The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-04-15
INDIANA STATE NEWS

| Spotted fever has made il appear
ance NJ Scottsburg.
MRs. JENNIE pErERs shot her niece.
Sallie Wilson. in the neck. presumably
BY accident. in Brown county.
| Tux Indiana polls superior court de-
clared that persons who are employed
by the week can not recover extra
money for working more than eight
hours a day.
LIGHTNING struck the residence of
Jacob Foster in the country near Mitch
ell the other evening. sitting fire 20 the
building. which was consumed with all
the contents The family barely
escaped with their lives.
Tmx spring meeting of the Bedford
| trotting association will he held frsm
June IA TO II inclusive Itoffers =. 100 in
premiums This promises "a BE- the
biggest thing Of the kind Bedford has
/ ever seen
| WV. STICKS. Of Lebanon. was mar
ried. jailed and sued for divorce all IN
| twenty-four hours
| THERE will he no more fake boxing
matches AT indianapolis
| A. A. GRAHAM. a Liberty school
teacher. was fined one cent for whip
| ping a scholar.
| 4 rowN 70 lie known rs Ashley -
| 10 be built one and onc-half miles cast
Of Hudson. by the Wabash railroad
| GEORGE EvERRoADs. Of Hope quar-
| relied with his wife and then shot him
self twice lie may recover.
The Common Sense Engine Co. Of
Springfield. o.. capital stock 100000.
has located in Muncic-
LIGHTNING struck the residence If
Hiram Trneblood. al Paoli and every
thing was consumed. The family mar
rowly escaped. Loss 500; NO insnr-
ance.
The following fourth-class postmas-
tiers were commissioned a few days ago:
W. u. Warfeld. Pulaski. relaski county;
j.. +. Leonard. South Bethany. Barfhol-
omew county.
The odd sight Of person beyond the
sixticth year going Ia school may he
witnessed at English. where Mrs. WV.
Rundcll attends the normal with the
intention Of preparing herself for better
work in the school-room- Mrs r. teaches
Juvenile class in the forenoon at her
residence and attends the normal in the
afternoon.
Jos Bonn. engineer of the fow-boas
Diamond was caught in the machinery
at Evansville and had his back broken
EARNEST DUNCAN was accidentally
shot by his brother in the Daily Times
office at Brazil
RESIDENTS along Goose creek. Morgan
county. have discovered cave stored
with tools and bed clothing II is be-
lieved to have been the resort Of horse
thieves.
Mrs. NANCY CLARK. whose husband
was the first sheriff Of Crawford conn
ty- celebrated her onc-hundredth birth
day the other day. at Leavenworth.
The other evening. John Steiner and
Albert Amonn left Geneva for home
They had 70 cross the Wabash river At
the >tudebakcr bridge. about two miles
north Of Geneva. and on the other side
the levee was - low that the river.
swollen by the recent heavy rains. WIS
flowing over the road about six feet
deep. Amonn saw that they had to
swim for il. ~ jumped and made for =
tree. and just a. he jumped the wagon
bed. being partly relieved raised and
swan down stream with Steiner in IL
The last Ainonn saw Of il was just a.
he commenced climbing the tree. the
bed being then nearly submerged in the
water II j. thought that Steiner was
50 intoxicated that he did not realize
his danger
FARMER JAMES rEEHr's barn near
Columbus. was struck BY lightning and
was burned together with three head
Of mules ten tons Of hay. two harvest
ing machines and thousand husaels 81
grain. Loss 5000: no insurance.
-IosErH HARDEE. a wcli-known resi-
dent Of Montgomery county. died the
other evening from cancer. lie was
cighty-onc years old. and had resided
in Charlottesville many years
DAVID SUTHERLAND. IL Seymour. is
said u he cutting his third Set Of teeth.
He Is seventy-four years old
NoEiEsvIr.rE had baby show
HAMMOND wants street railroad.
SEYNcrEs incandcscent light plant j.
in operation.
The Charlottesville postmaster has
been allowed $500 additional for clerk
hire.
NoEK on the great bridge between
Jacksonville and Louisville Will b. ~
summed in TWO weeks
AMOS BARTHOLOMEW was killed and
his daughter fatally injured b. a falling
tree. az Clarlx's Hill
WILLIAM SrcK~. 81 Thorntown. Il ar
rested at Lebanon. for ahiucting iC-
year-old Luella Holmes whom he mar
ried. >icl<s i q widower with three
children.
AT Jcffcrsonvillc. Mrx. Eliza Ma
theney. Whose age numbers three score
years and twelve. and Zen y. sloan.
over whose head has passed three sore
summers were granted license 20
marry
NHr.E attempting 70 secure some val
liable papers from his burning M sidcncr.
Judge r. D. Bush was fatally burned Al
Evansville.
SAMUEL. = &. IRWIN. an cx-WeSt
Pointer. died AZ Charlottesville from the