The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-08-03
INDIANA STATE NEWS.


poSr OFFICE 10 be discontinued aftei
July 81: Nevins. Harrison county.
SAfoo>isrs Of >ummitville have az
vanized 10 boycott the GROWER.
Mrs. JONI LEMON, If Cowcn. cut her
throat with her husbands razor.
porIcf court business at Lafayette l.
very dull.
Albany will have water-works before
many months
MAD nos scarcs are becoming quite
frequent az kolsomo.
CoN>ERsvui.E will be treated To an
art exhibit in August.
a VERY peculiar accident occurred
near Newcastle Mrs. Frank sheets
and Mrs. George Lewis were out driy'
ing when their horse became fright
ened and ran fourth of mile.
Mrs. Lewis jumped from the buggy,
breaking one arm and being otherwise
badly bruised. Mrs Sheets was thrown
from the rig sind sustained fatal in
iuries. Her corset burst, and all the
STAYS were driven into her stomach,
making wounds from which she can
not recover.
Mis-. MARY ANNA BAyARD. the Oldest
rative-born citizen Of Nincennc>. the
other day died Of old age, having
passed her >sth birthday.
WI. WOOD. cx-county recordcr. and q
prominent stock raiser. il missing from
his home at Frankfort. lie left his
home at o'clock the other morning to
load car of hogs at the Monon pens
but did not reach -herc. His friends
are greatly alarmed and il i feared
he has met with foul play.
A MOVEMENT j. on foot looking to-
ward the building of another electric
line between Hammond and Chicago.
The line will run through West Tam
mond Burnham. will connect with the
Calumet electric line and unc-hundred-
and-eighth street.
Ar Mt Vernon George Powell. a la
borer. assaulted his wife. drew "A knife
and caught her a> She was going out
the gate and tried 10 cut her throat.
She seized piece of plank and struck
him "A terrible blow on the forehead.
knocking him scnseless. Powell was
taken 10 jail. where he died from his
| injuries in short time. Mrs. Powell
was arrested. and in the preliminary
/ trial before Squire Jones was released.
il being clearly proved that she acted
I in self-defen>c.
jos MEYER. fourteen-year-old boy.
was run over by hose reel No. |. AT
| Evansville. and almost instantly killed.
lie attempted To cross the street just
as the reel turned the corner and was
struck by the horses lie fell to the
ground. and before the horses could
be stopped the wheels Of the reel
passed over his head. MASKING it To n
jelly lie was carried into ply.
sician's Office near by. where he died.
WALTER. the thirteen-year-old son o.
Thomas >crcggins. OF Morgantown,
while playing in a wheat bin in an ele-
vator was caught in chute and suffo-
Gated.
Louis HFfRrER OF the Soldiers
home. was run over and killed by a
passenger train near the depot at Gas
City the other morning He was 4
member Of Company q, Fifty-ninth
Indiana infantry.
AT IT. Wayne John Atkinson. a new
brakeman on the Nickel Plate. was rur
over by an engine early the Other
morning. Both legs and arms were
cut off. He lived an hour. His parents
live at Fit. Edwards, Ont. where the
body was shipped.
The lawn tennis craze has firm
grasp on Laporte Young people.
MuScrE young ladies Eold moonlight
picnics without having .'horrid' boy
around
EARL. the fifteen-year-old son of Vim
Yenkey. wealthy farmer. living nin'
miles east of Lebanon. was kicked b.
a horse the other morning and fatal.
injured.
CAPT j. w. HAMRIcK. secretary o
the organization. authorizes the state
ment that the annual reunion Of tn
Twenty-frst regiment, First Indians
heavy artillery. will be held at Gospor
August and ..
ROBERT CUNNINGHAM and Thoma
>lattery. two young men Of Crawfords
Vile. were driving at high rate o
speed the other night along dar
. road. when suddenly they collide
with sawlog wagon with terrifi
: force. Slattcry's brains were dashc
ont. and Cunningham received injurie
from which he died next day.
LAKE ERIE & WESTERN switch er
CINE ran wild from near the rounc
I house in the western part Of Nunci
| to point just east Of the city. where
/, collided with west-bound local. badl
T smashing both engines.
: ME~ PETIT. said TO he 100 years Ole
is dead at Tcrre Hante.
COLUMBIA CRY has counclma
who refuses TO draw his salary.
+, CLYDE CAgIxGs. a l2-year-old lad {
Reynolds. fell between cars and wa
: cut in two.
THE American Wire Nail Go. tn
| other day put the nail department :
! its mammoth plant at Anderson in 81
Grafton for the season Of ls9i-'y5. gi'
| ing four hundred men employment
Notice was also posted that the rod d.
partment. which furnishes cmploymer
for three hundred men. would resum
soon.
: WATERLOO schools will have gym