The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-07-28

Now they say the Valparaiso burglar
Ia u woman. They haven't caught heI
yet.
JOSEPH HIRE. an ambitious youth
committed suicide at kokomo because
OF his inability 10 acquire n high educa
ton. having widowed mother with
small children depending on him fol
support.
DAVID SwARTZELL and wife. living
near Laport, We're arrested, charged
with robbing and burning the house OF
j W. +. Lewis, which was recently de-
stroycd
As result Of the interview Of City
Comptroller Wooden, of indianapolis,
with the New York Life Insurance Co.
officials few days ago in Chicago. Mr..
WOODEN has arranged to borrow $780,
600 from that company To tide over the
situation of city finances. He has al
ready secured sla. 800 at $ per cent. lie
will take the balance at q per cent. as
he needs IL.
MAX T.. LETTER. one Of the Column
bian guards who participated in the
imprisoned by the flames tn. /. recently
consumed the Cold Storage building on
the Worlds fair grounds, is lying at
his home in Lafayette suffering from
very serious and perhaps fatal injuries
sustained while sliding down eighty
feet OF hose through fire and smoke.
Letter is aged twenty-five. and the son
Of prominent dentist of Lafayette.
A Fishing party composed of Joseph
schaefer. Ed Reese, William Schu.
Henry Bower and Henry Schaefcr were
in skiff on the Ohio river, at Evans
Vile They attempted to ride the
waves caused by the passing Of the
steamer ID. a. Nesbit. when the skiff
was overturned. and Joseph Schaefer
was drowned. His body was not re-
covered.
PErER BOYER, a wealthy saloon
keeper of Harmony, near Brazil. was
drugged and robbed of considerab bic
money and a fine gold watch and chain
PETER CARROLL. IA well-known mer-
chants policeman of indianapolis upon
returning home was suddenly taken
sick and he died before medical aid
could be secured. The case was pros
tration by heat
The other morning Trackwalker
Clark. percciving peculiar odor near
Mitchell at the mouth of Mill creek.
made an examination. resulting in the
discovery of the dead body of man.
1t is supposed to have been there sew
eral days How the body came to be
there is not known. but il is supposed
TO have been some drunken tramp beat
ing his way through and fell from
freight train. The body is decayed be-
yond recognition.
ISAAC and Isadore Kroot. IL and IS
years respectively. were run down by
an electric motor in indianapolis the
other morning. The older boy. Isadore.
had his brother by the hand and was
trying To lead him across the tracks.
The motor struck the youngest lad
and killed him. The elder was also
struck and SO badly crushed that he
NAV die.
JOHN A. MILLER. of Michigan City,
was found dangling at the end Of .
rope. The act is attributed to mental
A RENEWED effort is being made to
secure the pardon Of George Stotler.
which has been on file in the governors
Office since Porter's administration.
Cows. Gray. Hovey and Chase. each in |
turn. have refused to pass favorably 4
thereon. Stotler is the oldest man now |
penal stripes. lie was sem
fenced in 1868 for killing two boys re-
spectively IA and is years old. who
We're employed on the same farm with
himself in Randolph county.
WILLIAM CoBvIs. aged :, was fatally |
injured at Richmond. He fell from his l
stills and was impaled on picket |
fence, one of the palings penetrating
his abdomen.
Mrs. WILL BLAcKBrRNs baby was
fatally burned by hatiron falling in
its cradle at Evansville.
FLY poison placed in the reach Of
children came near resulting in the
Heath Of child Of James Morris. of
Hazel Dell. 1t drank the poison. and
only by several hours work is it living
now. though about to die.
The Carrollton wooden mill. of Madi-
'on. has assigned TO ii. NJ. Winslow.
Liabilities. $4,000; assets unknown.
The stringency OF the money market
was the cause. Sixty-five hands are
die.
THE first wheat of '93 was delivered
It Anderson. a few days ago. 1t is Of
Sery fine quality and weighs 90 pounds
10 the bushel. Throughout that Sec
ion Of Indiana wheat is unusually
neavy, and is generally graded No. l.
The market price ranges from So cents
20 IS cents
A POST OFFICE has been esta blished
Vt Crokes, Porter county, and Crist +.
Rohrdance appointed postmaster.
INDIANAPOLIS. the Grand Jury re-
iurned an indictment for murder
against Miss Anna Wagner, the domes-
tic employed in the Kocsters family.
john q Hicks will retire in a short
lime from the superintendency Of ter
ninals of the Big Four railroad ut In
annapolis. and the office will be abol-
shed. Mr.. Hicks will take another posi-
ion at indianapolis for the same COM
,any. Is. :. sutton will be appointed
Of the Cairo division of