The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-08-17


has been exposed
AT Noblesville. Pat MCGOWAN lost
both feet while trying 10 board a NOV
ing train.
W. &. MATHEWS was permanently
disabled in peculiar manner al Hunt
ington. While holding "A board which
another man was chopping. the az
slipped from the handle and cut both
his hands nearly off. They may have
10 be amputatcd
HoN. Josrrn GRAY was nominated at
Logansport for joint representative by
the democrats of Cas- and Miami coun-
ties.
ErroRrs to the weather bureau in
Indiana show that corn has been Sc
vcrely hurt by the long-continued
drought.
Ar South BEND the police last year
arrested 81 persons who were under II
years of age.
\ COMPANY has been organized at
Upton with $4,000 capital. To establish
"A national bank.
MINISTER :. +. CHANDLER was
shot in the shoulder by Lon. Davis. "A
brother-in-law Mt Noblesville. while
trying to kidnap his child.
CHARLES RENO. "A merchant police
man of indianapolis. j. nnder arrest
for passing counterfeit two dollar sill
yer certificate.
TmE electric lights on the streets Of
Fl. Wayne have been turned off for
lack of funds.
AT South Bend David +. Woolman,
an ex-contractor. blew out MS brains
Cause not known.
THF Merchants and the Meridian ma
tional bank. of Indiana polls. may CON
solidate.
WALTER BRANDON. Of Anderson. j.
the owner Of asmall pup that is nat
ural curiosity IL was born about a
month ago. and has only two legs in
stead Of four There is no sign Of
front legs. the breast Of the dog being
perfectly smooth and symmetrical
The pup walks on its hind legs after
the style of a kangaroo. and gets about
with apparent ease.
RICHMOND wants large grain eleva-
tor
THERE are $500 men in Richmond
out of work.
Ar Richmond coaching parties are
all the rage.
TIE baseball fever ha> struck Tip
ton.
MrNcIr has a one-icggcd bicycle
rider.
At Portland. Bertha Beatty. while
riding from the field on a mower fell
under the wheels and was crushed To
death. She was 8 years old
Dan GREEN was held in $500 bond in
Justice Of the Peace Thur>ton> court.
at Seymour for cutting with intent TO
kill Pat Koran
WM HOGAN. of Fayette county. is
insane over schemes for running a
threshing machine. He fired up an
engine at midnight the other night
and was prepared To thresh alone when
arrested.
The barn of Abram Miller. in Wa
bash county. was struck by lightning
the other night and destroyed. to-
gether with five hundred bushels of
wheat. over five hundred bushels Of
oats and all the owners vehicles and
implements Loss. $1,000; insurance.
Sl.5OO. in the Ohio Farmers
WINCHESTER voted in favor ~ water
works the other day py small ajor-
ity.
The old Sixteenth regiment will hold
its eighth annual reunion at Pendlcton
September i.
Lone Lone and Wong Long. two
Chinese laundrymen of Elkhart. have
left for their native land to enlist ia
the emperor's ARMY.
A VALUABLE yearling Wilkes colt.
owned by James Morehouse. Of Muncie.
fell and broke its neck while being
broken to cart.
AT >helbyville. Isaac Hendricks the
other morning opened his front door
and found basket with little girl
baby in it. The founding was taken
To the orphans home.
A FREAK has been discovered ~ Evans
Vile. in the person Of colored man
aged fortyfive. who il gradually turn
ing white.
Tne fourtcen-vear-oid son Of Wharf
master Cox. of Vcvay. was drowned in
the Ohio. the other afternoon while
bathing.
Ar Rocxport fire the other morning de-
stroved Andersons drug store. DR..
Dailey's Office and Mason 4 payton ;
law Office. Loss $1,000. partly insured.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Tenth regiment. Indiana infantry. will
h. held at Lebanon. on Wednesday.
September II.
LAPoRTE is overrun with hobos
THERE is danger If watc- famine
at Anderson.
WORK on the new courthouse at
Monticello has begun.
\ HoRsE-HADI-H canning factory will
be established at Goshen.
JOIN >rANrTrH. farmer. residing two
miles north of Decatur. was gored to
death by vicious bull. the other after
noon.
AT >hclbyville Miss Elizabeth Spur
lin ran a needle into her foot and died
of lockjaw.
MEMBERS Of the Elkhart militia who
lost their situations while on strike
duty. now call upon the people for EN-
ployment.
IL making her first balloon ascension
in Anderson fh,. afha ..veniur Ttll;e