The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-03-06
INDIANA STATE NEWS.


height. fell in and was drowned.
| Dawn IIoLr. Oscar scope and VIM.
| B,euning were sentenced % two years
IN the rcnitcntiary for larceny. ana
| Wm Yard received the same sentence
for cutting with intent "a kill. Al Peru
4 TnF freshman class NJ Wabash cot
| icgr banqucttcd the other night with
out their president. Y. Howard Taylor.
Of Philadelphia. lie was captured
early in the evening by party Of Soph-
mores and was spirited out into the
country four miles lie got back NJ
three o'clock in the morning, too late
for the banquet
SAMUEL MckinBE>, wealthy farm
er ~ New Paris. was killed BY "A Gin
cinnati, Wabash and Michigan train AZ
Warsaw.
TnK primary grades Of the public
schools Of Danville have hccn closed on
account Of an epidemic 81 diphthcria
that Is prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent.
MIS-. MARIA NICHOLSON an aged lady
living in Myers addition 20 London. At
tempted suicide BY jumping into an
open cistern. The family residing ~
the same house heard the dash of water
and upon examining found the lady IN
water up to her ears. and rescued her
in time to save her life.
ALBERT NrDpEi- Of Crum>town. 81
Joseph county. was probably fatally
shot at dance al North Liberty
Frank Elder was arrested for doing the
shooting
| SAMUEL WILSON. alias I.angly. has
been sentenced 10 the pcnitentiary Tor
four years for grand larceny from Win
chester. lie has done time in the OHIO
penitentiary.
JACOB WILLIAMS. the Washington
county giant. is but twenty two years
old. and stanaS seven feet six inches in
his boots.
THE Peoples theater. Evansville
burned the other morning. The fire
| broke out AZ $50. The building i COM
pletcly Quilted. The journal Office adj
| joining was badly damaged. The type
was lost and the machinery injured. l.
Fritsch's tailoring establishment all.
succumbed 10 the flames Loss i esti
mated al $4,000: origin Of fire is IN
known.
CHARLES HANNo>p. Of Campbell
, township. near bonneville. committee
suicide by shooting himself in the head
with revolver. lie was twenty-o
years old and single.
. HypRornoEIA il raging in Brandy
wine township. shelby County. Sever
al farmers have lost hogs and cattle
which were bitten by mad dog. JOIN
!. Reinhart lost two fine horses from tn
bites Of the dogs Many stock are be
: ing killed to prevent the spread Of tn
disease.
.JonN Potter at the trial al Mad
, son. was acquitted Of completely in III
murder Of Orril Selig. VIM. Stewart
/, who escaped. is still at large.
! TnK amount collected and to b. r.
!, funded to Indiana by the direct tax bill
is Sscg.l44
MRs. REREccA MILLER. one Of the firs
I. white women that settled in the va
Z bash valley. died 1t Peru. few day
4 ago. aged o.
Y THE furnace at the Locust-stres
church. Greencastle. was flooded wit
water from the recent heavy rains m
! | the LNS Iti> IlIA W ~ attAtE<A *%"t 80
: sunday for the supply u heat 10 II
= congregation.
y IN the woods. near the falls Of II
n Ohio. are thousands 81 robins on the.
way north. As the birds arrive at II
roosts they are 50 weakened by the
long fights from the south that they ca
be knocked down with sticks.
Z, .onx PHILLIPS. Of Clay townshi
= Morgan county. has wooden clos
= that has kept time accurately for -
!. = enty-two years. The clock i If Il
y. wall-swecp pattern. being seven f.
N high.
4 A COMPANY. headed by d. J. Macke
VI will develop the cannel-coal fields
n Daviess and Martin counties
I" REPRESENTATIVE BRowS. Of Indian
" submitted favorable report on the D
=, to pay 10 j. a q. r. Cobb. Of Auroi
= = s5.44i for barges destroyed by &c
- Boyle on the Ohio river in 1868.
q, LIvERyNAS NJ. l.. DAVIS goes frs
~ Upton 10 take his slice Of an Engli
Z" fortune Of 500. 900.
- - Ar Huntington Wm. Haley and 10
Stewart were sentenced to one "
~ each in the pcnitcntiarv for stealing
NJ buggy robe
NELSON PYLE. a farmer near New
bary. died Of hydrophobia. Ic v
\" bitten by a rabid dog December .. y
~ THE sexton Of Montmorenci ccmete
vi near Lafayette dropped dead while q
-. girg a grave.
i. II regard 10 the effort being made
IA, Union City. to have the Ohio Legs
y, tire authorize a new survey Of the !
y, between Indiana and Ohio claim
III that the lin. should be from one to eli!
miles west ~ the old recognized Ii
..s / Hon. John VI. Smith. an attorney
Il, Portland. claims that the matter '
=" settled in the United States coul
Fourth Towards T.. :. Reports. Il
dispute between Massachusetts ;
~, Rhode Island. They decided that vi
r." the line between the two States
wrong. Il had been ncquicsced In
~" years. and the case WAS dismissed.
.'' new line. a. proposed. s....a max
'c'' change in Indiana in favcr 81 the
Z" publicans Of over five thousand vote
'"N ABRAHAM NEAL. John Potter