The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-01-18
INDIANA STATE NEWS.


diana. committed suicide al kokomo
by shooting himself through the heart
during the temporary absence of the
family. Her father. ON returning home.
attempted 10 shoot himself with the
same revolver, four men being required
! 20 hold him. Alice was his favorite
daughter and housckccper. twenty
two years Of age and a treless church
worker. No motive Is known.
DAN BECKER. Shelbyville. extracted
from the ear of his little daughter a
grain Of corn which had resisted all at
tempts AT removal for over five years.
ULYSSES LINpALL climbed a tree for
dead squirrel al >helbyville. lie fell
80 feet and may die.
JAMES VAN Hook has been cleared
of the murder Of Anton >chaeffer, of
Charlestown. Self defense.
ELkmART still has few eases Of scar
let fever.
>CHMIrT 4 lIErFLEy. proprietors of
the Golden Rule dry goods stores. Lo-
gansport. closed their doors the other
morning. The assets and liabilities
are estimated equally at about $4,000
Miss FANNIE MARSHALL. daughter Of
Thomas Marshall. who has grocery
and drug store at Coxville. Parke
county. suicided by taking morphine.
She and her lover quarreled about
some trivial matter. which was the d.
rect cause OF self-destruction. She
was about 10 years old.
An unknown bencfactor of a Catho-
lie church in Hammond mas donated an
$500 altar 10 the church.
AN operator made bull on mes
sage about Mrs. Ed Ayres- OF Hartford
City, then on visit. and said She was
dead. Arrangements were made for
the funeral and the mourners mad as
sembled, when Mrs. Ed walked in on
/ them.
SOUTH BEND manufacturing indus
7 tries have petitioned the city council
for better fire protection.
MIsHAwAKA wants sewers and city
charter.
Miss FORA WHITE. near Shelbyyille
fell down the cellar stairs at her home
and was seriously injured \ brother
ran 10 her assistance and accidentally
kicked a cocoanut so that il struck the
girl in the mouth. knocking out her
teeth.
The smallpox epidemic at Wallxerton
cos; St Joseph county $4,000. besides
depicting the Wallerton treasury.
The merry war against the saloons
in Lafayette is still in progress.
The feet of Alice Hart aged 6. OF
Anderson, are said TO be turning 10
stone.
BARTHOLOMEW county still has out.
standing SO 900 in unpaid gravel road
bonds.
MEs. Dan WHITE. of Lebanon. at
tempted suicide by swallowing chloro-
form. Saved.
The soldie.s home at Marion is 80
crowded that not another man can lie
received.
PURCHASE of 81. 200 worth of one
cent stamps was made at South Bend.
the other week, 10y a local establish
ment.
THERE Is n movement on foot to an
mex Gosport TO Monroe county.
kokoMo militia company. having FIN
ished three years of service. have re-
organized.
The date Of the state G.. A. Il. en-
campment. to be held in Muncie mex;
Mach. has been changed from the eth
and a>th 10 the 18th and Goth The
change is made to enable the encamp-
merit to get the WISER Grand Opera
house for the camp fire. The theatcr
seats 1900 people. being the larres,
available room in the city.
A NUMBER of interesting suits have
been fled in Carroll county. growing
out Of the hog cholera epidemic that
has swept through that section of the
state. A month or so ago Thomas J.
Chissom and Harry Mccain. two we'll
known stock dealers. brought several
carloads Of hogs from western states
and sold them 10 farmers there. Sub
sequently cholera broke out among
them. and those who bought the hogs
allege that they not only lost the hogs
they purchased but that the disease
spread and carried off other swine.
suit has been brought for the pur-
chase money Of the imported hogs and
the value of the Others that died OF the
disease. the allegation being that the
hogs were diseased when sold.
isAFU ~ In IN hpi'tdItu pC4OTC
Judge Taylor, % Lafayette. the other
morning and was sentenced to four
years Imprisonment and To pay fine
of 5000 The charge against him was
assault and battery. with intent to
murder. George Rudolph at the time Of |
the riot there. According to the evil
dence. Clark was the rnglcader. or
one of the leaders Of the riot which |
took pAce at the Lafayette Opera
house on the night of January "a. 1893. |
when cx-Priest Geo. l.. Rudolph was |
mobbed and shot at and his meeting
broken up.
MRs. GEO. RcwELL. aged 81 one o. |
Goshcn's Oldest residents. died the 9TH |
er afternoon. She and her husband |
had lived together % years.
a VERY notable celebration occurred
at Dalevillc. II was the occasion OF |
the Stewart family reunion and the
celebration OF the ninety-third ami
versary of Uncle Jimmy" Stewart.
JoHN LIVELY. a wealthy citizen of |
Knightstown. who recently attempted