The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-07-25

hany and Chicago road cciIided on a
heavy grade. near Smithviiie. . -"
DAYS AGO, and a bad wreck resu'''n.
Twelve people were injured se''ra' -
them fatally.
TnE fourth annual cncampment ~ wy
Division Of Indiana Of the sons ~ N'''
crans met In Evans Hall, ENansN'i''
fhe other morning with over 400 a'i'-
gates present Colonel Geo A. HARVEY
Of panyillc. Colonel OF the Indiana ~
vision. presided, and Mayor Hoodl''s
made an address 81 welcome. and was
followed BY General J. ID. Ninfr'y' VINO
greeted the visitors In the name oi ih'
order. The evening exercises included
a grand campfire. in which 1000 persons
took part.
JAcon J. KERN. Of IT. Wayne, was
appointed county clerk 10 MI The un'
expired term Of the late George ".
Lcag.
ADAM SrAnI- single, 20 years 3D. was
found dead in his bed at kokomo. cause;
cerebral hcmorrhage.
Thomas ]. GRAVES. at one time re-
cordcr Of Warren County. committed
suicide by hanging, AT Villiamsp"r''
Domestic trouble is supposed To be the
cause.
Tnn c~ight-ycar-old son Of Marvin
Reynolds. a farmer living near North
Vernon. ran in front Of a m~owing-ma-
chine. and had both Of has feet cut on.
TmE census cnumcrators Of Crawfords-
willie have sent in nincty-fiye additional
namesof persons who were missed. This
makes the city have d.oso people, ac-
cording to the cnumcrators. This docs
not include the seven suburbs.
Mis-. ZrmrpA NIXON, OF Elizabeth
town. was arrested the other night on
charge Of selling intoxicating liquors
without license. She was taken 10 Cor
lumbus and gave bonds. She j. the wife
OF a druggist. and her arrest was instr
gated by . rival druggist
WM. T.. HAGcAEp. Of Tippccanoe
County. was nominated for Joint Rep
rcsentatiye for the district composed Of
Clinton ard Tippccanoc Counties, Car
rick. the Representative for h two
last terms, Withdrawing.
SHERIFF CHArTEN has returned 10
Elkhart, with two men. named Snyder
and Hokc, who stole a horse. buggy and
harness from a farmer named VIM. Cor
man. in that vicinity. They were caught
at Wauseon, q.
JrsSIE MAErIS. OF Elkhart. has
brought suit against John Mammon. Of
the same place. for breach Of promise,
claiming $1,000.
a HORSE f~orty-onc years old has just
died at Jacksonville.
POPULATION OF indianapolis and 5
burbs. practically q part Of the city,l27.-
0oc.
AcEowp OF 5000 persons witnessed
the baptism Of f%ifty-seyen converts at
Huntington. the other sunday. by Rev.
NJ. swardner, OF the Methodist Episco-
pal Church.
TnE Cambridge City council has just
completed q contract and o~rdinancy for
an electric light plant. The city is tc
be lighted BY arc lights.
CHARLESTON Is suffering from a plague
OF horse-fies. Several animals rave
died from the effects Of bites BY the in
sccts.
TIE body Of James Custer, the miss
ing Lagrange County farmer. has been
found in a lake near his home.
CES~rs SUPERVISOR SCALE, OF Torre
Haute, makes the following estimate of
the population Of the smaller towns Of
his district. The population OF each in
1850 Is also given. Charlottesville. 5.9s5,
nr.fnSt : ast - tSEn. E.o.lf~- a-n
against ? SOB; Rockville loo. against
1905; Newport 600, against 459; spencer
1000. against 1.CG5: Brazil Q 1000. against
3.ili; Bloomington 400, against 3,4CO;
Danyillc 1000. against 1.59s.
". u. GILMAN. a South Bend travelling
man, vents swimming at Charlottesville,
asi laid his cigar that he was smoking
gn his clothes upon the bank. When
ne was through his swim lie found that
his clothes had taken fire and burned
IN. lie borrowed undcrclothcs from
other bathcrs and remained in tho
woods until after dark, wncn he was
spirited to town.
AT Huntington George r. Andrews.
charged with burning tho stock barn
and t~hirty-dve polled angus cattle be-
longing 70 Colonel &. l.. Briant. was
found guilty in the circuit court and
sentenced 70 nine years in the pcnitcn.
tiary.
NEwToS ToNLIx. one Of the heirs 10
the Nalhen estate. over which the IA
mons legal fight occurred. is in danger
OF dying at Jacksonville, from a pccu-
liar cause While on a farm near by
where a threshing machine was in oper-
alton he swallowed a wheat BEARD
which lodged in his throat He can
swallow no food and on the 18th was sur
fering great pain, despite the efforts OF
physicians to save his life.
The Salvation Army at Charlottesville
has shut down and the sound OF the
drum Is heard no more. The captain
got married and moved away, and the
army has disbanded.
W.. r. PIERCE, Ninth Indiana Dis
trict, has been appointed a cadet to tho
Y. =. Military Academy at West Point.
JoHS McCoHMicK. q farmer living sew
en- miles from III. Wayne, on tho Lees
burg road. fell from a wagon while load
ing hay AMI was caught on the prongs OF
an upturned hayfork. The points pcnc-
trated his abdominal cavity and tore a
friphfful Oach aw~r;.- II. ,