The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-08-14

Kennedy brown. ~ Beddington.
SAN LoFrrs. of I.awrencehnrg, had
: fight with muskrats and they got the
best ~ him.
TnE ditch being made 70 drain t'n-
iasli. White aud Jasper counties y 70
lie IS miles long. and will drain loo'ooV
acres Of land
BAyIIs EpMrSps. Of near Leaven'
worth. lost his speech twelve years
ago. and he rcgaincd Il few days ag"
by being frightened on the discovery
that his barn was burning.
A COMMITTEE Of Pendleton citizens
are negotiating with Dr. Gattling % Sc
cure the location 81 his gun factories ~
that place.
TnE first fatal accident on the new
$500. 900 courthouse at Richmond oe-
Cured the other morning. John taines'
q colored hod-carrier. was on runway.
three or four feet wide. near the top of
the second story. when his barrow ran
against the wall. throwing him on ms
equilibrium. and he fell of. between
the wide-apart iron joist 70 the base
ment. thirty-cight feet below. 4 scalp
wound and an abrasion over the left
eye told that he lighted on his head.
His neck was broken. yet he lived forty
minutes.
SOUTHERN Indiana Is great fruit
center. the output 50 far this season be-
ing the heaviest ever known.
j. r. SELF has been reelected super
intendcnt Of the Decatur county poor
farm by the commissioners
CRAzY-rATcn socials have become
alarmingly popular in Jeffersonviiie
No one can say exactly what the new
fad Is. but everybody admits having
'Oh. the loveliest time
A REGULAR Kansas grasshopper was
found at Charlottesville few days ago
II is three inches long. and Is probably
the advance guard Of an army Of invad-
ers
MISS BESSIE PARRY. of Muncie. has
received a small box Of choice wedding
cake. sent her from Wales. II was a
bridal cake, made by cousin that was
married nearly two weeks before. The
| treat was forwarded in tin-plate box
and was in good condition
WILLIAM RAPE. aged "a years. drop
49,, a..d =, "a hon. a. linton. the
other dav ~ heart failure He was one
Of the pioneers. having been resident
| Of that county forty years.
| The annual reunion Of the One-hun-
! dred-and- fifteenth. One-hundred-and-
| sixteenth. One nd-seventeenth
| and Observation-Disclosures In
| diana regiments-the ''Persimmon Bri-
| gade" together with Wilders brigade.
| and the Fourteenth and Ninety-seventh
| Indiana regiments, will be held at
| worthington on the 2cth. 27th and 18th
days of August. The day set apart spe-
| cially for the reunion and campfire is
| August -.
| Two empty mail pouches slit open
were found in sewer at TT Wayne
| JONI WAGNER was fatally scalded IN
| the Cerealine mill at Columbus
| A MOUSE frightened Minnie Flora ii
! Mauckport and she lost her speech
1 Arrrx STANLEY. aged sixtv-fiye a
1 0rass- widower. residing at 265 South
| Brown street. Anderson, suicided tho
i other night BY hanging. Mr.. Stanley
\ has been q cripple for twenty-five years
and constant brooding over his condi
I ton is the cause Of the tragedy.
4 MAIN street in south Bend will b<
paved with brick.
DR. GATIiSG is looking for an Indians
location for his gun factory.
rrxr mamie tree. through which
passes the powerful ire used for conduct
ing the current that operates the High
land railway, at New Albany. has be
come thoroughly charged with electric
ity. on account Of defective insulation
and has become fairly powerful pat
terry, capable OF giving q plainly per
ceptible shock Ine current mas peeI
sufficiently strong 20 XIII tne Tree whici
Is about thirty-hve feet high ana te'
inches in diameter.
LorIs NAPLES. brakeman on TIL
Nicklc Plate road, was instantly killc'
at Green Springs the other night b,
falling between the cars. He was TIL
son Of Louis Naples, the founder Of tn
town where he lives.
While Gus Fledcrman was feeding
thrcshing machine. four miles south D
; Metamora. his hand caught in the cyl
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