The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-05-28

DAVID ARMSTRONG. . young New Aiuany
desperadc, was shot and fatally injured BY
Policeman strach-
BrnalAns broke into n. = \ l.
Crowl's dry goods, boot and shoe store Elk
hart, and carried % about esW worth Of
uerchahdise.
INDIANAPOLIS ladies held = mass meeting
: few days ago 70 protest against licsnslng
the social evil.
DAVID b. GRAHAM, able Logansport law
yer, Il dead.
EDMUND y. MrAouKs, enngetary and one
Of the founders of - Economical Plow
Company, South nond, died Of consump-
tion, sgsd fnEnv<wo years.
FsAxE uARrrR, alias John Amos, wAsar
uufnA ~ Marion for holding up zekc
Brooks, OF Jonesboro. The prisoner is
about the medium sins. has = mustache
and IL supposed 70 be = Columbus lOhio)
crook He had . confederate. who -
capped
WILLIAM B~ERGNEHER, Of Madison, while
under the influence Of liquor, fell Oh the ex-
cursion steamer vevay, and wa owned
above Towards ~shipyard, the other even
ing. He leaves . widowed nothcr in Madi-
son. No effort has been made 70 recover
his body.
The Floyd County strawberry crop Is be
ginning 70 come into the markedly the
& load.
The city council OF Terre Haute defeated
an ordinance abolishing the police commits
sioners and placing the force in the hands
Of -four members Of council Of equal
division Of party
A. James n King, aged seventy, was IS
cending the steps 10 Dickinson's gun shop,
Richmond, be fell backward TO the pave
ment and in two minutes was dead, the re
suit OF . stroke Of apoplexy.
A Rrc store at Catesville, ten miles east
Of Greencastle, on the vandalia railroad,
was razed BY dynamite the other night, and
scarcely . vestige OF il remained, 50 great
wasthe ruin wrought. Liquor. il seems had
been dispensed there for medicinal and rev.
enue purposes only, and il is supposed that
the temperance people determined TO not
only boycott,..but destroy it in the manner
indicated 1t was owned by J. ID. Burgess OF
Eminence, Morgan County. who also runs
another drug store in that village.
SAMUEL WHEELER, who sued the Indian
apolis, Decatur and Springfield Railroad
Company for $1,000 damages, ut Rockville,
was awarded <l.5O. His son., aged nine
teen, was crossing the track with a load OF
wheat, and is supposed to have been
asleep. passenger train struck him and
threw him sixty feet through . RAJ. fence
hence the suit.
daughter Of VIM ~
Hamilton. bridge carpenter. Connellsville
was accidentally shot through the lung b,
an older brother the other afternoon. am
Is in a critical condition. The boy pickes
up q number Of thirty-two cartridge ride
which was discharged as above.
AT Sparta. Dearborn county. OIL Hughe
and Steve Connection. two lads Of the vii
lage. went squirrel hunting at differen
hours VI the day, and happened in the sam
woods. Coming within fifty yards Of eac
other, but wi Of each Others pres
sence, Hughes sat down on a log and con
menced tanning himself with an old brow
: handkerchief. Connection peering throug
the brush. mistook the cooling operatio
. Tor two owls fighting, when he raised b
: gun and fired. On going TO the spot he Wi
horrified TO see his ~neighbor lying upon n
q ground speechless with fright, and a
. blood gushing down his lace from hume
y Gus shot perforations. Luckily none Of Il
z missiles struck the eye ,and the injuries a
Z not fatal.
: THE other day at indianapolis, job
& Sheamar, a nine-year-old boy, was playir
! upon the street with some companion
! when . stranger with a horse and bugs
a drove up and asked him IL he wanted
: take a ride. The boy climbed in and dro'
on. Neither has been seen or heard fro
since.
The Encaustic Tile Works. Indianapoli
were sold a few days ago at receivers 81
for $4,000 to a syndicate.
v MINNIE LOWE, a woman Of the town.
indianapolis. ended her existence the 9th
evening BY taking morphine.
= MEADOWS and pasture lands are ten da
q In advance Of ordinary seasons
n wHIrE RIVER, on the 18th, was on a ral
page. and at indianapolis was within a 4
Z inches Of the highest points reached in IS
Reports from the surrounding country sta
y that great loss Of growing crops has be
= done. Many bridges are washed away a
i ut Broad Ripple the dam is gone and TIL
y hundred feet Of the Air Line division
the LIN. "A. & G. road was washed away
= SUPERINTENDENT OF Police Lawler q
Captain vandever, OF Terre Haute, ma
- a most important criminal discovery I
= other night. Receiving information q
induced them 20 believe that the house
4. l2es North Seventh street. occupied
:. Mrs. Edward Tillotson. was not squa
they visited IL. and. Notwithstanding
woman's pro~testations that every thi
was all right, they found in a trunk s2,
- or $4,000 worth OF most valuable jewel
- every thing bearing evidence hatthey }
been stolen. They were wrapped in hal
n kerchiefs. nannels and in every conceiva
manner She said they had been brouI
\, there BY Charles 4. Mills, Of Cleveland.
J. who claimed 20 travel for . jewelry no
in that city. He got acquainted with
last December, and induced her to me-
N from her location At that time to the ~
emit remote place. He would 20 away :
come back about every three wes
Among the articles are twenty-five 3
80 watches, twenty-one silver watches, foI
81 two chains, thirteen opera glasses, foi
eight breast-pins, twenty eight ear-rir
eighteen bracelets and many Others. y
left there May 4. There IL no doubt :
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