The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04
STATE INTELLIGENCE.

Az unknown man. arrested and jailed 90
Mt Vernon. for being intoxicated. WAS
found dead in bis cell Christmas morn
inc.
AT sunman Tom Nieman. son Of Mrs. u.
NIeman. was found dead in bed. the other
morning. His age WAS thirty years
Cause. heart disease. HIS twin sister died
six years before % day.
wnL STEPHENS, VIM. Osborne and Ei-
Dinsmore. were arrested in Falkland. on =
charge 81 stealing property belonging %
the {. l.. 50. l. a q railroad. and piace'
in jail AZ Shelbyviile- Osborne was re-
leased on a 500 bond
REV. n. III. NEsT,.AGE Of sheibyyilie.
has decided % accept call 20 the Chris
tian Church at Franklin, ~ salary o.
>l..oo a year.
Al ROYAL Center. near Logansrort, Miss
Emma Pherson committed suicide by TAX
ing strychnine. II was the result Of .
lovers affair. 'n which : young man
named solomon Berk shire Was involved
Joux FRAME and Nicholas Hammond.
nineteen years old while skating on the
Calumet river near Hammond. Lake toun-
ty. troke through the ice and were
drowned. flames body Was recovered,
but Hammond's was carried away BY the
current
AT New Albany Louis Walker. aged nj
teen wears. son OF Joseph Walker. engineer
on = ferry-boat Was dangerously shot
Christmas afternoon He placed a pistol
in his vest pocket. with the hammer up
The pistol went OF. the ball striking him
in the abdomen. ranging forward and
down. The surgeons could not nnd the
ball. and think il dangerous
SEBASTIAN HoBBs. living near Birds
Eye. Dubois County. was fatally shot BY
White Caps the other night
GEORGE LIxsEY was found on the Pan
handle railroad near New Castle. with his
leg 80 badly mangied that amputation was
necessary. He claims that the train men
put him Of. and in leaving he fell between
the wheels
Matte DAVIS, a well-known woman 81
the town, died At the city hospital In
dianapolis, from che ELECTS Of poison self
administered Her family live in Darke
County. q.
ALrHED McFEELY has been elected
sheriff Of Grant County. 70 succeed Rob
err l. Jones. who was shot and killed two
weeks ago by an escaped convict
THERE are 5s1f licensed retail liquor
dealers in Indiana
WARDEN PRATT. aged fifteen, was SEN
fenced at Columbus 70 the R-formatory
for stealing a hor>e and buggy.
AT Grand View terrible fight occuErsd
the other night between Jim Mckay and
Joe Srerrell. Mckay was 20 badly beaten
over the head that he diei next morning
II was the result Of an old frud about
house burning. in watch both men we're
Implicated
Mrs X. r NiDKIFF. wife o. one 81 the
best known farmers in Shelby County. was
almost fatally pcisone at dinner the other
day ty eating peaches put up in tin car
FRANCIS LAMONT. Of Fort Wayne. was
instantly killed the other morning ut Au-
burn He was at a hotel in that place.
and while IN q somnambuii-tic state fell
heazllong down a stairway. dislocaiing his
neck
JouS ". BILLISGsroErH- aged seventy
three. Of indianapolis. j. willing 20 run
anv man in the world. Of similar a-e. .
foot-race from eighty 20 three hundred
wards. for purse Of from Sis 70 Il o.
Ar Madison. Frank Ginger has ~uei the
Cincinnati. Wabash and Michigan Rail
road Company Tor 5000 damages for i'm
juries sustained while 10 the employ Of IN
defendants a. brakeman on the ist u Mo-
vernber.
An inquest OF insanity was held n Con-
nersvillc. the other dsy. upon William
Crawford. = mIddle-aged citizen Of Ben
tonvilie. whose mind j. haunted with Q
continual belief that his life is in danger.
he will 90 70 the asylum
The grand jury Of Wayne County ha'
returned an indictment against 6erar4
Kibbey. who is in Jail in ccnnersvilie To-
the attempted murder of Jef Rauck sew
eral lavs ago. A. the crime was commit.
ted on the county line the prisoner wil
I be sent 70 Richmond for trial
\ vApE G.nRIs. who kille VIM R<elor .
\ windial last January. was found gaiit,
n at Upton. the other cay. the prnaity tein.
4 lxed at eleven years imprisonment
\ Henry BARsox lef. Logansport late tn
other night in an intoxicated condition
and was found dead two miles west .
town next morning
W. y. NELSON. Swede. employed In
mine near Clay City. was crushed 70 dealt
under falling slate.
C. W DAVIS, bondsman of the .'whit
Cap leader. W. NJ Gregory. kisle'
Gregory near Coryion- Gregory L.
asfray Davis eighteen-yesr-oid daughter
and Davis had since been hunting for him
T. l. PEnKTxs. an Indiana school teach
er. charged with m king an indecent a
sault on one d his pupils. has been &C
Quilted
THE new commanderv az the Loyal IL
gion IN Indiana was institu ei az Indian
apoliS General Lew Wallace was electe
Commander. Ex-President Hayes. Com
mander-in -chief. delivered an address
There was also alsanquef-
THoS. HARTMAN. for killing Ira Alexan
der, was convicted at Lebanon and give
six years In the penitentisry.
Ed MoonE and Warden Piatt. farmers
sons. near Columbus arc under arrest
charged with stealing Morgan Quick
horse AMI buggy.
Ar eleven o'clock the other night a.
Jury in the murder trial Of Elias Jacksor
at wabash charged with the murder q
Curtis Jeilison. returned = verdict 81 nc
guilty The prisoner crea.ei scene b