The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-11-30
INDIANA STATE NEWS.

gitive wanted at Danville. Ill. Tor rob-
bing mail car. committed suicide ut
Joplin. Mo.
A FRACTIONAL fight Is brewing in
republican ranks over the proposed re-
superintendent OF the state for legisla-
tive and congressional purposes.
TuE supreme court has affirmed the
verdict of sil. $50 50 given Mrs. Cath
crime Burton. whose husband was
killed By the Panhandle ears at Royal
Center
MATTHEW CHANDLER. while slightly
intoxicated. SWAN white river and was
found the other morning on the Por-
tersvillc road, Daviess county, frozen
to death.
ALFRED Roucu is mysteriously miss
ing from Warsaw.
THE dead body of a-months-old
babe was found in the brush by a
hunter near Edinburg.
WHILE practicing at game of foot
ball at Columbus. Hubert Owens. lad
Of Is years. had his right shoulder
broken or dislocated
TON SAMsrI.. aged 30. Vandalia
switchman. was killed by cars AT Terre
IIaute his body being cut in two.
TIE New York Bowery Insurance
CO.. of New York. has been blacklisted
and forbidded to operate in Indiana.
II is announced that this company had
withdrawn from the state and after
ward solicited insurance. The policies
were 10 he written in New York and
fh,,- avnil sa~aS ~, Ipdtnpa
THE other evening boys playing in
the fair grounds at Greenfield. discov-
cred man beneath the amphitheater,
apparently sick. When the man was
removed he was found burned in a hor-
rible manner from the neck to the hips.
His name is Stottzenburg. 81. worker
in a cotton factory in Portland. Me.
He had built fire from which his
clothing caught. He will die.
Directors Of the jefferson Agricul-
tural Fair association met a few days
since at Madison, and disbanded the
organization for lack of support.
WM FoUTz. Montgomery county
farmer. received fatal injuries in
runaway, and died twelve hours later.
THE Cyrus Brown murder case.
brought to Franklin on change of
venue from Bartholomew county, was
called the other day for trial. but by
agreement of the attorneys for both
sides was postponed until February IL.
1898. when the case will be tried.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE WEST. aged eighty.
burned to death near Peru.
GEORGE KICKER. an employee of the
Diamond plate glass factory at FL
wood. was cut by a large piece of glass
which accidentally broke. and seq
ment OF it fell on him. laying open the
flesh on his arm from the shoulder TO
the middle of his forearm. Ii required
about sixty stitches to sew up the
wound.
TIE Big Four depot at New Ross
burned the other afternoon.
THE long distance telephone at FL
wood was formally opened few days
ago at the rooms of the Elwood club.
THE Eastern Indiana Hospital for
the Insane. which is for the sixteen
surrounding counties, is located at
Richmond. Every two years the med
zeal superintendent is required TO issue
a report to the governor OF the state.
which he has now done for the two
years ending October 81. 1894. 1t
shows the value of the property to be
s575. 900. Within the past two years
Isl patients have been discharged as
cured and 125 have lied. Attention is
called 10 the infectious nature of tuber-
culosis and the erection of two more
buildings is recommended TO be used
for this disease only. One hundred
and eight applications are now on file
for the admission of patients. for whom
there Is no room. One hundred thou
sand dollars is asked as an appropria-
ton for the erection of new buildings,
and also the continuation Of the regu-
lar appropriation OF 500. 900 annually.
The cost per capita for daily average
Of patients in 1898 was Sl9i 30: cost Of
same in 1894. slg3 81: the cost of each
DAYS board IN ni~hed in 1923 was IA rs
cents; in 1895. y cent.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred in
Muncie by an explosion. in which five
men were dangerously scalaed and
burned The injured are: John Car
utr- dEtu ~ 'AbSou.
aged Is years; John Curtis. Lenzy NJ.
Taylor and John Bowers They were
employed by the Muncie Muck Bar
mill.
AT Muncie. Miss Mary Baney at
tempted suicide by shooting herself in
the right breast. and the chances for
her recovery are very poor. She is aged
90 years. and very attractive. The at
tempt at suicide was the outcome of
her having an untrue lover.
w. J. GoLIGHTy. Of the indianapolis
Pipe Line Co, engaged in laying ras
mains at Elwood, was looking for a
leak with a lighted match. In the ex-
piosion that followed ne was seriously
burned about tho face. his hair singed
off aid his hands terribly blistered.
ANDREW JACKSON is a republican and
lives in Carroll county and will he a
mem her Of the next Legislature in this
state.
ADAM DoBsoS. the oldest man in
Madison county. died near pcndleton.
He only lacked two weeks Of his Tooth
birthday.
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