The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-01-04
INDIANA STATE NEWS.


! NARsAw women have organized 70
secure public bathhouse.
JEFrEEsoSvIi.LE proposes Ia pave her
streets with vltritied brick.
THERE are thirtv-two divorce suits
pending in the Elkhart circuit court.
A WHITLEY county man will be in
vestigated by the grand jury for steal
ing six skunk skins.
MiscHlEvous Goshen boys pass away
the time breaking the glass fronts OF
the fire alarm boxes.
A PETITION is being signed generally
in Madison and Delaware counties
praying for the pardon of Geo. >tottier,
the oldesi-timc life convict in the In
diana penitentiary. now on his twenty
ninth year lie was sent up for the
murder of the lsanogle boys. NJ Dale
Vile. thirty years ago. The crime was
one of the most unprovokcd anu sensa-
,ional that ever occurred in Indiana.
and he barely escaped lynching. lie
was finally given life sentence.
Warden French, who does not believe
in life sentences, Is DESTROYS that he
should be released. as ne thinks the
atonement has been enough. Should
he ret his bill through the Legislature.
which provides for the adjustment OF
life sentence and making fifty years
the limit. with twenty years allowed
for good time. Stottler will get out in
time for next Christmas. He was a
picture ~ perfect manhood. scarcely
over twenty. when convicted. now he
&c ,fI nd
many years 1T best. lie agrees 10 exile
himself from Indiana for pardon's
SAKE.
IL side hunt for game near Craw-
louisville so rabbits were killed. One
man killed sixty.
NINcgNNEs may take steps TO pre-
serve the old Harrison house and relies
Of the elder Harrison.
NEAR Homer. Rush county. Nimrod
Wiley and VIM. Miller had n contro-
versy over a crop of tobacco. resulting
in Wiley striking Miller in the face
with n board. and before he could re-
peat the blow dropped dead. He was
subject to heart trouble.
GRO. llrTzENBEEGEE. son of n North
Indianapolis saloonkeeper. the other
dav. went into police headquarters and
turned over two dollars which he said
he had stolen. He claimed he was mis-
treated n home. and said he wanted TO
be sent TO the Reform school.
IL Fulton county. some distance
north OF Peru. Bay Brough stabbed his
cousin. Emery Brough. TO death The
murderer is but boy. ana his deed
was prompted by personal feelings that
had been growing for some time
THE lichtning-rod agent is getting
in his work in the northern part of
Madison county and in Grant and
Howard counties among the farmers
JAMES PErGH and John Prugh. aged
10 and IA years respectively. We're re-
turning home from school at Letters.
west OF Huntington. when they became
involved in quarrel The Older boy
stabbed the younger. who fell dead at
his feet. The boys were cousins. and
had always been the best Of friends.
PLEASANT township. Johnson county.
voted upon the question of whether
the Franklin. Greenwood x Indiana
polls Electric Street railroad should
turns are all in and the subsidy mas car
ried by fftythree majority.
BLooMI~GToS vigorously objects to
the proposed scheme of moving her
university TO indianapolis.
W. ). BIATcHLEy. the state geolo-
gist. is of the opinion that Indiana
should make a collection OF her birds
and animals at once. Many are be-
coming extinct. Of the 225 birds in
specimens Of only 40. lie desires to
have the collection complete.
AT Tcrre IIaute. after being out over
two hours. the jury convicted Ben
Reed of the murder OF Dan Hendrick.
son. and sentenced him TO the peniten-
tiary for life. Five of the jurors held
out for time for the death sentence
Reed murdered his companion. Hen
Erickson. in cold blood. to obtain 81. ~
in money which he knew he pos
sessed.
j. Il. GREEN. of indianapolis. made
social call on his father. Joe Green. the
other night. and at bed time family
prayers were held. Something in the
old mans application to the Throne
of Grace moved the junior Green and
he laughed. The senior then cut il
short and sailed into his son with a
chair. Then he left the horse and
spent the night lamenting the sacrilege
OF the youngster. ending up by getting
intoxicated. Early next morning he
went home and renewed the fight. in
which several of the family were Sc
verelv injured. Both father and son
were arrested.
No change will be made in the
Twelfth senatorial district. SAYS the
committee.
lNpIAsAroIIs will soon be entitled
70 be known as the Headquarters
City.
ArTrE two days session the state !
convention OF the Tin and sheet Iron
workers. at Terrc Iartc. adjourned !
the other night after clcc;ing these |
officers: President. Christopher Bcnne- |
WITT Lafayette: vice president. Will !
liam Ncukom. Terre Iiautc: secretary |
and treasurer. George rIockett. Indian !
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