The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-05


brush fire near seymour. during y
III. J. dead
An Chcstcrton. :. Swanson set
spring gun for burglars trpped over
the spring and was shot in the legs.
uo0A> BrnNs. aged -. is reported
diving AT his home in huntsville lar
tholoncw county. Burns the other
night attended a dance AT Hcddington,
where he became engaged in fight
and was tabled three times
prRE, DAVIS. IA Young man formerly
Of Anderson. but more recently OF lo-
gansport wanted 10 make balloon
ascension AT Anderson, but was forbid
den by the police. He has employed
an attorney and will get an injunction
restraining the police from interfering
Tun large barn of Lewis kulp near
Elkhart. was burned the other day,
destroying the building, SIX hundred
bushels of wheat, thrty-fivc tons OF
hay and thirty loads Of clover seed.
Loss. $4,000: no insurance.
JAMES LIVINGSTON. the slayer OF ms
son-in-law. Christian ;. Wcsner, Jr..
WIS HETulEiitN iiit s'R''N N'''''N -
court the other afternoon and pleaded
not guilty. The ease was set for trial
October IT., the same day one year ago
when the trial Of James Coley Brown
for the killing of Christian ). Wesner,
ST., father of Livingston victim, be-
gan in the same court
NICroR r. HENDRIX. chief engineer
49, IS IL. Nft.ht.rnx. lix~tStAn .,f
the Nandalia. and H. :. Chesbrough.
superintendent OF signals. chung to a
capsized boat for forty minutes the
other evening in storm Mt Lake Max
inluciIec, and were finally picked up
10y chance just as both Were ready 10
let 70.
TIM l4-ycar-old son Of NJ. II. baylor.
Marion. was probably fatally shot the
other night 10y the accidental discharge
of an old revolver with which the boy
was playing.
JomN AKris. colored carpenter,
aged 20. fell from a scatfold at Sharps-
vile. Howard county. and was instant
ly killed. A wife and seven children
survive.
Mis-. MARTHA llENpIG. OF Warsaw.
died OF grief on account of the arrest
of her hayward son. Frederick Hen
dig. Overcome with remorse he cut
his throat with a razor. and fell dead
by his mothers coffin.
THF barn Of Alonzo kiestling. near
Richmond. eight miles south IF Rush
vile. was consumed by fire. One thou
sand bushels Of wheat. - tons of hay.
500 worth of corn and three horses
were burned.
Jo>ErH SWAIN. resident of Ander-
son. who spends much Of his time in
Chicago. was placed in jail at Indian
apolis the other evening To answer four
charges OF grand larceny. preferred by
Gus Eahke. Charles Fralv. Joseph
Barmfuhrer and Geo. Thompson.
About three weeks ago the three COM
plainants were induced 10 put up s.. 500
on foot race. After the money had
been put up dispute was followed by
a fight. and the stakeholder jumped
into buggy and escaped IL was af-
terward discovered that the fight was
a put up job, and that the Indianapolis
men had been played for "a set of jays
Swain. it is charged. was the man who
held the stakes.
A CORPS of engineers have just COM
pleted trip up the 81. Joseph river
and its branches in the interest of the
project of Toledo capitalists To build a
canal 10 Chicago. The route as shown
by the survey is from Chicago across
Lake Michigan to Michigan City. to
Elkhart. thence through series OF
lakes and rivers to the Maumee. close
10 the state line down the Wabash ca
nal. taking in Defiance and Napoleon,
o.. and making Toledo the terminus.
DIR. w. T. Harris has been making an
exhaustive study Of the subject lie
has practically covered every inch Of
the ground and has made survey Of
the territory which such a canal would
cover. His investigation has made him
firm believer in the future of such a
project.
MEs ANNA SEKKrS. wife Of Rev W.
j. Scckin. Of Washington township,
shelby county. became violently in
sane Her hallucination i that She is
sent by God 70 exterminate the human
race.
EDDIE SMITH. 8 years old. while play
ing with a girl at Evansville. was
showed from the sidewalk. struck by a
passing buggy and fell before an cleo
tric street car. He was mangled so
badly that he died in few minutes.
TnE grand jury at Lebanon has in
dicted James Livingston for man
slaughter in killing the son Of Judge
Wcsner. who was shot in the Danvillc
courtroom by James G. Brown Young
Wesncr was killed while trying to en-
ter the house of Livingston, whose
daughter Wesner married. Living
ston's bond was placed at $500
USIoN CITY has natural gas for the
first time.
THos. HAMA and j. y. Bradwell
were appointed 10 defend Charles Robb
at lie banon.
The Howard county farmers and ko-
komo canning factories. employing
twelve hundred operatives, are
swampcd with the tomato crop. The
packers are taking all they contracted
for, and empty the surplus in the river.
Besides this thousands of bushels are