The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-03-05
STATE INTELLIGENCE.

I. A>pfA>AfoLis ~. y. ministers, pronuncil
! mento gone out against progressive q
y | ehre
I'll HARRY BASS,SrER. one Of the Oldest rec
. dents Of Wabash. and Tor many wears Lane
lord II the La Fountain House. dropps
i. dead Of heart disease few days ago. II
. had been apparently In excellent health
! and his demise was wholly unexpected
. Mr. Bannister was sixty-iive years Of az,
i TuE case of Joshua Rhodes W. the Pen
sylvania Company for $1,000 was tried q
tue Circuit Court at Columbus few day
ago. The complaint alleged that Rhode
/ purchased ticket at Amity. a nag.statiol
on the j., N. and l.. In September last, an,
that Notwithstanding the train was flag eyed
they ran by the station refusing or neglect
ing 70 stop the train; that he being sicl
and failing to meet an important husines
engagement, suffered badly and financial,
BY having 20 walk, and further, that th'
railroad company refused to redeem III.
ticket The jury awarded him verdict o
500.
ELkuARr sulky Plow Works lost e7,00l
BY fire
coLrMnus NJ. X. revival procured Ia
conversions.
Z. GRAMS, Cincinnati, paid $4,000 for ia
walnut trees near Delphi
A~ps BRYANT, indicted murderer. o.
Eminence, jumped his $500 bond.
| WN- KsEIxHAcES, Ex-County Commits.
sioner OF Bartholomew County, died near
Jonesvillc, aged eighty eight.
| TnE jury In the 5000 Islander suit
brought by Mrs. sarah johnson again 81
Monroe Drift, prominent farmer OF Shell
by County, came in the other morning with
verdict awarding Mrs. johnson $1,000.
An appeal will be taken by the defendant
MRs. JoHS RnlxEmARr, wife OF one the
most prominent farmers OF Shelby Coun-
~, who lives several miles west OF Shelby
vile, was kicked and badly injured by
Jersey COW.
W. l. HowARD, editor Of the Rochester
Tribune, was assaulted few days ago by
Ed. Bibler. . qusck doctor, who struck the
newspaper man violent blow In the right
temple with loaded cane. Towards in
jury il serious, hut the physicians think he
will recover. Bibler was angered by fan
cied injury. He gave bond to appear in the
Circuit Court
Dr. f. X. Myrtle who eioped some weeks
ago from Clay County with his step-daugh-
ter, Pearl Burke, was caught near Patoks
working as a farm hand and passing the
girl As his wife. The child Is heart broken.
now realizing her complete downfall, but
still shields Myrtle.
w. X. AND CORNELIUS vAxpERWLr rave
500 TO Elkhart Y. NJ G. A. for their new
building, which IL incomplete from pow
arty.
MARSHAL GoRRELr- near Danville, Grip
Piled and caught bald eagle seven feet six
inches across the wings. Been laying for il
seven years
JosErH HARxAS. aged fifty. near licking
ton. gave his wife $50 OF 500 realized on |
real estate and vanished No explana,
tion.
The suit Of Oscar Baldwin against the
Evansville and Terrc Haute Railroad Com |
pany, In the Gibson County Court at |
Princeton, for $4,000 damages from inju-
ries received while employed on the de-
road, ended the other evening by |
the jury returning verdict awarding the |
plnintih t9@G. Baldwin was employed n
brakeman on the road, and on September
:, 1884, while engaged in switching cars in
the company's yard be fell from q moving
train. the cars passing over both feet. crush
ing them In . frightful manner necessi.
tating the amputation OF one foot. The de
fendant will file motion for new trial.
HALF hundred and more OF monument
and granite dealers throughout Indiana
met in indianapolis, few days ago. and
organized a State association for mutual
protection. with 4 A. McKain president.
9. Wright, secretary. w C.. Whitehead
treasurer, all Of indianapolis, and vice
president from each district as follows:
FIRST District, w. +. Schultz; Second. w.
4 Wagner; Third. r. j. Schoole: Fifth.
Mr. Mccullough Sixth, g. b. Mooney: Sew
nth, }. +. LePage; Eighth. J. j. Little:
Ninth, W. +. OHaven; Tenth. John w.
icGillicuddy; Twelfth, o. &. Wycoff:
thirteenth. J. b. Slaughter In the main
he proceedings OF the convention were -
ecret as the grave, but IL seems the move
nent Is 70 weed out the shoddy dealers by
orming monopoly Of reputable firms
md practically "boycotting" granite deal
'rs who sell TO unreliable dealers.
THE Supreme Court has affirmed the de-
ision Of the Jasper Circuit Court IN SEN
encing Weibern wartena 10 be hanged FOR
- ~s-'' stts> t'1ri up once before.
= on the original trial he pleaded guilty.
nd was sentenced by the Judge without
be intervention Of jury. The Supreme
'ourt held that a person accused OF a capi-
a. offense could not waive his constitu-
ionai right 70 trial by jury, and the case
vas remanded 70 the lower court for trial.
nd this time there was anotherieath SEN
ence II was appealed the last time on an
objection 70 one OF the courts instructions.
nd this was overruled. Governor
ray has already stated that be will nos
Interfere in the case.
BENJAMIN MIrLER, Of Evansville, taken |
2 indianapolis 70 answer charge OF pas I
ing counterfeit money, and who has lain in
be City Hospital for several days danger
usly III with consumption, was found dead
q bic cot In that institution on the morn
~ Of the 18th. The evening before the
'ourt granted permission for his removal
ONE, but the order came too late. Miller
'as aged forty, unmarried, and OF good re-
ute previous 70 his arrest as an alleged :
W. G. DE- PArw, fNew Albany, IL sinkina h
gas-well In Taylor Township, Harrison Z
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