The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-09-04
INDIANA STATE NEWS

oned n salem through sheer spite
PETER HoLDER 81 Hope. Bartho3'
omew county. wound up = six days
spree by cutting his throat with :
butcher knife. lie can not recover
Mis-. LutIE 6oopHINc, 81 Laportc.
has wonderful growth Of hair. u
measures four feet eleven inches Ia
length. II II very heavy and Of .
beautiful auburn color.
EDWARD CARTER. OF Murtinsville. has
brought suit against the Zig Four rail-
way for sl5. 900. Carter lost foot last
fall while voluntarily helping to switch,
by getting his foot fast in frog lie
was not in the employ ofsthe road be-
ing under age.
An Indianapolis man bought $4,000
worth Of Anderson lots and will build
so houses thereon
SIXTEEN clipping couples were mar
ried in New Albany in one week.
THE value Of real estate in Marion
county under the increased appraise-
ment is sii:. 0o0. 600 against SIS. 00o. 900
last year. The increase on personal
property will be fully as great
| ACCORDING 10 a bulletin issued the
other day by the census bureau. giving
| the assessed valuation Of the property
4 Of the states the total assessed valu-
alton Of Indiana in 1890 was S.ss. So. l.6
IN increase of SIS, O56, 995 for the past
| ten years. The assessed valuation per
capita in 1890 was b. 10 an increase Of
\ $50 per cent of the assessed valuation
Of 1850. while the increase Of population
was 1O.s 81
| CHARLES HAWKINS. who shot and
dangerously >Nounded Don Bruce. city
marshal Of Shclbyville. was taken from
the Jail by a masked mob. the other
night and hanged 10 tree near the
| prison The body was fired full Of
bullets and the crowd dispersed
MARY HARTER, a young girl Of
Franklin. whose family is very poor.
committed suicide in order that the fam
lily expenses might be reduced
A BEAUTIFUL owl Of an unknown
species was captured by ID. r. Enoch.
near Charlottesville. The bird had
back of gold and silver color and a
white breast covered with bright spots
The bird was exhausted when captured
and soon died. but il has been sent TO a
taxidcrmist for mounting
BURGLARS entered the residence of
Duncan Davidson. in Huntington. the
other night and chlorofoTmed the
whole family. The two youngest chill
dren were dangerously i'll from the e.
fects of the drug. Mr.. Davidson's vest.
q gold watch and forty dollars in money
were stole n from under his pillow.
A THEEE-HrxDRED-BAR oil well
was struck in jackson township. Jay
county, the other day. on the Glenden-
ming farm
THE cold rain the other day killed on
the grasshoppers in the northwestern
part Of the state. and no more trouble
Is apprehendcd from them this sea-
SON They have caused considerable
damage in Jay and adjoining coun-
ties
DURING a soldiers reunion at Turkey
lake. the premature discharge Of
cannon in sham battle took on Elijah
Forbes right arm and Adam Shellstall's
thumb. besides otherwise injuring
them The men served together for
three years n the late war in the same
capacity which they assumed at the
time Of the accidsAt
The directors Of the owen County Ag-
ricultural society say that. notwithstand-
ing the unfayorable weather the soci-
ETY. cleared several hundred dollars on
its recent exhibition.
JAMES X. BEvIs. a resident Of Bar-
tholomew county. caught land-turtle
April 10. ls... and cut his initials on the
shell. Sunday. after the lapse OF nine
teen years Mr.. Bevis again caught the
same terrapin- The terrapin had grown
larger, but the initials and date. ~ X.
H.. April TO- ls.s." were plainly visible
DrRIxG the recent heavy rain at
Bloomingfield water tore a hole in the
ground. near the court house. 30 feet
wide. 40 feet long and 20 deep.
BELLE SLACK. aged ten. was thrown
from buggy It Huntington and
fatally injured
HUNTINGTON had a lemon social the
other night and awarded a prize TO a
young lady who made the most and
ugliest faces while eating lemon.
EDWARD PEED. near New Castle, was
thrown against barbed-wire fence in
a runaway accident. tearing of one ear
and badly injuring him about the head.
GREAT preparations are being made
for the labor day parade at New Al
banv.
FARMER KRTTHfTSE. near LaPorte.
while beating farm hand. was scrI-
cusly stabbed near the heart by the lat
ter
EDwARD McMAHox. q twclvc-vear- 4
old boy. is in Jail At Huntington for
box-car loaded with hot
tied beer.
The second annual meeting Of the
old settlers Of Morgan county will Be
held in Forest Grove Park, near Mar |
September =
A BOTTLE OF ale exploded az the bot
ling works at New Albanv and broke
the bottle, one Of tho fragments cut
ling the cyeball Of James FINER in
two.
LEWIS DAVIS. aged IS. accidentally
shot himself in the abdomen NJ LaFay-
lite. with shotgun. and died in few
minutes
DAVID Mills. near Spencer. is the
|ather of three sons. each OF whom has |