The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-08
INDIANA STATE NEWS

was drowned in the mill race by gong
beyond his depth. The body has been
recovered.
Ar Reefsburg some enemy saturated
Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Isenhoff's bed with
chloroform. but this state Of affairs was
discovered just in time.
CALVIN 5. PETERS was gore6 to death
by bull on the farm Of his uncle near
Elkhart, where young Peters was visit
ing
The post office at Penobscot. Mont
gomery county, will be discontinued
after July Is.
The body of an unknown priest was
found in St Joseph river. at Goshen;
elc0 was found in the unknown's
clothes.
CHARLES l. METToNAy. a farmer Siv-
ing near Winamac. went ont early the
other morning to bring in forty head OF
cattle. In attempting to take short
cut across the quicksand beds of the
Pick Mink marshes the cattle we're
buried out Of sight in twenty feet of
quicksand.
TnE ladies Of Ossian have begun
crusade against the saloons
WHILE number of young women
were picnicking on sugar creek. near
Franklin. Miss Nellie Waggener and
May Gcrby took off their shoes and
stockings and went wading in the
creek hen suddenly they stepped into
a deep hole and sank. Upon coming to
the surface the struggle for life began.
10th girls had sank for the second
time when n limb was thrown them.
Miss Gorby grasped il and was drawn
20 the shore in an unconscious condi.
tion. while Miss Waggener went down
for the third time.
Ar Bluffton. John SHERRY. who got
twelve years for wife murder. threatens
suicide. and will be closely watched.
Ar indianapolis Anna Wagner. the
alleged poisoner of the koester family.
has been released from prison on s25.-
/. 900 bail.
! Mrs ROLAND KYLE, of Crawfords-
Vile. bride. quarreled with her hus-
band. took a dimes worth of morphine
and can not recover
Su.As OWEN was taken to Bra: il f,r
shooting a man named Biggs in the
neck. 1t was coyvardly act Riggs
( has since died. and Owens was placed
in the murderers' cell TO await the ac-
tion of the grand jury. Great excite
ment prevails in CLAW City. and threats
of lynching are indulged in Biggs was
much liked, while Owens had but few
friends
AT New Palestine David Hawks nine
year-old son was terribly injured about
the face by the explosion of full
minating cap with which he was play
ing.
ForRTH-cLAss postmasters appointed
in Indiana: Thomas Blakemore Hazel
rig, Boone county. vice George W. hes
selring. resigned; C. :. Tingle, Horton
vile. Hamilton county. vice Isaac
Jones. resigned: Louis Cary. Metz. Steu-
ben county. vice John Williams, re-
signed
The case involving the constitutions
atty of the fee and salary law was APP
pealed to the supreme court the other
day. In the assignment of errors the
attorney general says that the court
below erred in overruling the demurrer
to the realtors petition. and in overrul-
ing the demurrer TO the alternative
writ 20 which action Of the court the
appellant excepted at the time.
WM- RAS-DEIL. a clerk in Beck's
grocery store. Lebanon. was bitten ON
the hand by tarantula while handling
bananas Immediately after being bit.
ten he was placed under the influence
of liquor. He is in a serious condition,
but will probably recover. Two hours
after Ransdell was bitten "A nest of the
tarantulas was found in the bunch OF
bananas. and near two hundred young
ones were killed.
JoHS COSTELLO. % years old. who had
his right hand mashed while coupling
cars at Mancie several days age. dice
few days later Of lockjaw at the home
of his brother in Noblesville. lie wal
married and lived at indianapolis
FIRE at Mt summit destroyed Ice 4
Co.'S handle factory. Loss, 100000
small insurance.
THE following post Offices have beer
established in Indiana: Corning. Da
viess county. John Wbitesides postmas
ter; Dennison. Fayette county. Il. JEFF
ferson Rauck postmaster: Saint Ann
Jennings county, Peter Singer post
master.
TIE Anderson Iron and Bolt works
one of the largest manufa curing insti
tutions Of Anderson. passed into thu
hands of receiver the other afternoon
IT is now almost an assured fact tina
the Raub Locomotive works will h
erected at Muncic.
BARTON GALLOWAY. colored. an ex
convict. who shot another colorcd maj
in a crowd in a republican rally a
Terre Haute in lsss and instantly killc'
Dollie White. narrowly escaped lynch
ing at the time. was instantly killed
few days ago by handling live cleo
trio wire at the rolling mill where h
was employed.
WILLIAM KLINE. night engineer a
Brightwood shops. Indianapolis wa
fatally beaten with hatchet in hi
home by an unknown person durin
the absence of his wife and children
A neighbor with whom he had quar-
relied is suspected
Jas. TOWNSEND. an old soldier an