The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-03-16

| They were divorced about two months
since, and are making an effort 10 keep
their rcmarriage a secret
ErngAIM HARTMAN. his wife. two
| sons and a daughter ate freely OF oys-
tiers. AT their home in English, and
soon after were Frustrated II IS sup
posed that the oysters were impure.
The son and daughter were restored to
consciousness with but little effort,
but the parents and one child contin-
ued inscnsible for hours. AT last ac-
count the danger point had not been
passed.
The Southern Indiana Teachers as
ISOLATION will meet ut Rockport April
4. and q, in its eighteenth annual SEES
sion.
The ls-months-old daughter of MIR.
and Mrs Bert Miller. Of Martnsville,
drank part of bottle of ammonia and
is not expected to live.
Ar Portland the jury in the case OF
Cornelius Wadncr, charged with MUIR
der in the first degree, returned ver-
diet OF not guilty the other day Wad'
ner was alleged to have poisoned his
wife last June. There is still an in
dictment against him for assault and
battery with intent TO commit murder,
and it will probably be dismissed.
DANIEL BAuGH. living near Jefferson
vile, claims TO be the oldest resident of
this state. lie lacks but month of be-
los years old Four generations live in
the same house with Mr. Baugh
THE new kanawha Coal Co, of Chi
cago has purchased 800 acres of coal
land in Nigo county for $40, 900
AT Newcastle, John III. Gauz was
given a verdict of So 600 damages
against the Panhandle railroad for the
killing of his two children at "A cross
ing last summer
The grand jury met Mt Lebanon the
other day and Judge Neal instructed
them as follows: II want YOU to
thoroughly investigate the actions Of
the recent mob which attempted TO
lynch the negro Hall a Short time ago
and If the information obtained by such
investigation will possibly Justify IT,
you will return an indictment against
every one implicated. ! want no favor
shown in this matter Lynch law has
no place in the statutes of Indiana
Hall is the negro who assaulted a farm
er's wife near there. lie is now in
prison
TIrpEcANor county commissioners
the other evening decided against the
petition asking that the county appro-
priating 500 900 toward rebuilding the
school of Mechanics building at Pur-
due university. The petitioners NUM-
bered 2,l.0. demonstrators. 1920
DIR JosErH NJ. BrII.A. coroner Of
Wayne county filed damage suit for
$1,000 against DR.. w. w. Zimmerman
for alleged SANDER Both are candi-
dates for coroner
RoBEgT BRUCE. night Waterman Of
the offices of Receiver Fallcy, of the
Iron Hall, indianapolis. was shot while
resisting an attempt to burglarize the
offices. He viii recover.
Ross GRossMAN, aged 10, while play
ing with loaded shotgun, at Browns
town. blew his head off
THE street railroad project is being
doomed at Bloomington.
WHILE duck hunting on the Ohio near
Evansville. Louis Eckcrle fell over
board and was drowned. being weight
ed down by the loaded shells in his
pocket
THIRTEEN people near Anderson were
poisoned 10y eating tainted cheese. All
are out of danger
DE- kALB county has an indebted
ness of 100000
ALEXANDER MARTIN. colo-ed of
Corydon, convicted of numbering Wm,
Brown. colored. was sentenced to the
penitcntiary for life.
Miss ANGELINA LAMB, of Goshen.
who lost her voice Il years ago as re-
suit of severe sickness, has just regain
ed it in peculiar manner An unusu-
ally severe paroxysm of coughing re-
suited in a Encouragement of the vocal
chords. She now speaks in distinct.
but moderate tone, and she says that
she seems to be speaking unusually
loud The case is regarded by medical
experts as one of the most remarkable
ever encountered.
For fear Of killing some of his fam
lily, Daniel Manning, OF North Indian
apolis, suicidcd 10y taking morphine
and laudanum-
The principal streets Of Muncie are
to be paved with asphalt.
The new Christian church at Posey-
Vile has been dedicated.
STAR chamber" sessions of the
Frankfort council are becoming quite
frequent
The Commercial club, of Richmond,
now numbers 40.
OVER ., 800 signed the pledge at the
Murphy meetings at Alexandria.
Mrs. ELIZABETH Cones, aged 100,
colored believed to be the oldest wom-
an in Indiana, is dying at Indian
apolis.
HARRY FRANCISCO, aged II, was
killed while attempting to board a
moving II. & o. 5. w. train at Scy.
Inour
AT Kcntland Samuel Bair, n farmer,
suicidcd by blowing out his brains with
shotgun.
Ar indianapolis Philip Traugh re-
covered $1,000 damages from the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Co for the loss of an
arm.