The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-03
INDIANA STATE NEWS.


90 pike and perch have been assigned
10 Wayne county. and will oe delivered
within sixty days. Arrangements
lavs been made by which -,v"
snali-mou,hei black bass Will te
bought a, Warren and placed in the
streams ~ the county ~ the same
place.
Al Decatur. an attempt was made %
assa>sinaie County Clerk joha IL. Len
hart. lie was sitting IN ms parlcr
reading. when some one from the OUT
side fred revolver a, him, the bullet
crashing through the large plate glass
window. passing about SIN inches
above MIR. Lenhart's head.
FARMFR~ near Decatur captured
tramp who confessed that "he" had
burned barn The indignant
crangers were preparing 10 whitecap
him when he was discovered 10 tc
a woman. She won't tell her name.
and j. now in Jail.
ARTHUR SNYDER. Of Alexandria. was
Shot dead on the streets by Officer Har-
vey Painter. who Immediately gave
himself MP. The two had an old
grudge. a stray Shot from the officers
revolver struck third man in the
head and he will die.
Mis- l.. L. TAYLOR. Bedford. was
found lying in the yard unconscious
Had been splitting wood Stick flew
up and struck her on the temple. VIII
recover.
AT kokomo. Mrs. Eiizabet Cassidy
a
from Thomas Cassidy. who me thought
until recently. had died twenty-eisht
years ago. The couple were married
in 1855.
CANNELLToN j maintaining qEaran-
tine. backed by armed guards against
Tell City. which has four cases II
smallpox.
FARMERS ~ Madison county propose
20 fight the Richmond Natural Gas 60. :
efforts 4 Q pump gas.
Bruno Hans. VINO fell from trape.e
At TT WAYNE. died.
DIrHTnKRrA i raging in Washington
township in the southeastern par, II
shelby county.
A. result OF fearful burns received
the other day. an >-year-old daughter
OF George W. Patterson. OF Jackson
township. Cas- county. died
HARRISON COLLINS. Of Point Isabel
Marion county. was bitten a few days
ago bv a dog. He was Immediately
sent 10 the pa>teur institute n Chicago.
and word came the other day that the
symptoms indicate case Of hyGropho-
bia.
RABBI Lyons. OF Terre Hau.e. at
tackled the retormers there for bring
in- ey-''am bier Quinn 10 the city.
Two bioodhounds will help out An
derson's police force.
GRANVILLE GUM. a farmer of Wa
bash county. who has been deranged
AT times during the past seven years.
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heaS Mr. Gum had a
sunstroke several years ago. and mas
made two attempts TO kill himself
previous 10 this
The monument near Westport which
marks the center Of population Of the
United States has been badly defaced.
The act creating new superior
court in Lake. Porter and La Porte
counties Will be tested.
CHARLES SUMMERS died at his home
near Winchester the other morning.
aged nearly - years Mr.. Summers
was native of Virginia. He settled
southeast of there on farm between
sixty and seventy years ago. All the
old settlers who entered land about
him in that long ago are dead or gone.
HENRY j. II. DYKES. one Of the oldest
ministers of Henry county. died at his
home in MiGdletown recently. after a
protracteG Illness Of diabetes. lie was
nearly 20 years old and had spent
many years Of MS life in the ministry.
being mem Der of the Christian New
light church. lie probably officiated
al more weddings than any other man
in Henry county.
oNE Of the biggest gas wells in the
Indiana ga> belt was opened on the
farm Of W. H. Fleming a mile south ~
NiGGletown. The well outclasscs the
old-time '-gushers being estimated 10
have a daily output Of ten 10 twelve
million feet Of gas The roaring II
the well can be plainly heard in town.
Tae lrondale Steel and Iron Co.. which
has tin-plate plant here. employing
400 men. has recently opened several
good wells. and altogether Middletown
has brilliant outlook for the summer.
This excellent well il highly encourage
inr a. il puts 10 -est any existing
doubt that Middletown j. not in the
verv heart of the gas belt The town
is booming.
The new superior court in Lake
county is in full running blast.
The six coal mines at Carbon are IN
operation again.
The eight hundred plate glass work.
ers at Elwood are iubilant over the
fact that the plant there is TO resume
operations in full May /, with one
thousand operatives
PosTNAsTERs appointed the other
day. J. A. s;agg. Harris. Decatur
county. vice c. T.. >turgis. resigned,
and Washington Newton. Wickliffe.
Crawford county, vice T. :. Riley. re-
signed.
nSE hundred Terre IIauters filed out
income tax
>orTH BEND SAYS her post Office busi-
ness j. increasing $1,000 year.
AT the funeral Of Mrs Edward Ethel
=, the family residence. Muncie. floor
gave way. dropping many hundreds u
re0pic three feet to the ground Ex.