The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-04-14

TuE indianapolis cabinet works. the
n. 4. stone Furniture Co. and Herman
Lanter. all engaged in the manufacture /
n tables and fine desks in lndianap- |
oils. have formed combination Tor
| the purpose OF fixing a scale OF prices
| The combined concerns employ l,ooo
men.
| HARRY PIERsoN, 9-ycar-old schooi
| boy. caught on behind sarriage on
| Second street. Vinccnnes. The boys
| foot ran in the wheel and thc leg was
| ground entirely off before the driver
could realize the situation. The loot
and ankle was picked up several feet
| away. The boy can not live.
Miss ELIZABETH WILEY, of Green
field, has been spending most OF her
time sleeping. being only awake long
enough 70 partake of nourishments II
was discovered that her mind was CIV
ing away and her friends removed her
to the insane hospital
Two little sons Of j. NJ. kalbert were
l,killcd by a sand bank caving in on them
AT kolSomo.
SHERIFF CONWAY has arrested An
drew Enlow, the young man who was
sent to the reform school and who es-
capcd. lie was hiding in the hills In
Perry county.
DURING heavy rain storm the two
frame residences uear Terre Hautc, oc-
cupied by Mrs. Lavina Harris, WIDOW
three miles west of the city, was
struck by lightning and tho house
and contents entirely consumed The
family managed to escape without in
jury.
+. AT Madison, Maggie Rush, aged 10,
while preparing supper. was iataiy
burned lie father was seriously burn
ed while attempting TO extinguish the
flames.
HARVEY ROBINSON attempted suicide
AT Valparaiso, because his wife gave
him lecture. He went To the base
ment and was about sholSed TO death
when She arrived and saved HIM Then
he got it again.
INDIANA postmasters appointed the
other day: Amo, Hendricks county. }.
W. III. Newman; kempston, lipto1
: county, J. +. Mount; Saint Bcrni'e
verinillon county. O. \. Ayres; Stone
:. Crossing. johnson county, A. Brown
ing: Whitland, johnson county, ). =
, Tracy.
A COMMITTEE of La Porte citizens Wis
!. tied the surrounding country Tor tn
(, purpose of examining the condition
growing wheat. and after making care
: full and thorough inspection reporte'
that there will be half crop. the plan
!. being badly winter killed, especially u
= high and exposed places, where tn
> snow did not lay on the ground.
An Indianapolis man is the owner O
'e a parrot that is noted for its taliSin
mower. Early the other morning IL
man was awakened by an unusua
!. burst of profanity, intermiNcd wit
- screams and CALCULATIONS. the purpoi
: of which explained itself when a ON
glar was discovered making his oscar
through an open window. Inc ma
g fred several shots at the robbcr, VIII
=" out taking effect but il encouraged u
:" bird to continue to scream In wa
a which would have shocked a less 81
- ceptible person
u NORTH MANCHESTER, Wabash count
~ is to have a system Of water works VII
sixty-four fire hydrants, five miles
~ mains the largest being twelve inche
'e a standpipe 40 feet high and cnrin
with a pumping capacity Of 900
~ gallons per day of twenty-four hour
IN, SHERIFF Joux l.. BUCKLES, of kn'
OF county. left Vincennes the other mig
as for Jacksonville with four prisoneI
40 whom he took to the penitentiary. a
were recently sentenced. They a
Charles Bohannon, manslaughter Z
- ..slx tVx+n 90
'ar john Graves. larceny. one year, a.
ed Charles Dutton, larceny. two years
&C. WILLIAM RoLFE, Of Wabash, has
he ceived from his son at Paris. Ie'
the CHASTITY mementocs of the execution
life the Negro at Paris. who was burned
the the stake for assaulting a little VIII
md girl last January. In q small packa
Dor were enclosed nails and pieces OF
$50 lumber from the scaffold, and fri
the ments of charred bones OF the pc
i'm wretch subjected to such hideous I
lire ture.
.ial The thirteen farmers arrested
hts white-capping in Perry county rep
To sent nine of the wealthicst men in
pe state.
and UNCLE NATHAN SrRAwN. aged |
- ulcu at his NOME III Vic hoi AhNAh Ia.
9th Crawford county
five EVERY q. A. II. post in the cour
. as met at Huntington and organized
tied county battalion to attend the natio
ork encampmcnt at indianapolis next ;
2l0; tcmber, and initiated thirty-six n
'6o,- members camp fire was also held
BYRON Cosror, son of a promin
ing citizen of New Waterloo, secured sl.'
'hc it is alleged, by forging his fath'
Oct name lie has fled.
an Jos CLAYTON fell from train
'r,u Valparaiso and stuck a nail into
skull lie will die.
'"'' The l3-months-old child of Mr.
Mrs A. C. Kisman, OF Peru, while pl
o"s ing some weeks ago, broke needle
:" in her second finger, the eye OF the !
:" Gle entering the end Of the finger
'"' disappearing The child did not
~" perience any serious results from
~" accident, and nothing was thought {
~ until the other night. when Mrs.