The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-12-23
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Gen e>pcnuc AZ ""s'i'
II q proay was sworn in rs treas
nr,r az Lawrence county. His brother'
.Jobn y. buggy. was elected for inns
office. hut from continued poor health
was unable To perform the duties
Hence the commissioners declared the
Office vacant. and i. .. buggy was
chosen 10 I'LL the place.
Mrs. JAMES NrrB. aged eighty years.
sunroscd To be dcrangcd. cut her throa'
a. huntington the other day. and is !
not expected TO recover.
WORK on the new prison a at 'e',
fcrsonvillc has rccn suspended. Apout
! rsa feet has been constructed. togcth-
~ with three towers. Six hundred and
forty-thrce feet has bced finished to the
height of seventeen und one-naii ieee
and housed in for the winter. There
, remains To he constructed DOB ieet OF
wall and tive towers. The entire
wall when completed will measure 2'a.s
| feet.
JOIN Bum killed n large American
eagle on his farm. twelve miles from
Jasper. The bird was killed on what Is
! known as the Gray island, n track OF
two hundred acres in White river ihe
eagle measured eight feet and ten inches
from tip TO tip. County Clerk Echcrt
will have the eagle properly prepared
and mounted.
Tnr charitable ladies OF Valparaiso
have arranged 10 give the needy chi
dren Of the city "A good dinner each day
during the winter.
WIN. JOKES. colored. charged with
robbing a clearinghouse at Hrazii. was
captured at Terre Haute and taken TO
Brazil for trial.
THE Vandalia depot at Stanton was
robbed the other night.
Mrs. LAWRENCE PIERCE. Of Wanatan,
has. come into the possession OF Il fami-
IL bible which has been in her family
for a century. 1t Is a translation oy
Rev. John Brown, minister of the Cos
|, pei at Haddington. and was printed py
!. Hodge < Campbell in New York ~
: l.9s. 1t is bound in leather and Wen
preserved. l; differs materially from
= the revision. and the spelling shows
the reforms in that direction during
I, the past century. The family record
=. contained in Il goes back into the SIX
teenth century.
TRAMrs held up James Thomas ano
William Hunter at Goshen. and relieved
them of a gold watch and s2i.
81 PETROLEUM has been discovered in th'
5 West Bedford Co.'S ground
5 M%rMBRAxors croup is raging in War
y wick county.
y r. r. WHITEnEAD aged %. died g
the county Jail in Marion. II is sup
:. posed he suicided.
ALBERT PIERCE. aged .. was hit in tn
head with a stone by some unknow'
| person and his skull fractured.
IS EpA SMITH. n tivc-year-old child. me
d n horrible death at Anderson, the othe
10 night. She and her father were IN
buggy driving from North Anderson
il on the street car line. when they met
If car. The motorman rang his gong. bu
Smith raid no attention TO IL until tn
A. car was too close for them to get out {
the way. The car struck the bugg,
n the girl was caught under the h
ut and badly crushed. Smith was throw
10 one side and only slightly injured.
Mrs. AMELIA POWELL wife of lienr
81 l.. Powell. of New Castle. was four
In dead in the works race the oth'
morning AZ 6.sJ o'clock. She had bee
i'll on account Of overwork nursing h
aged parents, and had come to Logan
ut port for rest. Some time in the mig
D.. She escaped from Il home of her siste
ng Mrs. A. K. Shroycr, with the above 7
MS suit.
Oh Atn|pr ~ nor MI
lishcd in Chicago. and nearly o
re- thousand copies of which have been c
no cula.ed in Elkhart weekly. was CO
fiscated the other day. Agent Geor
'"- Carroll and n half dozen boys who c
cs- culated il for him We're arrested a
nj Carroll was heavily fined. The par
rs, can not be sold there any longer rs I
rs authorities have taken charge of I
~ matter.
THE road congress at its session
80 INDIANAPOLIS. adopted resolutions ca
inr upon the legislature to enact la
looking toward better roads in
an state: recommending that the pres'
on system of district supervisors be alb
ishcd. and the county board 81 CONN
sioners appoint n county snpcrin'e'
ent OF highways. VINO SHALL DC exon
~ chairman Of the board of county sup
visors Of highv ays: that the board
- commissioners shall appoint in e;
township one township supervisor
ing highways. For the purpose of Great
'"e q road fund they recommend a tax-l'
oer' upon real estate and personal proper
an and that county trcasurers should hi
'rcn the custody Of such road funds: Z
.hu that IL shall be unlawful u haul
'as' loaded wagon over any public highv
in the state unless said wagon be I
ny vided with tires not less than III
AGA inches wide. after January l.. 1895.
w THE grand jury has indicted Ex-N
w." shall l.. H. Moore. of Mitchell. for
IN murder of W. II. Tow.
BERT CAMPBELL, aged IL. living
IL, vecdcrsburg, while playing with q
~ tol, cent a bullet through his head.
+, FREDERICK BAyMGAErNrR died
Mn. other morning at Laportc. aged eigl
Il, three years.
ra~- TnE temperance people OF Peru "
all the saloon screens removed