The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-03-07

A SArnoN-KrErrE near Peru, was hn'u
twenty dollars. At his own request. TOT
selling liquor on Washington~ birthday
lie didn't know II was legal holiday
Ngs. ELLA DoucI.Ass. Of Frankfort
has sued the Monon railway for $1,000
damages for injuries sustained ~ 'n'
Carmel wreck.
Tnr ease against w. y. Petit ~ La
faycttc. who j. charged with wife muir.
der, has been postponed until The APR"
term OF court.
( Ar Mt. Vernon Eddie Young aged
fourteen. died from the effects Of blow
I with rock inflicted by Jimmy Hicks,
4 arcd twelve. some days ago. In a quarf'i
over game Of marbles. HICKS n's
( ned.
AZ r.iror;cr John Bcnticn. tailor,
bangea himself 10 a raiter in wood
J sheu.
TuE block coal operators Of Indiana
I have declared their inability to pay the
| Columbus scale for mining, and all indl-
cations point to strike when the pres
ent yearly contract expires May 1.
MEs. ELIZABETH CAROL aged one hun
drcd and fifteen years, died at Cumber-
land Of ia grippe"
A VERDICT for s., 600 damages has been
given against the owners Of a thcatcr at
Indianapolis for clubbing by their
policeman.
GEORGE READING was hewing railroad
ties on the Godfrey reserve. near Mont
pclicr. and his broad-axe glanced cut
ting his foot of between the toes and in
step. lie came very near bleeding TO
death before hc got to the house.
RusnviLLE is preparing TO start .
normal school.
MiS. JANE ToLIFFIo. OF Mt. Vernon. Is
an heir TO the English Moflitt estate,
said to amount to $4,000. 600. She is
the only daughter Of a deceased orig
nal heir. and expects 10 receive share
OF about $4,000. 900
DE. Jonx H. ALIEN AMBER. OF Milford.
has been appointed member Of the
Board OF Pension Surgeons Of Decatur
County. lie was surgeon during the
war.
IxprA~AroLrs Methodist ministers
adopted resolution excluding reporters
from their meetings.
.JosEPH VrEKANr. farmer. near
Ferdinand. Dubois County. was killed
by falling tree
Az extensive deposit Of brown build
ing-stonc has been discovered on the
Gates farm. near Lena. Clay County.
SEVERAL boys were arrested at Peru
for thievery
JAS. II. CLARK, OF Columbus. died
from a rats bite.
JONI RryK drowned himself in mill
race at Shelbyvillc.
AHoESE, valued at $685. belonging to
Dick Epperson. Of wfordsyille. rear
ed up while hitched TO buggy. throw
ing the occupant out. and the horse fell
upon his head. breaking his neck.
AT Bluffton viii Moriz shot himself
accidentally in the eye. IIe is danger
ously wounded.
JEFFEnsoS VRIGTTr. a miner. was
crushed under falling slate. near Brazil.
and is not expected to recover.
THERE is a hydrophobia scare At
Stanton
Two miners were fatally crushed I'M
der falling slate at mine near Brazil
A SECTION foreman named Fitzgibbon
was fatally injured BY cars at Lebanon.
4 BRAKEMAN was fatally. and fire.
man seriously injured by railroad col
lison at Enterprise.
JouS CHAMBEEs, a prominent farmer
living near Moorcsyille. became crazy
on the subject Of religion.
HAHEoDsErIsG. Green County. has IT'S
cases OF measles among its five hundred
people.
THERE is a division in the Baptist
Church at Mt. Vernon. between close
and free communicates. Rev. Fowler.
Of the close communicates faction. was
locked out Of CHURCH. but forcibly en-
tered and held Services. for which he
was expelled by the free communicates
Fowler's followers have Withdrawn, and
will organize another congregation.
THE Prohibition State Convention
met in indianapolis on the Goth and nom
mated a State ticket and adopted plat
form. The platform declares that tho
legal prohibition Of the sale 81 intoxi.
eating liquors is the fundamental prin-
tlplN v ttltH BlIu> AlltIH ttEttutI. anu
that there can be no compromise upon
any other ground: that local option Il
unconstitutional and wrong: that Ii.
censc. high or low. Is wrong. and. there.
fore. wrong in its results, and that rev.
enuc should be raised BY property taxa.
tion. and not upon crime and vice; that
the protective tariff should be taken
of the food we eat and the clothes We
wear. and on other articles re.
duccd 70 tho needs OF the Gov.
eminent economically administered;
that trusts are unjust and oppressive;
that the salaries Of county Offices should
be reduced 70 comport with the present
financial condition Of the State. The
platform also declares in favor OF q
service pension law. and OF the appor.
tionment Of the State school revenues "a
tho actual school attendance. and calls
upon the farming and laboring classes
70 unite with the Prohibition party.
Tho following ticket was nominated by
acclaMation: Secretary OF State. u. NJ
Blount- Marion County: Auditor. Abra.
ham Hurtzinrcr. 81. Joseph; Treasurer
John r. bronson. Hendricks: Supcrin.
tendcnt Of Public Instruction. T.. M.
Crist. Boone; Attorney General. j. T..
HAYNES. Jaw. .Iudvr az Sunremc Can't