The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-11-27
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

railroad. near Albany. . car loeoed
with tank Of petroleum belonging 70
the STANDARD Oil Co. exploded and took
fire. The car IVES run to Muncie. : dis
tance Of twelve milsA without doing
serious damage. only to the one car
which was destroyed IL was . novel
and beautiful sight 70 see . streak
Of IRE tanning across the country II
the rate OF one mile minute.
WILLIAM HALsAtHER. near Hunting
burg. while unloading saw-logs was
caught BY the head between two logs
and fatally crushed
The Indiana normal university, NJ
Evansville. i in hard lines financially.
and several Of the professors have &C
ceptcd positions elsewhere.
SUPPOSED representatives of the
Standard Oil Co have secured options
on hundreds Of acres Of land in Jasper
county. and will prospect for oil
BY order of the board of health the
public schools Of Charlottesville were
closed the other morning till further
notice. on account Of the alarming prev
alence of diphtheria- Within two weeks
Martin Russell and wife. residing north
Of the city. were rendered childles>
Their third child died . few days ago.
and the mother has almost lost her
reason
MRS Gro Frame stepped on a rusty
nail in her kitchen floor. mt Fort
Wayne. r. emily. The other day lock-
jaw resulted. and she died in the even
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eight hours
DANIEL RAREy. Of Howard county.
swallowed aconite. claiming to have
mistaken il for patent medicine. He
narrowly escaped death
HENRY CLEMENS. seventeen-year-old
son of Peter Clemens. was run down
by the Logansport 4 Richmond accom-
mediation the other night. Both Of his
legs were cut off. his back broken and
he was severely injured on the head
He died at o'clock next morning. Tie
was walking along the track toward
home and fell in front of the approach
ing passenger train
The state board Of agriculture has
sold the state fair grounds to Martin
dale. Claypool and Hubbard
Miss RosE GIRTY saved her fathers
books and helped to remove the goods
from his store during fire at Knights
town.
GEo- EDEN. young farmer on the
pike near Lawrenceburg. was kicked
70 death by vicious mule.
The trial of Benz Farley for the
murder Of Alexander Stewart. which
had been in progress At Frankfort for =
week. terminated A. II clock the 9TH
er night The jury returned a verdict
of guilty. and placed punishment q
twenty-one years in the penitentiary.
WHILE County Commissioner Wynn
and Mart Elliott Of Logansport. were
hunting quail. Elliott was shot in the
head and dangerously injured
TIE forest and field fires in Orange
county were extinguished by the recent
rains
FISH in the river at Franklin are be-
ing poisoned BY the refuse from the
starch works
FRANKLIN is very proud of its water
works and electric light system
The Chicago Pip-line Co. will pipe
gas to kokomo from Greentown-
JoHN MILLER and Sarah Young. Of
Rockdale, eloped to Ladoga. and were
married
JoHS 7. WEBB. farmer living near
Orleans was shot from Ambush lie
can not live.
INVENTOR DooLrTTLE of Doolittle
Mills has been adjudged insane. and
will b. sent 20 the asylum.
THE Madison county treasurer has
attached three freight engines and
Harry Crawford's private car in salts
faction Of delinquent taxes due from
the Midland railway.
Isaac STERN, Of Kokomo. suffering
with necrosis At top Of the skull. under
went an operation in which the dis
eased portions Of the bone were Clipped
away with . chisel and mallet
EMERY NOOK. near Bowling Green.
climbed tree to shoot squirrel. using
a revolver. Accidentally the weapon
was discharged and the bullet struck
him in the face, causing . dangerous
injury.
JAMES y. HDNF>ON. son OF AOuuty
Recorder George W. thompson. deceas-
ed. Of Carroll county. has been appoint
ed to the vacancy caused by his father :
death
The Panhandle will probably build
q branch from kokono TO Richmond
The sherman family Of six died Of
typhoid fever. at jackson. Upton
county.
FROM nearly every quarter of the
state comes word that the great drought
Is broken
The Kokomo Electric Street-railway
Co has been granted a franchise to
build street-car line from Marion to
Jonesboro. in Grant county. distance
Of four miles
GERMAN carp weighing eight pounds
have been captured in the river at
Franklin. The fish come 70 the surface
BY hundreds. apparently intoxicated by
the gas escaping from the refuse Of the
starch factory.
WHAT j. known as the ''corn-stall<
disease" is killing live stock in Warren
county
FEA~KoRT will have free mail de
livery January L
LEWIS IloTTkK grocer. Of Columbus.