The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-11-10
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

HENRY DuMMERFnuIr, u farmer, 20
years old, was found unconscious in a
ravine near L.aughery creek. let Law
rcnceburg. five miles from his home,
the other day. with terrible wounds
inflicted by himself. lie had had do
nestle trouble. and, going to the woods.
climbed a tree, tied "a rope to a limb
and the other end To a tree. lie then
jumped off. The rope broke, but
choked him. The fall also broke his
leg and badly bruised his head and
face. lie regained consciousness in
several hours, and then cut both wrists
horribly with a pocket-knife. quench.
ing his terrible thirst with the flowing
blood. Then with a pointed stick he
stabbed himself in the abdomen repeat
eddy. tearing his entrails. lie became
unconscious again, and had lain in the
ravine two days and nights when
found. lie was taken home and can
not live.
THE following fourth-class postmas-
tiers were commissioned a few days
ago: A. c. Crago, Carmel, Hamilton
county, vice j. w. Mutt, removed; 5
+. Colvert, Plum Tree, Huntington
county, vice w. II. Eckam. resigned.
on. has been found near Gas City,
and a test well is to be sunk at once.
WIN. DucKwoRTH, an old soldier Of
Seymour. has boon notified that his
pension will be discontinued.
BRENT DERr, of Wabash county,
pleaded guilty to outraging a ten-year-
old girl and received u two-year sem
tence.
THoMPsoN's green glass bottle fac
tory, at Gas City, has gone into opera
ton, giving employment to a large
force of men. Five shops are being
operated. and the number will be in
creased before long.
HARRY o. DYE. of indianapolis, COM
mitted suicide by taking morphine. He
had been discharged from his position
as gateman at the Union station. He
leaves n wife.
A VALUABLE mare was stolen the
other night from John Campbell, OF
Delaware county.
GEoRGo w. POWELL. head of the real
estate firm of Powell & Frather, was
the other day appointed chief of police
of indianapolis. He has had no police
experience, and he hcsitated a good
while before accepting. lest it might
ruin his social standing.
JUDGE FMEpLEy. in the circuit court,
al Madison, has granted the prayer of
the citizens temporarily restraining
the council from purchasing the Game
well fire alarm system at . 5000, owing
to large municipal indie btedness
j. c. BRowN, who killed Attorney
Wesner in a sensational manner in
court at Danville, last May. has been
acquitted of the charge of murder.
A BULL and a stallion fought in n
field near Lebanon, both being fatally
injured and had to be killed.
AT Muncie the wife of james Parker
slipped up behind him as he sat in a
chair and fractured his skull with a
club.
The large pulp plant Of the Indiana
Paper Co.. South Bend. was destroyed
by fire. the other night. Loss, $50. 900;
insurance. $1,000. The fire was prob
ably incendiary. The plant will hardly
be rebuilt.
u HhftiiSnt VIC y
of Cook 4 Snyder, Of st. Louis Cross
ing, near Columbus, was entered and
the building fired. Before the flames
were discovered the entire building
was enveloped. causing a total loss of
s4.0 600.
THE finding Of gold in Morgan and
Brown counties is no longer a myth.
Winfield $. Richards was in Martins
Vile, the other day, exhibiting gold
valued at S45 that he washed out Of
Sycamore creek. Morgan county. in two
days. He had a two-ounce bottle filed
with the glittcring treasure. besides
some fine specimens of shot gold.
AT Richmond Henry w. Greive was
killed by a falling bank Of earth. Sew
cral Of the men with hin barely es-
capped and Greivc was completely
buried under five feet of fine sand and
gravel.
ONE hour after swallowing thirty
grains of morphine Linscy Sinkhorn. Of
Salem, was a dead man. He had been
on a protractcd spree. which was doubt
less the exciting cause. The victim was
60 years of age, and leaves two sons and
a daughter.
"LuMry jaw" is said to he breaking
out among the cattle at Albion, this
state.
THE Common Sense engine works Mt
Muncie will resume business with q
full complement of men.
DAVID CoIBIN, a prosperous resident
Of Toronto, en- route to the Worlds
fair. was done out of $40 by confidence
men at south Bend.
In the suit Of Miss Hershey against
w. Cheeseman for damages. at Port
land, on a change of venue from Win
chester, the jury awarded her $500
Mrs. RESETA SHULTz, aged 65, was
cut to pieces the other morning by a
Lake Erie and Western passenger
train at la Porte. The unfortunate
woman was crossing a long bridge
north Of La Porte, when she was
warned by the whistle of the approach
of the train She started TO run, and
in another instant would have crossed
in safety, when she ,vooned and fell
between the rails. The dismembcred