The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-01-13
INplA-.A STATE NEWS.

Vile. which has becp ,occupying the at
sention 81 the ihsl6y circuit court for
eight days. the jury failed " agree.
There were over eighty Witnesses ex-
amined. and the costs already amount
10 over 81. 100. The estate h valued at
about 5000 and was willcd To the last
wife and her children
LOT McCLuRE, of indianapolis, aged
%. carpenter, shot at Grant Bryan,
his brother in-law. and fatally shot
his wi lie, who jumped between the COM
batants
TIM o. 4 NJ. viii be extended at BED.
ford and connect with the Monon.
brown & WHITE. dealers in general
merchandise, near Monrovia, made an
assignment. Assets, 5000; liabilities
unknown.
ESCAPING national gas blew up
stove in John Murray's house. Green
field. wrccking two rooms and setting
the house on fire.
AT Moorc's Hill. Capt Jas Mcknight,
soyears old. and living alone. was found
lying on his bed. with terrible cash
in his head. and dying His room had
been searched and large sum OF
money, which he was known to have in
the house, was missing. lie died one
hour after being found, without having
rcgained consciousness.
BEN MorHEgAI, big four freight
conductor. was fatally hurt by falling
between the tender and first car, at
Metamora.
A TEAM of fire horses ran away at
Evansville, and the hose wagon col
lided with a telephone pole, breaking
the wagon and throwing ont three
firemcn Frank Baumgartner alighted
on his head on the brick street, fraciur-
ing his skull aRd causing death.
Gov. CHASE the other day acted upon
several petitions for pardons and com
mutations. and then gave notice that
he was through with the pardon bust
ness, and that all other applications
would be turned over to his successor.
James $. McMillen, under sentence for
life, had his term commuted 10 sew
cntccn ye1y~- Another sentence COM
muted by the governor was that Of Alec
c. Keys, OF Carroll county, sent up for
life for murder in the second degree.
The sentence of Keys was committed 10
ten years nine of which he has served.
The sentence of Adclbert Boyer. of Cass
county. another life prisoner, was COM
muted 10 six years The term of John
brown, of Ripley county. sentenced to
twenty-onc years for mansiaughter,
was committed to ten years
EARLY the other morning some per-
son threw bomb into stove in the
Office of the Robins hotel. Crawfords-
Vile. The stove was blown 20 pieces.
and the windows and furniture of the
hotel office were totally demolished
The hotel clerk had his leg broken, and
several other persons received severe
injuries
PATRICK SHEA. a resident Of Indian
apolis, is rcputed 10 be III years old.
FARMER GEORGE Stout Of Elwood,
was fatally hurt by hig gun, which ac-
cidently fell and exploded as he was
getting over fence.
MAMIE RAY. belle of Attica. hanged
herself with a trunk strap. III health
and love affair are said to have been
the causes.
Mrs. MARY A. HOOVER so. and
mother Of Mrs Congressman George
W. Cooper. of Columbus fell over dead
while sitting a; the table.
Two hungarian miners. Jos Skorobo
and Jos Beicha. were fast friends at
Fontanet, near II -rc Haute. until the
other morning, w.ien Beicha told
SSorogbo To close the door They room
ed together The latter had been drink
ing. and to be ordered TO close the door
angered him. and he pulled a revolver
and shot Bcicha through the head.
l'eicha was brought 10 the hospital ut
Fontanct. and S,Sorogbo was placed in
Jail. Dcicha viii die
Gov. CHASE has issued rcuuisitions
for the return of the following Iron
lIallcrs: Freeman ID. Somcrbv. Joseph
Glndin, c. II. Baker and 4. II. EclSerslv.
of Philadelphia. to Indiana Similar
documents were also drawn on the chief
executive of New Jersey for J. Henry
Hayes. Of Camden. and on Maryland's
governor for Araos II. lIosmer and +.
L. Rouse. Of Baltimore.
AT Marion Golda Givei. was allowed
g., 800 because John sohn promised her
his name and then backed out
THE Miami school building. at Wa
bash. built in 1855, together with the
contents was bui-nc4 the other morn
Ing The building took fire from ,ras
heater. and. though an alarm was
promptly turned in and the fire depart
lncnt arrived within FIVE minutes. the
water works pressure was 50 low that
the stream could not be forced to iii,
second floor windows. and the structure
which was supposed 10 be nearly fire.
proof, was slowly consumed. The loss
ON the building and contents is Ell .O00
The Plainfcld Creamery Co. has
placed its business in the hands OF re-
ceivcr for the benefit of creditors. The
liabilities and assets are unknown.
William Townsend has been appointed
by Judge John v. IIadley 10 close up
the business Of the concern.
In all probability bill will be intro
duced in the legislature to give Tcrre
Hautc special charter, modelled on the
plan of the one under which Indianap-
ellis is governed.
a son of Farmer Schisslcr. near
Evansville. went into we'll thirty feet
deer =, IN do some work Wh;ie hoietipu