The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-04-11

4 Wagon hy team ~ runaway horses anu
I Ms thigh broken. Dr. y. Faux was
called Ia reduce the fracture. lie FaNo
\ his patient chloroform and instant death
enSued.
JAMES llrnn>Rp. 81 Maplr'on. on tho
18th. celebrated his one hundred ana
hfth birth day anniversary, ana NE
event marked the gathering ~ many
friends and relatives. llc settled ~
l.awrncchmrg in 1872. but followed his
children 10 Maplcton many years ago.
Altogether there are ten children. vain
forty-Seyon grand. seventy grpa'-grand
and TIN grcat-grcat grandchildren
IAcon elise. OF 81. Joseph city. has
brought suit for $500 against John and
Catherine Pfafscnhach for pulling his
whiskcrs.
Tux Chicago and Indiana Coal Conn
pany is the name Of 4 new corporation
now forming for operating coal mines IN
Clay. Parkc. Nigo. sullivan and other
counties in Indiana and Illinois.
RlILl SHARP. supposed 70 he the old
est veteran in Indiana, was found dead
in his bed the other morning, in La
Porte. He was ninety years Old menu
Der Of Hathaway Post. g. A. H., and
served in Company II, Twcnty-ninili In
diana Volunteers.
CHARLES Drssow, grocery dealer 81
I.aPortc. mystcriously disappeared re-
Gently. Ii is thought he wandered
away during tit Of temporary insanity
LAn~y q. Brck, prominent young
attorney Of Delphi. was shot through
and through by a burglar the other
night. who was going through Mr. Beck >
residence when the attorney discovered
him lie jumped ont Of bed and Crap
plod with the intruder when the burg
lat shot him. the bullet entering the
right breast The burglar escaped. Mr.
Beck. on the Goth. was lying in very
dangerous condition.
Tnn following fourth-cass post
masters were commissioned d few la, )
ago: Ashore. Clay County. Il. q.
d Brien: Ccylon. Adams County, J. l..
Love: Don Juan. Perry County. ;. u.
Pcckinpaugh: Fosters Ridge, Perry
County. J. {. Foster; German Ridge.
Perry County. L. Maier; Siberia. Perry
County, J. bender
TnE wheat throughout Southern In
diana is damaged by the recent freezing
weather from Is to 20 per cent. Wheat
which had a good stand is uninjurcd.
The grcastest loss is upon hilly and
poor lands
ALICE, the two-year-old daughter 81
Edward Alexander. living eight miles
north of Shelbyyille. was fatally burned
by her clothes catching fire from the
stove. Mrs. Dorsey. a neighbor. had her
hands and arms burned while trying 70
extinguish the flames.
TuE school enumeration Of Crawfords-
willie shows that there are a.43l white
children there: OF this number 1.212 are
boys and 1919 are girls. There are also
l53 colored children OF school age. sew
cnty-eight being females and seventy
five males.
SAMUEL. SMITH has filed suit at Co
lumbus against the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. operating the Jefierso n
Vile. Madison & Indianapolis road. for
$4,000 damages for injuries received in
wreck last May.
GRANT SHERMAN was lodged in jail al
LoranSport on a charge OF horsc-steal'
| ing He is member Of gang that has
been operating for long time in the
counties Of Cass, White. Fulton. Miami
and Pulaski.
TuE journeymen coopers. 81 Indian
apolis. on strike against d reduction y
wages. have accepted a compromise q
thirty cents for the SUMNER rate, as4e
returned 70 work
MrNciE man named VIM. Sayrc. ha'
rearpcarcd after a mysterious absence
, Of tbirty-eight years.
FRANCIS NJ PEircnErr. Of Little
Point. Morgan County. has fallen heir
hy the dcnfh 81 an uncle. u 500. 900
Hr~rl SennrvEr.nrxE. a young farmc
near Madison. was drowned while cross
/ ing Plum creek in a boat.
Z Eli SHERMAN. thought 70 bc profes
Y sional cracksman. was arrested at Wa
bash. the other day.
!. CowAEniy White Caps cruelty boa
4 an old soldier with clubs in Ornng
| County.
y IIE~ny PARKER is in tho VandcrhurI
: county Jail for making an exhibition .
sublime nerve. lie borrowed a team D
! Alexander Darling and used the same 4
I haul of several loads Of Darling's corn
q which he sold in Evansville.
/ TnE other night thieves made q raid 81
|. "A. Il. Wildcns store az East Goshen AM
b carried away $500 worth Of goods il
, wagons. They also cracked the safe
u but got nothing. This j. the tenth rol
j berry there with in two weeks and Their
Is no clcw.
q WILLIAM JrsTIS was killed by fall
y ing tree near Muncic
= Mrs. WM. REcTISwAI.p. Of Jefferson
willie. while insane. suicidcd by cuttin;
y her throat and wrists with razor.
n DAVID CHAMBERS was found dead d
y the railroad track near IIarrodshurg.
2 TnE immense starch factories at Mad
70 ison. owned by Messrs. X. johnson 4
con and John Clements & Son. hav
y been sold to the National Starch Manu-
facturcrs' Association. and will be man
n aged by a board OF directors. The "A
Y adjustments will he run as heretofore
The Reeves Pulley Works, recent
y established at Columbus, will be re
q moved 70 kokomo.