The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-04-25

tNn 81 NOT Ntt'F tNtf Unto ttN'Ah N'"f*
ing il from its chin 10 rs toes. II linz
gercd in great agony for several hours,
when II died.
tnvi>cro> III a very emphatic touch
~ the severe hail-storp which prevailed
throughout eastern Illinois me other
night,
a nrIIE- from an unknown source
crashed through 4 window in \. y.
langdoa's residence. AZ Nunrie. and
buried itsssf in the wall where Mrs.
Langdon had been sitting just 4 moment
before.
AsNAfi son 81 John Fahrncr, ~ Mum
Gle. Was bitten by a shepherd dog a few
days ago Fahrncr. who was near az the
time. seized The dog by the napc % the
neck and beat its brains out with q gas
pipe.
TIM Vandalia depot AZ Darlington.
Montgomery County. was struck by
lightning the other night and burned 70
the ground, together with all the con-
tents. The main loss will be on tho
telegraph instruments and books.
AsAn and hor-ifying accident occur
red. q few days ago, al the funeral Of
Mrs. Mary Jensen. near Laporte. An
undertaken allowed the coffin to fall
INTO the open grave during the inter-
ment. breaking the glass front of Tho
casket and letting the corpse fall out
into the bottom Of the grave Several
Of the mourners tainted. but the UNDER
taker jumped into the excavation and
pushed the body back into its rcccp-
tacle. when the grave-diggcr filled in
the dirt.
G. ;. GORDON. a farmer near Meta
mora, has a Jersey COW less than ~
months old giving milk. Weight Of
cow, 400 pounds: Of calf, IS pounds.
TnE indianapolis fircmcn's relief fund
was increased on the 18Th b. the receipt
OF >.2o.3G from the Chicago Fire De-
partmcnt and Ss4s Com the Cleveland
Department The fund now aggregates
S4..5O>. f5.
WILL >cnrRR. OF Columbus. killed 4
very rare bird. the other day. nearly
three feet high. four feet across the
wings, body white except back glossy
green. the wings a lilac shade. the head
black. with long white plume feathers.
bill long and very sharp.
ScHwElNFuETH has a rival claimant in
Clyde Lang. a young man Of Harrison
Township. Cass County. who says he i
Christ and wants 10 be crucificd. This is
a request Mr.. schwcinfurth has not yet
made.
DAVID Mock. a farmer. living three
miles north Of Jacksonville. has a Jer-
sey SOW that a few days q gave birth
TO eighteen pigs. One was accidentally
killed. but the other seventeen are alive
and doing we'll.
CHARLES WISE was seriously shot
through the thigh while trying 70 qucll
a disturbance az Delaware. the other
night.
LIGHTNING struck Wm. Thinks house
at Huntington. and badly injured Mrs
Thirk. The Methodist Church stecple
was also struck and damaged.
MISsEs VIOLA McGEAiI- and Ida Nom
roe. aged n and eighteen years,
were arrested at Marion. as they were
about to board a Panhandle train for
Chicago. Both ran away from good
homes near Upland. their intention be-
ing to see the world. They were re-
turned 10 their parents
CnAzED with drink. Grant Cress. or
Terre Haute. cut and slightly wounded
County Physician Standard because tho
doctor refused To let Crcss' father out "
the hospital. Cress was arrested.
Mrs. ions X. KING. OF Marion. died
at Swectser. the other night from injn-
rics sustained in a collision between q
Panhandle frcightcar and a strcet-car.
Heavy damage suits will result.
TIM German Lnthcrans OF Indiana arc
opposed to compulsory education.
Tnr new Australian election law ha
been declared demonstrations by an
Indiana Circuit Court.
FLoipCorNTy elected FIVE Democrats
trustees. a gain OF one.
WARREN corxTy elected eight Re-
publican and four Democratic trustees
a Republican gain ~ one.
CHARLES DRAKE was crushed 70 death
at Argos, ~ 4 tree he fellcd.
OAkraANpoN has q second gas we'll.
with an output Of s,o0o. o00 feet j day.
TIM following fonrth-class rcstmas-
tiers We're commissioned On the 10th:
New brunswick. lioune County. J. ".
Chitwood: Raul. I:cnton County. Il. n.
Shonkurlcr; Ncisburgh. Dearborn. Coun-
~. w. Hartman.
TnE President has nominated Robert
j. Cain postmaster al Brook VILE.
w. G.. WISE. ~ DcIauw University,
will represent Indiana Ia the Interstate
o~ratorical contest.
AFAMIy of eight persons was poison.
I'd by diseased meat in benton County.
Bur four out 81 fourteen persons con
stituting a "Saicidc Club" formed A
Indianapolis eight years ago. are living,
tho rest having met violent deaths
BENJAMIN MAHrIN attacked his uncle
at Muncie. and beat him numerically
about the head. II is thought he can
not recover.
A TERRIFIC wind and snow-storn
passed over Hartford City from Ia,
northwest about noon the other day
The wind did but little damage, bnt ths
snow settled like a fog over the tow =
Teams and pedestrians collidcd. itleing
impossible 10 see but a few feet ahead.
GENERAL. LEw WALLACE gives his
pension as a veteran Of tho Mexican wal