The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-02


together for the first time. There wer.
four generations present the family
consisting Of the mother, twelve chill
drcn' thirty-two grandchildren and ter
great.grnndchildrcn the eldest presen,
being In her nineticth year. and the
youngest in her fourteenth. The las,
previous meeting was ~ the funeral OF
Mr. kirkwood. In 1850.
GnEESs KERRY WARD. the next Oldest
man in Parke county. died the other
day. lie was born September l, 1900.
and came from Rqclsbridge county.
Virginia
THREE miles cast OF Montpelier, c 4yde
smith, twelve-year-old boy. shot Jas.
smith. five ycar-old-boy. through the
thigh They were shooting birds. when
the older boy told the smaller boy that
he woald shoot him. lie told him to shoot
when he took him at his word and shot
him. Az soon as the shooting was done
the boy ran away. and nothing has been
heard Of him since.
The farmers Of Daviess county are ia
great state Of excitement a. this time
because Of the arrest Of VIM. Dant. a
worthless character, charged with the
burning of DR. r. d. Mills barn four
weeks ago 1t has been clearly proved
that band Of barn-burners are oper-
ating in the county, for over twenty
i've harms have been destroyed in two
years. and every effort to capture the
desperate sconndrels has been fruitless
W. II. HosTErTER, Of jamestown.
possesses a sword and well-preserved
coat worn by Maj. John byrd when he
was killed at the battle 1T Kings mount
Ain, South Carolina October q. 1850
The coat was made. Of blue cloth and
enblazoned with blue trimmings, and
Is OF the long-tail. claw-hammer VA
riety. II Is highly priced heir
loom. Maj Byrd was q soldier under
Greene
A GRAIN elevator three stories high at
ldaville collapsed scattering 5. 600 bash
els OF whent upon the ground The
noise caused BY the falling building was
heard for miles Damage is estimated
at S.. 0OO
MFLvIS NUDGE. Of Winamac. was
sent to prison for three years for horse
stealing
THE Fifth Indiana Cavalry associa- !
ton will hold its ninth annual reunion
II Franklin, October IA and Is
CHARLES HowARD the confessed
vould-be train-wreckcr. was sentenced. |
II Crown Point to ten years in the PEN
tentiary for attempting to wreck q
rain on the Fort Wayne & Chicago
the oflav v,;uh<
a COMMON drunk confined in the jail |
Il Haughville few days ago set fire TO |
he building and narrowly escaped suf-
ocation. He gave as reason that the
mosquitoes were so thick he could not |
,reathe
The e-year-old boy of John Wal
ers. farmer living near Gilead. Mi
lmi county. set fire TO his fathers barn
md persisted in the flames. The little
elbow was playing with matches The
financial loss will foot up $4,000 No
insurance
New ALBANY il contemplating the
rection OF . soldiers monument in the
rar'<et place.
THERE Is o project on foot to estab-
ish 2 Dnnkard college at Ladoga,
county.
CHAs. MULLEN, in fail at Madison for
tealing 500. and who tried to liberate
leven prise after assaulting jailer
pivey. was given two years in the
enitcntiary.
LEWIS YORK, said to be an insane An
rchist attempted to commit wholesale
murder at Logansport few DAYS ago.
everal young women were visiting at
'orl :, and in the afternoon two gem
lemen called York went into the eel
n and ignited fuse attached TO a Jug
{ dynamite A terrific explosion fol-
'wed. which broke the window glass.
pre- of boards and demolished the
oor. Fortunately the greater force
'as spent downward and the lives OF
hose above were saved. 1t Is said that ,
ork will be placed in confinement
NATURAL gas rates At Richmond have
one up
ENGLISH has an Old Maids and Old !
club. Ia
Az epidemic Of typhoid fever is re-
ortcd from Morgan county. f
AT Anderson the other n light the larc-
i gas we'll yet developed in the In
lana gas belt, was drilled in by the 4
lexandria Improvement Co A test
lows the capacity Of the well to be q
'er twenty million feet per day. The a
svclopment OF this monster" il quite 4
'ntrary 10 the theory recently given 4
At by an indianapolis paper that gas
as failing in that territory. '
COMRADES OF wagncr's old brigade =
fifteenth, Fortieth and Fifty-scventh Il
diana Twenty sixth and Ninety \
venth Ohio. Twenty.fourth and j
wenty.cighth Kentucky. One-hun- r.
edith Illinois and Tenth Indiana bat
nv. will hold their first reunion since =
4 war at lie banon. October and q {,
REV r. =. MARTIN. Of Valparaiso. a
. fallen heir 70 great fortune in
agland I,
THE Leitzman Sorghum Mannsactur. e
Go. has put in operation at Moorcs- u
lie. Morgan county. the largest plant v
the world The plant has q daily =
racity Of one thousand gallons Of VI
'lasses- There are one thousand
res OF growing cane in that vicinity. OF
Itch will yield from six 70 sixteen tr