The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-26
STATE INTELLIGENCE.

~, fell into an open fire. place. AM had
both hands burned 70 crisp.
FRKp WAnSsEipLER. ex-coroner 81 Van.
derLurg County. committed suicide, near
Evansville.
HERMAN GALnrar OF Wanatah, was
drowned In the Kankakec river, near
Crum's Point
A HORSE belonging TO Martin Richey,
near Greenfield, was killed by lightning
few days since.
WnirE.CAr depredatlons are breaking
out atresh in Warricx aud Dubois Coun-
ties.
FIvE-yEAR-oLD child was burned to
death at Madison. Her clothing ignited
while she was playing near a fire in the
street
AS tho Monon train was nearing Craw-
louisville few days ago the parallel rod
broke and was driven through this cab Of
.hs engine. tearing up the seat upon
which the eng inccr was sitting, and maxi
ing hole through the top OF the cab.
Robert Muir. the engineer. was badly
shaken up, but escaped serious injury.
TnE Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
railway depot at Reynolds was burned a
few days since with some valuable papers
and records.
DR. J. W. ELLIS. one OF the Oldest ply
sicians in the state. sucidei by blowing
his brains out with pistol mt Marion. lie
was stricken with paralysis a year ago,
which probably prompted him TO the act.
TIE comm ssioners OF Tippecanoe Coun-
ty will build a new bridge over the Wa
bash river at Lafayette. 1t will be six
hundred feet long.
DAVID BERI.ISE was painting house at
Vandalia. Owen County. the other day,
when lightning struck the building. The
electric current entered the fingers Of his
right hand. passed down his right side,
and out throug the foot tearing the boot
entire y of. His side is paraly zed.
Two men at Charlottesville went to law
over debt OF twelve and half cents,
and the case was tried by justice. DUR
ing the trial the men quarreled. and one
knocked the other down. and was fined
$50. The man who got Knocked down
was mulcted in fine aud costs OF 81 for
provoke. As yet, the debt remains twelve
ana half cents
In tho circuit court at Indianapolis.
judge Rowland issued a restraining order
against Governor Hovey and other state
officers to prohibit them from negotiating
loan on the State warrants. on tho
ground that the anne were illegal There
was an immediate appeal to the Suprems
Court. the case being agreed one; and
If The higher court reverse. the decis sion Of
the court below, which is confidently ex.
pected, loan can then be effected. Mono
OF the institutions have been paid for
three months, and the employees are being
put to great straits
SAMUEL STRAUSS. young man employ
ed in the house OF d. c. Baldwin & Co,
Evansville. was arrested a few days ago
on an affidavit. sworn out by Val. l.
Schmitz, charging him with forgery. Ho
Acknowledges his guilt.
NEAR Fort Wayne John Barrett AMI his
wife. aged respectively seventy-four and
seventy, quarreled about trifling matter.
He seized an iron poker ard fatally in
jured her with il.
CHARLES HOWE. empioye at the Monon
machine shop. New Albany. was caught
by the betting and fatally injured. He
WINS jerkel over the shafting, his head
crushed, both legs broken, each in two
places, arm broken and internally hurt.
lie can not survive.
TRINITY NJ. F. CHURCH Of New Albany,
has let the contract for a new ciifice, to
cost $4,000
THE forest fires which ragged about tho
Clark AMI Floyd County knobs recently
were extngu ished by rain. Valuable tim
Der, extending over fourtsen miles, was
destroyed
TuERE il considerable excitement in
Charlottesville over mad dogs aga n
WILL MURPHY's meetings at Spencer
are proving very successful and many
men heretofore tipplers are now seen
wearing the blue ribbon on the street.
AT Wabash. John Perry pleaded guilty
to demonstrating and was sent to prison
at Michigan City for four years. lie il
wanted IN Clinton, o, where he broke jail
last August
LATE he other night Ioseph Maynard
went 10 tho residence Of Henry Roam, VINO
lives about six miles north Of North Ver-
non. and called him TO the door and shot
him without saying a word. The weapon
used wns shotgun which was heavily
loadel. Tn. shot were discharge most y
in the head OF the unfortunate victim.
1HE validity Of the loan recently au-
thorizeL by the Indiana Legislature Will
lie tested by injunction proceedings.
AIE ulTeCtpIt Oh tue i'fSpu CJutu uNf+
elected Abel Ewing, OF ';reen -burg,
deputy warden, vice Willis Barnes, re-
signed, and DR.. q. II. Runcie. OF Fort
Branch, Gibson County, physician. vicc
DR.. Wolf, Of New Albany, resigned.
GEo. KELLEY. who broke Jail at Marion,
last winter, WINS arressed the other day Tor
stea ing goods at the Cam len fire, and
4 taken TO the Portland AL.
The infant son OF L. +. Fisher. 81 Co-
lumbus, del few days ago. lie was
three months old. and weighed three
I pounds. AZ it, birth the child wei ghcd
one pound ard half. -
GOVERNOR HovEy has par onsd ). W.
Kellogg, sent TO the pen from Ekhart for
embczzling building association money.
/ WESLEY MAarix. OF Terrc Haate, in tho
penitentisry for countcrfeiting, wa par-
doned a few days since, being In dying
condition.
| Hox. GEORGE NATHANIEL ROBINSON. m
! eloquent and able member OF the Shelby
County bar. died at Shelby lille on the sth.
! He served tw D terms a the State Legisla-