The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-03-10

chauncey Wood, aged Is years, Of Terre
IIaute, were arrested by Capt llylnnh'
charged with passing counterfeit money
and robbery. Numerous small robber-
IL. have occurred in the past two weeks
The boys are thought to know all about
them.
John NJ. COULTER, president OF In ,
diana university, has been offered the
chair Of botany In the new Chi. UNI
versity at an annual salary of $1,000. /
| He is president OF the Botanical Society |
Of America, and one Of the country's |
F, leading botanists lie is about 4oyears
old and is very popular among the stu
dents of Indiana upi-,ersity.
| THE lndi'..,a house of representatives |,
the other day passed bill taxing sleep
ing car telegraph, telephone, express
and freight dispatch companies.
A HORSE which had been through the
war and which was owned by George
NJ. Barnctt, of Stewartsville, died the
other day ut the great age Of ~ years
ANDREW PEARSON, whose son was
killed 10y an iciclc which fell from the
opera house. Kokomo, has sued the
owners for 81, 600 damages.
DAVID w CAMBELL. u drummer OF
Anderson. killed himself in the Spencer
house, Indianapolis, the other day. He
was so. and lcav es p widow and two
| children.
AMAp dog created havoc on the farm
of Adam Nussel, near Hoosierville, Clay
county. The animal was a massive dog
belonging to Mr.. Nussel, who noticed
il acting strangely of late. The other
evening il became vicious, frothed at
| the mouth and ran wildly about 1t
attacked n drove of hogs and bit twenty
one before they could escape. The mad
dened beast then sprang upon Willie,
Mr.. Nussers 13-year-old son, and tore
his arm in horrible manner. The dog
was finally shot, as were the hogs that
were bitten, to prevent hydrophooia,
from which the dog suffered, from
spreading. The boy was taken TO the
maidstone at Terre Haute.
Tnr mounters at the Wells stove
foundry. the other day, in Greenfield,
went out on strike. owing t. a cut OF
Is cents on the day from the price they
had been working for
JAS. ScorT, of Washington county
met Mrs Sarah Watts. of Wilkinson
, lie courted her three hours, and Their
the twain were made one.
AT Princeton the jury in the celc
brated JohnsonApp murder trial, aftel
being out forty hours, failed 10 agree
and were discharged They stood nin'
= for conviction and three for acquittal
The failure to agree was a surprise Z
the people, as they expected heav.
sentence.
AT Mitchell, Curtis Bass, sentences
for shooting away the jaw of Henri.
Tow, his father-in-law. over year age
and Lawson Il. Moore, convicted by
= different jury for manslaughter in kill
ing Henry Tow last September wer
!, both taken to prison south to serve on
;, four and seven years respectively Bot
belong to good families
In sinking n well at the farm OF MOI
ris Bidder, at Winfield station, nea
Valparaiso, layer of blue clay an
!, slate-like rock was struck at depth
ten feet The rock was found to be fu
of crystalized substance. Samples wcr
submitted to an expert, who pronounce
il chrome iron ore and silver The OF
contains sixty per cent of pure silve
The well diggcrs passed through lay'
of the metal about ten feet thick
:" A FEW DAYS ago a dispatch stated th'
!, man named Gullcy had just died
!, California. leaving an estate OF 81, 5ot
600. John Gulley. farm hand at
lumbus, is the only heir to this va
estate.
TuE Indiana joint legislative cor
., tod ha nj,
q. ment of the prison south has submits
- TO the legislature bill OF eNpens
IA amounting TO e.. 800 The result OF 7
~, investigation showed that the sta
IN owes Warden Patten $1,000.
L.. JOHN KELLY. a yard foreman
a. charge OF switch engine at the ca
IN. wards Of the Pittsburgh. TT Wayne
III Chicago railroad, Fl Wayne, was r.
down by a locomotive and instant
Ia killed.
~, A YEAR ago Orrcll. the 4-year-old S
- of ESQUIRE G. r. Shultz, of Bra7
~, swallowed tack. which in some ma
.es- ner got into the lungs, eventually ca
the ing death.
-. ALBERT GIBBONS, son of John G
"a bons, residing south Of Brazil, and o
OF the wealthiest farmers in Ct
county, was arrested at his home OF
- warrant issued by Deputy Unit
"A; States Commissioner w. l.. Blair,
~ Brazil, on charge of DESERVING
4, regular army in Montana two mon
ago. The case was tried before
- Blair, the father claiming custody
w, his son on the ground that the boy '
under age when he enlisted After
~" heated discussion the prisoner
~ turned over to his father.
|, DEyNIs BorIS, farmer living in
,,al Buren,, Clay county, was killed
cor- other afternoon in runaway
,re. team became frightened at pass
engine and ran off, tearing the wal
VAL all to pieces and throwing Mr.. Bolir
the the ground. crushing his skull.
,cia- A MAN giving his name as
ct n George a noted burglar who has b
,blic operating in the vicinity of Vincenl
.,ise was arrested the other day at the
stance Of tramp, to whom George
star confidcd the extent OF his operate
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