tiary.
| A Posr-orrrcs has been established q
| Clabbertown, Allen County, and p -
. Piatt commissioned postmaster.
| ACCORDING to the report OF the commits
! sioners OF the new Indiana State House
the cost OF the structure to date has been
| sl.1S4. 73O.34 The legislative halls will be
ready for occupancy by the time the Cen
eral Assembly meets.
THE daisy trains between New Albany
and Louisville are doing an immense bust
ness.
QuxTrs are not fully grown, and buntsrs
complain that, though numerous, they ARD
too small to be shot at present
GxoRGx TArEI- . convict who was sent
up from Evansville to serve three years
Tor larceny, was pardoned from the South
ern prison . few DAYS ago BY Governor
GRAY. He has wife, two children and "a
aged mother who are In destitute circum
stances. and the Governor issued the par
don through charity.
| Fowler was injured by IRE : few day.
ago to the amount OF $4,000.
Lucy Cross, aged fifteen years, Who live
on the farm Of her parents near Sellers
burg, Clarke County, was bitten on tn
arm by . spider few days ago. Her arm
has swollen to twice its former size, and .
last accounts her condition was serious.
Ar Richmond, . lot Of the Knights o
| Pythias participating in instituting nev
| lodge were poisoned and rendered yer,
sick by the arsenic In the newly-papered
| tightly closed room poisoning the atmos
phere. They were taken very sick, witt
extreme vomiting and high fever. Atfirs
il was supposed that the boys were sickeu
ed by something that they had eaten, bu
! physicians who were called pronounced
case OF arsenical poisoning. Georg
Short, John Thomas and Harry Geppart
Of Richmond, and the Grand Keeper Q
Records and Seals, OF Indianapolis, wer
made very sick, and eight or nine other
were more or less affected, but none % =
we're as those mentioned
AT Roam, Wabash County. the annus
soup and feet-washng meeting Of Oh
Dunkards Of that section Of the State va
held One thousand members Of the Churc
were in attendance, and about two thos
sand people OF other denominations wel
present Sermons were preached morning
noon, and night, and al the members pa
ticipated in the feet-washing ceremon.
Immense quantities OF soup supplied 20
: oomers were consumed. The gatherin
was one Of the largest religious assemble
D ever held in that vicinity.
IF. CLoUs q Co, Of New York Cit
have brought suit e Columbus, again
/ the Pennsylvania railroad Company 4
. 5000 for running over and destroying
trunk carried BY one Of their traveliI
Z men, full OF samples, destroying them. 81
: compelling their traveller TO b called 1
! The damage demanded Il for the truu
samples and los Of time and business.
1 THE south wing Of the German Orphi
!. Asylum 1t indianapolis, took fire q o.
o'clock the other morning, causing daI
ages 70 the extent Of $4,000. All the Oh
!. dren were safely removed, except one,