The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-02-09

firc from "a gas stove UT Na'H - e"u
mother of fourteen children
AT Muncie, Ethel Boyee was arrested
for cruelty 10 her S-year-oid daughter.
The woman is charged with holding the
ends OF the child's fingers against the
stove until they were fairly cooked
She saws she was breaking the little
one from burning parer about the
house
RECEIVER HAWKINS. OF the Indiana
polls National bank. has settled the
ESQ. 900 indebtedness of the widow 81
the late Vice President Colfax and
Schuyler Colfax. ir.. for So.
COUNTY AUDITOR VI. L. locuM drop
ped dead the her night al his home IN
Brazil.
Form thousand men in indianapolis
are out of work. and the problem IS be-
coming serious
AT Charlottesville the grand jury has
indicted $50 citizens for participating
in rafiles The proceeds Of the enter
prise had been devoted to the poor.
PARuANvs IIuipER. Of Hope. at
tempted TO assault Mrs Id Carroll
and her daughter. Letha. the other
night. and 10 avoid arrest jumped from
second story window and escaped
iowAnp PACKS 4 boy OF 20 years,
died ut Noore's Hal the other night, by
an act OF his own hand. lie lief; note
addressed TO his mother, in which he
aid that he had more troubles than he
could bear. and that he was sick and
tired OF life.
The Muncie Commercial and Real
Estate exchange has been organized by
one hundred Of the best citizens of
Muncie. and viii see that the metrop-
oils of the gas belt j. pushed with re-
newed vim and vigor The following
gentlemen are officers: President. i. T.
Rose: vice president. L. II. Kirby. Sec
rotary. W. A. Sampson: treasurer, A. j.
Williams.
OSCAR TRIAL son of prominent
resident of kokomo while returning
from church at West Liberty, the other
night. accompanied by two young
ladies. was instantly killed by being
thrown from the buggy while racing
with other young people The girls
with him were also badly hurt, one
perhaps fatally.
The ten-thousand-dolla damage suit
OF Lizzie Miller agains; the L. and l.
Railroad Co. at Petersburg. was settled
in the Daviess circuit court. the jury
finding n verdict for the defendant
The plaintiffs husband was killed by
running train on the t. and.I. year
ago last February.
FRANCIS MURPHY. assisted by his son
William. began series of Gospel tenn
perance lectures the other night at the
NJ T. church. Rcdkey. There were over
three hundred signers Scores OF peo-
pie We're unable TO get in the church.
SENATOR JoHS YARGAN died at his
home in Richmond at the advanced age
Of % years
SMITH ELDER fell on a bandsaw nc
was operating in Lesh's factory, War
saw. 1t cut off his arm and part of his
shoulder blade He will die.
AT Richmond John Evans filed suit.
the other evening. against the PENN
sylvania railroad for $50 600 damages
for the loss of a hand while coupling
cars
JOHN HArsES CRAIG. an ex-Kentuck-
ian who now resides in Danville, is said
to be the largest man on earth. He
was born and raised in bourbon coun-
IL. near Flat Rock lie is 3. years old
and weighs 90s pounds At birth he
weighed II pounds: when IL months
old ne weighed -. when years old he
tipped the beam at FOG: at wears old
he weighed SOP: at IS, i05: at 20. .9l; At
so, Soc at 81. SIG. and now 901
THERE are 45G pupils in the Home
for the Feeble Minded at IT Wayne.
the largest number in the homes his
tory.
The cold weather of the past few
DAYS. during which the thermometer
has registered below zero mas develop
ed much suffering at Columbus By
the closing OF the factories many
have been actually starv-
ing
The Indiana supreme court has af-
firrned the decision Of the Porter cir.
cult court in the contested election
casx Of Joseph Sego VS.. Iicber Stod-
dard. Two years ago Stoddard was
the republican and Sego the demo-
cratic candidate for sheriff in Porter
county. >toidard received three more
votes than scgo. The democrats con-
tested the election. which was decided
in stoddard's favor.
LEMuEL BAILEY. a member of the
Nuncie bar, charged with stealing two
stacks Of hay from his neighbor. was
acquitted in the circuit court
Miss EDNA MAeLEY. the i6-vear old
daughter Of Albert Magley. a mail car
ricr. had a beautiful head of auburn
hair. She lives with her grandmother
NJ indianapolis. and the other evening
she received 4 visit from her father and
accompanied him to the electric car. a
short distance away. and then returned
home. As she was entering the gate
an unknown party threw heavy cloth
over her head. and before she could
free herself or give the alarm her hair
was closely clipped off The girl had
no enemies end was general favorite.
II is supposed that her hair was taken
for the purpose Of profit only. as il
was very long. heavy and Of unusual
beauty.
THE death Of Mayor WAGNER az Nal